Adrian Vowles coaching appointments

[Max Turner]

For Wakefield Trinity's 2002 season, Peter Roe was sacked/quit after round 18, so that's correct. Shane McNally was the interim coach. Adrian Vowles was announced as head coach ahead of round 21.

The BBC article suggests that Adrian would be a player-coach and Shane would be in some sort of coaching management position. It seems however that Vowles and McNally were co-coaches, so Vowles should be added as co-coach for rounds 21 to 28 of 2002.
Castleford vs London (15 June 2003)
- This match from 2003 has Adrian Vowles listed as co-coach for Castleford. This was while he was still player-coach for Wakefield, so I think this is simply an error and should be removed.
Adrian Vowles was coach of Fiji women in the following games:
- Fiji vs PNG (22 June 2019)
- Fiji vs Australia (11 October 2019) -- this was actually a Prime Minister's XIII game, but the Fiji Women's PM's team doesn't exist on RLP

[GregRLP]

I have updated these.

So the 11 Oct 2019 was Fiji PM's XIII not the Fiji National team?

[Max Turner]

Yeah that's correct: match report / NRL.com page about these fixtures.

I think there's some confusion with these fixtures because the PNG or Fiji PM's squads are sometimes identical to the national teams, other years it's a more of a development squad. Even the men's fixture in previous years has been described as Australian PM's vs PNG Kumuls, but now the media seem to be clearer that it's not a "Kumuls" team.

Maybe it's splitting hairs, but the short answer in my view is that the men's game are designated on RLP as Australian/Fijian/or PNG PM's teams, and I think the women's games should follow this.

There's two other games that also need to be updated to PM's games:
- PNG vs Australia (6 October 2018)
- Australia vs PNG (25 September 2022)
(Both have the Australian Women's PM's team selected, but have the PNG Orchids national team instead of the PNG Women's PM's team as opposition)

[GregRLP]

These games should now all be correct.