Yeah I can't see any situation working with Pay still near the coaching unless he agrees to be assistant. Maybe he could be a forwards coach and get back to what he knows in regards to running hard and tackling hard?
For the life of me I could not see Hoolbrook moving from his current set up to be an assistant to a struggling Coach of a wooden spoon team for a year.
The other reason I can't see the club doing it would be that they would be affectively conceding next year aswell instead of actually trying to improve and coming better then last again. No way would the fan base allow us to just sit there and struggle while Hoolbrook assistant coaches.