Something didn't feel right with Betts as coach for me.

He just didn't come across as a great thinker on the game.

I feat that Betts, at best, would be another Nobby - a British coach who may have the credentials but is actually pretty limited.

The last thing we want, to be honest, is another lad who 'fancies having a go at it'. We got lucky with Mike Gregory in that, even though he had relatively short experience, he proved to be a natural. Betts has already been in charge and didn't prove anything of the sort.

I still feel we need to look to a good Aussie - if we can't get a top-line NRL coach, maybe look at one of their promising assistants. We desperately need someone with modern ideas, who's trained at the highest level.

Somebody mentioned Kearney last week which i think would be a superb appointment.

He's worked under the best and coached NZ to a world cup win(with a little help from Bennett). An added bonus of having him would be that he'd possibly be able to tempt the better Kiwi players who become available to follow him to Wigan.

Wane,
No thank you.

Smashing lad who wears his heart on his sleeve,and is Wigan through and through. However, I don't think he is the right man for Wigan at this time, but could make a good number two.

I would like to see Brian Smith over here (Wayne Bennett is unfortunately out of the question)

Adrian Lam may also be worth a shout.

The World cup win was Bennett's. Despite turning over an England side who gifted them some tries with dreadful organisation, their only genuinely great performance was the final, which bore all the hallmarks of a Bennett masterclass in motivation.

I mentioned Kearney a few weeks ago and he should be top of the list imo.

Like you said he's not only been a quality player but he’s had success as both an assistant manager and a manager in his own right.

Maybe he can bring SBW with his also

The little help from Bennett remark was abit tounge in cheek but even so just for Kearney to work alongside a coach like him aswell as with Bellamy at Melbourne must have don't him the world of good.

If he's ready for a crack as a number 1 then i'd have him right near the top of any list we were making.

Why Kearney?

He was the face of the NZ team for nationalistic reasons, but anyone who thinks Wayne Bennett wasn't in charge of that team is deluded.

Of course he was in charge. He’d be stupid not to listen to Bennett but also I’m sure he’s his own man with his own ideas and I very much doubt Bennett would

Why not Kearney btw?

Tell me another person who was a top player, has worked with the two best coaches in the game today, had a key role in a GF winning set up & and has been a WC winning coach?

If that isn’t the CV of an assistant/international manager who’s gonna be given a top job soon then I don’t know what is.

But yeah lets take Lam instead who’s done………………

Agree 100% so Wane may well be a stop gap as Smith is with Newcastle until the end of the season, but would he want that given his outside of rugby responsibilities.

Lam i quite like the idea of if we also bring in a Director of Rugby at least for 2 years for him to work under.