Bear in mind that in pretty short order the HKR team that snatched a draw at Odsal [ibeat[/i said St. Helens away, and by all accounts should've beaten Leeds too. In the early season, KR seem to have perfected cat-skinning better than most so-called top teams. At any rate, on the evidence of 2009 so far, the theory doesn't hold any water, we did better against HKR than Saints did.

You must be mistaken, I'm sure the RFL wouldn't move the goalposts..

The RFL never move the goalposts. That must be right, cos they tell us they don't.



So thats settled, then.













































Shame they can't resist keep moving the bloody pitch around underneath the goalposts, mind...

After a disappointing tri-nations in 2006 they decided we needed a full time coach.



Oddly, after an absolutely appalling world cup they decide this isn't necessary anymore, it will be interesting to see if the "Technical Director" role is continued and someone else appointed to it, long term it is far more important than the national coach job and I don't think the two should be combined anyway.

Also, to the absolute top echelon of coaches, the fact that the job of coaching England doesn't actually involve much at all in the way of coaching is a problem. If you want to be the coach of the national side, you probably have to be ready to give up 95% of your actual coaching, if it can't be combined with any other coaching job.

In truth, how much time does the England coach spend coaching? He gets about a fortnight a season in contact with the players. The rest of the time he basically has to watch matches and decide who to pick. The job can be done with Sky plus most of the time.



Until that situation changes, there's no real function to a full time coach.



Additionally, until the supporting structure and standard of youth development improves across the country, there's a whole universe full of pointlessness in having a full time national team coach. In the World Cup, it didn't really matter which 17 players the coach picked from those available, who said coach was or what kind of contract he had.