If by some devine miracle you could get him from the dark side of rugby............. a certain Mr Edwards will reurn you guys to past glory`s IMO

Hes got the Lions gig. No chance.

Personality is the key to coaching, if you can get the people to believe in you and buy into your vision that is half the battle won.

Coaching is not a science its a art form as well as a science, you can be the most knowledgable person in the world but if the players do not believe it or buy into it you are ice skating up hill from the start.

Pity as he`s turning into one of the top coaches around.

But is unproven in RL.


I agree though that he would have the man-management skills and certainly would pick up on RL very quickly.

I believe that he still often talks with Wayne Bennett.

He maybe unproven as a coach in rugby league but he is not unproven as a coach.

He is far more proven as a coach than BN and has a background that points towards him being a success.

Not every job in RL may be right for him straight off the bat, but I think the Wigan job is one he could tackle as a proven coach and be confident we would see a significant improvement.

All my life I've been waiting for someone to agree with me about rugby! I'm going ringing my mum!

Yeah but it was only Jonh

Maybe having Faz who would be bigger than any of the current players would cut out the politics that seem to wreck us?

We need someone who tells the players what they have to do and not stand any crap off them.

I don't know why we persist in talking about Farrell when discussing possible new coaches.

The last thing we need now is someone else who 'fancies having a go at it'. Surely we've seen from examples all around us that just having passion for a club isn't enough. Granted, that's better than having no passion - which seems to be one of the key problems with Noble. But Macnamara has been crap at Bradford, Cullen was woefully crap at Warrington. Loving the club just wasn't enough in any of those cases.

Look at the difference with Brown at Huddersfield. With Morgan at Hull KR. With Potter at Saints.

A experienced Aussie must be the way to go.

Bring Farrell in as his assistant, by all means - but successful coaching is far too complex a business to be entrusted to someone who's only credentials are that he once played well for the club and still loves it.

Shaun Edwards would be all that, and he'd combine it with high-level coaching skills. But Shaun is simply not available at present.

We must look to the NRL. We simply must. They're streets ahead of us, as even their 'second-rate' coaches prove time and time again.