Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:35 pm  

It seems Bennett has needed convincing to continue to be coach having read a few articals.
Having a job like this should be an honour and shouldn't need much thinking about.
Makes me wonder how much his heart and passion is in the job. Hopefully he won't have a change of heart before the next World Cup... buildings toward it from now is vital if we are to take the next step and win it.

Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:53 pm  

LifeLongHKRFan wrote:

The last time an English/British coach came so close to winning a world cup was in 1992 IIRC where we lost 10-6 in the final. For me Bennett deserves another shot and i'm happy he's stayed on as coach. We may not like some of his selections but it was those selections that got us as far as we did.

I thought that was down to the referee in the semi-final

Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:19 pm  

Why should Bennett be full time? Its quite simply not a full time role. I'd like him to take more of an interest in SL himself so he can make his own decisions on the squad, but realistically even if he did that the squad that went to the WC wouldn't have been much different to what it was. What we really need is more quality players. We have one half decent halfback who ended up playing fullback to cover a gap, and only one centre Bennett rates.

Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:04 am  

Made too many errors that in the end would have been the difference between winning the WC in over 40 years and not. Didn't take the strongest squad with some glaring omissions, didn't play the best players that we did have (or in the case of Taylor didn't even get a proper shout) and some not even in the correct positions to the point it nulllified one of our most potent attacking threats
For the most part we were boring as fook too.
It's a poor and short sighted selection, no doubt he had a bigger wedge thrown at him to persuade him to carry on.

Still, 200% better than SM, people keep saying that SM did this and that, no he didn't, that was others elsewhere, he was gash and wasted a great opportunity with players at their peak - Burgess, Graham,(who has faded IMHO) Lockers and a few others whom aren't as good now as they were under SM.

Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:14 am  

For me, Powell's next step should be to coach a club side that comes with expectations upon it. In a way, he's worked himself into that situation now at Cas but I'm not sure he's equipped with the players to come up trumps. Give the GB job to McDermott or Wane, say, and let Powell step into their shoes for a few seasons.

Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:06 pm  

Zuider wrote:

I thought that was down to the referee in the semi-final

No that's just what the dummy spitting Tongans think.

Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:36 pm  

Personally I don't think that much coaching happens at international level and I'm not sure how much of a philosophy you could impose on players who play a different way for their clubs. With that said, I would like England/GB to play a higher risk brand of football as they simply won't beat Australia at their own game.

What England/GB needs is a new coach to come in with a philosophy similar to that of Daryl Powell and pick the best 17 players who can play in that style, not simply the best 17 players available.

I don't know whether anyone will be willing to take that kind of risk since it also opens up the possibility of getting pumped by 50 points if you execute poorly playing expansively. But at the end of the day an L is an L and England/GB will continue to collect them against Australia playing the way they did in the WC.

Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:46 pm  

LifeLongHKRFan wrote:

No that's just what the dummy spitting Tongans think.

Not at all, Fifita's try should have been given. The referee made a massive mistake not going to the screen.

Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:06 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

Not at all, Fifita's try should have been given. The referee made a massive mistake not going to the screen.

No it shouldn't

Regards

King James

Re: Bennett agrees to be England coach, Powell says no to de : Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:17 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

Not at all, Fifita's try should have been given. The referee made a massive mistake not going to the screen.

He has a responsibility to keep control of the ball. He lost the ball in the tackle. There was no stripping action whatsoever.