Sweaty Betty's wrote:
I think the answers to your questions are: the problem wasn't Waney, he saw the value in George and promoted him to the first team and he later went on to play for England; Waney was a good coach and his record supports that: five Grand Finals in six seasons; he did inherit a successful side but many coaches have done so and failed to deliver. By the way his first success only included seven players that played in the 2010 final under Maguire, only two played in 2016 and four took to the field in 2018, that makes me think that he built his own winning teams. Whatever any of us think about his style of rugby he was extremely successful. I would have him back in a heartbeat, I am convinced that we would have been far more competitive yesterday, even with the same 17.
Its a huge fallacy that Wane inherited a successful team and that was why he did well. Most of the young lads in the successful team under Madge were coached through the youth ranks by Wane anyway. Then most of the overseas or bought players we had under Madge left within 1-2 seasons of Wane joining anyway. People like Leuluai, RIchards, Carmont, Gleeson, Deacon, Finch etc had all left.
Wane made his own success.
