100% Warrior wrote:
Not exactly the norm here and I don’t think it’s been done before but could he not do both? The England job is hardly FT (despite me wanting it to be) and he’d have more than enough time on his hands to do his other work. I accept that’s like a “not sure about that” kind of proposal upon first reading but it could work.
I’m with you on SW too. I think he’d want the job but he also will be bearing in mind that a poor international showing will do nothing for his NRL ambitions, if anything it will close off that avenue completely. And on the flip side an international success story will boost his chances. It’s a huge gamble on his part.
He’ll need something like knocking the Aussies over to get a crack down under IMO. The longer he’s out of league, the further away his chances of an NRL job drift I reckon. They just don’t respect the game over here enough to give a British coach a chance and he’d need to knock the door down.
I hope we make the job full time again tbh and I’d want a man like Wane working from the top down to the England academy teams, aligning how we play, like he did with us here at Wigan. I’d also want him to avoid the sort of bias Bennett has shown towards his comp and to do that he needs to travel around England and Australia and watch as many live games as possible. Any coach we have should know the ins and outs of each player in his squad and he should have total faith in them. I’m sick to the back teeth of Bennett’s attitude that the rest of the squad need to come up to the NRL players standards. Bateman aside the NRL lads have been dreadful on this tour but then so have the vast majority of players. He seems oblivious to what happens over here in the UK.
