Last time we lost to Giants in Super League, we snaffled up their young, talented, exciting coach. I really rate Brown - he has got the very best out of a reasonable but not brilliant Giants team and their defence is second to none. When is McLennan's contract up and would people like to see Brown as his successor?

And doing the same with Sheffield in '98 and keeping a poor Wakefield team from relegation, then taking an average Wakefield team into a very good 5th in the league last season. Not to mention vastly improving their youth system.

He may not be the best coach in the league but there are quite obviously quite a few worse coaches in the league than him.

Also quite a few players seem to enjoy playing for him.

Positively rapier.

Nathan Brown's achievement at Huddersfield is taking them from a 10th place finish in 2008 to a 3rd place finish in 2009 in his first season in charge, while also taking the team to the Challenge Cup Final which is generally accepted as a major distraction to League form.

(The only other time such an improvement has been seen in the SL Era with regards finishing positions from one season to the next was when Mick Potter took Les Catalans from 10th to 3rd from 2007 to 2008 in his third season in charge.)

At the same time Huddersfield recorded the third biggest improvement in points conceded from one season to the next in SL history. They conceded 265 fewer than in 2008, trailing only Leeds' 282 fewer in 1997 than 1996 and Wakefield's 282 fewer in 2006 than 2005.

I'm pleased to see Nathan Brown's coaching finally getting some recognition on these boards even if it is eight months later than some others.

Coaches tend to have (with the notable exception of Sir Alex Ferguson) a lifecycle at a single club. Unless the playing squad is turning over significantly it's easy for players to get used to hearing the same voice saying the same things every week and just stop listening.

Freshening the place up by introducing a new head coach is often a productive way to avoid this.

For those who have a dig at Brown for failing to get St George across the line in the NRL despite the talent available to him, he's not the first and he won't be the last coach to go into a season with arguably the best squad in the competition and not win it.

Does not compute...oxymoron alert...does not compute...possible euphemism alert...warning...