Its an interesting point.

Has an ex player especially a successful one ever gone onto be a success at their club? I can't think of one in the SL era?

Shaun Wane maybe but he was retired for a long time before taking the reigns at Wigan

Dean Bell was okay aside from our financial collapse year but he didn't play that much for us (one season). The game when he came out of retirement was good though!

Brian Noble won three grand finals with the balls and lost in a couple as well in a 5 to 6 year period so I think that has to be considered a success.

Bulls

Yeah Nobby is the only one in the modern game I think other than Wane. Three GF wins, one CC win and three WCC wins.

Pre SL there must be a few successful coaches who were successful players at the same clubs, let me have a think.

Yeah Jim Sullivan at Wigan - 5 championships and 2 CCs at Wigan.

Bit of a dry spell between Jim Sullivan and Nobby there Bullseye...

You're forgetting the obvious one. Mal Reilly, Cas coach in 1986 CC victory.

Wasn’t Arthur himself a Parra player? Long stint there tho admittedly no trophies

Arthur never played first grade.

For Leeds there's an obvious former player as successful coach in Syd Hynes. Just for completeness - I think its generally not a great idea.

Arthur signed up for 25. Initial one year contract.

Yeah just seen that now, great news!