Quote: pies-r-us "I don't deny the man was a great player, and champion for the club. All I'm saying is it wasn't a great idea to make him head coach. A number of your own fans don't think he's up to the job, for me if the board ever wish to remove him as coach would not the statue business not be a great embarrassment to the club. The killer instinct he had as a player is missing as a coach, too much a mister nice guy. More liked than feared by the players, and for me you've got to be both in his job now.'"
Its just come 1 or 2 seasons too early for him, he's not had the chance to be drip fed into a coaching role, he did one year in conditioning another year as assistant and then given the head coach role. Its took Wane about 8 years, Betts about 5 years and Powell about 12 years to get where they are now.
Radford (Hull) and Anderson (Huddersfield) are probably similar to Cunningham, you don't need a killer instinct to be a coach, he still believes in his own convictions and post match comments although baffling at times is something he will have to address in time.
Biggest problem for McManus is how to get Cunningham on a steeper learning curve with outside help without undermining his authority as coach, the other problem for McManus is that there isn't any available suitable proven coach inside and outside super league and that includes Powell who struggles for plan B when he has a couple of pivotable players out.