Paul McKenna

Medley as coach for the last 20% of each season. Super-coach.

Nice bloke, good talker, seems to talk a good game. Hard to say if he's up to coaching a 1st team as coaching the kids is a different challenge in some ways.

True enough. Though I think it's fair to say that many head coaches probably wouldn't be very good at coaching the juniors either. The ability to connect with kids and get the message across is, maybe not rare but it's certainly not one that everyone has. Bringing juniors through the grades is a very important skill in any club and no less important than the head coach in many ways imo.

I would much rather the coach of my team had worked his way up through the ranks than expect to coach a SL team straight from retirement. Shows a bit of humbleness.

It's strange why they do that isn't it. I know, both in soccer and rugby they 'do' their badges and do courses but then, just on the basis that they were decent players they take on a top level team on a sort of 'sink or swim' basis. It's totally illogical.