I'm not keen to revel in the misery and I was please with the 2007 series win but you cannot say it was against the same New Zealand that was at the world cup.

I am as keen as many other British fan's in seeing our National teams be the best in the world but when you don't agree with the current setup unfortunately it maybe reads as though we a reveling




As a national coach it would be impossible to coach full time however as I have mentioned in my last post IMO the role of head national coach in rugby league must be a lot broader than just coaching. I still don't believe that it can be a forward step by making the head coach part time. It would be like having a full time sales guy with a part time sales manager, where's the motivation coming from?

tbh i thought david waite was doing a good job back in the day

You have had a great season but what have you won....You need to look at internationals as one off cup matches where a team is picked to peak.And winning the cup shows he has the ability to pick such teams.

Course not. Every team changes every year. Teams that lose tend to change more than teams that win.



There are plenty on this thread who have clearly dismissed the 2007 success. We have seen Smith described as a failure - despite 2007 being a complete demolition of the team that later became World Champs.
We have seen a team that was completely smashed by England come back to win the World Cup just a year later.

Harrison is a cracking player and Bridge is one of the best british centres when fit.

Don't see the problem.

he was doing the off field stuff well, just a shame he was a rubbish coach. he was of the "pick the best 13 players regardless of position and fit them in somewhere" coaching school, which resulted in us having 5 loose forwards playing at a time.

You know what the funny thing is?



There is one guy who is a specialist at bringing together a representative side, simplifying their game, giving them a few things to break down the opposition with and giving them all the self belief in the world.


Problem is, he couldn't be stuffed to go back down the levels to coach your park footballers.

I thought Kearney lessened his capacity at mebourne when he took the Kiwi role and McGuire stepped up to assistant coach?

Kearney is an assistant coach at Melbourne and can be seen sat next to Bellamy at all their games, so he certainly doesn't concentrate solely on the Kiwis as was suggested.

Kearney is an assistant coach at Melbourne and can be seen sat next to Bellamy at all their games, so he certainly doesn't concentrate solely on the Kiwis as was suggested. Ditto Sheens for Aus.