New England Coach

Quote: Dreamer "Your wrong on so many different levels - are you league freak??

We need better systems, better youth policies, better core skill development, better athletic development and better continual development for those players coaches and officials with potential. But then most people already know this.

We need to understand the Aus game but if we want to beat it we need something different - not just a clone. Not everything that comes out of aus is good.

Initially we may need a good aussie coach in a development role but ultimately we need to get some bright people involved in the game and control our own future.'"

It does sound like League Freak, another post mentions the need of 'educate' us, a classic freakism.

Anyway, this thread has been diverted long enough by banal attacks on our game.
Dreamer's post is absolutely correct, and in line with the direction the RFL clearly want to go. They are appointing a person in essentially two positions. A director of Elite Rugby, a la Rob Andrew in Yawnian, and a team manager / coach to be accompanied by assistants (who in our case are presumably head coaches or assistants in SL) like that tall one from the goonies who is in manager of the Yawnian team.

This will take a special individual who would hopefully not disire a club coaching role before the next world cup. Hence, we find ourselves looking at two ends of a spectrum. Either, a very experienced individual who would feel they have done all they can at club level, or a dynamic and articulate young former player who has no immediate desire to coach at club level but has a passion for the game and solid ideas about the way forward.

That individual should be based in England throughout the course of the year overseeing the development of the deep structures, whilst surrounded by experience and wisdom whilst in charge of the England team. In that respect, I don't see this role as one for an Australian. An Aussie might serve in some advisory role, but the decisions and direction need to be led by the man at the top and seen through over a number of years.