too easy

Funny how those coaches whining the loudest are the ones that failed to prepare their teams adequately for Monday and got stuffed as a result.

They gave themselves and their players an easy way out with their pre-emptive dummy spitting, and the players took it wholeheartedly.

Wigan used 20 players over the two games, Leeds used 18. The difference is that both of those clubs have coaching and conditioning staff that know how to look after their players, and get them in the right frame of body and mind to back up.

Hull tried by promoting Agar from assistant to head coach and he managed to take the club backwards by about 5 years.

Do you not find it stange that Brian Noble has been available for such a long time??

Whereas Peter Gentle has clearly been an unarguable success.

You mean after winning the Grand Final 3 times, topping the table twice, making the Grand Final 5 years in a row, winning the Challenge Cup, winning 3 World Club Challenges, taking Wigan from near relegation to near the Grand Final and somehow dragging Crusaders into the playoffs?

The assistants that seem to be doing well are the ones that have followed on from a previously successful coach. Noble followed Elliott. Wane followed Maguire. Anderson has followed from Brown. The other promoted assistants haven't exactly done much. From my experience, they seem to make the same mistakes. Jimmy Lowes. Agar. Powell.
They need someone to learn from first before they step up.