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He's becoming more and more arrogant with each and every interview, now I can live with arrogance when a club is successful, but Cas aren't successful so he just looks like a Muppet. I'd rather look at the likes of Wigan and Leeds (of a couple of years ago) to see what's the most effective style of play for success

Powell is at a club though that doesn't expect/demand success so much easier for him to try play 'entertaining' rugby rather than 'winning' rugby.

Not Daryls biggest fan , but on this he's spot on , 1 st we won't beat the Aussies at their game , and it is bloody boring , we've read countless whinges on this site and others about the poor quality of SL , and how it's all because of the failure to increase the Salary cap

Well it's nothing to do with the salary cap , it's coaching boring % Rugby League because our coaches lack imagination and invention

It depends how you quantify success.

They've gone from getting relegated twice and are now genuine top 4 contenders and for me, they are the best attacking team in SL.
And he's right.
England have become a poor mans Australia and if we (England) ever want to beat Australia, we have to do something different.
Our halves used to be more inventive than theirs and we played a less structured game.
Whether this will work, I dont know as the Aussies are just relentless in their playing style.
The one thing that Australia do so well, is to cope better when they make an error.
When we drop the ball or knock on, we just dont cope too well and it usually leads to points for the opposition, whereas Aussie just dig in, defend the set and then start to build. Maybe it's a mentality thing but, they are very good.
When The Kiwi's have beaten them, it's done with a more open style and with an offload game, which we haven't really got.

Please forgive my ignorance but can you point me to the arrogant bit ?

We've tried throwing it around against Australia and we've been battered in the past. All this chat about how we should play against the Aussies just undermines Wane Bennett IMO - let him get on with it and we can judge him at the end of the year once the World Cup is over. For now, IMO, the players, coaches and fans should just suck it in and get behind him and the national side.

As one of the top coaches in SL, surely Powell is entitled to give his opinion.
Bennett has got the gig and he will certainly do things his own way.

Half backs in this country used to have more guile and imagination than ther Aussie counterparts and I'd rather watch some creative play than the "machine like" style of the Aussies.
Having said that, they are damn good at what they do and their intensity in both attack and defence puts them head and shoulders above our boys.

I wouldn't bother trying to reason with him - he's a Wakey fan with a chip on his shoulder.

The entire article is arrogant, the idea that Cas are somehow different and that everyone else should copy his style... Well he's wrong isn't he, his method isn't the most successful, if it was then they'd be winning trophies and topping the league every year but they're not.
His style may produce attacking flair, but defensively it's terrible. The Aussies would be easily able to handle the attacking style he coaches and they'd love the amount of defensive mistakes they'd make.

Whilst it would be great if all SL coaches coached attacking entertaining rugby, I do have some sympathy with them wth regards the argument about their style.

It's ok for you or me to criticise them for not producing entertaining rugby......but at the end of the day IT'S THERE JOBS ON THE LINE, and they'll be judged by results. If they get sacked because they didn't win enough games and don't have a job or income, what will "oh well I'd coached attacking rugby" mean?

At the end of the day, jobs are on the line based on results and I think people need to consider this more before criticising style of play.

I watched some of the 9s this weekend and the ability to keep the ball alive was second to none. More 9s at youth and adult level and i think we will see some of that ability bleed in to 13s in the same way that 50over and t20 cricket has seen a huge evolution in test match batting.

Its an area we could really take the lead on, but...

Tbf, I think Powell was saying that, if we want to beat the Aussies we need to do something different.
It wasn't a direct criticism of how England (or certain clubs) play the game, just that there may be another way to get the right result.
He may be right and he may not be but, his philosophy was to try and win games playing an open attacking brand of RL.

I dont see where the problem is.

Maybe, he is putting down an early marker to be Bennett's successor and, in fairness, there is only Powell or Wane of the current SL coaches that you would consider for the job.

not a guy who's won more than both put together? really?

No.