Very little as a player and even less as a coach.

Guscott in the early 90s was trying to engineer a big money move to league (think Bradford was the club) but think they realised he was simply too soft to play league.

Leeds were after Guscott in the early 90s and they nearly got him. The outrage shown by the RFU was ridiculous (amateur sport at the time remember) and the old boys network got Guscott a job (no work involved).

The following day the papers ran it as a front page story, complete with him in his new "uniform" under the title "Jerry signs for British Gas"

It was as though he had been saved from a disgusting fate the way the story read.

Feckin hate him, not a good word to say about RL, not as though he has played it and taken the hits is it?

A couple of interesting rugby league related questions on Guscott's weekly BBC column this week. One about poaching the Burgess boys before the 2015 World Cup, and one asking why union backs cant pass as well as league players. His answers were surprisingly measured for him. Some of the buffoons in the comments section made up for it though.

As for Mcnamara, I cant see it...but wouldn't blame him for having a go if the opportunity was there. Maybe people in the know don't actually think he's as bad as people on here do?!

Hull KR went after Guscott when he was 19. Roger Millward was looking for a replacement for Gary Prohm & thought he had promise. One day he was a brickie playing 2nds for Bath, next day ushered into a highly paid job (think that was British Gas as well) so he could remain amateur! Amazing how these thing happen.

Hope Steve Mac gets the Roosters job. Being England coach isn't a full time job & he'll learn more over there than he will twiddling his thumbs over here.

Guscott is an asshat. His views and opinions mean nothing to me.

Well that explains a lot about the bloke, with out even knowing this and before the anti league comment on skysports i thought he had a massive chip against the rugby league players in union.

The Sydney Roosters have lost Assistant Coach Paul Green to becoming Head Coach of the North Queensland Cowboys in 2014. So there is a vacancy at Bondi Junction into which Steve McNamara can slip seamlessly. He will be able to learn a lot from working under the NRL and RLIF Coach of the Year Trent Robinson.

I think the level of prestige associated with the England coaching job is amply demonstrated by the fact that we're seriously talking about the current incumbent getting a job as an *assistant* coach in the NRL in order to further his career.

I hope he does too. Sydney is a spectacular place, the centre of rugby league. He couldn't fail to learn more about the game working there. And he'll have a great lifestyle.


Personally, I expect him to do a Daryll Powell and pop up at the head of an ambitious Championship club.

What every one seems to forget is the people under who Steve learned his trade! Brian's Smith & Noble & Smith the younger. The Smith brothers hold him such great esteem they made him their captain & leader, they are no mugs. Just look beyond his Hull accent & awkward public persona. His knowlage of the game & its workings are second only to a very few people.

Compared to who?

Don't confuse what some posters on an Internet forum think of the England coaching job to how the world at large view it. I think it is the most prestigeous job going in the sport in this country, which is why I was baffled when McNamara got the job given his poor record at Bradford and his lack of coaching experience generally. In retrospect I think he got the job primarily because he was good at putting systems in place with good ideas on how to foster Team England, and England needed such things to be put in place following the debacle that was the 2008 world cup.

IMO what England needs now is for those systems and that international club ethos to continue, being fostered and developed, and a winning coach to take the team forward to the next level. Namely, winning a world cup.

Just a damn shame that 'the next step' didn't happen before what has probably been the best rugby league world cup ever held in this country so that the great home crowds could have witnessed a big victory.

Don't recall saying anything like that myself. I was quite happy as were plenty of Roosters fans. Considering he was the Assistant at the Roosters when they got the GF in 2010, im not sure many Roosters fans would be saying Trent who. He was very highly regarded here. Couldn't care less about the Sydney media, pretty much the same for most NRL fans, not sure how it effects you though. Seeing that im from Wigan and a Warriors/England fan, I think my opinion of McNamara is no different that what most UK fans think. Why would I want him here, when most Super League fans wouldn't want him at their clubs????