Ash Charnley's half brother!!!

What has he done to warrant the positions he's currently occupying? He was a very good top level player. But we've seen so many times in professional sport that a quality player doesn't always make a quality coach or administrator. He's done nothing to warrant the positions he holds at Leeds and the RFL/England/GB and looks completely out of his depth in each of them.

What are you basing this on?, you have literally no idea what he does day to day in these roles.

I bet you thought he was overrated as a player too didn't you?

To be fair, he sacked the most successful coach in the SL era, took over himself but appointed an assistant to act as head coach. Appointed a high cost replacement with a big reputation, then sacked him. The appointed the head of youth as an interim replacement, but appointed the interim full time dispute a poor record.

He has also oversaw the worst GB tour of a generation, is the Director of a failing super league brand and has just sacked the GB coach, who is also the England coach, during the period designated to prepare for a World Cup, for which he will probably have to sack the same guy and appoint a replacement, 12 months into a 4 year plan.


In summary, it’s not going well.

Can you explain how Sinfield sacked McDermott when he didn’t even work for Leeds at that time?

The rest of your post is about as accurate as your first point.

Director of a failing SL brand?

In summary, I don’t think you know what you’re talking about

Like many contributors to social media, makes you question whether the democratic vote is a good thing.

You’d be a bit annoyed to travel half way around the world, then not to be picked!

In summary, you're being the class bore on this one. Seriously man do you actually think Sinfield has actually done anything to deserve his current status! You can nitpick all you like but the guys is clearly out of his depth of the RL pitch that is clear to anyone except for you and your fellow fan club members. Where is the learning curve between the player to a top executive? I'll be damned if I can see it, all I see is a job for the boys.

Couldn't agree more. I bet Bennet loves taking instructions from someone who's coaching record is woeful and has yet to prove his worth in RL Management.

Sinfields coaching record? He’s never been one so I don’t see how it’s’woeful’

My apologies, I forgot that he completely skipped that rung on the ladder and went to Director of Rugby, although I thought that he did take on the role prior to Furner joining.
However, the point still stands on what the hell gives Sinfield the right to tell Someone like Bennet whether he is good enough for the GB/England job.
I know this is immaterial now, as Bennett is to finish after the game on Saturday but, for a player to go straight into upper management, with limited experience in coaching is pretty poor for all concerned, not least for Sinfield himself.

Sinfield has a Bsc in Sports and Exercise Science and a Masters Degree in Sports Business Management, he didn't just go from playing with no qualifications into management. Being a coach is not a prerequisite to having a management job within sport, Karl Fitzpatrick is CEO of Warrington Wolves, John Wells is DOR at the Tigers, I'm really not sure what issue you have other than some dislike of Sinfield perhaps?

Is it ultimately Sinfields job to say who is the GB/England coach? that's a genuine question by the way.

A degree is evidence of study, research and knowledge used to create a thesis to evidence the three key elements of the degree. A degree is not about ability or capability of being able to do or a particular task. You can have a masters and still be poop at the actual job.

Sinifield was an exceptional player throughout his RL career.
game as yet he has not shown a natural flair for administration and management and it could be that he does not have coaching ambitions. I'd say as ambassador for the RL and sport a fine example his new career still to prove his worth.

I thought he did some interim coaching between BM and Furner., I definitely remember him being on the touch line looking like he was gonna blow a fuse on a number of occasions.

Just looking it up, he coached 12 games in 2018.