Does the job need an existing full time coach? Apart from a meaningless mid-season game what does the England coach do between March and October?

Maybe the job requires somebody involved a coaching set-up, but not a necessarily the head coach.

Kris Radlinski has been obvious by his presence the last couple of weeks.

im going to throw a name into the hat that has

international experiance has a player

respect of both players and fans

comes accross has a great motivator

passionate for the british game

and is english

karl harrison

i know some will laugh but he`s exactly the kind of guy we need in the dressing room to fire us up.

Martin Offiah?

Not a bad shout that pal

gary schofield

Lets put the coaching thing etc into perspective.

I you give a mechanic the parts to build a Lada car and the basic plans it's highly likely the mechanic will make a Lada

Conversely if you the mechanic the parts and the basic plans to build a Rolls Royce it's probable that the mechanic will make a Rolls Royce.

Both will perform their basic function well but it's what else they will do and how easily. No matter how you tinker with the Lada it will never be of Rolls Royce standard unless the parts are changed and it ceases to be a LADA but becomes something else.

Even the greatest mechnic can only use the tools, equipment and parts that there are available.

Has to be John Kear, best English coach around and I believe he'd get the full backing from supporters in RL.

I agree - it's awful

The best British coach in the game at the moment is Brian Noble, but he has been there and done that before. Second to him is John Kear, but he would be a backwards step from Tony Smith IMO.

I would look at a current NRL head coach for the job. I don't care about nationalities too much, I just want the best man for the job.

I will add that having former England internationals around the coaching team is a good idea too - Kris Radlinski being a great example. Anyone else notice the improvement from Peter Fox and Shaun Briscoe? What's Ellery Hanley up to these days? Paul Sculthorpe? etc.

Andrew Johns?

Freddie Fittler...

Wayne Bennett?