tony barrow plus sir les..1986 elland road..thrashing halifax....2nd best day of my life...boy did i have a headache....2009...the great tony smith...wembley has to be 1st..another bad headache.....hope i have another bad headache in 2010

Barrow, Cullen, Johnson

Would have to say the following

Alex Murphy

Billy Benyon

Tony Smith

Alex Murphy
Brian Johnson
Kevin Ashcroft......we just dont sack managers that get us to third in the League anymore.

I know we like "recency" and/or "celebration of the mundane" on this board but has anyone mentioned Ces Mountford ?

I doubt anyone on here saw a Cec Mountford side, but in terms of achievement the top 2 have to be Mountford and Murphy (the first time round). My number 3 would have to be Tony Barrow.

Agreed most on here, including me, never saw his side. Most on here, including me and it seems your goodself, do have access to history books though.

Murphs a great (if not essential) shout for No 1 and if we need to make a top 3 I'll go for Tony Barrow as I saw how he turned that side around in '86. As for attacking play, some of the best tries I've seen us score have been under Johnno and our most recent claim to the league title. The rest, including Cullen, come nowhere remotely near.

What Mounford and Murphy had (especially Murphy) was access to ready cash. They both made a number of big signings, but both also made some very cheap and astute signings which paid almost immediate dividends. Murphy's signing of Barry Philbin to play at Loose Forward with the money won from the Captain Morgan Trophy made a very good side into an outstanding one. Until the move to the HJ no other Warrington Coaches have had all that much money to spend.

Thank god.