I'm a regular watcher of the NRL, and all the NRL shows, and all the journalists and former players say that Sam Burgess is an NRL coach in the making, speak about him in glowing terms, and how much the players in the dressing room admire him. He's not just an ex-player. He is one of the most highly-regarded young assistants in the NRL.

The only downside is that the Warrington job is just a stepping stone to the Souths top job, but everyone in the NRL gushes about him. Not as a player, but as an assistant coach.

Read this from today's NRL 360https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2023-south-sydney-rabbitohs-sam-burgess-warrington-wolves-coaching-rugby-league-news-reaction/news-story/b3f015d7762284d6eaa9462406023c51rl

Maguire was only at Wigan for a couple of years as well. I'm not a fan of the Burgess appointment but the argument that it would be a bad thing if he won the Grand Final and then went off to an NRL job seems like a strange thing to worry about. You're then a champion team and in a better position to attract a new coach.

Equally if Riley Dean wins Man of Steel and then Burgess takes him to Souths, not a problem for me.

That's the problem here. You could see it with Middleton's quotes about "we need to do something different". They wanted to get Holbrook and when he turned them down they were left high and dry and had to scramble around for someone. It's like when Neil Kelly turned us down and we got Anderson and Plange.

The problem is, it's not something particularly different for Wire. Big name in the NRL with red flags. Sandow, McGuire, Inglis. Two guys with a long chequered history of off field trouble and one who was in physical decline and had had mental health challenges. In each case it was easy to see how it would end from the point we signed them. We have to stop taking shots on these type of signings. So when you appoint a coach who has a (recent) history of off field trouble it hardly sets the right benchmark from the top.

Now maybe he's reformed and will turn out to be a completely different character and clean up his act now he's out of the NRL and in Warrington. But we were banking on that when we signed Sandow and McGuire too.

And if he did do well, then swan off to the NRL in 2 years... i think most of us would wish him well.

some people crying about it being a short sighted appointment.. like any SL club has a coach for much longer than a few years anyway... 2 years is a good stint.. if he is still here after 2 full seasons, it was a successful appointment.

Fair enough mate, I'm sure after another winter I'll likely be on the bandwagon come February, but right now I'm still stinging from the last two years. I'll just have to give it time I guess.

When you think about it, Burgess has alot more to lose here than we do.

Fail here, with the backing he will receive.. and there is no NRL job.

He is going to be chomping at the bit... No complacency at all... and if that's not enough, then at least we tried.

Better than having Rowley, or some Pie in charge

If he does the 2 years do we then go for Briers.

I for one never wanted either of the two you mentioned here. Just saying

The appointment of Sam Burgess is a big leap of faith when compared with Justin Holbrook. For me, he has my support and I give him the benefit of the doubt, as I'm more than relieved that the Daryl Powell era is finally over. Let's see what happens. If he does bring some players with him, as Powell did, I really hope that they will strengthen our squad, as opposed to weaken it.

While you asking outside of Holbrook my choice would of been Monaghan.

he was my No1... But I'm fully behind this one now.

Its a brave, aggressive appointment... few nice signings... few encouraging press conferences by Burgess..... We will all be fired up going into next season.

Wow I get my predictions of the coaching structure (well nearly chambers instead of Cullen)right and you lock my thread, pure arrogance, but expected of wire fans who now jumping on the Sam burgess wagon.

You have an habit of starting threads when one is already up on the subject.