Quote: Grimmy "I know what you're saying but finishing top doesn't necessarily make you the best coach. If he had been in charge at Hull KR do you think they would have finished top?'"
That could be said of any coach. Would any coach have finished top coaching HKR? Would he have improved them? Well, he's improved us over the course of the season so it would be a reasonable assumption to say he would although, clearly, there's no way to say definitively.
Coaches are judged alongside the teams they're coaching. There's no other way to do it. In the same way as Woolf is generally thought to have taken Saints backwards this year, regardless of any possible GF win, Lam is thought to have taken us forward from 4th placed also-rans to finishing top and in the Grand Final.
The finishing top pre lockdown was in direct response to 100% Warrior only giving credit for the last 6 weeks. That wasn't the case. No coach performed better either pre or post lockdown.