A good coach is someone who knows who to employ on the coaching staff and lets them get on with doing their jobs, if you look at all top coaches in any sport they have a good team below them with the right people in the right jobs - not any of this employing friends/relations/favourite ex-players nonsense just for the sake of it.

A top coach know how to delegate and lead a team of professionals getting the best out of their squad of players. A top coach does not have to do all the day to day activities and can concentrate on the things that matter.

All the top names mentioned fall into this category.

Seem's Nobby now wants every club to sign 1 UNION player on 50K, is he trying to deflect the anger from the fans again

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The ability to achieve more than the sum of the parts, for example Ellery took Doncaster to promotion last season with a young, unheralded team which on a player by player basis was inferior to several others, including the Oldham team beaten in the decider.

Martin Crompton is doing a cracking job at Blackpool, building steadily from a seemingly hopeless position.

Mark Aston has done a consistently good job at Sheffield.

Martin Hall has always done a good job at various places.

In SL Brian McDermott is showing some potential.

jonh could have coached that team and that saying someting ,it coached its self

What about DaveO,hes a better coach than Jonh lol

Someone that dosnt lose the dressing room.

A good coach ?.....well there's too many points to raise, but given our current situation I would say a coach that wouldn't (if he were at all able to) field 6 props in the scrum and 7 second rowers......everywhere else

One who didn't think that 16 stones in weight (18 1/2 if you could possibly manage it) is the first prerequisite of a good Rugby League player.

given the threats via pm you have made i expected you to be having a pop on here sooner rather than later, still congratulations you managed a post without mentioning Mick Higham, congrats.

lets be honest and i know people do not like maurice,even though he got noble do you think he would still be here now if maurice was still in charge.

ok i started this thread but lets just say a good coach is hard to get

Good points raised here about coaches.

One glaring omission seems to be a history, or heritage with the club. For instance, Edwards is being touted as the prodigal son for Wigan RL by many on here, because of his passion for the club, but no one has suggested that this is important in being a good coach. Is a coach's history at the club therefore simply a red herring? Or possibly even a negative point?

Can anyone name a coach who has succeeded at their own club? Alex Murphy is probably the closest that Saints have had, but was nowhere near as successful as the likes of Millward or Anderson who have no particular passion for the club. Monie and Lowe had no passion for Wigan, but were both hugely successful. Cullen, I believe is passionate about Warrington, but did his passion get in the way of success?