Apart from Iestyn Harris were any of the current crop of Super League Head Coaches truly great players?

The old 'Agar never played in any finals' thing does my head in.

Neither did Jose Mourinho but he seems to have picked up a bit of knowledge from reading books and playing on Fifa!!

Shame is very very few make it to Hull Fc , perhaps 1 player per age group. There was a Hull Boys team that won everything there could to win and the only player from there was Craig Hall. But when you saw them at U13 beat Lancs champs you would have said 4-5 will play. Well in Hull they find beer and birds sorry to say.
The greatest Skirlaugh team that won all to win at U12 still only has 2-3 players in Hull Fc U19s . Maybe 1 from that age group will make it ??

I wish I knew the answer as to why we can't develop a world class 7 from the council estates of Hull ?

Well the 1-6-7-13 of East Hull Under 14's looked like they could go on to better things ( believe the aforementioned Parker was the 13), we can but hope

mourinho learnt his trade under Bobby Robson, agar learnt his under john kear

Correct.

Bobby Robson = England Manager, Cup Winning Club Manager

John Kear = England Manager, Cup Winning Club Coach.


It's a good comparison you make there.

We can but hope ! very appropriate but soemthing has to happen on a massive scale at FC and Rovers.

I was heavily involved at Youth level up to 2 years ago and I believe thinking has to change at U11 onwards.

FC should take 12-20 boys and coach them 3x a week from U11 and let them train with their own teams once a week. FC need to train on skills from day 1 and get the boys obsessed with skill work. By u13 they should be training 5 x a week with FC and only playing for their teams. Also FC should review the boys on scholarship every year as the 20 strong squad at U12 will be at least 50% different at U16.
Costs for FC would be big but very rewarding

Great idea, surely with the state of the British game, money, say 50% of cost, should be made available from the RFL, there must be funds somewhere in the game, we have to invest in these kids, or we'll be having the same 'ashes failure' debates for another 30 years

Wayne Bennett

Des Hasler and most of the coaches in the NRL

Brian Noble

Stephen Kearney

Roger Millward (ducks for cover)

if thats the case shoudn,t we be slagging him off and not be signing him (paul cooke)

you are paul cooke in diguise!!!!!