Wayne Bennett

[cow yeds]

Personally I can't see the sense in it, unless he comes over here to live which isn't on the cards. :conf:

[cpwigan]

Hopefully it will be so Dave and it does tally with the need to regularly bring in a new coach, new ideas. WB is hardly a risk.

[Wigan_forever1985]

I actually think Wane would of been better - I think that he would be a better coach for England than his is for Wigan IMO I think his style lends itself to a short term emotive spike than long term league planning

[josie andrews]

Potentially the best thing to happen to English RL in a generation. All we need now is IL to tap him up while Brisbane are here and get us the best.

As for those who hope for Wane to work as his assistant and learn from the master. He was assistant to Madge but decided to do his own thing when he left!!

Surely you aren't comparing Wayne Bennett to Michael Maguire ???????? ????

No he is suggesting history would repeat itself. He's making the point that Wane decided he knew better than Madge and is suggesting Wane would be exactly the same with Bennett if he took over as England coach in two years time.

Instead of tweaking and building on the success of his former head coach he'd decide he knew better, even if this is Bennett.

For Wane to benefit from being assistant coach to Bennett he'd have to be open to being taught more about coaching but the evidence suggests he wouldn't be.

Sorry Dave, it was a joke, not well executed by the look of it

[nathan_rugby]

Is Bennett going to be limited to watching the UK based England players to games shown on Sky?

For example - A contrast with Football, Roy Hodgeson will go and watch a few games a week looking at English players etc.

[cpwigan]

I presume the RFL can send him every game from every round

[thegimble]

Is Bennett going to be limited to watching the UK based England players to games shown on Sky?

For example - A contrast with Football, Roy Hodgeson will go and watch a few games a week looking at English players etc.

McNamara did not suffer from watching them on Sky whilst he was England's coach and assistant in Sydney.

[medlocke]

I wonder how many inadequate Yorkshire players will be shown the door

[Owd Codger]

Good appointment, but at the same time I would have preferred the RFL to have gone for Tim Sheens who by being here would be more in touch with our game and players as a result of being involved with Salford.

[nathan_rugby]

Is Bennett going to be limited to watching the UK based England players to games shown on Sky?

For example - A contrast with Football, Roy Hodgeson will go and watch a few games a week looking at English players etc.

McNamara did not suffer from watching them on Sky whilst he was England's coach and assistant in Sydney.

he was based in England for the majority of his tenure.

His greatest achievement is a 2-1 series victory over a heavily depleted NZ side which was very uninspiring throughout. He achieved nothing, didn't bring good attractive rugby and it took him 4 years to start picking players who deserved to be picked.

I just see problems either way - Pick an English coach and you cannot watch in person the English OZ based players. Pick an Oz coach and you cannot watch the English England based players in person.

Either way though, happy with his appointment.