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Madge is the only decent coach who may be available at season's end. The Dragons would be mad to appoint Mary over Madge.
Stranger things have happened possm (think, signing Mary in the first place!) but i really can't see Madge even being spoken about within the circles of our hierarchy. It seems evident to me, that the club has embarked on a complete shift of strategy with the way our football department is going to operate moving forward.
We seem to be adopting an NFL style of operation where a core group of people are responsible for juggling finances and putting together a roster that compliments a vision of what the club believes will bring success. The coach then becomes secondary and their role is to just concentrate on preparing the team they have been given by polishing a predetermined team plan strategy (in our case, the "power game"), to exploit opposition weaknesses and with the help of his staff (assistant coaches, skills coaches, fitness and sports scientist guru's, behavioral specialists, "consultants" etc), develop the skills of the players at their disposal. This type of strategy is a bit left field in NRL circles, but if our results so far this year are even partly as a result of this, then i applaud management for their vision and willingness to admit that what we have been doing for the last 5 years simply had to change.
I think Gus had a similar vision for Penrith but he couldn't help himself and started majoring in minors and tried to micro manage everything himself.
Therefore back to Madge. If the above is the route we are going down (and everything i have seen and heard makes me believe we are), then Madge does not fit the criteria of a suitable coach under such a regime. This type of structure is all about plotting a long term vision and having "drop in - drop out coaches" that work within the vision and avoiding coaches who want complete control of the entire operation and demanding God like status.