Best coach ever? Gibson V Bennett

[Floodwaters]

Bennett hands down.

I laugh everyday at Broncos not letting him see out another 1-3 seasons and then promoting Jason Demetriou to head coach and Bennett into a senior role. His 2nd stint was actually pretty decent. If Thurston didn't shrug Blair and then Mccullough off with 5 seconds left in very weak attempts Broncos win a premiership and anyone that suggests Seibold wasn't gifted a good roster they have rocks in there heads, if they stuck with Wayne/Jason they'd be in a good spot as we speak.

2015 - 2nd - GF
2016 - 5th on +/- - Lost close game 2nd week of Finals
2017 - 3rd - Prelim
2018 - 6th - Start of boardroom unrest, Lost first week of Finals

 

[The_Frog]

The Broncos sacked the Supreme Coach for Siebold. I don't know of anyone who sacked old Jack.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Bennett.

First (and only) coach to take 4 different clubs to a grand final

First (and only) coach to take a club for a grand final in 5 consecutive decades.

Won 2nd most premierships as a coach in history, behind Arthur Halloway..

Coached representative teams Qld, Australia, NZ, England, Great Britain.

A win in the grand final for the Rabbitohs will see him also…

Be the first coach to win a Comp with 3 different clubs.

First coach to win a comp in 4 consecutive decades.

Equal Arthur Halloway as the most successful coach in RL history with 8 premierships.

 

[dogslife]

10 years on, I think it's time to add Ivan Cleary to the discussion.

 

[blaza88z]

Bennett hands down.

I laugh everyday at Broncos not letting him see out another 1-3 seasons and then promoting Jason Demetriou to head coach and Bennett into a senior role. His 2nd stint was actually pretty decent. If Thurston didn't shrug Blair and then Mccullough off with 5 seconds left in very weak attempts Broncos win a premiership and anyone that suggests Seibold wasn't gifted a good roster they have rocks in there heads, if they stuck with Wayne/Jason they'd be in a good spot as we speak.

2015 - 2nd - GF
2016 - 5th on +/- - Lost close game 2nd week of Finals
2017 - 3rd - Prelim
2018 - 6th - Start of boardroom unrest, Lost first week of Finals

What fantasy world are you living in where you just assume Jason Demetriou will be as good a coach as Bennett?

People dig it in for us taking Seibold but you have to remember at the time, Seibold had just had a fantastic season with Souths and was showing some great potential as a coach, what's JD done? I'll answer it for ya, f**kin' nothing.

Bennett cannot coach forever, he is well and truly on the cusp of calling it a day, maybe see out a contract with the new Brisbane franchise and that will be it. We made the right call, despite the fact in the short-term it's taken us a while to find the right bloke. Kevvie is going a lot better than people give him credit for.

Every time Bennett has left a club, that club has had to fight like hell to get back to being a competitive side (it's not even something that can be debated), the only exception I can come up with is when he left Brisbane initially but we had Darren Lockyer out there, any coach worth half a crust gets to a prelim with one of the all time great 5/8's out there.

 

[Desert Qlder]

Bennett.
First (and only) coach to take 4 different clubs to a grand final

5

Be the first coach to win a Comp with 3 different clubs.

4

 

[damoocow]

I would think that to be labelled the best coach ever you would need to have an outstanding record at all levels of the game, Gibson doesn't have that.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

5

4

Taking clubs to a GF..

Raiders
Broncos
Dragons
Rabbitohs

Clubs to win a Comp..

Broncos
Dragons
Rabbitohs (?)

 

[Mr Spock!]

The Broncos sacked the Supreme Coach for Siebold. I don't know of anyone who sacked old Jack.

Souths - 79?

Jack was only there from 78-79.

Pretty sure Jack's terms were all 3 years apart from Souths.

 

[The_Frog]

10 years on, I think it's time to add Ivan Cleary to the discussion.

In all seriousness, he's a top line defensive coach, which is a start. Maybe this time next week it will be time.

 

[Penrose Warrior]

10 years on, I think it's time to add Ivan Cleary to the discussion.

Agreed. The absence on Wayne's CV is that he never turned our rabble of a club into consistent finals performers.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

The Broncos sacked the Supreme Coach for Siebold. I don't know of anyone who sacked old Jack.

He's dead Pops not old.
Addendum, when he was alive he was young for most of his life old mate.

 

[Captain Apollo]

The Broncos sacked the Supreme Coach for Siebold. I don't know of anyone who sacked old Jack.

South Sydney did in 1979, for Bill Anderson who was his reserve grade coach. Souths officials could not wrap their heads around the concept that Souths didn't have the talent in its backline to play expansive attacking football like they did in the glory years of the late 60s to early 70s.

 

[Desert Qlder]

Taking clubs to a GF..

Raiders
Broncos
Dragons
Rabbitohs

Clubs to win a Comp..

Broncos
Dragons
Rabbitohs (?)

Souths Premiers 1985

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Souths Premiers 1985

Good point…

 

[GongPanther]

Gibson and Bennett never walked into a shit side. Sure Bennett and Newcastle might be the exception, but everything was "setup" as it was for these two coaches.

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Gibson and Bennett never walked into a shit side. Sure Bennett and Newcastle might be the exception, but everything was "setup" as it was for these two coaches.

Gibson did build the Easts side, I thought

 

[Mr Spock!]

Gibson and Bennett never walked into a shit side. Sure Bennett and Newcastle might be the exception, but everything was "setup" as it was for these two coaches.

Souths were shithouse in 77 when Gibson took them on.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Also Jack only did 3 years at a club.

He didn't need 8+ years to build his own squad and not win anything.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Gibson and Bennett never walked into a shit side. Sure Bennett and Newcastle might be the exception, but everything was "setup" as it was for these two coaches.

Souths in 1977 were 2nd last with 3 wins from 22 games and were broke when Jack took them on.

He brought in Charlie Frith, the Rampling brothers, Gary Hambly, Nathan Gibbs and Rockie Laurie from Easts to make a formidable forward pack.