I think if we punt Furner, which lets face it, regardless of your thoughts (or mine for that matter) we wont, then its got to be someone experienced and proven
we've been burnt too many times by giving people a chance... Elliott ruined a golden age for talent in his tenure, Henry f**ked off as soon as he got a chance back at Cowboys after proving himself and if we move on from Furner that quickly then clearly he's not been good
Murray would be bad imo, like Sheens these days, i think the game has pasted him by. He got results at the Cowboys on the back of JT, Bowen and LOD and Rauhihi playing really unstructured and adlib play. If you dont have the guys to play that style i doubt he gets results. They also had players like Bowman, Sing, Norton and Hannay who had career years.
He got lucky imo.
Stuart, well it remains to be seen how much of his premiership was him and not Gus. His work since the fall out with Gus has been ordinary. He has issues developing halves (i suspect he's a perfectionist in this area and cant handle people not being as good as he was), and he coaches a very dull, grubby and boring style of footy. He needs to take a year off and refresh himself. I think he'll be a very good option if he takes a year off and comes back in end of 2011 or 2012
Neil Henry, that merkin shate on this club once already. He can get f**ked. Hope the lying dog enjoys the hot seat up at the Cowboys.
Daley, his work with country has been encouraging, im not worried about his NSW selector stuff. He's the public face and has to defend the selections, god knows which ones he agreed with or not, and lets remember the coach always gets his team, and most of the rubbish picks have not been Daley favourites. Country is always a well selected side and they played a very strong game. It wont matter anyways, the guy is in on cushy high paying job on Fox, no way he gives that up.
Which leaves my pick
Steve Folkes, strong background in conditioning and fitness, which it appears to be an area we are lacking a tad in. He's won premierships, he's got a good history with a club that in his days relied mostly on coaching up juniors into FG quality players. I worried abit that like Sheens and Murray that perhaps as a coach he is outdated, but if you want experience he's the best thats on the market... would he come to canberra? Im not sure. I heard we offered him a coaching gig as an assistant to Dave, and he knocked us back to take up the Tigers gig and remain in sydney and wait for the oppertunity there
People that shouldnt be considered - Royce Simmonds, Chris Anderson, Daniel Anderson, Nathan Brown, Michael Hagan
Tbh there isnt much on the market right now
