What's the obsession with these 2? Ciraldo is being touted by the media as the best assistant since Trent Barrett was at penrith. Then with Flanagan it may be telling that despite Fox's best attempts to get him a job by putting him in commentary and 3 clubs recently sacking their coaches he hasn't been a head coach at an NRL club since being banned. Wasn't he meant to take over at the dragons when McGregor left? If desperate clubs like the tigers, warriors, dogs, and dragons won't hire him why should we?
I don't know who the silver bullet is but these two I'd be staying well away from. I'd look at John Morris, Simon Woolford, possibly Ryan Carr? The latter two may be too close to the current head coach for some though.
My God!
This is a business as well as entertainment. If Parra put any of those 3 nobodies in place as head coach unless they literally have instant success and or were able to attract quality players then they would within their first season become toxic to the fans, sponsors and players in regards to recruitment and attraction as a club to go to.
If a coach isn't high profile and or has runs on the board then the criticism and attacks will be relentless from the very beginning and for a club as big as ours it will be deafening. Besides unless the powers that be at the club know something no one else knows and they are unearthing a Bellamy or Robinson from left field, they should steer clear of any middle of the road candidates or unknowns.
Ciraldo even though he would be a rookie, comes with a lot of hype and much good will from both the playing ranks of the NRL and the media a like. That is a vital ingredient to have for a rookie coach because it would give him some breathing space to get some new recruits and have some failures along the way without have to much criticism and pressure put on him from the outset by the media wolves.
Otherwise if we were to go with a head coach of the type like your 3 suggested ones, it be like the Tigers giving Noddy the keys to the kingdom, but even worse, without the safety net of Tim Sheens overseeing. Those sorts of appointments lead to nothing other more mediocrity or outright failure. In todays game you need head coaches that wield power and presence in recruitment and talent identification more then ever. The day of seeing average coaches winning premierships unless they are blessed with being in the right place at the right time and having a whole lot of quality juniors all come through at the same time without them actually being the architect behind it all are virtually gone.
An average coach that can't attract stars or develop from within quick enough, will not get the luxury of being around long enough to see any real success. We can't afford to get the next head coach appointment wrong especially if we were to give it to an unknown and uncelebrated nobody rookie. Carr for example maybe a decent coach, but he needs to be brilliant not decent. If we go with a rookie he needs to be the best there is available. Rightly or wrongly that is what the NRL community wants to see. If we go with a low profile unknown, then like I said, management better be pulling one hell of a rabbit out of their arse. Otherwise we have just consigned our club to another 10 years of nothing cos that is how long it will take to get the players back that we will lose and structures that will dissolve even further and then going through the whole process of finding a quality coach who wants to come at a weak club and try his luck.
Whoever we get though better not be adverse to having the best assistants and footy minds around him like this current coach has shown to be, otherwise he will also fail just like BA has, but someone like Ciraldo doesn't strike me as the fearful type that doesn't want equally bright minds around him to help out. In my opinion we need someone like him or Flano and a great not good talent scout and stop the nepotism that is apparently going on under BA's watch.
We aren't producing many if any SOO or Australian rep quality players at all at the moment. This is the driest spell I have ever seen our club go through as far as lack of talent, no matter what some on here keep saying about how good our juniors are. We have lost so much ground in numbers and quality it isn't funny. This needs to stop and be reversed otherwise no matter who we appoint as our head coach he will be coaching at a markedly major disadvantage to the clubs that are true development clubs.
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