When you look at the current crop of existing coaches,excluding the usual suspects, there are not many that are standouts and would be a good fit. Would you take a Cartwright or a Furner or a Flanagan? Roosters and Souths were in the same position as us 2/3 years ago and have jagged good young coaches with no NRL experience....that's the luck of the draw. We went down the same path but came up with different results. This is the hardest choice to make with the most serious of implications if you get it wrong. I don't pretend to have the answers, just some thoughts.
No:
Sheens- GTFO...club killer, ego-maniac...not wanted within a hundred miles of the place.
B.Smith - condescending approach does not gel with gen Y players. Slightly better than Stuart.
J.Taylor - has the football smarts, very short term only/fill in.
Masters - past it.
Maybe:
Daley - yet to prove himself at club level week in, week out?
Brown - has improved since leaving us. Good option although contracted.
T. Smith - good record although not proven at NRL level. Currently contracted.
Random:
Dean Young....what have we got to lose? Would he be any worse than current?
Toovey - why not throw a motza at him? Manly board constant struggle with factions.
Definite / wish list:
Bellamy - I would chase him hard again and make him an offer too good to refuse. If Smith leaves Melbourne, the big three start to break down. Combine this with new owners coming in looking for financial results and culturally, things may start to change in bleak old Melbourne town.
We were real close last time.... I'd keep sniffing around...
