The only thing certain about coaching is that one day, it all ends in tears.
The successful coaches are the ones the ones that can move about from club to club, notwithstanding how they go.
Sometimes coaches arrive at clubs at the wrong time or events happen that are beyond their control.
Coaches have to deal with circumstances as they fall, no two are ever the same. Teams change yearly, oppositions change, rules changes, club staff change.
The good coaches adapt and plan for change. Its not easy, some make the wrong decisions.
Its hard to say whether any other coach could be doing better than Elliot is with this squad and in these circumstances.
All you can probably say is that after a period of time, the manner in which the players are competing as a whole are not producing the desired results. And beyond that, that you have to consider whether the fault is with the players (injuries, brain snaps, ignoring game plans, mental and physical inability to compete) and not the coach.
It is extraordinarily difficult to compare coaches.
Yet we have seen coaches such Bennett achieve above-average results over several years. I daresay he is coaching very differently now to when he started.
He has at least 12 extra assistants for a start. But he has changed and adapted. He has an outstanding record at NRL level. over a considerable period of time. With or without elite squads, he's pretty much brought home the bacon. That tends to suggest that he can replicate and reproduce those results into the future. No guarantee's but something to hang one's hat on anyway.
