Agreed



(I was also trying to remember what happened with Agar but he was assistant for a while so was promoted internally)

Agar was fairly successful at York too

I seem to remeber a lot being made of Chris Joynt being put through some sort of new age coaching system during his final years at Saints, but I don't he's involved at all now (although he always did have his figers in pies outside the sport).



What (if any) coaching school do we have set up in the UK??

Rubbish. If all a club needs to do is employ decent players who try their best, then there would no need for a coach. In your world - what exactly is the role of a coach?

Err



Coach the players?

Precisely! So if players are not performing, perhaps they are not being coached correctly? Hence a different coach might be required?

On what evidence?

If you want players to learn skills, you need coaches to teach it to them at an earlier stage of development. Probably around high-school/college time. There is no harm in coaching the elite as well, but you won't get very good results from them as they'll have to alter their original methods which may take time (if it ever actually happens).

If you want players to pick up the right skills, start at the beginning, not the end.

Then sack them!!!



It's not a difficult concept.



If my boss says do this or that and I don't then I would expect the worst.



Why are players in any way different?

Players are different because this is a game, it's a sport where someones got to win and someones got to lose, even if everyones good at their job