DEAR News Of The Area,
IT was announced last week that Mal Meninga had been appointed as coach of the new NRL franchise the Perth Bears and as a result had to resign as coach of the Australian team who will travel to England at the end of the year for a test series.
Since the announcement, various media outlets have been speculating as to his replacement.
The two names being speculated are Cameron Smith who has no coaching experience and Brad Fittler who has a poor coaching record in the 76 games he has coached in both the NRL and State of Origin with a success rate of only 44.7 percent.
There has been no mention of Wayne Bennett, who is without doubt the best coach the game has seen as he has not only coached the highest number of games, but has the best result of 575 victories from 923 games, a success rate of 62.3 percent.
Recently the ARL have preferred that the national coach not be a club coach, however the test series will be played after the NRL grand final which would not impede on his club commitment.
Regards,
Warren MILLER
Port Macquarie.
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