The NSW Blues are immediately looking out for a brand new head coach after Brad Fittler stepped down from the function in a surprising flip of occasions on Thursday afternoon.
The news got here after Fittler reportedly had “serious difficulties coming to an agreement about the direction for the Blues”, in accordance with Channel Nine’s Danny Weidler.
Attention now will flip to who takes over as NSW coach because the Blues look to rebound from a disappointing sequence defeat to Queensland.
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While there aren’t any apparent contenders to take over, Matty Johns put ahead two present NRL coaches as “great candidates” to take the added duty on.
“They (NSWRL) turned the sheets over State of Origin a few years ago and said it can’t be a full-time coach but I think the position we’re in right now, I think it should be,” Johns stated on SEN 1170’s ‘The Run Home’.
“Slater’s done an incredible job with Queensland, but I do know the amount of time he puts into it. I just think where New South Wales are at the moment, we need a coach who is, for the use of a better term, ‘coach fit’.
“That’d be a Bellamy or Ricky Stuart.”
Further supporting his argument, Johns pointed in the direction of the headache of coping with in-game accidents as one more situation the place having a extra skilled coach would profit the Blues.
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“Thinking on your feet, suddenly a player goes down and you’re going, ‘What the hell are we going to do here’ and a million things going on in your head and suddenly you’re putting Damien Cook on the wing,” Johns stated.
“I’ve been up in the coach’s box, it was a long time ago with Bellamy and the Melbourne Storm and it amazed me how intricate and complicated the interchange process was.
“They had a whiteboard there and they were shuffling players around. To get things right they had scenarios up their sleeve if a key player went down. They’re doing this every week.
“You could only imagine how difficult it would be for a part-timer to go in there and suddenly in the cut and thrust of a State of Origin game, you lose a key man. What are we going to do?
“I think going forward for New South Wales, certainly I think in the next couple of years, let’s get someone who’s coach fit in there.”
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Leading NRL journalist Phil Rothfield additionally argued Stuart could be a super candidate to interchange Fittler again in June within the wake of NSW’s sequence defeat.
“I think Ricky Stuart’s better,” Rothfield stated on NRL 360.
Gorden Tallis although forged doubt over Stuart’s capability to steadiness his NRL duties with Origin tasks, claiming that “you can’t do both”.
“Why can’t you do both?” Rothfield replied on the time.
“You know who his assistant is in Canberra? It’s Michael Maguire, Gordy. I think he can run the club for six weeks.
“Ricky Stuart is the man to put pride back into that NSW jersey.”
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