Forget his playing career then.
What has he achieved as a coach because he has been around for a while?

Kurt Wrigley Looks OK to me ,
He doesn't need to have won a Grand Final to know how to coach and has what looks to be a very good grounding of experience with a number of NRL Clubs - Cronulla , St George & now Souths , He played Half -Back - Centre & Wing too.

looking at , Tony Smith , Matthew Elliot , Ian Millward & now Michael Maguire all arrived in Britain from assistant coaching roles to enhance their careers. no reason Why this Guy cannot .

Lets face it, other than a few stats, we know nothing about him as an assistant coach, let alone a head coach. Also remember that this was from the M.E.N and the club haven't actually made any comment about him.

Totally agree what about Jimmy Lowes, up coming BRITISH and knows the game inside out. Or what about Denis Betts, an ex Salford lad? Could do worse than get Steve McCormack back - he is a 10 years more experienced coach than he was at Salford last time. Or what about Iestyn Harris - could be a potential superstar coach given a good ground and some money to spend.

Whats the worst that could happen? Salford be underachievers, scrapping at the bottom of the table, everyone slagging Simms off. Big deal thats what will happen if you get an Aussie coach anyway and it will be one less thing to whinge about with him being British.

Look at the Premiership.....13 titles to British managers, 6 titles to foreigners. Say no more. British is best.

Bloody hell !!
Ignore my earlier posts.
If the alternative is Betts,Lowes ,Harris or McCormack then I would prefer an Aussie.
Not really, but we want someone who has proved himself a quality coach.
I am not suggesting
Vievers is the answer,far from it, but why would an unknown,untried Aussie be better

Is that the most 'straight-faced' wind-up I've ever read on here, or have you been sniffing glue?

See this is the problem attitude. You just discount people because they are British. If I'd suggested Bruce Didgeridoo who was assistant coach at the Gabba Gabba Dingoes in the Country Bogun League, you'd all be going, yeah this guy sounds good, get him in, he might be able to bring some signings with him from his old club.

But when someone mentions BRITISH coaches who have a background in winning trophies (Lowes Betts and Harris could all come in and say 'show us yer medals' to any players who thought they were too big for their boots) then you just discount them.

Other names to consider:
Matt Calland (won Championship Grand Final with Halifax)
Daryl Powell (look how strong Featherstone have been since he was there) or Ryan Sheridan who has been Powell's assistant and surely looking for a head coaches job in the future
Karl Harrison (done a good job with Batley, has previous experience with a top 5 side in SL)
Paul March (another good up and coming coach, won National League One with Hunslet)

Glue it is

He sounds like a winner, lets get him signed up.

I hear Darryl Van de Velde is a good coach

I'd prefer a bit of due diligence (a radical concept at Salford) rather than just assuming he's rubbish because we've never heard of him.

Who has he worked under?
How have the teams he has coached (at lower levels) performed?
Is anyone with credibility supporting him?

BRIAN NOBLE PLEASEEEEEE

[iThe one thing that is for sure when Salford City Reds advertise the postion of head-coach there will be plenty of applicants.

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Can you go and patronise someone else, you bore.

Reading your post, you appear to have a limited view of the role of coaches, so I cannot accept your views as having any credibility.

The club have already gone down this route in the past when they appointed Steve McCormack and it didn't work.

Oh for the love of God!!!!

I'm sure that your right PF. However you have to worry about the quality of those that apply.

Do people seriously think we will attract the cream of the crop to the club, the Bellamy's or the Cartwright's? And are we truly in a position to be so snooty as to denigrate and poo-poo any potential/possible applicants?

I don't care who applies so long as there is a right and proper procedure in place in picking the next coach and its not a) someone at the clubs mate and/or b) the cheapest option.

One thing is certain, this is a very important decision for the club to make with a lot riding on it. New stadium, new era, 3 yr franchise (hope) some money to splash around (again I hope), there are only so many positions open is SL.
I just hope they get it right, unlike my football club Bolton did when employing the genius Megson !

He predecessor was no better.

Just read that Matthew Elliott is about to be ousted from his post at Penrith.

He's already coached over here and been successful, maybe he would be possibility for us for next year??

It has to be Brian Noble for me, let him bring his own back room staff if he wants and give him a free hand to organise us into a professional super league outfit. He did a great job at his previous clubs. I was particularly impressed how he set up the Crusaders last year.

Wayne Bennett rejected an offer to return and coach for the Brisbane Broncos

He did. He also rejected Russell Crowe's offer of a deal at Souths. Something tells me that there was probably a lot more offers tabled and rejected over the last few weeks. Makes you wonder why he chose the deal at Newcastle?

Back on topic. I'd love the club to observe and model our entire club set up on the Brisbane model. It's all there in black and white in 'Wayne Bennett; 21 years a Bronco.' Sure, Brizzy have far more $ at their disposal but that doesn't mean to say that we can't still use their model.
Have a read folks... Although don't be too upset if you don't find a sentence that reads [size=200"Brian Noble is the answer"
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So why didn't your team get a British coach