Quote ="49er"Not sure I can go along with Lee Briers being rated as a top coach all of a sudden. He had plenty of time here to demonstrate his coaching credentials but, as admittedly an outsider, they are quite difficult to identify.
He always seemed to be subservient to Price whenever I saw him and he has worked with the Academy with limited success.
At Wigan, both he and Peet have benifited with Bevan French and Jai Field both being on fire at the same time with little need for coaching ability.
Then again my view might have been clouded by seeing him beat the Wigan drum and admit he has always been a Saints supporter.'"
I can, standards are set by the club and culture. He may have benefitted a lot from wame giving him tips on how to translate ideas to players and implement into training ? Be given more scope to influence the attack by bringing his own ideas to the table ? Because you don't go from leaving one club who have questioned his input for some time to Wigan who were as dangerous with the ball as Hawkins with an Uzi lady year to what we've seen this year. And no I don't put it down to French and field, Smith looks a different player their whole attack has improved? The only new thing is lee briers.
I questioned how their attack had improved so much at the start of the year and how we questioned his input at Warrington as our attack has been so impotent for so long. Either way our inability to tap into what Wigan have is something that needs looking into. Was he restricted to putting out cones and supervising drills was he just ineffective or were the players just unwilling to learn or not good enough to implement what he was trying to teach them ?
