The bald head of Ivan Henjak is no more. Sadly, Ivan got knifed by a club that rates success as its pass mark. The interesting question that arises is what to do next?
For 2011, they’ve appointed a career coach. Anthony Griffin will probably only get this season.
Results probably won’t matter for anthony as this will be pinnacle of his coaching career.
As for 2012 and beyond, well it comes down to the direction the clubs wishes to head in. The obvious direction is for the prodical son, Wayne Bennet, to return. This has benefits for the club, but would it bring them the premiership success that they crave.
Another direction the club could head in is to appoint a coach that has no relationship with the club. This means canidates like Ricky Stuart and Nathan Brown would come to the forefront.
The problem with this direction would not be the coach.
Rather, the problem would lie with the clubman. No not the players, but influential figures such as Andrew Gee who may not allow the coach the freedom to implement the atmosphere that the coach may deem necessary to generate success.
The final direction the club could head in involves the captain. Darren Lockyer is in many pundits eyes a coach in waiting. As such, he will probably find himself on the Broncos staff in some capacity when he retires. The question is how to introduce him to the coaching game?
You could park him next to Wayne Bennet or Ricky Stuart for a couple of years for him to learn and then give him the rains. The problem there would not lie with Darren as such but possibly with Wayne. Would Wayne be ready to just move over as such?
The other more radical option is you make Darren Lockyer a captain/coach. Sure in the modern era this would prove very diffcult. But if any player could attempt to acheive it then Lockyer could.
As you can see it will be a conudrum for the board. But which ever direction they choose, it will be designed to generate the one thing the club craves, success.
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