Matt Parish never in the race

Having read the story at Canberra's players wanting the assistant coach to take the job, you almost always see that when a coach leaves. Generally the assistant coach has a very good reputation with the players, as quite often they play the good guy to the bad-ass coach. Even when Stephen Kearney left in amidst what was obviously a lot of player discontent, there was a story saying that some of the players would have liked to have seen Brad Arthurs get the gig full-time.

So I find it interesting that the same thing wasn't the case with Matt Parish. Parish is probably one of the most experienced assistant coaches in the NRL, he's a NSW assistant coach, he's coached an ESL club, but at no point did he seem to figure in discussions, or there were any player support or anything like that.

Maybe that's just due to how badly Ricky Stuart went out, but then it may also give some indication that they players just weren't enjoying their time under the Stuart regime.

Anyway, just thinking out loud, really. Could also be extreme loyalty to Stuart I guess, but you'd be thinking that Parish would be wanting a NRL gig.

"King beats May for post contact metres which tires defences out which is great for origin style games. May gets through work like Haas but doesn't have the big play in him like Haas does. Having said that Haas hasn't really performed at Origin…"

"The biggest issue with many is May being left out. Even before his dummy spit and online sook he was probably going get phone call to work on few aspects of his game.
Max King has more post contact metres than May despite less hit ups and less…"

"Don't know what it is Super are these kids getting poor advice are they wanting everything to quickly.It's as though there missing something if they don't make FG by a given ageand learning there trade in Cup is like a failure or something.
Sanders…"

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Wild_Eels September 20, 2013 at 3:26pm

Didn't he tried for Manly job??
Dean September 20, 2013 at 3:51pm

And tigers
HKF September 20, 2013 at 4:14pm

I was thinking the same thing about assistant coach's and why they are popular with the players and came to the same conclusion as you Phil.

As far as Parish goes, i don't want anyone hand picked by RS to have anything to do with our club going forward.
- Ace Eel > HKF September 20, 2013 at 5:55pm
  
  Agree HKF...parish offered very little....along with stuart & pay...that team would have to be the most overpaid coaching staff in NRL history....
Numbers September 20, 2013 at 4:32pm

I don't think Parish's situation is the same as Dunneman or Arthur. Those 2 took over and coached their teams with a few rounds remaining and were able to build better repoire with the players. Parish had always been an assistant.
Hugo September 20, 2013 at 5:14pm

I think Parish has a lot to offer as a coach. We must acknowledge the fact however that he has hitched his wagon to the Stuart train and has to take the fallout , good or bad that comes with it. I wonder what happens to Trent Elkin notwithstanding the ESADA investigation. I for one would like a surgical clean cut from the Stuart team. My wish list would include muggleton for the defence and Dean Benton for high performance. Dean is currently unemployed after cutting ties with the brumbies. We definitely need to be fitter.

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