How will Wane’s time in charge be judged?<\/p>\n
In terms of raw facts, he failed to win a home World Cup or even make the final in 2022, and lost all three games of an historic Ashes series against Australia last year with just two tries scored.<\/p>\n
Yet, there were many highlights on the journey too. Strong NRL-packed Tonga and Samoa sides were brushed aside without loss here, while aside from that World Cup semi-final, the performances created an impressive buzz.<\/p>\n
He was excellent with the media and the players love playing for him – those who he picked, at least. Those on his periphery, such as Jake Connor, will potentially see their international route revived following this development. <\/p>\n
If there was a criticism of Wane, you could say some players did not fit his personality type even if they seemed to add something to the personnel mix. There was a nod to control and structure over maverick chaos. Sometimes you need something different against elite opposition.<\/p>\n
Whoever comes in, though, will be hamstrung by the same issues Wane faced.<\/p>\n
The calendar works against England, with no space for friendlies or even training camps on the paddock during the season, such is demand on clubs and players.<\/p>\n
In a World Cup year, it might have been wiser to seek continuity and revamp later.<\/p>\n
The new appointment will have no time to instil new philosophies and gameplans, which are vital.<\/p>\n
If England were far from beating Australia with a sense of stability and growth, how do they get closer having switched tack and ripped up the plan?<\/p>\n
Fair play to Wane. He has stepped aside to give England the chance to go a different route and likely a part-time one.<\/p>\n
There ought to be no shortage of candidates, despite the sense of having a hand tied behind one’s back in taking on the responsibility.<\/p>\n
Wakefield’s Daryl Powell, Wigan boss Matt Peet and St Helens’ Paul Rowley are all coaches who would bring something to the table if appointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How will Wane’s time in charge be judged? In terms of raw facts, he failed to win a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-412727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}