Why are they all so rubbish?

Tony Smith is British (officially)

Powell's British,

Got to agree,nowhere near as good as in A.E.C. days.

Because clubs don't give them a chance.

All the big clubs prefer Aussies. Nothing to say English coaches wouldn't do well with the international players the big clubs have.

Agars had 3 yrs and is still rubbish.

Agar was an assistant, just like Jimmy Lowes at Wire, McNamara at Bradford. All were promoted when they should have remained as a No.2

Wigan should take note, and however highly they regard Shaun Wane should be careful about making a good No.2 into a poor No.1

Wane's worked his way up through the ranks at Wigan, too many players these days are just given the assistant post straight after retiring without actually doing any work for it IMO.

Observation (and there are exceptions, like Agar and Matterson, and "wait-and-sees" like Harris and Rob Powell):

The younger, rubbish British coaches (McDermott, Lowes, Cullen, McNamara and others) had long RL playing careers and therefore have rocks for brains.

All the Australian coaches in SL had either practically non-existent playing careers (Maguire, Smith, Robinson) or were good players who had to retire young (Brown, Morgan) and think about and learn their coaching trade.

I suppose the problem starts with what is the definition of a good coach and once that is agreed and understood you gave a reference point to decide who is brilliant and who is not cutting the mustard.

The question is who creates the definition in the first place?

How many british coaches get their team playing at their optimum on a regular basis?