Old-school sprays v ice-cool control freaks: When NRL coaching schools collide

Old-school sprays v ice-cool control freaks: When NRL coaching schools collide

Friday features two exciting footy games with four exceptional coaches from different coaching lineages.

The Sydney Morning Herald

We've got two phenomenal games of footy this Friday night, with four outstanding coaches from two distinct coaching trees.

Interestingly, Ricky Stuart is the only one of Friday's quartet who was a champion player in his day, but he and Craig Bellamy - along with Michael Maguire and Mal Meninga, when he starts up with Perth - all come out of Tim Sheens' golden Green Machine era of the late 1980s and '90s.

On the other side of the ledger is Ivan Cleary and his modern-day proteges. Cameron Ciraldo, Andrew Webster at the Warriors and Samoa national coach Ben Gardiner (who is in line to succeed Meninga in Perth) all learnt from the Panthers master - and the difference between the...

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