Paul Kent
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Cameron Smith was the only other player β
I've seen who can just keep a team in a shape for an entire game and not get flustered enough to get out of it.
But Cameron at origin level also had that ability to step out and play off the cuff footy and just break down that structure.
Nathan hasn't learned that yet.
No one's got the courage to sack Nathan Cleary and put Mitch Moses in at halfback, okay?
So it won't happen.
And I dare say that given that, that's probably the end of Mitch Moses now as an origin six because I look at a player like Strange who will just play that totally different game.
Nathan, you just put it there.
You just get everything set up.
You play the game.
And then Strange, you just β
Play heads up footy, that lovely phrase that we all hear now.
I think this idea that both New South Wales and Queensland rugby leagues have that you can't be a club coach, I think it's a ridiculous idea.
It fascinates me that the perception in the game is,
that you can be an ex-Origin great player
and you're able to coach, right, that automatically means you can coach.
But you can't be a good coach, you can't be a recognised good coach, but because you didn't play Origin, then, well, mate, you don't know what it's about, so you can't go and play.
Now, Madge broke the mould on that, right?
And that was because New South Wales were pretty desperate at the time.
But this idea that they only can have a former Origin great coach the team is ridiculous, right?