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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2326277, member: 1764"] But that's the case any year. There's always only 4-6 teams that are potentially good enough to finish top of the ladder, and there's always 2-3 teams that are utterly useless. This year's only unique in that there's a very capable team that is ineligible to earn points, so they're very much an x-factor on the competition. The fact is, since 2000, Bennett teams have been top of the ladder at some stage (more than 1 week) in 2000 (r4-26), 2001 (r2, r6-7, r14-15), 2002 (r7-10), 2003 (r10-11, r14-17), 2004 (r6-7), 2005 (r9-24), 2006 (r12-13), 2008 (r1-5), 2009 (r12-24, 26) and 2010 (r5-22). So every year in the past 11 seasons except 2007. That's utterly remarkable! It shows that he prepares a team good enough to win more often than not, very tough to beat. Yes, his teams are also characterised by often falling short when it "counts", in the finals, but you can't deny he knows how to coach teams to be consistent, winning football teams. The difference between himself and Bellamy is that Bellamy has been able to develop that consistency week in, week out AND have the X factor to win the premiership as well. Although, if Bennett was able to spend up to $1.3 million per year more than the rest of the competition I'm sure he'd do pretty well too ;-) [/QUOTE]

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