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Message: [QUOTE="Flutterby, post: 2344213, member: 1853"] My 2 cents on the Lockyer coaching thing. I am leaning more towards that I don't think his great playing abilities will translate to being a great coach. History (across pretty much all sports, not just RL) tells us that the greatest players generally do not make great (or often even good) coaches. Also think about the greatest coaches in sport - most of them were never the best players, they were usually very good, solid players, but not great. I have thought and researched a lot about this over the years and believe the reason the great players don't translate into great coaches is that their playing abilities and ability to read the play etc is so innate and natural that they find it pretty near impossible to communicate to others how to do similar things. They don't know what it is like to not be able to do these great things, so they are able to coach it. If something comes so naturally and easily to you, you simply cannot understand how others just can't get it, you can't break it down to teach it to others and it becomes extremely frustrating trying to do so. That's just my thoughts - Locky may be the one to prove me wrong. But also I hope he doesn't feel compelled or pressured to coach. And I also hope he doesn't go pretty much straight from playing to coaching. He needs to get experience at a lower grade level (and probably completely away from the Broncos environment) [/QUOTE]

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