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Former North Queensland Cowboys coach Paul Green will be officially announced as the new Queensland Maroons coach tomorrow.
Green, who won a premier with the Cowboys in 2015, will succeed Wayne Bennett who led the Maroons to a shock 2-1 series victory last November over New South Wales.
Green will be appointed by the Queensland Rugby League for a one-year contract, with an option in his favor for 2022 according to the Mail Mail.
The award-winning coach was unemployed after being showed the door by the Cowboys last June. The Cowboys, who haven’t made the soccer final since 2017, were 12th on the NRL ladder with three wins and seven losses by the time Green left the club.
Of 167 NRL games with the Cowboys between 2014-2020, Green finished with a winning percentage of 52.1% (87 wins, 80 losses).
Despite reports suggesting former Maroons fullback Billy Slater was a favorite for the post, the NRL great would not have been interviewed for the role.
It is understood that a quartet, which included Bennett, Mal Meninga, Craig Bellamy and Cameron Smith, had all privately pushed Slater’s case for the role to QRL President Bruce Hatcher.
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