Cowboys ace in no rush for new deal

PAUL Green says he is in no rush to trigger talks to extend his contract despite going into his 100th game as Cowboys boss with the best win percentage of the NRL’s younger breed of coaches.

Green, who comes off contract at the end of next season, said he liked coaching the Cowboys and living in Townsville but he remembered an adage that football coaches were better off “renting than buying’’.

The Cowboys play their 100th game under Green’s coaching at Allianz Stadium tomorrow versus the Roosters.

Asked if he wanted to push on and sign a contract for 2019, expected to be the first after Johnathan Thurston’s retirement, Green said: “Not really. I haven’t brought it up with the club recently.

“I’m not too worried about it either way, I have a lot to do at the moment coming into the finals.

“I enjoy it here. My wife and kids are happy in Townsville. Footy is footy – someone once told me `Rent, don’t buy, if you want to be a coach’.

“I’m pretty happy and in no hurry to go elsewhere, but I can’t speak for the club.’’

Finding the favourite win as coach of the Cowboys is easy for the 2015 premiership winner but his second most important win also came from that season.

“It was definitely a win over the Storm after we’d lost our first three games in 2015,’’ said Green, who has been to the finals in all three previous seasons in charge.

“We’d had a disappointing loss to the Broncos among those first three games and we were well behind against the Storm.”