Carty rockets into favourite to replace Green

But the Titans’ foundation football manager Scott Sattler believes Cartwright is ready to relaunch his career.

“Carty will have learned a lot from his Titans experience. He has since had some good years as an assistant at the Cowboys and Manly,” he said.

“He would bring a simplistic, clarity of message to the Cowboys and an open-door policy for the players.

“Some coaches can overcomplicate things but Carty’s strength is his communication and imparting a feeling on the players that he has their best interests at heart, on and off the field.

“The one thing that impressed me about Carty was his development focus.

“He wasn’t above jumping in his car and driving two hours to go and watch an under-15s carnival looking for the next talent. Not a lot of head coaches would do that.

“He got a real thrill out of helping players and finding kids and he was always very accessible as a head coach. They respected him as a head coach but he would say, ‘Guys we are all in this together, but you are the guys who must prove to the fans and the critics that you can play the game’.

“He never let the lunatics run the asylum, so to speak, but he is very intelligent in the way that he manages the group.”

Interim Warriors coach Todd Payten is believed to be Cartwright’s main challenger for the Cowboys job.

Payten, also a former assistant of Green’s, knocked back an offer to replace Steve Kearney permanently in New Zealand and had his sights set on the Cowboys post.

But Cowboys interim coach Josh Hannay has not given up the fight after making his application for the role public in the past fortnight.

“I know there is a lot of candidates putting their hand up for the job,” Hannay said.

“Right now, I am putting my case forward. The work I am doing around the place and with the playing group, that is what I am focusing on.”