Finding the right man is the task NRL clubs live or die by. It's a tough task because, like a bad housemate, you won't really know you chose wrong until you come home and find him with his dirty feet plonked up on your coffee table, eating your Doritos and drinking all your beer. By then he's impossible to shift without angst and trouble.

The regularity with which coaches are hired and fired - sometimes re-hired - means there is rarely a shortage of good men getting around. The art is in picking the right one, and it doesn't always come down to pure coaching.

On paper, there's no comparing Paul Green and Kevin Walters. Green's coached close to 200 NRL games, won a premiership and reached another grand final. Walters is yet to coach in clubland.

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At present though, the Broncos need more than a coach. They need a man with the club's DNA running his veins, who can bring disgruntled former greats back into the fold and restore faith in a fanbase for whom he remains an all-time great.

In pure psychology, it's often wise to bring in a man different to predecessor. The Broncos players have been so mind-shagged by Anthony Seiobold's cerebral approach they could use a more relaxed, jovial character. Horse for courses, pardon the pun.

Wayne Bennett was unquestionably the best coach in the game's history when he went to the Knights, but he never "got Newcastle" as the folks used to say up there.

Des Hasler's stocks weren't high but he "got Manly." Ricky Stuart had finished 11^th, 15^th and 14^th and last in four of the five seasons before he returned to Canberra. But he was the right man for the Raiders.

Which brings us to the Dragons. The Dragons board called the decision to go with Griffin "unanimous." Truth is it had to be as stipulated by the constitution. It was unanimous or no decision at all, but the board was divided - or perhaps more accurately undecided.

Anthony Griffin, David Furner and Dean Young are all good men. The board really weren't sure which way to go so, as boards do, they looked at how best to justify the call, not just now, but down the track.

Both Griffin and Furner had been sacked by their past two clubs, but Griffin had a bigger asterisk next to the second one at least. He was also that seemingly all-important 'outside voice'.

Kickoff can't recall another coaching race in which rival media factions have so fervently take sides. It says a lot about the current rugby league media environment, but also about Griffin's interesting career-trajectory.

On Hook, it's easy to set up camp on either side of the fence. In some sections he's been described as a 'winner' with a "55 per cent career win percentage." People, including the Dragons, have been shouting that figure from the rooftops (can you recall win-loss percentage of any coach ever figuring so heavily in a discussion?)

He's also reached the finals in six of seven seasons. These are empirical facts, his teams win more than they lose. It's demonstrable. On numbers it's a pretty watertight case as to his ability.

However, you can take a more nuanced look at the figures. He finished third and reached a prelim final in his first year with the Broncos with a stacked Darren Lockyer-led roster. Food for thought, Seibold achieved the exact same in his first season at Souths. With some very notable exceptions, coaches are almost never as good or as bad as their rookie campaigns would indicate.

Beyond that Griffin missed the finals once and finished eighth, and went directly out of the finals, twice. Not shabby, but there's a reason the Broncos moved heaven and earth to get Bennett back.

His situation at Penrith is even murkier. It's still near impossible to fathom how a coach could get sacked, in round 21, with his side running fourth, months after having his contract extended by two years, so the club could re-hire the one they fired before they brought him in. It was financially and ethically irresponsible from the Panthers.

If you don't like Phil Gould, and there's a few of you, then it's easy to plant yourself on Griffin's side of that fence. You can just as easily sit on the other if you're so inclined.

The Dragons will be his third head-coaching gig having been sacked from his previous two. 'He's been sacked by two clubs for a reason right?'

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There's been persistent talk that Griffin lacks the non-coaching skills it takes to make good sides great, that he treats men like boys, like a humourless school headmaster. Supposedly, it's why he could get a lot out of the young Broncos players he'd brought through the NYC, but couldn't quite them over the hump.

Ironically, it was those players who needed a "new voice" when Griffin was moved on by the Broncos. Now, he is the new voice. That fact seems to be the one that got him over the line against Young.

He'll be stepping into a fire pit. The Dragons head-coaching role is high-pressure enough, but the deeply polarised commentary on his candidacy ensures there'll be plenty death-riding him before he starts. You can expect his tenure to be even more fiercely debated than his appointment.

As we've said, it's rare coaches get three chances at NRL head coaching. That's why the likes of Craig Fitzgibbon - the Dragons initial No. 1 target- and Jason Ryles don't simply jump at the first role that comes up in the way men their position may have in the past.

You'll also never get a glorious honour roll of candidates on offer. Coaches never come off 'off-contract' anymore. Ironically a desire for stability or certainty will see them sacked before they get there.

The really good get extended long before it. Given that fact, just about any candidate with NRL experience will have been sacked from somewhere - and carry the baggage.

A coach almost never gets sacked and comes back worse for it. The fact Griffin has had two cracks at it and the jury genuinely remains out suggests he warrants another chance, certainly in the absence of another compelling option.

One can only hope he's allowed to do normal head coaching things like oh... pick his own team, maybe have a bit of a say in recruitment. Fingers crossed, probably his more than ours.

All in all, he was probably the surest the bet in a wide-open field. You can just picture the Dragons board channeling Mr. Kruger of Kruger Industrial Smoothing - "Costanza I could go either way on you... but what the hell, we need someone."

Right call? Guess we'll just have to come home in a year's time and see how many stubbies are left in the fridge.