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AT SOME stage during the past 106 seasons, there might have been a coach appointed without the chairman's support.
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But never before has the entire rugby league world known about it.
The man now tipped to become Parramatta's new coach - Jason Taylor - will start the NRL's toughest job in full knowledge that the club's chairman Steve Sharp doesn't want him.
Murmurs about the board's full support for a coach generally start to rumble just before the trigger is pulled.
Yet the starting pistol on Taylor's second coming at Parramatta is yet to be fired. And already he's under the gun.
Only at Parramatta.
Prior to a board meeting on Tuesday night that was convened to appoint the new coach, Sharp publicly declared his support for rival candidate Brad Arthur and urged fellow directors who wanted Taylor to toe the line.
The move placed Sharp in an uncomfortable position.
Although Sharp knew other members of the five-man board were Taylor fans, he believed his seniority and stature as a premiership-winning forward would win the vote.
But when a show of hands for Arthur was called, only one other director stood by him.
Negotiations with Arthur were well advanced.
A salary in excess of $500,000 had been discussed. Senior players who had campaigned for their 2012 caretaker coach to return were convinced the board had listened.
The likes of Jarryd Hayne eagerly awaited a coach without baggage who understood them better, rather than someone fixed in their ways.
Then came Tuesday night's ambush that's left Sharp wondering where the next bomb will go off.
Sources involved in the long-running search for a new coach claim Sharp has been loudly dismissing Taylor throughout.
The chairman was not impressed with how Taylor's only permanent head coaching role was terminated at Souths, amid a flurry of fists at the club's 2008 Mad Monday celebrations.
Taylor is aware of Sharp's coolness toward him, yet was still keen to take on the Eels job Wednesday. Not wanting to lose a second assistant coach, Roosters officials are resigned to him following Paul Green (Cowboys) out the door.
Taylor's impending appointment will keep the focus on Parramatta's backroom brawling. Likewise, should Arthur somehow recover to get the job, knowing that a majority of the board preferred someone else.
A coach who's lost the board's support before he even started? Only at Parramatta.
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