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Subscriber only If you measure a coach s success by the achievement of their players, then Chris Layland is a winner. Like all top sporting officials, Layland, 57, operates as though the game is in his DNA - and perhaps it is. What is certain is the man known as the coach s coach, who was named 2020 Northern NSW Coach of the Year, has been signed by the Lismore Thistles to lead their Premier League team for the 2021 season. Layland said he s both saddened and elated with the move, which was in part caused by the pandemic. After nearly four years at Byron Bay, the realities of COVID-19 made me decide to move out to my mango farm at Kyogle and I did so with a really heavy heart, he said,