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His interview on Bomber TV is quite interesting. He actually made the point that he will be a step back/removed from the players, so won't actually coach the players much. His main role will be looking after the development of the coaches, so he will focus on being a mentor to the coaches, helping the coaches grow and their professional development etc. In other words he is the coach of the coaches.
Well, I guess time will tell.
Like your green shoots pic Philzsay, if there is anytime to be positive about the future, it is the off season!
Like your green shoots pic Philzsay, if there is anytime to be positive about the future, it is the off season!
Thanks for that GG. It's an interesting read when you see them all together.
Great effort from first year players, Crouch, Mayes, O'Meara, Whitfield, Terlich and Matt Jones to finish in their club's top ten. Also by Wingard to knock off Boak, Kornes and Ebert. I wouldn't think there would be too many 2nd year full forwards in the history of the game winning their B&F, like Cameron managed to.
Noticeable by their absence in your post were 'superstars', Franklin (missed 3), Steve Johnson (missed 6) and A Swallow (missed 5).
Some surprising results when you try to correlate them to Supercoach.
Rockliff only 4th at Lions. Luke Brown a surprising 6th at the Crows. Dusty knocked off Lids and Cotch at Tigers. I was surprised at the gap between Steven and NRoo, Montagna at StK. I'm sure there are others.
Could Birchall have won the hawks B&F if he didn't miss 7 consecutive games, (8 for the year) with that injury that cruelled a lot of us SC players?
Great effort from first year players, Crouch, Mayes, O'Meara, Whitfield, Terlich and Matt Jones to finish in their club's top ten. Also by Wingard to knock off Boak, Kornes and Ebert. I wouldn't think there would be too many 2nd year full forwards in the history of the game winning their B&F, like Cameron managed to.
Noticeable by their absence in your post were 'superstars', Franklin (missed 3), Steve Johnson (missed 6) and A Swallow (missed 5).
Some surprising results when you try to correlate them to Supercoach.
Rockliff only 4th at Lions. Luke Brown a surprising 6th at the Crows. Dusty knocked off Lids and Cotch at Tigers. I was surprised at the gap between Steven and NRoo, Montagna at StK. I'm sure there are others.
Could Birchall have won the hawks B&F if he didn't miss 7 consecutive games, (8 for the year) with that injury that cruelled a lot of us SC players?
Not just "a", "the same" . Good on him.
. Good on him.
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So in the coaching merry go round it looks to have finally settled down.
To summarize Dees sacked Neeld and eventually talk Roos into coaching a few years and to also groom their next coach but the ideal candidate for long term, in my mind , was Adam Simpson and he took up the West Coast coaching spot when Worsfold called it a day.
Dees still need to find the chosen one for the long term but for now they least have some decent people looking after the reigns.
Neil Craig filled in as coach for Dees after Neeld was sacked and then after some talk with Lions he ended up taking up a role at Essendon to give some much needed experience and direction to a football department that was in the news for all the wrong reasons in 2013. Bombers Thompson eventually gets his head around coaching Essendon for a year with Hird suspended. Goodwin stays on as senior assistant coach for 2014. I'll be interested to see in the time of 2014 whether Hird and Essendon have a change of mind and he decides not to come back in 2015.
He probably will be back in 2015 but if he felt a change of heart and skip the whole coaching career I would not be totally surprised.
Scott Waters and St.Kilda is so far, proving, not, to be all plain sailing and no one really knows what is going on behind the scenes but it was clear Waters said St.Kilda had no key defenders so any trading seems hellbent on getting some key defenders for future even if it means giving up good players to get picks in draft to look for one there. Josh Bruce seems the only one they can extract from present AFL lists but he is still very raw but beggars can not be choosers.
Not sure supporters and everyone all excited about the way Waters approaches running things but no sign of him leaving.
Seems like an unhappy club in general.
Lions a bit of a mess too with sacking Voss but not everyone on same page there and eventually Leppitsch gets given the keys to coach the players. Got no idea of whether he can coach or not. Tudor and Simpson I'm not sure they were organized enough to get.
Meanwhile McCartney at Bulldogs is one coach in his first few years where everything seems to be going in right direction and road the bumpy patches without the same heat as Mark Neeld or Voss the victims from coaching merry go round.
Leon Cameron takes over the reigns of coaching GWS after legendary coach Sheedy retires. Maybe Sheedy done a lot of good work to set it up well for him like Barassi did at Sydney before Swans made Grand Final with Eade in mid 90's.
Personally not totally convinced the fires are not burning brightly still in M Voss to coach at some stage again. I remember a Malcolm Blight having his first go at coaching at North Melbourne and it did not go well but years later he became a fairly successful coach at Geelong and Crows. I just wonder if with Simpson off the radar, Roosy taking M Voss under his wing for a few years to be the next Dees coach is not worth exploring. It is the one piece in the puzzle that still intrigues me. Just sense Voss would make a better go at it a 2nd time around. I'll be interested to watch what Dees do. Cameron Ling possibly or Tudor aswell ???
To summarize Dees sacked Neeld and eventually talk Roos into coaching a few years and to also groom their next coach but the ideal candidate for long term, in my mind , was Adam Simpson and he took up the West Coast coaching spot when Worsfold called it a day.
Dees still need to find the chosen one for the long term but for now they least have some decent people looking after the reigns.
Neil Craig filled in as coach for Dees after Neeld was sacked and then after some talk with Lions he ended up taking up a role at Essendon to give some much needed experience and direction to a football department that was in the news for all the wrong reasons in 2013. Bombers Thompson eventually gets his head around coaching Essendon for a year with Hird suspended. Goodwin stays on as senior assistant coach for 2014. I'll be interested to see in the time of 2014 whether Hird and Essendon have a change of mind and he decides not to come back in 2015.
He probably will be back in 2015 but if he felt a change of heart and skip the whole coaching career I would not be totally surprised.
Scott Waters and St.Kilda is so far, proving, not, to be all plain sailing and no one really knows what is going on behind the scenes but it was clear Waters said St.Kilda had no key defenders so any trading seems hellbent on getting some key defenders for future even if it means giving up good players to get picks in draft to look for one there. Josh Bruce seems the only one they can extract from present AFL lists but he is still very raw but beggars can not be choosers.
Not sure supporters and everyone all excited about the way Waters approaches running things but no sign of him leaving.
Seems like an unhappy club in general.
Lions a bit of a mess too with sacking Voss but not everyone on same page there and eventually Leppitsch gets given the keys to coach the players. Got no idea of whether he can coach or not. Tudor and Simpson I'm not sure they were organized enough to get.
Meanwhile McCartney at Bulldogs is one coach in his first few years where everything seems to be going in right direction and road the bumpy patches without the same heat as Mark Neeld or Voss the victims from coaching merry go round.
Leon Cameron takes over the reigns of coaching GWS after legendary coach Sheedy retires. Maybe Sheedy done a lot of good work to set it up well for him like Barassi did at Sydney before Swans made Grand Final with Eade in mid 90's.
Personally not totally convinced the fires are not burning brightly still in M Voss to coach at some stage again. I remember a Malcolm Blight having his first go at coaching at North Melbourne and it did not go well but years later he became a fairly successful coach at Geelong and Crows. I just wonder if with Simpson off the radar, Roosy taking M Voss under his wing for a few years to be the next Dees coach is not worth exploring. It is the one piece in the puzzle that still intrigues me. Just sense Voss would make a better go at it a 2nd time around. I'll be interested to watch what Dees do. Cameron Ling possibly or Tudor aswell ???
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Stuart Dew signs a new 3 year new contract to stay on with the Swans!!!
Wow.....he decided not to become Roos' senior assistant @Melbourne with view of taking over in 2 years time as senior coach.
Great stuff. Swans already lost Tudor and Stone. Losing Dew would have thinned our coaching stocks and Simon Black decided to play on another year. Perhaps we can get Black next year.
Wow.....he decided not to become Roos' senior assistant @Melbourne with view of taking over in 2 years time as senior coach.
Great stuff. Swans already lost Tudor and Stone. Losing Dew would have thinned our coaching stocks and Simon Black decided to play on another year. Perhaps we can get Black next year.
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Who's next in line for number 23 at Hawthorn?
Buddy, Dermie, Don Scott, John Peck the ones to wear it prior. Did Buddy always wear 23? Did Hawthorn just knw he'd be a star or did wearing the 23 inspire him to be one?
Buddy, Dermie, Don Scott, John Peck the ones to wear it prior. Did Buddy always wear 23? Did Hawthorn just knw he'd be a star or did wearing the 23 inspire him to be one?