Sando sacked - confirmed **** crows only ****

[Elite Crow]

I think you're right, I suspect the whole coaching panel will be gone. The only one I can see potentially surviving the chop, rightly or wrongly, will be Bickley, but I suspect he'll go too.

Rowey said it will be brutal, Harper has to go as well

 

[NikkiNoo]

Same here, although I'm not engaged.

Sucks when they don't care haha.

If they do care, they would possibly be on here

 

[hey shorty]

HEAVILY being the operative word.

Oh i see what you did there........

 

[spenze]

About time he was sacked. Nice guy but not a coach, should have surrounded himself with the right people to make his position safe

 

[MRB37]

My fiancee was clearly excited to hear the news.

I'd take that sort of reply if it got me bangers and mash for dinner!

 

[Jbudds]

We need to know how Sanderson lost the players. Is Sanderson too soft and the players want the bar raised? It does sound like a revolt by the players, but the Board has a lot to answer for. They are responsible for strategy. Why have we decided to change strategy so soon after giving Sando a contract extension?

 

[Crow-eater]

Right, that completely blindsided me. Was not expecting that at all.

Now that I've digested the news, I'm not 100% against it. I loved Sando the bloke. He was a genuinely nice guy. However I had started to come around to the view here that he probably wasn't the guy to take us to our next flag.

IMO the club took a step forward on Monday with Fagan's appointment. It's also my opinion that if we don't have an experienced person lined up for this job, it's going to be another step backwards. Another rookie coach is not the answer.

 

[Elite Crow]

Where is King Elvis?

 

[Mike Smyth]

Dew is a winner though.

Has won a Premiership with every club he has been involved with. Salisbury/Pooraka/Centrals/Port/Hawthorn/Sydney.

Hmmm interesting....good point. Would rather him than Goodwin.

 

[Thinker]

Rowe just said they spoke to Truck Rutten off air and what he said set off massive alarm bells about Sando and players relationship.. Rowe didn't want to go deeper into it..
Do people need any more convincing?
Even the Truck said it..

I feel for Sando but he treated some like golden children and others - he barely spoke to..
Even in his pressers you could hear the love for his favourites..
Hinkley loves all of his players and is all about team..
Hence the passion they play with for him and TOGETHER..

This x1,000,000

All we want is a coach that is invested in ALL of his players and actually talks to them a ALL on a weekly basis.

 

[BrissyCrow]

I am sure its Bassett, its one of the few people available where supporters would be happy with.

You've said that a few times already. What makes you so confident about it?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

You would have to think with the trade period fast approaching they would have to have someone in mind or already lined up. No coach, no list manager, soon to be no assistant coaches, with our most important trade period coming up.

Noble just keeps getting busier!

 

[Elite Crow]

We need to know how Sanderson lost the players. Is Sanderson too soft and the players want the bar raised? It does sound like a revolt by the players, but the Board has a lot to answer for. They are responsible for strategy. Why have we decided to change strategy so soon after giving Sando a contract extension?

Maybe the s**t he come up wasn't just confined to his press conferences

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Extension was done before he lost the players.

Nope.

There's not a day where every player is on board then then next day he's lost them all. It's a gradual process over a long period of time. Seeds would have been sown in 2013.

 

[Niximus]

I'd take that sort of reply if it got me bangers and mash for dinner!

Sadly, she is out for dinner with work colleagues, that was more like gloating

 

[hey shorty]

Senior players ?? So Sauce, Truck, Thommo........ the big 3 as well ??

 

[Allefgib]

Bullshit to you too!!

Where did I say he didn't know or not endorse the move???

The word I used was input as in input to the decision!!

Endorsing is input in my books

 

[srv23]

Same here, although I'm not engaged.

Sucks when they don't care haha.

Really, my hubby and I have been talking about this for the last 2 hrs...

 

[skoobydoo]

Oh and by the way Fagan doesn't even start for another 3 weeks. How would he know if Sando is a good coach or not

100% board decision

Appointments at this level aren't made without the incumbent being aware/party to an imminent happening, surely!!!!!

 

[MRB37]

We need to know how Sanderson lost the players. Is Sanderson too soft and the players want the bar raised? It does sound like a revolt by the players, but the Board has a lot to answer for. They are responsible for strategy. Why have we decided to change strategy so soon after giving Sando a contract extension?

Well, the rumours seemed to indicate that he played the blame game too often with the players and they got a bit sick of it and told him that he needed to take a good hard look at himself and his assistants before he started on them again.

 

[GROTTO]

There is rumblings on AFL360 that the dogs and suns may sack their coach.

I seriously would have given Sando one more year but with proper assistants in place. I am a little disappointed because to me I feel we are going back to the dark times of 2011.

 

[matty p]

Dew is a winner though.

Has won a Premiership with every club he has been involved with. Salisbury/Pooraka/Centrals/Port/Hawthorn/Sydney.

What's playing in a premiership, particular amateur football, got to do with being capable of coaching an AFL team to a flag? The only one of relevance is Sydney. How much has he had to do with their success? From an outsider looking in, not a huge amount. They were good when he started there and they're good now.

 

[MRB37]

Sadly, she is out for dinner with work colleagues, that was more like gloating

That's cold blooded!

 

[GROTTO]

50 pages in a few hours for a non-game day thread. This has to be some record.

 

[NikkiNoo]

Poor kane cornes, in that the first questions asked him are about Sando's sacking!