SaintLex
Premiership Player
- Aug 26, 2012
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I hope he buys a membership
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With Gil McLaughlin basically running our club along with Finnis I'm happy to trust this appointment. He won't get his hands on any contracts, will be facilitating new technology via the AIS in regards to fitness, management programmes and personal development.
I wonder if McKenna could be a good option?
I for 1 hope not, reckon he's the full flogSanderson?
I for 1 hope not, reckon he's the full flog
Yeah I read that, if you can take a look at his B&F speech at the end of his 1st year (I think) it was absolutely cringe worthy, the crowd was laughing at him but he was being serious. Carrying on about all the coincidental reasons why the Crows were going to win the flag the next yearOnly stating that based on article yesterday stating Finnis wouldn't deny we'd spoken to him.
Downside 1 = not from footy, so a bit strange to be a footy manager.
Upside 1 = still a bloody good sportsman, and he's not there to coach, but to do admin, that is transferable across any sports.
Downside 2 = Got fired for doing dodgy stuff with contracts.
Upside 2 = Only got fired for doing what everybody else was doing. He was merely following the culture and practice of the sport. Then when people decided that wasn't acceptable for the sport to do in the future, they used Cox as the fallguy. Funny thing is, up until that point, he'd probably have been fired if he HADN'T done all that stuff, because SA wouldn't have been able to compete with the rest of the comp who were doing it as well.
In short, who knows?
I'll give it a shot.Could someone with twitter tweet Warnie to see what he thinks of Cox's appointment, he would have a good perspective I think
I'll say it again, since you've not discussed my posts about it in the Best 22 thread.
We effectively lost FOURTEEN of our 2013 Best 22 through most-or-all of 2014, PLUS got a new coach.
If we are in a rebuild, 2014 was the demolition year. We completely deconstructed our best-22, thanks to trade, FA, retirement and injury. Judging the health of our list going forward based on 2014 is like looking at the rubble of a bulldozed house and saying nobody can ever live there.
The 2015 best 22 will be massively more settled, and more experienced than the 2014 one was.
Wrong.Pelchen dumped because we need someone more footy-focused rather than recruitment and dealings.
Person hired has less footy knowledge/experience than the person we removed from post.
“However, following our end of season review, we agreed to make some changes to drive further development in our high performance programs across our Football Department.
“The highly competitive AFL landscape requires us to drive a program that combines bringing in and retaining the best players with uncompromising excellence in the development and performance of our team.”
So, you're saying that 17 goals in 10 games from a young forward wasn't impressive. M'okay...I felt you were really scraping the barrel when you started to suggest that Lee was best 22 in 2013, and didn't start 2014 in the team, so he was a loss to us and contributed to poor performance.
You're making it far more complicated than it is. Lee wasn't in the team DUE to poor performance - in fact, poor effort also judging by Richo's preseason and early-season comments.
Now that's a good idea.Could someone with twitter tweet Warnie to see what he thinks of Cox's appointment, he would have a good perspective I think
Why thankyou MamNow that's a good idea.
So, you're saying that 17 goals in 10 games from a young forward wasn't impressive. M'okay...
And you're saying that despite it being reported repeatedly that he'd had two shoulder reconstructions over the off-season, that was just poor form. Sure...
Wrong.
The reason specifically given for Pelchen going was that we needed somebody with a high performance background:
http://www.saints.com.au/news/2014-10-21/chris-pelchen-to-depart-saints
October 21, 2014, the day Pelchen left.
Guess what Jamie Cox is an expert in.
There you go again putting words in somebody's mouth. I'd put words in your mouth, but your foot is taking up too much room. I didn't call him a missing superstar. My point was that he was the 13th player out of the starting 22 at the end of the 2013 season. His absence is part of a cumulative problem, on top of players like Dal Santo, etc. He could be a nail in a horseshoe, but if 60% of the horse's equipment is also missing, then that one nail could be all the difference.It was a good sign. But you can't tell me that Tom Lee was a missing superstar and his (mythical) inavailability led our dire 2014 season.
Tom Lee played at Sandy week 1. He wasn't picked, according to Richo, because he had parts of his game to work on; in particular defensive effort/pressure.
I'm not going to continue an argument over this. I'm saying we're last cos we're the worst team. You're convinced we're not that bad and we just briefly lost some leadership through injury.
Pelchen dumped because we need someone more footy-focused rather than recruitment and dealings.
Person hired has less footy knowledge/experience than the person we removed from post.