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Can't find it by Google and I'm curious, who was the last caretaker coach to coach a VFL/AFL final?
Last caretaker coach to coach finals?
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Not sure but Mark Harvey was very close in 2013
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Jock McHale missed a premiership due to illness. Bob Rush coached I think
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Joyce 1988
It wouldn't happen often as most caretaker coaches are only there because the team performances were so bad the head coach just got sacked. If the performances of a team were that bad then most teams in that position would not be playing finals.
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Or you could be like Hawthorn 1993 and sack a 2 time premiership coach who never missed finals.
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Haha can you imagine Joyce addressing the players in the shade at the gabba? He would've taken great pleasure in watching them fry!
Hard, hard man was Joycey- probably underrated as a coach.
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No I mean Brisbane in 2013
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In the last round, we lost by 1 point at Geelong. Carlton won their game at Port by 1 point.
Had we won and they lost, we'd be in as 9th place - Essendon were disqualified
Made the finals first two years. Then got the ass for terry wallace mid season and finished second last
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You think that was stiff? He was out of a job 2 years after coaching Hawthorn to a premiership.
Yes, that is correct. And as far as I can tell, Rush is the last "caretaker" coach in a VFL/AFL final.
from the match report written by 'Old Boy' in The Argus 13 October 1930 p10.
"We have seen many reversals of form in recent years, but none so dramatic, none so sudden, as we saw on Saturday. It was the more amazing because the astute Collingwood coach, J. McHale, was ill in bed and unable to be present, and thus there was no opportunity for him to to make the rallying speech at half-time which has so often spurred the magpies on to victory. The Collingwood room at half-time was a very serious place. There was no repining, no blaming the other fellow, but they all felt they had done their best and had been defeated. Mr. R. Rush took the place of "Jock" McHale, and in an inspiring speech urged the team to rise to the occasion. The men, feeling that an extra effort was required, made it, and overwhelmed the opposition and won."
from an issue of the Sporting Globe looking back at that 1930 GF Sporting Globe 20 September 1933 p8.
"Into the Collingwood room went Bob Rush. Mounting a form he harangued the Maggies as they have seldom been harangued."
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We were getting smashed by 15-20 goals every week under Joyce that year, lost the players. Although I have still no idea how and why. When Wallace came over were mostly competitve and prelims for next 2 years.
