Who will coach Essendon in 2015?

[A Prophet]

With the Asad investigation coming to an end no one else seems to be asking this but
Who will coach Essendon if the players are found guilty of doping?
I doubt the other clubs would let one of their senior coaches take over the bombers right before the season starts and i dont think bomber thompson would come back after everything that has happen

I think Matthew Knights is a fair chance to get the nod but i was wondering what everyone else thinks
Who will coach Essendon in 2015?

 

[Thrawn]

 

[Satan]

With the Asad investigation coming to an end no one else seems to be asking this but
Who will coach Essendon if the players are found guilty of doping?
I doubt the other clubs would let one of their senior coaches take over the bombers right before the season starts and i dont think bomber thompson would come back after everything that has happen

I think Matthew Knights is a fair chance to get the nod but i was wondering what everyone else thinks
Who will coach Essendon in 2015?

For whom the Bell trolls

 

[Sunshine Saint]

No aspiring coach would be interested as this would be a poisoned chalice, as Essendon supporters / members would be wanting Hird to return. That leaves only ex-coaches who are unlikely to ever get a senior position again, i.e. Mark Harvey, Mark Neeld, Scott Watters etc. Part or all of a season with a large wage, to help ease them into retirement.

 

[TerryWallet]

Robbo was right........Co-Coaches

 

[Bomberboyokay]

No aspiring coach would be interested as this would be a poisoned chalice, as Essendon supporters / members would be wanting Hird to return.

The board wanted Hird gone months ago but he threatened turning the lawyers on the club. He's out the door the day the suspensions are announced.

As for the replacement probably an assistant who's already there while a lengthy search for a 2016+ coach begins.

 

[pablo668]

I've said it many times before. Gary Ayres......it's time.....

 

[T Factor]

Mark Harvey will step in, exp coach and already an EFC fav.

 

[RegHickeyStand]

The board wanted Hird gone months ago but he threatened turning the lawyers on the club. He's out the door the day the suspensions are announced.

As for the replacement probably an assistant who's already there while a lengthy search for a 2016+ coach begins.

There has to be more to that story than meets the eye.

I say this because Little is no idiot, and if I know that they could have sacked him for any host of reasons unconnected with his legal challenge, then Little knew it before me.

Hird isn't there at trade time. He is overseas during preseason. His players were threatening to boycott NAB. Little could easily have cooked up an excuse. Instead Little seems to be covering for him. I have never known an AFL coach to be so uninterested in coaching. Especially one who seems to have the training wheels (senior coach as his assistant) welded on. Usually you can't keep them away.

 

[RegHickeyStand]

I reckon the whole list could be suspended, Little thrown in the slammer, the club fined 10 million, Reid deregistered, Bomber in an asylum. Hird would still be giving pressers saying he is looking forward to coaching the lads, many of whom he has never met.

 

[Flightless Bird]

I reckon the whole list could be suspended, Little thrown in the slammer, the club fined 10 million, Reid deregistered, Bomber in an asylum. Hird would still be giving pressers saying he is looking forward to coaching the lads, many of whom he has never met.

...and vast numbers of their supporters enthusiastically espouse how the list is ripe for a tilt at this years flag.

 

[RegHickeyStand]

...and vast numbers of their supporters enthusiastically espouse how the list is ripe for a tilt at this years flag.

And when they lose three in a row, you know whose fault it will be? The list. s**t lit. lol

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Where is Hird going?

 

[Munich]

With the Asad investigation coming to an end no one else seems to be asking this but
Who will coach Essendon if the players are found guilty of doping?
I doubt the other clubs would let one of their senior coaches take over the bombers right before the season starts and i dont think bomber thompson would come back after everything that has happen

I think Matthew Knights is a fair chance to get the nod but i was wondering what everyone else thinks
Who will coach Essendon in 2015?

Knights is happy with us at Catland, helping our mids learn how to get a clearance

 

[Deliverance]

Not sure about the coach.......but, new head of sports science??

 

[CountryRace]

Where is Hird going?

Monaco

Good ears

 

[Proper Gander]

There has to be more to that story than meets the eye.

I say this because Little is no idiot, and if I know that they could have sacked him for any host of reasons unconnected with his legal challenge, then Little knew it before me.

Hird isn't there at trade time. He is overseas during preseason. His players were threatening to boycott NAB. Little could easily have cooked up an excuse. Instead Little seems to be covering for him. I have never known an AFL coach to be so uninterested in coaching. Especially one who seems to have the training wheels (senior coach as his assistant) welded on. Usually you can't keep them away.

Weird, isn't it? Who do you think James has dirty pics of? I wish I knew what the real story was here because even Essendon supporters must occasionally wonder where exactly their highly paid superboy is.

 

[Proper Gander]

When it gets down to it, I hope the EFC finds someone who is:

a) in the country; and
b) doesn't become steadily more and more of an orange shade over a few seasons.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

There has to be more to that story than meets the eye.

I say this because Little is no idiot, and if I know that they could have sacked him for any host of reasons unconnected with his legal challenge, then Little knew it before me.

Hird isn't there at trade time. He is overseas during preseason. His players were threatening to boycott NAB. Little could easily have cooked up an excuse. Instead Little seems to be covering for him. I have never known an AFL coach to be so uninterested in coaching. Especially one who seems to have the training wheels (senior coach as his assistant) welded on. Usually you can't keep them away.

Some good points.

The guy doesn't have his eye on the ball.

 

[onemancyclone]

Where is Hird going?

Don't know, don't care.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Hird this year, and next year, and unless we aren't consistent top-6 performers by this point, the year after that.

 

[onemancyclone]

Hird this year, and next year, and unless we aren't consistent top-6 performers by this point, the year after that.

You haven't gone 6th since 2002. Albert will sue for setting unachievable targets. Especially when your list is full of VFL hacks.

 

[Jobe Watson]

You haven't gone 6th since 2002. Albert will sue for setting unachievable targets. Especially when your list is full of VFL hacks.

I think our list is in pretty good shape and will be for the next 2 years at least.

 

[Proper Gander]

Where is Hird going?

San Francisco

 

[Argy]

I reckon the whole list could be suspended, Little thrown in the slammer, the club fined 10 million, Reid deregistered, Bomber in an asylum. Hird would still be giving pressers saying he is looking forward to coaching the lads, many of whom he has never met.

Cockroaches and nuclear holocaust come to mind.