News Phil Walsh - New AFC Coach and Art Critic

[skoobydoo]

Contested ball is one element of many that you need to be goid at to be successful however Sando thought that this was the absolute silver bullet

I think you will find that Walsh will focus on contested ball plus total team defence, plus ball movement, plus running patterns and skill level etc etc

Yes, contested ball is largely individual whereas Walsh will put due emphasis on the team game.

 

[Sanders]

Im still struggling to identify Sando's specific coaching qualities, IMO he was completely lost at sea

Highest winning % in AFC history

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Highest winning % in AFC history

Those wins weren't exactly evenly distributed over those three years though. 2012 is a bit of an anomaly. I think his winning % against top 8 sides in 2013/14 was pretty poor by comparison.

Coaches tend to be judged on a year by year basis and 2012 could only buy Sando so much good will. Even the club must have thought so initially because they extended his contract. Still happy Adelaide didn't allow themselves to be dominated by the situation and just stick it out a further two years. It would have been unbearable around here.

 

[Paladin]

Highest winning % in AFC history

How does it look if you take out the expansion teams?

 

[mattymac]

Would've been a nightmare. Bails was the brains of the operation. We fell off a cliff when he was taken from us

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

Highest winning % in AFC history

nice one Rucci

it should have been much higher

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Highest winning % in AFC history

Not in finals... & last 2 poor years was the most relevant factor - without Bailey

 

[MRB37]

Did every other AFC coach get multiple games a year against GWS and GC too?

 

[WAG]

Highest winning % in AFC history

Can you crunch those numbers against top 8 sides in the past two years? Top 4 sides would be even more fun.

 

[DroppingTheBall]

Move it to the Sando Sacked thread please.

 

[DroppingTheBall]

Why doesn't apostrophe have an apostrophe?

And "doesn't apostrophe" does.

 

[RePete]

Did every other AFC coach get multiple games a year against GWS and GC too?

People sure like to whinge about that. 2012 swap one or two of those games for other teams and we would have most likely still finished in the same spot.

 

[Sanders]

nice one Rucci

it should have been much higher

That's easy to say, but why should it have been much higher?

 

[Wright Away]

Highest winning % in AFC history

If you're going down this road "Sanders" compare accurately. Sanderson was coach for 3 years, compare his 3 years to the first 3 years of every other coach and he does not have the highest winning percentage in AFC history.

 

[Bailey01]

If you're going down this road "Sanders" compare accurately. Sanderson was coach for 3 years, compare his 3 years to the first 3 years of every other coach and he does not have the highest winning percentage in AFC history.

Love your avatar btw

 

[moogerfooger]

Love your avatar btw

how many losses to start the year before we see those come out on the Port board.

would two do it? pressure's on, its flag or bust.

 

[Sanders]

If you're going down this road "Sanders" compare accurately. Sanderson was coach for 3 years, compare his 3 years to the first 3 years of every other coach and he does not have the highest winning percentage in AFC history.

highest winning % in AFC history

 

[moogerfooger]

highest winning % in AFC history

do you think sacking him it was the wrong decision?

 

[Wright Away]

highest winning % in AFC history

nah.

 

[Sanders]

nah.

Maths not your friend?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Sando's sacking was a preemptive breakup!

 

[Wright Away]

Maths not your friend?

Reading must not be yours.

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

I don't care much for his winning %

we missed the finals two years running

winning % was skewed with wins against expansion teams

bottom line is our list has under achieved even with the assistance of favorable fixtures

 

[Tex200]

I don't care much for his winning %

we missed the finals two years running

winning % was skewed with wins against expansion teams

bottom line is our list has under achieved even with the assistance of favorable fixtures

None of this is peculiar to Sando. It's been happening since 1999

 

[cmndstab]

The winning percentage is a pretty meaningless stat considering it's over such a short period of time, with uneven fixtures and brand new teams coming in.

All it really boils down to is that we had one year where we very obviously overperformed, and two where we very obviously underperformed. The latter happened in the two most recent years and there was no real sign of turning things around.

I don't think Sando was a poor coach as such, but he clearly wasn't a great one.