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[AFC3000]

Confident we have Pyke locked and loaded. He has a brother that lives in Adelaide as well - is a physio.

I'm more interested in who else is on the coaching panel.

Do we get Lade? (That's what she said)
Does Glass move full time?

Could we add someone that can install a warrior attitude - a thus V them stick it up em character? M Williams anyone?

If we really want a flag and not more middle of the table, we need to go for it and stop playing safe.

I put together a post last year that had the coaching panel of the top 8, and the difference between those clubs and ours, where that they mostly had at least 1 or 2 guys with resumes that read like "coached own side in local league for 2 premierships, development coach here for 4 years, assistant for 3 years with 1 premiership, assistant for 5 years." etc. or a really experienced senior coach.

That we brought in Sanderson with basically Neil Craig's coaching panel and then didn't really change it for Walsh as far as adding more experience, this means we really should be looking at making some big changes, especially if we are not bringing in a coach who hasn't been doing it at some level for 15+ years.

It's clearly outdated now but I'll paste in anyway. I think Fremantle's probably stands out the most from ours, somebody as experienced as Ross Lyon, yet he has the support of multiple coaches that have been doing it since the late 90's

Richmond -

Brendan Lade - Forwards coach
A former teammate of Coach Damien Hardwick, Lade takes up the role as ruck/midfield coach after his stellar 234-game career with Port Adelaide came to an end last year.

Ross Smith - Defensive Analyst
He led ACT club Ainslie to a premiership in his first season as its captain-coach, in 1997, and was then involved in several successful stints at TAC Cup, VFL and AFL level, before becoming an assistant coach at Hawthorn in 2005 and was a part of their successful 2008 Premiership season.

Danny Daly - Midfield Stoppage Coach
Following six seasons at North Melbourne in various roles, Daly joined the Tigers at the beginning of Damien Hardwick's helm as coach of the club.

Mark Williams - Midfield Spread Coach
After three seasons at Melbourne working initially as a development coach and then as midfield coach, the former Carlton and Footscray player joined Richmond in October 2011.

Coached Sandringham to three consecutive VFL premierships from 2004-06. Looks after Richmond’s offensive structures and
its forwards.

Mark Williams - Senior Development Coach
Previously served as senior assistant coach at GWS, where he worked under Kevin Sheedy for two seasons.

Before that he was head coach of Port Adelaide for 11 years, leading the club to its first AFL premiership in 2004.

Essendon - we know most of them, less experienced but under Mark Thompson

Neil Craig

Simon Goodwin

Nathan Bassett

Mathew Egan - Assistant Coach
He was appointed as an assistant coach in Geelong’s VFL side in 2009 before becoming an assistant for the Geelong Cats in 2010

Kangaroos

Leigh Tudor - Senior Assistant
Calder Cannons Asst. Coach 2001-2003
Western Jets Coach 2004
Geelong VFL Coach 2005-2008: P'Ship 2007
St Kilda Asst. Coach 2009-2010
Sydney Asst. Coach 2011-2013
North Melbourne 2014-

Shane Watson - Forward Coach
Northern Bullants playing assistant coach: 2001-2003
Lower Plenty head coach: 2005
Sandringham Dragons/Vic. Metro assistant coach: 2006
Eastern Ranges head coach: 2007-2009
North Melbourne assistant coach (Backline): 2010-2013
North Melbourne assistant coach (Forwards): 2013-

Darren Crocker - Midfield
After retiring at the end of the 1998 season, Crocker started his coaching career at Port Melbourne in the VFL. He spent one year at the Borough as an assistant before moving to Richmond.

Crocker was also an assistant coach at the Tigers and spent four seasons at Punt Road. At the end of 2004 he returned to the Kangaroos.

Josh Drummond - Defence
North Melbourne development coach: 2013
North Melbourne assistant coach (Defence): 2013-

Port Adelaide

Shaun Hart - Director of Coaching
Broadbeach Football Club senior coach (2008)
Gold Coast Football Club assistant coach (2009-2010)
Gold Coast Football Club NEAFL coach (2011-2013)

Phil Walsh - Midfield Manager
2013-present Port Adelaide Football Club midfield manager
2009-2013 West Coast Eagles strategy and innovations coach
1999-2008 Port Adelaide Football Club midfield assistant coach
1995-1998 Geelong Football Club strength and conditioning coach

Josh Carr - Midfield Coach
2012 - present Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) midfield coach

Mathew Nicks - Backs and Defence Coach
2013-present Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) defence coach2011-2012 Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) development coach

Tyson Edwards - Forwards and Offensive Coach
2014 - present Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) forwards coach
2012 – 2013 Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) development coach

Fremantle

Brett Kirk - Midfield
Kirk is responsible for Fremantle's midfield.

Michael Prior
Originally Fremantle's skills coach in 2007, He was East Fremantle assistant coach in 2005 and East Perth Colts coach in 2006 and 2007, winning a premiership in 2006. He was appointed an assistant coach at Freo at the end of the 2010 season.

Peter Sumich - Assistant Coach
had been an assistant coach with West Coast for the past 11 seasons before joining Fremantle in 2011

Simon Lloyd - Assistant Coach
was appointed as an assistant coach at the club at the end of the 2010 season.
He previously managed the Fremantle Dockers’ Development Academy since 2009 and is still a major contributor in that department.

Simon has a wealth of AFL experience, having worked at Hawthorn and Collingwood in key development, leadership and coaching roles before joining Fremantle.

He was at Collingwood from 2005 to 2008 as high performance manager and club psychologist.

Simon was previously at Hawthorn between 1998 and 2004, filling a number of roles including club psychologist, player development manager, development coach and assistant coach of the club’s VFL side Box Hill.

Mark Stone - Stoppages Coach
was appointed as stoppages coach for the 2012 season. The father of two has been stoppages coach at the Sydney Swans for the past four seasons.

Prior to that, Mark was stoppage and opposition analyst at West Coast from 2003 to 2007.

He was also an assistant coach at South Fremantle in the WAFL from 2001 to 2002 and senior coach of the Wagga Tigers (1999-2000) in the Riverina Football League.

Geelong

Dale Amos - Assistant
Geelong: Ass coach since 2012; VFL coach 2009-2011
South Barwon: coach 2004-08

Blake Caracella - Assistant
Collingwood: asst coach 2007-09
Geelong: asst coach since 2010

Shane O'Bree - Assistant
Geelong: Asst coach since 2013 Gold Coast: Asst coach 2011-2012

James Rahilly - Assistant
Geelong: Specialist coach, VFL assistant coach 2008-09; Asst coach since 2010

Hawthorn

Luke Beveridge - Assistant
spent time with Collingwood in 2009-2010, where he was a highly regarded Development Coach and viewed as a crucial role player in that club's premiership success.

The former Melbourne, Western Bulldogs and St Kilda player began his coaching career with the Victorian amateur competition where he oversaw the incredible feat of coaching St Bedes Mentone Tigers to the C, B and A Grade premierships in consecutive seasons.

Brendon Bolton - Assistant
After spending two seasons with the Club's VFL affiliate, Box Hill Hawks, Bolton was appointed Assistant Coach at Hawthorn.

Cameron Bruce - Assistant
Bruce joined Hawthorn first as a Development Coach in 2013, following his retirement from football during the 2012 season.

He impressed as one of the Club's development coaches and was moved into an Assistant coaching role at the end of 2013.

Brett Ratten - Assistant
Ratten joined the Hawks as an Assistant Coach in 2013, following his position as Senior Coach of Carlton.

Damian Monkhorst - Ruck
Monkhorst joined the Club as Ruck Coach in 2010, following a stellar career at AFL level.

Sydney

John Blakey - Defence
Joined the Swans at the end of the 2006 season after being an assistant coach with the Brisbane Lions.

Stuart Dew - Strategy and Stopages
Dew joined the Swans late in 2009 as a development coach.

Henry Playfair - Forwards
Playfair was appointed a development coach soon after the completion of the 2010 season, just weeks after he retired because of persistent injuries.

Handed the reins of the reserve side in 2011, Playfair led it to the Eastern Conference final in the new NEAFL competition.

Marty Mattner - Assistant Midfield
Mattner spent some time helping out with the Swans reserves side and eventually took on the role as an assistant coach during the break between the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

And now us -

Mark Bickley - Senior Assistant/Forward
Assistant Coach at Adelaide 2009 - present

Scott Camporeale -Midfield
Assistant Coach at Essendon 2008-2010, Assistant Coach at Adelaide 2011 – current

Darren Milburn - Defence
Assistant coach at Adelaide 2012 – current

 

[Bay62]

Agree.
This is what I want an the very top of the list.

Me too.

Love the idea of Pyke bringing the Weagles Web, but I also want us to be a bunch of hard nuts

 

[FAITH]

the guys i rate based on experience: tudor/blakey/sumich/pyke/ratten.
However i dont know personality wise whether they would fit the AFC, just purely on their CV.

 

[Danoz]

All clubs but Essendon have showed good faith in this space

I would rather work with all the other clubs in good faith than be viewed in the same light as Essendon

You have said previously that your gut was telling you that we already had a guy stitched up for the job. That's all fine if he was already at the club (i.e. Woosha/Campo) but if he's come from outside the club that means we've spoken to somebody while they're still coaching at another club. How is that any better than what Chicken Little did?

 

[Pugsley]

Me too.

Love the idea of Pyke bringing the Weagles Web, but I also want us to be a bunch of hard nuts

We need some mongrel.

 

[Paladin]

You have said previously that your gut was telling you that we already had a guy stitched up for the job. That's all fine if he was already at the club (i.e. Woosha/Campo) but if he's come from outside the club that means we've spoken to somebody while they're still coaching at another club. How is that any better than what Chicken Little did?

If you ask the other club for permission to talk to the candidate its all sweet and all the clubs agreed on this. The problem with Essendon is they didn't ask or inform the crows that they were talking to Woosha.

 

[Bay62]

You have said previously that your gut was telling you that we already had a guy stitched up for the job. That's all fine if he was already at the club (i.e. Woosha/Campo) but if he's come from outside the club that means we've spoken to somebody while they're still coaching at another club. How is that any better than what Chicken Little did?

Because we would have asked the clubs permission to talk to them before doing so. Essendon didn't, in breach of an agreement between clubs

 

[MRB37]

You have said previously that your gut was telling you that we already had a guy stitched up for the job. That's all fine if he was already at the club (i.e. Woosha/Campo) but if he's come from outside the club that means we've spoken to somebody while they're still coaching at another club. How is that any better than what Chicken Little did?

It was never about not speaking with guys, it was only doing it with the other teams permission (which Essendon didn't do with Woosha). And West Coast are still in the finals so we haven't done anything wrong since we haven't announced that Pyke is the coach and taken away from the Eagles (if he gets the job)

 

[Pugsley]

It was never about not speaking with guys, it was only doing it with the other teams permission (which Essendon didn't do with Woosha). And West Coast are still in the finals so we haven't done anything wrong since we haven't announced that Pyke is the coach and taken away from the Eagles (if he gets the job)

Integrity. Something Essendon will never know about.

 

[Danoz]

Good stuff, thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Wood_Duck]

He'd probably be less impressed with VB than some of our previous coaches.

Would value other qualities.

First in the time trial might not guarantee a game?

 

[Pugsley]

First in the time trial might not guarantee a game?

Only if Neil Craig was coaching.

 

[Tex Danger]

adding to that, if we have stitched up our man already and possibly weeks ago, then it means we are showing the ultimate respect by keeping it under wraps until their season is over.

That isn't something that us normal and in the past not considered necessary and in fact detrimental to the club as it delays preparations for next season.

Carlton didn't do that to a team in the top 4, Essendon marched in in the lead up to a final. Not sure how you can't see how we can be considered any different.

 

[Wood_Duck]

Only if Neil Craig was coaching.

Nope first to Mt Lofty on a bike was his criteria.

 

[skoobydoo]

Maybe the responsibilities of head coach will change to more of an expanded DOC role with far more responsibility given to the other coaches, and maybe a true senior assistant will over see the other assistants, I'm not sure.

That is possibly more inline with how the Hawks do things going by the stories of how Clarkson works.

Whatever the answer is the fact Port and the Eagles before them had the quality of Walsh helping the head coach shows what we are lacking. Have a look at the experience of Ross Lyon's assistants and he would be one of the most capable coaches in the AFL.

Answering this before reading further but.......This is a big point. Big solid point. It is often difficult,(from the fan perspective) to know just what individual assistant coaches are made of, but when I look at the power and influence of Phil Walsh, he was massive. Then to realise he was a support to Hinkley, shows how much strength, force of personality and influence that team of coaches probably possessed. Yes it does show what we are lacking.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

First in the time trial might not guarantee a game?

The original immunity card

 

[Elite Crow]

Bicks reckons Woosha to Essendon due to lifestyle

 

[Deaneus!]

Bicks reckons Woosha to Essendon due to lifestyle

"lifestyle"

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

You have said previously that your gut was telling you that we already had a guy stitched up for the job. That's all fine if he was already at the club (i.e. Woosha/Campo) but if he's come from outside the club that means we've spoken to somebody while they're still coaching at another club. How is that any better than what Chicken Little did?

Not stiched up but given the defienite time line provided by Fages that we seem to know who we want

 

[Paladin]

Woosha would have been great as a DOC but i much prefer Pyke as the main man for his tactial side. Hopefully he has or can develop the full package ala Walsh.

 

[Slippery Pete]

this might come across real harsh

however whether it's Dew or someone else can a Coach in Dew's physical shape push Elite Training Standards?

 

[azza77]

Bicks reckons Woosha to Essendon due to lifestyle

Supposedly back seeing his ex-wife and things have kick started again. Think from memory she also has a pretty decent job over there that she would like to stay in(???).

Think this may also be a big factor in his final decision (if true).

 

[I Lost My Keays]

If Worsfold leaves to Essendon or stays with Adelaide in some capacity. I will always respect what he's done and wish him well for the future.

 

[Elite Crow]

Robert Walls on 5AA reckons Woosha was an ordinary coach. 1 Premiership in 11 years with 53% strike rate. They had a unbelievable midfield and didnt have enough success.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

lol - Didn't Walls get fired at multiple clubs?