Analysis Giants Coaching. Congratulations Adam Kingsley & welcome to GWS.

Who is your preference to be next coach of GWS Giants?

  • Alistair Clarkson

    Votes: 22 26.8%
  • James Hird

    Votes: 7 8.5%
  • Don Pyke

    Votes: 7 8.5%
  • Nathan Buckley

    Votes: 3 3.7%
  • Ross Lyon

    Votes: 3 3.7%
  • Mark McVeigh

    Votes: 6 7.3%
  • Robert Harvey

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Scott Burns

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Blake Caracella

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • Adam Yze

    Votes: 14 17.1%
  • Adam Kingsley

    Votes: 13 15.9%
  • Daniel Giansiracusa

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Luke Power

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • Jaymie Graham

    Votes: 2 2.4%
  • Ash Hansen

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Andrew McQualter

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Chris Scott

    Votes: 3 3.7%

  • Total voters
    82
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The GIANTS are delighted to announce the appointment of Adam Kingsley as the club’s next AFL head coach.

As a former Premiership and Best and Fairest winner with Port Adelaide, where he played 170 games, Kingsley quickly moved into coaching following his playing career, immediately taking up assistant coaching roles with Port Adelaide and then St Kilda. After eight years with the Saints, Kingsley joined Richmond as assistant coach in 2019 where he played a leading role in the Tigers’ last two Premierships.

GIANTS Chief Executive Officer David Matthews said Kingsley's appointment marked the next chapter in the evolution of the football club. “On behalf of the Board and our entire organisation, I’m thrilled to confirm Adam Kingsley as our new head coach,” Mr Matthews said. “After a thorough and considered selection process, Adam’s vision for the club, our players and our people made him the standout candidate for the job. Adam has outstanding values that align with the GIANTS and with 16 years’ coaching experience he is an exceptional tactical coach, a strong, clear communicator, and someone who brings people together. In our 11 years in the competition we have undoubtedly become a successful club with a fantastic culture and a great playing list. But we haven’t been satisfied with our recent results. We - and Adam - believe success isn’t far away and we’re thrilled to have him lead us into our next chapter as a club. This is an incredibly exciting day for our club and Adam's appointment will not only take our playing group and football department forward but will help continue to grow our game across NSW and the ACT. We look forward to welcoming Adam, his wife Nadine and children Cayla, Ethan and Raf to the GIANTS family.”

Mr Matthews also paid tribute to caretaker coach Mark McVeigh. "We thank Mark for his efforts as interim senior coach and the tireless work he has contributed to our program since taking over in round 10,” Mr Matthews said. “It’s a difficult job to come in as caretaker coach but he attacked the role with fresh ideas and sought to improve our players, staff and program at every step. Mark is a person of the highest integrity and character, and he has always put the club first. He was steadfast in leaving the program ready for whoever would be taking over.”

Following an extensive interview process, Kingsley was deemed the best fit for the GIANTS by the club’s interview panel that consisted of Mr Matthews, Chairman Tony Shepherd AO, Football Director Jimmy Bartel and General Manager of Football Jason McCartney. Kingsley said he was honoured to have the opportunity to coach the club for the next three years. “This is an incredibly exciting opportunity,” he said. “It’s a privilege and an honour to be the next senior coach of the GIANTS. I’ve been clear in my aspirations to become a senior coach and over the last 16 years I’ve continued to learn and develop to the point now where I’m absolutely ready to take the next step in my coaching career. This is a club which has built a strong culture from the ground up in just a few short years. In just 11 years the GIANTS have made multiple preliminary finals, and a Grand Final, and while the ultimate success has eluded the club, it’s clear the building blocks are in place. It's clear the players, staff, members and fans are hungry for success, and we’re going to drive each other to get to where we want to go. I believe in this club and what we can achieve together.”

Kingsley played 170 games for Port Adelaide between 1997 and 2006 and was a member of the club’s inaugural team as well as their first Premiership in 2004. He won the Power’s club champion award in just his second season. In 2007, he became an assistant coach at Port Adelaide, a position in which he stayed in until the end of 2010. Kingsley joined St Kilda at the end of the 2010 season as an assistant coach before moving to Richmond in 2019.
 

Isaac Cumming No 1

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Calling questioning Leons coaching skills "ignorant criticism by nuffies" kinda says you think we shouldnt.

But if youre saying im wrong with that belief then fine.

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It was more the press that was in my mind with that comment. I do believe some of the comments have descended into abuse and shouldn't be allowed to remain up through.
Not yours.
 
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It was more the press that was in my mind with that comment. I do believe some of the comments have descended into abuse and shouldn't be allowed to remain up through.
Not yours.
He may, and from my meetings with him is, a great bloke.

But i just dont think he is upto head coach.

Im a, kinda, ok bloke and I cant coach either.

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He may, and from my meetings with him is, a great bloke.

But i just dont think he is upto head coach.

Im a, kinda, ok bloke and I cant coach either.

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It is the same guy that coached in 2016 and 2017, that dude's job was rather safe.
I believe our biggest issue is, and it's been said elsewhere here, the lack of run.
Our entire game base for 4 years, training/coaching/playing has been all about fast ball movement, running in waves and slick fast movement.
And then in rapid succession we lose all our runners and best inside 50 targets.

Coach has to make a call, remake the game plan, or hold out for their return, I can understand the latter, not making a call on the coach in my own mind until the year has played out.
 
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It is the same guy that coached in 2016 and 2017, that dude's job was rather safe.
I believe our biggest issue is, and it's been said elsewhere here, the lack of run.
Our entire game base for 4 years, training/coaching/playing has been all about fast ball movement, running in waves and slick fast movement.
And then in rapid succession we lose all our runners and best inside 50 targets.

Coach has to make a call, remake the game plan, or hold out for their return, I can understand the latter, not making a call on the coach in my own mind until the year has played out.

He had all his 1sts and still a fairly deep list in those years.

He is now being asked questions and having to have alternative "plans" and its not working.

With our full list he can win it. But then again so could many of the other 18 clubs coaches coaching our 1sts.

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I really doubt that many clubs could lose 5 or 6 of their top 10 players and still play their gameplan convincingly.

I don't think that people understand/accept the hit that we took over the preseason, losing the players we did to trade/retirement, then having injuries that cruelled development of the planned/possible replacement players and then losing key players in the same role to injury. Then lose extra running players at the start of the season.

However, I have come to the view that Leon won't be the next Clarko, and he is slow to make adjustments - on gameday, week to week, and season to season. So there's enough development that Leon could benefit from, and many of his fellow (and quite junior) assistant coaches too. Whether he can do some of that growth this year in time to save this season - presuming we get some of our gun players back - is the prime question for me. I think it's going to be an uphill battle from here.
 
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What is irritating in a lot of these comments is so many on them delve into the nature of Leon Cameron without knowing the man. These are perceptions influenced by a weekly 4minute press conference and the rare snippet of the coaches box during a game. Doesn’t seem enough to me

I also am annoyed at the apparent lack of plan B. It seems without the obvious orange tsunami (which we can’t do as it got figured out and punished too often) people can’t pick up the nuinces in the game. We now for example have and ability to shift up and down gears, stretch and compress the field as well as the run and carry that looks so good. Our team can now shift mid quarter and it’s only through coaching this happens. So to say there isn’t plan a b or c is near sighted as these developments have happened over the last two seasons

If I have criticisms they are that too often our exits in structured play are poor. When it’s broken we get out of the back 50 quickly, but when forced to kick long, it doesn’t get locked in and often results in a repeat entry. Also, the forward line structures frustrate me and I think we look better with a deep forward. Mostly our issue is midfield delivery more than leading patterns imo and there needs to be more accountability on that which I think comes from big Hayes and the on field leadership
 

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It is the same guy that coached in 2016 and 2017, that dude's job was rather safe.
I believe our biggest issue is, and it's been said elsewhere here, the lack of run.
Our entire game base for 4 years, training/coaching/playing has been all about fast ball movement, running in waves and slick fast movement.
And then in rapid succession we lose all our runners and best inside 50 targets.

Coach has to make a call, remake the game plan, or hold out for their return, I can understand the latter, not making a call on the coach in my own mind until the year has played out.
On another topic if you're still having trouble with tweets, this worked for me

I'm having trouble with tweets not loading so I cant view them. For about a month. Not a huge deal.. https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/tweets-not-displaying-in-posts.1194099/ #BigFooty
 

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Interesting read

http://www.hpnfooty.com/?p=29546

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Great read and hard to argue with it. Some of the so called experts currently bagging the club in the media (including social) should take this on board but of course this wont happen because it runs in the face of the popular southern (ie Victorian) diatribe the great unwashed masses love to soak up
 

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Interesting read

http://www.hpnfooty.com/?p=29546

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Yeah I saw this. Its a big reason i think for the ball getting rebounded so easily from our forward half... we don't have our quality players set up one kick back as they have such defensive midfield roles. Great analysis and I hope we are able to make the adjustment when players like Kelly and lids get back and use them more attackingly.
 

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To date, Leon has practiced the 'trust the system, boys' mantra, 'things will come good, we'll play ourselves back into form'.
Every team now knows how to set up against us, but seemingly, Giants don't know how to set up against any team.
Losing Mumford, Wilson & Williams looks to have derailed 2018.
 
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We have been flogged in the ruck every game this year, not much is being done to counter it. Our fwd setup is abysmal, players get the ball on a rebound and have nothing to kick to. We went from being one of the most attacking sides in the comp with end to end goals a regular feature, tonight I saw one for the whole game. Its just dour defensive, bottled up crap with minimal risk taking and its getting no resuts. I never see him talking to his assistants in the box, it seems like a 1 man show which explains why there is no experienced assistants in there.
 

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We have been flogged in the ruck every game this year, not much is being done to counter it. Our fwd setup is abysmal, players get the ball on a rebound and have nothing to kick to. We went from being one of the most attacking sides in the comp with end to end goals a regular feature, tonight I saw one for the whole game. Its just dour defensive, bottled up crap with minimal risk taking and its getting no resuts. I never see him talking to his assistants in the box, it seems like a 1 man show which explains why there is no experienced assistants in there.

Lobb is like a poor mans Greene. He is taller but marks worse than Greene, pleads for frees way worse than Greene and is somehow expected to take our ruck duties? It is beyond ridiculous. Toby Greene would do a better ruck job than Lobb because he is at least decent on the ground and at getting free kicks. He is also a better mark.

3 or 4 times the ball was kicked to Lobb 10m from goal and he just completely missed it. You can't carry tall players like this in the modern game.
 

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Think we are entering sack the coach territory very soon.

I think the players are going through the motions and waiting for it to happen. It’s not as though they aren’t trying hard, but I think there is some spark, some belief that things are going to work out, which is missing.

4-5-1 probably isn’t severe enough for the club to do something but I feel the signs are bad.
 

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Sorry but Im on the sack the coach bandwagon now. Simply abysmal showing tonight. And it was mainly due to our lack of structure and in game tactics.
The players are playing dumb and unmotivated and that come down to the coach.
 

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I'm fine with sacking the coach if most of the players are in agreement, otherwise it could cause another issue. Also need someone decent to replace him with, players won't be happy with some shitty new coach.
 
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