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You mean a footy department that spends money ?? Don't be stupid !!!Imagine pyke with the support staff Eddie provides Buckley with...
If we make finals will Pyke be back?
Imagine pyke with the support staff Eddie provides Buckley with...
Imagine pyke with the support staff Eddie provides Buckley with...
You mean a footy department that spends money ?? Don't be stupid !!!
Chalk and cheese.
Assuming Pyke would listen to them you make a great point.
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I'm yet to be convincedPyke s**ts all over Buckley as a coach pound for pound.
Sucks Fagan won't come through with the best footy department promises he made to supporters.
definitely came through with best bs spinners in the league .... but they didn't promise thatSucks Fagan won't come through with the best footy department promises he made to supporters.
Not gonna be pick 2 count on that. AFL is giving that to the Suns cause they know it will be ours. If it were Carlton’s they wouldn’t be .We are hearing from other clubs that the senior coach lightening up is key to improved performance
Hardwick Buckley maybe Lyons
Who knows. I just want a good player with next years pick
Not disagreeing. I don't think Pyke is a bad coach, especially when compare the pair ... but one has built and is building a list with a good mix of youth and experience. The other inherited a list and is letting it slide into old age.Both made it to a grand final and lost, and Pyke has the overall better record so far
Sure, but he doesn't "s*** all over Buckley as a coach pound for pound"Both made it to a grand final and lost, and Pyke has the overall better record so far
Not disagreeing. I don't think Pyke is a bad coach, especially when compare the pair ... but one has built and is building a list with a good mix of youth and experience. The other inherited a list and is letting it slide into old age.
Well I guess we should give Pyke the time to turn it around as Buckley has done will he make tough calls is the question?Ummm, Buckley inherited a finals winning list and tore it apart, sending them down the ladder for years.
It's only in the last year or so that he's turned things around.
Pyke had more "success" with a worse list earlier on. It's only now that things are falling apart for him like they did Buckley
B Laird Talia Cheney
HB Seedsman Lever Brown
C B Crouch Sloane Smith
HF Atkins Walker Milera
F Betts Jenkins Lynch
FOL Jacobs Thompson Douglas
I/C Van Berlo MacKay McGovern M Crouch
This is Pykes first team round 1 2016. Hartigan was injured and came in for round 2.
The only changes on that 2016 list to last weeks is, Jacobs injury - would ROB have had a look in if Sauce wasn't a forced out? 2 retirements, 2 asked to leave - who would probably still be in the best 22 and 1 delisting.
The AFC/Pyke are too conservative with our list management.
This is the vibe I get from Pyke as well. He comes across as a bean counter with a good understanding of strategy. I'd probably have him in Campo's role as head of strategy and find a new coach who knows how to motivate and hold his players accountable.Pyke is striking me as the type who would be awesome as the head of football. He's management, he'd fit in well there. Replace Burton with him and bring in a new senior coach for 2020.
Imagine pyke with the support staff Eddie provides Buckley with...
Chalk and cheese.
Assuming Pyke would listen to them you make a great point.
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Gut feel is that we’re criminally overpaying some people. Bit it could also be that we’re bloated with unnecessary staff or don’t pay the full cap because we think we’re just that good. My one and only dealing with the club, the CFO, smacked of a public service mentality.
Ummm, Buckley inherited a finals winning list and tore it apart, sending them down the ladder for years.
It's only in the last year or so that he's turned things around.
Pyke had more "success" with a worse list earlier on. It's only now that things are falling apart for him like they did Buckley
We seem to be changing that a bit under Reid, it's not really the model you can sustain with the increasing amount of million $ players coming.We overpay our average players too.
Dmac and Douglas for example been getting 400-500 k for years is poor management
Well I guess we should give Pyke the time to turn it around as Buckley has done will he make tough calls is the question?
Check out this:
Changes since R1 2016
Adelaide - made the semi-final in 2016
Out: Cheney (delisted), Lynch (injured), Jacobs (injured), Thompson (retired), Van Berlo (retired), Lever (left), McGovern (left), Douglas (omitted)
In: Keath, Kelly, Greenwood, Murphy, Knight, O'Brien, Hartigan, Stengle
Two players dropped. Zero first round picks brought into the side. Every "in" was on the list in 2016 except for Murphy and Stengle.
Geelong - made the prelim in 2016
Out: Bartel (retired), Caddy (left), Enright (retired), Gregson (delisted), Henderson (omitted), Kersten (traded), Kolodjashnij (injured), Lang (traded), Lonergan (retired), Mackie (retired), McCarthy (traded), Motlop (left), Murdoch (delisted), Smith (omitted)
In: Tuohy, Stewart, Kelly, Dahlhaus, Ratugolea, Rohan, Ablett, Atkins, Clark, Bews, Parfitt, Miers, O'Connor, Henry
Four players omitted, another three pushed out through trades, couple of blokes retired early. Four decent players brought in through trade, two early picks playing. More than half the "ins" not on the list in 2016.