I think that for what it would cost to replace Pyke, we could get a significant upgrade on every line. Realistically, unless the eSports team pulls a huge profit, I don't think the club can afford to replace a senior coach and 3 assistants and a Burton along with his friend Hass if most are contracted.
If it comes down to senior coach or 4 changes elsewhere if they were the right changes that would be my preference.
Early on Pyke got a lot of credit for his quarter-time changes and our ability to turn our form around in games, was this Pyke, the assistants or the players? Maybe it wasn't Pyke, maybe it doesn't have to be?
I just think it's ridiculous that the people in charge of football, Roo, Burton and yes, Pyke (although some say he's requested other assistants), feel it's at all appropriate to put a new senior coach alongside untried or unproven assistants and football people from within the club. They did this with one of our best lists ever, right when they thought we were in a premiership window.
Even this year, they thought we could bounce back, look it wasn't even totally unreasonable, but then you bring in assistants who are unproven? People who had to adapt to the AFL systems? Why the F#@$ does a so-called "have" club have to take risks when the result and their window to achieve the result was so immediate.
Even a Hodge or Roughhead, we don't know if they will be good coaches, they are the perfect people for a team where everything else is great and you have an extra slot, you bring them in and they learn from everyone else's outside experience and if they aren't immediately great coaches, you've got cover. We don't have that.
How are we not at least in a position to look at "have not" clubs and poach their best talent, their second in charge guys with experience at better clubs. The cap is one thing, but you design a workplace and a pathway to being a senior coach, you invest in people other people want to work with.
Also our last minute upgrades, if you want to believe that despite a big search Burton, then Hass, then Hart and whoever else just happened to be the best available at the time, why do we never seem to actually spend the next year, when time is on our side looking for the upgrade.
We are a club that settles, whether or not Pyke goes we have bigger problems, a whole system built on problems and no one is willing to do anything about it.
I know it's not ideal if Pyke isn't the man long term but what I would do is tell him results are irrelevant, this is a 2 or 3 year plan now. Bring in the absolute best we can around him and get this list right. Get the systems right.
Ideally, we go and get the best gun senior coach, I actually don't know how the club sells the message though, this is our reaction after being a club who is around the 8... I don't think the next guy survives a couple of years as a bottom 4 coach either if that's what it takes to rebuild.
If it comes down to senior coach or 4 changes elsewhere if they were the right changes that would be my preference.
Early on Pyke got a lot of credit for his quarter-time changes and our ability to turn our form around in games, was this Pyke, the assistants or the players? Maybe it wasn't Pyke, maybe it doesn't have to be?
I just think it's ridiculous that the people in charge of football, Roo, Burton and yes, Pyke (although some say he's requested other assistants), feel it's at all appropriate to put a new senior coach alongside untried or unproven assistants and football people from within the club. They did this with one of our best lists ever, right when they thought we were in a premiership window.
Even this year, they thought we could bounce back, look it wasn't even totally unreasonable, but then you bring in assistants who are unproven? People who had to adapt to the AFL systems? Why the F#@$ does a so-called "have" club have to take risks when the result and their window to achieve the result was so immediate.
Even a Hodge or Roughhead, we don't know if they will be good coaches, they are the perfect people for a team where everything else is great and you have an extra slot, you bring them in and they learn from everyone else's outside experience and if they aren't immediately great coaches, you've got cover. We don't have that.
How are we not at least in a position to look at "have not" clubs and poach their best talent, their second in charge guys with experience at better clubs. The cap is one thing, but you design a workplace and a pathway to being a senior coach, you invest in people other people want to work with.
Also our last minute upgrades, if you want to believe that despite a big search Burton, then Hass, then Hart and whoever else just happened to be the best available at the time, why do we never seem to actually spend the next year, when time is on our side looking for the upgrade.
We are a club that settles, whether or not Pyke goes we have bigger problems, a whole system built on problems and no one is willing to do anything about it.
I know it's not ideal if Pyke isn't the man long term but what I would do is tell him results are irrelevant, this is a 2 or 3 year plan now. Bring in the absolute best we can around him and get this list right. Get the systems right.
Ideally, we go and get the best gun senior coach, I actually don't know how the club sells the message though, this is our reaction after being a club who is around the 8... I don't think the next guy survives a couple of years as a bottom 4 coach either if that's what it takes to rebuild.