Catters 070911
Club Legend
- Oct 13, 2017
- 2,270
- 2,101
- AFL Club
- Geelong
- Banned
- #1
I have never understood those who aspire to be an AFL senior coach.
Why would you do it? What have you got to gain?
Reading a lot of club message boards, a lot of supporters hate their coach, and want him sacked after every loss. I think every board (other than Hawthorn) asks for this.
When the club have a win, it is the players who won it. When they lose, it is considered 100% the coach's fault.
Reading the Freo board yesterday, after Ross Lyon was sacked, many were happy to see him go.
Imagine, people actually having glee about a person losing their job, being unemployed.
Hell, even on my club's message boards (Geelong) there are supporters who want Chris Scott sacked after every loss, despite one of the best coaching records in history, and regular finals appearances.
Why would anyone want to coach, to cater to a bunch of drunken, whiny, ungrateful yobbos at their club. Knuckledraggers who couldn't coach their way out of a paper bag themselves, but sit behind a computer and say "Why doesn't the coach make this move....why doesn't he make that move"?
They get 0% credit for success, but 100% for failure, not the administration who hired him, not the medical or conditioning staff who are meant to make sure that the list is uninjured and ready to go, not the recruiter who might pick the wrong players, nor the players themselves, who don't chase, tackle, or miskick the ball.
It is never anyone else's fault. It is always the coach's fault. And fans think that simply getting a new coach will solve all the club's problems.
The media are no better. They get paid more and have more job security, and less work hours and accountability, yet they drive wanting a coach being sacked, and smell blood in the water, seeing the headlines and ratings they would get by having a coach get sacked. They are joined by ex-players in the media, especially past club greats, who want the coach sacked because he was the coach who retired them.
I am surprised that AFL senior coaches don't have mental health problems. It is a lonely job, where only 17 other people in Australia truly understand what an AFL coach is going through. The amount of vitriol, criticism, and lack of gratitude for their part in success, would drive anyone into dark places.
The bigger surprise is that there are many willing to do the job.
Why would anyone do it? The workload, the hours, the pay (they could make more money in the media), the lack of security, constantly being the scapegoat for others' incompetence, to win over a venomous media, ungrateful fans, and their players, some of who are pissed off with you for not playing them, playing them out of position, or retiring them. Who needs it?
A coach is virtually saying that they can deliver when their predecessor couldn't, and is going to turn around a club with a list so bad that they needed to sack their coach in the first place. They are on a hiding to nothing.
Why would you do it? What have you got to gain?
Reading a lot of club message boards, a lot of supporters hate their coach, and want him sacked after every loss. I think every board (other than Hawthorn) asks for this.
When the club have a win, it is the players who won it. When they lose, it is considered 100% the coach's fault.
Reading the Freo board yesterday, after Ross Lyon was sacked, many were happy to see him go.
Imagine, people actually having glee about a person losing their job, being unemployed.
Hell, even on my club's message boards (Geelong) there are supporters who want Chris Scott sacked after every loss, despite one of the best coaching records in history, and regular finals appearances.
Why would anyone want to coach, to cater to a bunch of drunken, whiny, ungrateful yobbos at their club. Knuckledraggers who couldn't coach their way out of a paper bag themselves, but sit behind a computer and say "Why doesn't the coach make this move....why doesn't he make that move"?
They get 0% credit for success, but 100% for failure, not the administration who hired him, not the medical or conditioning staff who are meant to make sure that the list is uninjured and ready to go, not the recruiter who might pick the wrong players, nor the players themselves, who don't chase, tackle, or miskick the ball.
It is never anyone else's fault. It is always the coach's fault. And fans think that simply getting a new coach will solve all the club's problems.
The media are no better. They get paid more and have more job security, and less work hours and accountability, yet they drive wanting a coach being sacked, and smell blood in the water, seeing the headlines and ratings they would get by having a coach get sacked. They are joined by ex-players in the media, especially past club greats, who want the coach sacked because he was the coach who retired them.
I am surprised that AFL senior coaches don't have mental health problems. It is a lonely job, where only 17 other people in Australia truly understand what an AFL coach is going through. The amount of vitriol, criticism, and lack of gratitude for their part in success, would drive anyone into dark places.
The bigger surprise is that there are many willing to do the job.
Why would anyone do it? The workload, the hours, the pay (they could make more money in the media), the lack of security, constantly being the scapegoat for others' incompetence, to win over a venomous media, ungrateful fans, and their players, some of who are pissed off with you for not playing them, playing them out of position, or retiring them. Who needs it?
A coach is virtually saying that they can deliver when their predecessor couldn't, and is going to turn around a club with a list so bad that they needed to sack their coach in the first place. They are on a hiding to nothing.