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Jade Rawlings says Rhyce Shaw’s vision for the future helped him make the tough decision to leave Melbourne.
After eight seasons at the Demons, Rawlings joins North Melbourne as senior assistant coach for 2020 and beyond.
“I didn’t come to the decision lightly. I’ve been absolutely wedded to Melbourne for the last eight years,” he said on RSN.
“(I’ve) been through pretty much everything with them without quite getting to the top of the peak.
“Rhyce Shaw was keen to have a chat, and after spoke I identified with Rhyce very quickly as a person, and as a football person.
“It was quite clear where he sees the group are currently at, and where he believes they can get to.”
"Rhyce’s understanding of where they’re at really impressed me.
"They made some serious adjustments or improvements when he took over, but he doesn’t think that’s their cap.
"There’s a lot of match-winners in that team.
"When you go up against opposition you think about how many players concern you, and I think the Kangaroos have a lot of those.
The highly-respected Rawlings will take on a more senior role with the Roos, and can’t wait to get started at his new club.
“I was probably looking for a bit more meat on the bone in terms of the role, and Rhyce and North Melbourne were able to provide that. I’m genuinely excited about.”
Rawlings’ brother, Brady, a 245-game club champion will return to North Melbourne as the general manager of football in December.
“The decision was independent from my brother,” he said.
“Rhyce was the driver of this, and it’s a bonus that my brother will be the football manager.”
It won’t be completely unfamiliar territory for Jade either, having played three games at North back in 2006.
You sure do know a lot of opposition people...I spoke with some GoDees diehards this morning and they were shattered to lose Jade. As they put it "losing others like Viney etc is just deflecting away from the real issue............the coach. We saw Jade as the immediate fix if and when the coach was to be moved on. The fans love him, as do the players."
You sure do know a lot of opposition people...
Welcome them to North.lol
As do we all. This couple are so pi**ed off with their club that they told me they'd handed in their reserved seats, which they'd cherished for 20+ years.
When they handed them in the club's "ah well, they'll go to someone else who wants them in a flash" response pi**ed them off doubly so.
I spoke with some GoDees diehards this morning and they were shattered to lose Jade. As they put it "losing others like Viney etc is just deflecting away from the real issue............the coach. We saw Jade as the immediate fix if and when the coach was to be moved on. The fans love him, as do the players."
Paul Roos stated the other day that Rawling was a great get for us. In speaking about some other subject regarding assistant coaching.......he brushed over Rawlings to Nth Melb, then went back and reiterated that Rawlings was a very good get for us.I find it interesting that Shaw said that he quickly identified Jade as someone that he wanted to bring in as his senior assistant.
Has he worked in the same organisation as Jade before? If not, I wonder how he came to that decision. Perhaps he has really good references and is respected in coaching circles.
Welcome them to North.
When you see the list of Coaches he has played/trained under worked with as an ass. coach, he has worked with some experienced coaches.
I believe he has built up over time a decent skill set to be a decent supporting coach.
you always learn more in failure and least he knows not what to do..Off the top of my head:
Judge - yeh/nah
Schwab - yeh/nah
Rohde - no
Laidley (v2006) - yeh/nah
Wallace (Richmond version) - no
Voss - no
Neeld - no
Roos - yes
Goodwin - yeh/nah
Not exactly a who's who of coaching winners there.
That's not to write him off, just that most senior coaches he's worked with are flaccid.
Off the top of my head:
Judge - yeh/nah
Schwab - yeh/nah
Rohde - no
Laidley (v2006) - yeh/nah
Wallace (Richmond version) - no
Voss - no
Neeld - no
Roos - yes
Goodwin - yeh/nah
Not exactly a who's who of coaching winners there.
That's not to write him off, just that most senior coaches he's worked with are flaccid.
Worked under... ass coach... I am connecting dots.Paul Roos stated the other day that Rawling was a great get for us. In speaking about some other subject regarding assistant coaching.......he brushed over Rawlings to Nth Melb, then went back and reiterated that Rawlings was a very good get for us.
When you see the list of Coaches he has played/trained under worked with as an ass. coach, he has worked with some experienced coaches.
I believe he has built up over time a decent skill set to be a decent supporting coach.
You sure do know a lot of opposition people...
Quite excited reading that.
Really interesting that Rhyce sought him out specifically and sold him on our boys.