Kind of surprising to hear that Adelaide will loosen it's purse strings. I always assumed hiring people like bird brain was down to being the club being tight asses. I guess it was actually just plain incompetence.
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The Adelaide Crows Are Eyeing Off Some Big Names For Off-Field Role
Neil Balme and Mark Williams — among others — have had their names raised in connection with Adelaide FC’s vacant head of football role following the departure of Brett Burton. According to The Advertiser: “Highly respected Richmond general manager of football Balme’s name is understood to have...www.fiveaa.com.au
Seriously, if somehow we could lure Neil Balme over to become our head of football (it won't happen but it can't hurt to dream), it would be the BIGGEST get this club has had for a very long time (Phil Walsh excluded). Talk about a guy that creates the right culture...he is THE man
TBF, how many of the assistants that he wants on his panel are actually currently available?I found that interesting - Knicker's first interview with Fagan he said all the assistants would be there next year.
Oh no, he's been AFC'd already!
Yeah, you don’t ever hear Melbourne people bang on about which school they went to . Nobody actually cares about this s**t anyway, I wouldn’t know what school anyone went to where I work because nobody gives a *.Only in Adelaide does it matter what school you went to. Christ we're insular.
When I lived in Sydney the question was "where do you live?" Which was code for "is it worth my while getting to know you, or do you live 2 hours away and we will never meet again?".From my experience it is the same in Sydney and Melb.
Which school did you go to?I see the whole “which school did you go to” question as an entirely different perspective and not one of an elitist derivative. Adelaide is small enough that if someone went to a school that a friend did there’s a chance that you both know similar friends.
I’ve never asked it as a point of judgement and never felt someone has done the same to me.
Can get worseWhyalla High, can’t get worse then that, a kid in our class head butted a teacher
Certainly can, former student of my school stabbed a teacher in the car parkCan get worse
Certainly can, former student of my school stabbed a teacher in the car park
Not sure this bloke was there often enough to know what his grades were.Gave him a D?
Blight was a freak as a player and a coach.Blight was unbelievable. Just had a full suite of all the skills and took a good team and made them great.
Interesting take on Blighty. Something very similar was said about Warne. The kids should ever have been given a DVD based on Warne's leg-spin. The smarter coaches were trying to teach the juniors based off of MacGill techniqueBlight was a freak as a player and a coach.
Ron Barrassi said once that Blight could almost do the impossible, and he just did freakish things as a player like they were easy.
He said that you could never show a video of Blight to a kid and ask them to aspire to play he did, because he just was such an amazing player. Totally out of position and just could pull off something no other player could.
As a coach he was also not one that you could write a coaching manual by. He came from Geelong as an "almost there" coach but he was absolutely the right fit for us, at the right time.
There's a quote from Phil Walsh about art and how to produce it you have to be a little bit mad (or something to this effect).
That's Blighty in a nutshell and football was his art. A massive talent and a genius.
I'm a bit of a fan of his BTW
Steve Smith is the perfect example. You can't teach kids to bat that wayInteresting take on Blighty. Something very similar was said about Warne. The kids should ever have been given a DVD based on Warne's leg-spin. The smarter coaches were trying to teach the juniors based off of MacGill technique
Was thinking what our coaching panel might look like. If we are expecting it to be shuffled around rather a completely fresh panel, would something like this be realistic?
AFL:
Senior Coach: Nicks
Head of Strategy: ???
Forward: ???
Midfield: Mattner
Defense: Godden
Ruck: Clarke
SANFL:
Senior Coach: Younie
Development coaches: Wright, Reilly, Hart, Thomas
I'm hoping for a new forwards coach and we should get a new head of strategy. I moved Godden to defense based on something I heard from an Eagles supporter I know. He said it was always his major strength. Mattner could move potentially to the midfield. I'm just dithering on whether or not Paul Thomas gets to move up to coach the AFL mids. He's been in the system a while now. We could potentially have Mattner move to the forwards instead if Thomas gets promoted.
Would have thought Hart would be let go but if he survives, the SANFL would be preferable to me.
Was thinking what our coaching panel might look like. If we are expecting it to be shuffled around rather a completely fresh panel, would something like this be realistic?
AFL:
Senior Coach: Nicks
Head of Strategy: ???
Forward: ???
Midfield: Mattner
Defense: Godden
Ruck: Clarke
SANFL:
Senior Coach: Younie
Development coaches: Wright, Reilly, Hart, Thomas
I'm hoping for a new forwards coach and we should get a new head of strategy. I moved Godden to defense based on something I heard from an Eagles supporter I know. He said it was always his major strength. Mattner could move potentially to the midfield. I'm just dithering on whether or not Paul Thomas gets to move up to coach the AFL mids. He's been in the system a while now. We could potentially have Mattner move to the forwards instead if Thomas gets promoted.
Would have thought Hart would be let go but if he survives, the SANFL would be preferable to me.
Steve Smith is the perfect example. You shouldn’t teach kids to bat that way
Interesting take on Blighty. Something very similar was said about Warne. The kids should ever have been given a DVD based on Warne's leg-spin. The smarter coaches were trying to teach the juniors based off of MacGill technique
Isn't he still the captain of the SANFL team though..?Look I don't know where Matty Wright sits with his coaching accreditations. And also everyone here being so critical of any internal appointments.
But for a bloke with limited abilities and below average pace he was a very handy AFL forward that topped the goalkicking at a s**t club like Carlton more than once. He knows forward craft and understands the game. He was a smart footballer and made the most of pretty average skills.
He would not, in my view, be an ordinary appointment as a forwards coach.
I don't know about 2020. Surely if he assumes a greater coaching role that take precedence?Isn't he still the captain of the SANFL team though..?
Yes but he was also the SANFL Forwards Development Coach, Be interesting if he Plays or goes full-time Coach in 2020.Isn't he still the captain of the SANFL team though..?