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News Burns new senior assistant
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I'm sure its a good appointment.
But I just dont like the bloke. There's something just not right about him.
I hope I'm wrong.
But I just dont like the bloke. There's something just not right about him.
I hope I'm wrong.
Nicks has a massive influence and say on who ke wants...... massive
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Welcome Burns
I hope he has a big say in things and isn’t a yes man. Someone who has the balls to stand upand challenge Nicks. We are starting a new era
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I hope he has a big say in things and isn’t a yes man. Someone who has the balls to stand upand challenge Nicks. We are starting a new era
Everybody get on board
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Yep. Now KT to replace Fagan and Macca to come in as a Tackling coach.
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Rapt with this appointment. I reckon Clarkson is pretty ruthless, so he must rate Burns pretty highly to have had him there for three years
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Plenty of speculation about who got Burns:
Does anybody know when Burns was headhunted, when he was decided upon and by whom, please?
I'd love to know how this came about. I can't see the appointment being made without Nicks' total agreement.
Does anybody know when Burns was headhunted, when he was decided upon and by whom, please?
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Unusual post:
Upon what do you base your misgivings (in bold italics), please, or is it just a hunch?
You're sure it's a good appointment --- but --- you don't think so, yet you hope it is? (<== not having a go at you; I just don't understand it).
Upon what do you base your misgivings (in bold italics), please, or is it just a hunch?
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It’s like the whole world has gone on a spending spree/ retail therapy to stave off the depression of Covid taking away our freedom. All the way from world leaders to households. Printing money, raiding Super, windfall dole increases et al.
Nicks is the precursor because as a condition of accepting the gig, he would have demanded control of who his group was end of this season. Kelly is the facilitator. If Nicks was happy with his group or flatly didn't want Burns, this doesn't happen. Nicks is step 1, Kelly is step 2. This has both their fingerprints all over it, Nicks for wanting him in the first place and Kelly for making it happen.
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There's only 1 reason that football geniuses like Rob Chapman, Andrew Fagan and the financial controller of the day sit on the key Football Strategy Committee. And you've nailed it. Hopefully we've now separated admin from influence and the footy dept get their budget as provided by the AFL's spending cap and they go about deciding how it's spent. I'm sure Kelly will have no problems understanding and using the bean counter's budgeting spreadsheet.
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In your experience as a senior coach of an AFL club? Fairly specific environment. Any decent incoming senior coach would demand to make the call on those under him when their contract is up. Within budget, they would have an enormous say who comes in to replace.
I'm not directly involved, obviously, but I seriously doubt it's as simple as "Nicks / Kelly / Roo <delete as appropriate> got him". It would have been all 3 of them involved. Obviously Roo would have had a bit to do with Burns given that he has applied for the senior role twice, so he would have a bit of knowledge about the guy and an established relationship. And I'm sure if Nicks didn't already know him (and I imagine assistant coaches would cross paths with each other from time to time) then he would certainly have had a few conversations with him prior to this appointment, ditto Kelly. A role like this isn't going to get signed off without all 3 of these guys agreeing to it.
I suspect the discussions would have been ongoing for a while. My assumption would be that when Nicks was hired he was told "it's too late to replace the assistants now, so just go with what we've already got this year and we'll get some better support around you next year". So he sticks with Hart, Godden etc and that gives them pretty much a full year to sound out potential assistants. And COVID probably worked in our favour with the turmoil in football departments all over the league - if somebody came to you in the middle of this season and offered you a guarantee of employment for the next 2 years, you'd probably be interested.
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Scott Burns, new Crows Senior Assistant Coach, on why he picked the crows and how close has he been to being a senior coach. - Triple M Breakfast with Roo, Ditts & Loz
Scott Burns, new Crows Senior Assistant Coach, on why he picked the crows and how close has he been to being a senior coach.
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Good. The way it should be, but not the way the AFC has been run in the past
Yes and I think it's telling that Nicks is the first coach we've had in ages to actually sweep out the coaches box. Our other recent coaches always seemed happy with roll with Craig's leftovers. I don't want to be too critical because I don't know much freedom these guys actually had to appoint new staff but I do take it as a sign the culture of mediocrity at Adelaide is starting to change.
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Sniping coach ??Yep. Now KT to replace Fagan and Macca to come in as a Tackling coach.
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I'm fairly confident that very few, if any, coaches could walk into a group and demand contracted coaches be paid, moved on and replaced with his crew. Even before covid, the spending cap made that very difficult. A Roos or Clarkson type could if they were heading into an Eagles/Pies/Tigers type financial environment. But most coaches are first time senior coaches, and having that kind of disregard for spending caps and club finances would be a terrible look and completely irresponsible. Logically, what each coach would expect/demand is that they make a call on the existing coaches when there contract next comes up. Part of their own due diligence on the role would be finding out when each of the coaches that they'll be inheriting are out of contract.
So you will always inherit at least most of the leftovers and it would be up to you whether they're extended. Pyke chose to extend what he inherited, except Hart, but then Francou smelt what was being cooked and went back to a 'teaching' career.
