Advertiser today shows that McDermott is a hypocrite

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On Monday he faxed 5AA to say that he thinks Neil Craig will get the job, he never said that Neil Craig is the person who deserves the job. Here is part of the column "Crows To Get Tough" in todays advertiser

Crows told to get tough
By Richard Earle
29jul04

McDermott said Adelaide required a coach to deliver "absolute stability" and avoid the implosions rocking Richmond and Hawthorn.

"That's why it's important to get this coaching decision done so quickly," he said. "This bloke is going to have a massive impact on your club next year. He needs to get in as soon as he possibly can."

While cautiously endorsing Craig as Adelaide's coach in 2005, McDermott said former Western Bulldogs boss Terry Wallace deserved consideration.

Definition from dictionary.com

Endorse
To give approval of or support to, especially by public statement; sanction: endorse a political candidate.

Good to see that McDermott has been made a hypocrite only days after stating that he never said he supported Craig being the coach of adelaide next season.

 

[noddy]

The guy changes tack so often that i'm convinced he doesn't know what part of his body his bloody arse belongs to.

Agree in part to what he said this morning but a 10-15 player turn-around does sound a bit extreme especially as he has stated we don't have to much to trade with.

 

[macca23]

Originally posted by noddy
The guy changes tack so often that i'm convinced he doesn't know what part of his body his bloody arse belongs to.

Agree in part to what he said this morning but a 10-15 player turn-around does sound a bit extreme especially as he has stated we don't have to much to trade with.

Thank god McDermott doesn't run the Adelaide Footy club, or coach it for that matter.

We have to turn our list over substantially, but that takes time. It can't be done in one foul swoop. It's a two to three year thing.

There might be 15 changes to be made, but where would the replacements come from?

15 changes in one year would destabilize the club, and we could not get 15 likely repacements by trade or draft in 1 year.

Even 10 in one year is a big ask.

As for the coaching situation, is McDermott getting cold feet on Craig?? Until now he's been vocally demanding that Craig be appointed immediately. That's now been tempered to a cautious endorsement of Craig with a suggestion that Wallace also be looked at.

McDermott is oscillating all over the place - he's just not credible.

 

[Gravel]

I don't think a 10-15 player turnover is extreme at all, when you include rookies.
Port added 10 players this year (4 rookies).
They wouldn't all come from the draft. Some from trades and some mature age recruits from the VFL/SANFL.
Take off Smart, Carey and Burns and it is down to 7-12.

 

[macca23]

Originally posted by Gravel
I don't think a 10-15 player turnover is extreme at all, when you include rookies.
Port added 10 players this year (4 rookies).
They wouldn't all come from the draft. Some from trades and some mature age recruits from the VFL/SANFL.
Take off Smart, Carey and Burns and it is down to 7-12.

Take off Port's rookies and you're talking about 6 changes to thier actual playing list - not 10.

You still have to replace them with better. 15 of the playing list - forget rookies for the moment - is just too big an ask.

 

[Gravel]

Sorry error - Port added 7 to list (plus 3 rookies).
I assumed McDermott was talking the entire list and included rookies.
Not unreasonable to see trades 2/3, Draft 4/5, uncontracted 1/2, rookies 3/4.

 

[arrowman]

As I said on another thread - I think we need to make about 7-10 changes, excluding rookies. 10-15 is way too extreme and, as another poster (Waynes-World I think) pointed out, risky given you have to sign draftees to 2 year contracts.

The idea that we have to make 10-12 changes is based on the assumption that the current list is complete rubbish and it's not. In my opinion our problem is not that the players we're putting out each week are no good, it's that they're too young and inexperienced. If we had managed to list better over the last couple of years we wouldn't have half a team of <50 gamers out there.

Making 10-15 changes would mean you'd need to delist or trade several of the promising youngsters and for what? Another promsiing youngster? Or an older player - been there, done that, this is not the time.

I don't claim to have as much football experience as McDermott but simple arithmetic tells me he's on the wrong track there. I think some people just pull large (player change) numbers out of their - er, heads - when they talk about a club in difficulty, without thinking it through.