Another Coach Down

[marvin]

Another Scalp

Laidley to join Walls (and one other - can't remember our other victim) on the mantlepiece as those who've gone straight after losing to Adelaide?

If SEN is right...

 

[magtrev]

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Shimmelbush (I spelled that wrong i'm sure).

I think theres another as well?

 

[Lets Beyblade]

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Just heard the news and thought exactly the same thing

FWIW good luck to Dean, surely he has another job lined up whether it be assitant or head coaching role.

 

[Jars458]

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Was another one. Was it Blight at Saint Kilda?

 

[Geoffa32]

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You could hear it in his voice at the after match presser he was going.......not surprised at all.

 

[marvin]

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Doh. Of course it was Schimma and Blight. Blight after we flogged them at Docklands in Round 15 2001, and Schimma in Ansett Cup 1993.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

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Laidley going to Richmond maybe....?

 

[Porps is a star!!]

At the end of the season there will be at least 2 senior coaching positions available, but more likely more will become available (I'm looking at you choco!) so you would assume that Viney would put his hat in the ring, are there any other coaches that you guys think might try and follow suit?

Also what affect would losing Viney have on our team and our new attacking game plan... I'm not assuming he is the reason behind this but more interested to see if anyone thinks his loss would impact our on field performance next year?

 

[brucetiki]

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Crows coaching scalps

Wayne Schimmelbush - North Melbourne 1993
Robert Walls - Richmond 1997 (and still bitter about it to this day )
Malcolm Blight - St Kilda 2001
Dean Laidley - North Melbourne 2009.

Did Neil Balme get the chop from Melbourne after our game in 1997? Might have been a week or two after...

 

[brucetiki]

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Blight after we flogged them at Docklands in Round 15 2001

My first away game. After that win, I had to wait until the Richmond game last year to see another Crows victory in Melbourne.

 

[Damp Squarie]

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Laidley going to Richmond maybe....?

or Port Power

 

[Punchy Bassett]

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or Port Power

Funnily enough emailing my mate in New Zealand who is a power supporter, he said jokingly hell I would even take Laidley now, then ten minutes later this came out, I said careful what you wish for mate

 

[Lets Beyblade]

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or Port Power

Perfect fit really.

Choco to quit in the next few weeks and head to Richmond at years end.

 

[Vader]

It's certainly getting harder for Port to hold onto him. His departure may happen even sooner now that 2 clubs have pulled the trigger. They don't want to be last one on the merrygoround, left with nothing but the dregs once the others have chosen their new coaches. If they're going into the coaching market, they will want to enter it ASAP.

 

[jo172]

How much do you want to bet Laidley now enters the media to perpetrate a bias against Adelaide as the side that killed his career a la Walls?

 

[Vader]

I get the feeling that we were just the straw which broke the camels back. Reading on the main board, a lot of North supporters haven't been happy with the direction of the team for quite a while now.

Right now they're playing a very negative brand of footy, which sees them as the 2nd lowest scoring side after 12 rounds - and Melbourne can overtake them if they score at least 72 points against the Bombers on Friday night. My reading of the tealeaves was that he wasn't coaching them to win against us, he was coaching to minimise the loss. That might be acceptable deep in the second half with your team being flogged, it's not acceptable when you start doing it from before the first bounce.

 

[jackster83]

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Perfect fit really.

Choco to quit in the next few weeks and head to Richmond at years end.

His last game as Port head coach will be the return showdown in round 17 when we dish out a 68 point thumping after Chad Cornes dislocates a shoulder trying to snipe Petrenko off the ball. Choco will blame injuries for his side's poor performance and will head to Melbourne to try to land another coaching role (preferably with Collingwood).

 

[mulz]

i reckon choco will be gone by the end of the week, choco to north

 

[hippyhippy]

so who is next? worsefold? or choco?

 

[ruscy002]

Favourite Laidley quote (very paraphrased) after losing to us in early 2005: "It was really disappointing to lose to them today because that was the absolute best that they could play and I know we can do better". Found it very hard to take him seriously after that one...where did we finish again in '05? Did they ever beat us under Craigy?

The "really exciting glimpse of our future" comment this year after they got smacked by Geelong is right up there too.

By the by...does anyone else think that these clubs looking for new coaches are going to find things seriously tough without a clear, established direction heading into the GC17/West Sydney era? We're so lucky in that the need to turn over our list came at the perfect time and has been dealt with beautifully. Port and Collingwood may end up with new coaches but their lists aren’t too bad, however Richmond and especially the Kangaroos are going to have to overcome some massive obstacles with poor lists and new (potentially raw) coaches in the worst possible time frame.

 

[Elder van Berlo]

It's official

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/78886/default.aspx

DEAN Laidley has stood down from his position as senior coach at North Melbourne.

Laidley informed the club of his decision to quit on Tuesday morning, bringing to an end his seven years at the helm.

North are currently undergoing a review of coaching, which was slated to conclude before round 16.

The Kangaroos were preliminary finalists in 2007 and made the top eight again in 2008, but have struggled with injuries and consistency this season, winning just four games to sit 12th on the AFL ladder.

Laidley will front a press conference alongside club chairman James Brayshaw at 1pm AEST.
More to come.

 

[jo172]

so who is next? worsefold? or choco?

Didn't Worsfold just get a new contract?

But Choco would have to be a certainty.

 

[Vader]

so who is next? worsefold? or choco?

Worsefold is safe. He won a flag in 2006 and they know that they're in a rebuilding phase, following the departures of Cousins & Judd.

Odds are split between Choco and Malthouse - though a win against Sydney next week might see Malthouse safe (and Buckley coaching elsewhere in 2010).

Other coaches under the pump...
Eade - His position is safe as houses, the only question is when they agree to terms over his next 2-year contract.
Harvey - Will be given a bit of time to work things through, having delisted half his 2008 starting 22. He a mini-bus (half a coach), but they can't sack him right now.

 

[Geoffa32]

He have Freo in a few weeks............

 

[Vader]

By the by...does anyone else think that these clubs looking for new coaches are going to find things seriously tough without a clear, established direction heading into the GC17/West Sydney era? We're so lucky in that the need to turn over our list came at the perfect time and has been dealt with beautifully. Port and Collingwood may end up with new coaches but their lists aren’t too bad, however Richmond and especially the Kangaroos are going to have to overcome some massive obstacles with poor lists and new (potentially raw) coaches in the worst possible time frame.

Sydney's position is just as bad.

3 years ago their list and ours were very similar. Since then we've gone down the youth path, drafting in large numbers of teenagers. They've minimised their exposure to the draft and traded for talent (eg Mattner & Shaw). Nothing wrong with the players they traded for, but they needed to turnover a greater proportion of their list. Now they find themselves with 5 veterans likely to go at the end of this year, little in the way of talented youth, and 3 years of tainted drafts ahead of them.

Sydney's path back to the top could be as long as Carlton's. Carlton lost access to the draft, courtesy of the salary cap breaches, just as they hit rock bottom. The end result was that they spent the better part of 7 years down there. Sydney's also faces a period at the bottom, right when the draft talent is least accessible. Carlton's problems were self inflicted, it's debatable whether or not Sydney's are - the draft restrictions aren't their own doing, but their failure to access the draft earlier certainly is.