Analysis Assistant Changes for 2023

[Malibu#27]

Snap.... you just have to make it 'good enough' for the AFL to tick off on it.

Note: Im not saying get him because of this, but if we are gretting him, you game the system, its not like Essendons incompetence didnt cost us badly with Monfries and Ryder out for a year when we were in a position to challenge... so * em.

EDIT With Kingsley getting the GWS gig, I wouldn't be surprised to see Richmond have a nibble at Rutten again.

As I suspected. I read overnight that Richmond are now speaking to Rutten.

 

[RangaInTeal]

As I suspected. I read overnight that Richmond are now speaking to Rutten.

17 clubs should be ‘speaking’ to him!

 

[OneGreatClub]

17 clubs should be ‘speaking’ to him!

No, didn’t you know? Port likes stability.

 

[RangaInTeal]

No, didn’t you know? Port likes stability.

Ha, my bad!

 

[PowerBaz]

I’m assuming any new senior assistant must still be working in the finals.

 

[Nelso]

I’m assuming any new senior assistant must still be working in the finals.

Solomon was in Adeliade during the week.

 

[PowerBaz]

Solomon was in Adeliade during the week.

Is he good at listening and following orders?

 

[PowerBaz]

Solomon was in Adeliade during the week.

So I gather being moved on by Kingsley. Perfect fit then, a footy bloke who needs a job and will be happy to not upset Ken.

Sorry for the sarcasm but I’m annoyed at the club, it needs change, real change and we’ve had ten years of tinkering.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Who knows if Solomon was here talking to us, but he is another one of the widely regarded assistants from only a couple of years ago who dropped off the landscape.

He interviewed for the Freo and Gold Coast jobs, and was sacked by Gold Coast after Dew's appointment in a surprise move. Rumours abounded Dew felt threatened by Solomon's popularity with players and his football knowledge. Who knows?

He was only at GWS as a part time assistant helping out a few Bomber mates. No great surprise he didn't stick around.

 

[JUSTWORK]

Rumours abounded Dew felt threatened by Solomon's popularity with players and his football knowledge. Who knows?

Exactly the sort of bloke Hinkley wouldn't tolerate being at Port then ?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Exactly the sort of bloke Hinkley wouldn't tolerate being at Port then ?

Yep. If he gets a job at Port it might tell you how much what Hinkley thinks matters anymore.

 

[PowerLil]

Exactly the sort of bloke Hinkley wouldn't tolerate being at Port then ?

Hinkley is supposedly popular with the players. Means nothing.

 

[VineValerian]

If old mate Ken is popular with players - make him club mentor/sounding board/father confessor to them all.
They can then receive all the kumbaiya tlc they need from him to feel good in that over-arching role.
Would be the classic case of placing people in their best suited positions.

Meanwhile, install a new head coach with a fresh voice, a high level of current intel and strategic nouse, an up to date sustainable game plan(s), a winning is everything mentality, and a brutal ruthlessness to succeed whereby he takes losses personally and impels his playing group to do likewise.

Win:win scenario.

 

[PowerBaz]

Yep. If he gets a job at Port it might tell you how much what Hinkley thinks matters anymore.

Be keen to see how long whoever comes gets in their contract. 1 year, 2?

 

[finbarr]

More than happy for new assistants to come in with an eye on 2024 and the post-Hinkley era. Otherwise, let the bum starve again like in 2022. He doesn't deserve a competent team around him to make him look good.

 

[all seeing eye]

Wasnt there some talk of Jaymie Graham

Jaymie Graham

Age

42

Ht

196cm

Wt

93kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.9

3star

K

7.8

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

4.7

4star

T

1.2

3star

No current season stats available

D

8.0

2star

K

4.4

2star

HB

3.6

3star

M

2.4

3star

T

0.4

3star

?

 

[PowerBaz]

Wasnt there some talk of Jaymie Graham?

Whilst anybody is still in finals you won’t hear if anything.

But in reality we are looking at Bob from Mildura seconds.

 

[Chewy316]

Should hire Ken's assistant from Camperdown. $50 a game with free drinks at the Precinct post match piss up.

 

[PowerBaz]

Should hire Ken's assistant from Camperdown. $50 a game with free drinks at the Precinct post match piss up.

Maybe give them some space in Kens empty cabinet for ‘most lemon squashes drink’ or something…

 

[Pt Augusta Power]

No one wants to coach with Ken. A very green rookie assistant maybe but no one with any idea will come here.

 

[TazD]

No one wants to coach with Ken. A very green rookie assistant maybe but no one with any idea will come here.

Lmao good. Lets see what the brilliant mind can produce rather than steal.

 

[raptalia]

I do not see the big deal about Assistant Coaches. Solomon or even King David himself will not make an iota of difference while Hinkley is at the helm. Hinkley's game plan has crept through Alberton like a cancer. The Port Magpies and now even the women play the same stupid possession based bomb it in to the forwards game plan.

Hopefully this year is simply a holding pattern and next year a new Coach will sort out the Assistants he wants.

 

[George CantStandYa]

Rowie just said Rutten going to Port as senior assistant

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Rowie just said Rutten going to Port as senior assistant

Not sure how to feel about this. I do know he was a very good assistant at Richmond

 

[VineValerian]

Rowie just said Rutten going to Port as senior assistant

Truck unlikely to dare question anything or anyone at the Club, much less King Ken, so a safe choice there

Would assume someone like Solomom would be too much of a threat to the King, vis-a-vis Schoey.