Assistants and Roles

[M_rash]

I would guess that they work to help the coaches improve how they teach, communicate a message, implement effective training, as well as some level of mediation and management in people issues.

It's a coach to the coaches role that will help challenge them to improve how they carry out their roles.

Most importantly, frees up time for Ross to be boss and do his thing again without having to teach the new coaches as much.

 

[M_rash]

I do like the overall rebalancing of the coaching duties. Mark Stone is back where he belongs with stoppages. David Hale has been promoted from development to forwards coach. Rock is now midfield coach. Eastaugh who went from ruck to midfield, stays as midfield coach (and is back with Stone). Guerra has been demoted from defensive to development coach. Webb looks like he's done a Sumich and has been shifted from midfield back to development, but promoted into a senior development role (still not sure what a senior development role means).

Simon Eastaugh (midfield coach),
David Hale (development/specialist coach -> forwards coach),
Michael Prior (defensive coach),
Anthony Rock (development coach -> midfield coach),
Mark Stone (forwards coach ->stoppages and training coordinator),
Marc Webb (midfield coach -> senior development coach),
Brent Guerra (defensive coach -> development coach)
Roger Hayden (development coach)

So on the balance of things, it looks like one less defensive coach given guerra's move? aka let it rain goals!!! All out attack!!! The best form of defence, is attack. Dreaming of the first halves of the first half of 2015. If we can implement that again, we won't be half bad

Nat Fyfe. Dual brownlow medalist and premiership captain. Has a ring to it. F7 4eva

 

[Arcassius]

So on the balance of things, it looks like one less defensive coach given guerra's move? aka let it rain goals!!! All out attack!!! The best form of defence, is attack. Dreaming of the first halves of the first half of 2015. If we can implement that again, we won't be half bad

Nat Fyfe. Dual brownlow medalist and premiership captain. Has a ring to it. N7 4eva

I would think it says more about guerra

Ross said he'd play a stronger hand in ball movement this preseason, and the players have suggested we strayed from our values. I expect team defence and manic pressure hunting the ball will be back next season, underpinned by better fitness and more running volume in the preseason. Having younger, faster, more skilled kids should see the game plan back but now with added fast ball movement and spreading

 

[Freo Quokkas]

Who replaces Peter Sumich?

 

[Mr Peabody]

Who replaces Peter Sumich?

I believe it's Mark Webb and I'm feeling in my bones that we'll be seeing more of him sleeping with the fishes down at Peel alongside Suma and Luca Brassi. Might even run into a crab called Colin.

 

[hoss]

Rowing coach? This will only make us go backwards.

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[Ressies runner]

A coaches coach, out of left field but nice appointment freo

 

[mightymouse75]

Who replaces Peter Sumich?

Irreplaceable. Meaning his job was redundant last year anyway.))

 

[meima]

Irreplaceable. Meaning his job was redundant last year anyway.))

Sumich is a good coach that do not fit into Ross way of coaching . Will be a good fit for state under 18 .

 

[Clems Knee]

Sumich is a good coach that do not fit into Ross way of coaching . Will be a good fit for state under 18 .

Sumich is a lazy coach who relies on his networks to keep him employed.
If coaching involved starting training late and finishing early, walking around with a ball under one arm and occasionally shouting across an oval, Sumich would be a good senior coach. But it doesn't.
Under 18s will be good for him for a year or two. With only one AFL academy player next year, WA would be expected to play poorly. So there should be no weight of expectation on Sumich's shoulders.

 

[meima]

Sumich is a lazy coach who relies on his networks to keep him employed.
If coaching involved starting training late and finishing early, walking around with a ball under one arm and occasionally shouting across an oval, Sumich would be a good senior coach. But it doesn't.
Under 18s will be good for him for a year or two. With only one AFL academy player next year, WA would be expected to play poorly. So there should be no weight of expectation on Sumich's shoulders.

Keeping a coach from 2011 to 2016 of been lazy , definitely not a good outlook for freo. I think he just not interested with the role been given to him this year and lost interested in it. His records with freo also not bad 2013 GF, 2014 top 4 , 2015 minor premier as assistant coach.

 

[scon]

Who replaces Peter Sumich?

 

[peppy la pew]

Who replaces Peter Sumich?

 

[Clems Knee]

Keeping a coach from 2011 to 2016 of been lazy , definitely not a good outlook for freo. I think he just not interested with the role been given to him this year and lost interested in it. His records with freo also not bad 2013 GF, 2014 top 4 , 2015 minor premier as assistant coach.

And yet you give credit to Sumich for these performance but say that he can't fit into Lyon's way of coaching.
It was Lyon who got all those results. How about you give Lyon the credit for his record and don't blame Ross for Sumich not fitting in.

I remember an interview with Sumich early in his Freo coaching career where he said it was good that he didn't have to drive as far, and that he didn't need to work as hard as he did at the Eagles. I thought that to be a strange comment at the time.

 

[salim malik]

And yet you give credit to Sumich for these performance but say that he can't fit into Lyon's way of coaching.
It was Lyon who got all those results. How about you give Lyon the credit for his record and don't blame Ross for Sumich not fitting in.

I remember an interview with Sumich early in his Freo coaching career where he said it was good that he didn't have to drive as far, and that he didn't need to work as hard as he did at the Eagles. I thought that to be a strange comment at the time.

Still remember the day at training when it started to rain and Sumich ran from the ground. When we asked where was he going he said I dont get paid enough to work in this. That comment showed exactly what he was about last season.

 

[meima]

And yet you give credit to Sumich for these performance but say that he can't fit into Lyon's way of coaching.
It was Lyon who got all those results. How about you give Lyon the credit for his record and don't blame Ross for Sumich not fitting in.

I remember an interview with Sumich early in his Freo coaching career where he said it was good that he didn't have to drive as far, and that he didn't need to work as hard as he did at the Eagles. I thought that to be a strange comment at the time.

I never blame Ross for sumich not fitting in . Sometime there is a time to go seperate way . Eg mayne give his best for freo , but freo in a rebuilding phase now no longer fit him anymore therefore go seperate way.

i think is not healthy to put dead sentence to a person just because he said something in the past. Maybe u 18 is good challenge for him because he is now in senior coaching role . If he fail he fail as he no longer an assistant coach.

Will be really sad that WA take development kids as a joke to let a lazy person to signed for two years for the under 18 job. Let him coach the kids for two years if result bad , then judge him .

 

[AAACockburn]

Hang on a minute. Ross walked into this club with a bloody good list.

 

[Banker]

Rowing coach with psy degree

Honestly this is either going to turn out really badly or be a surprise.

No idea why we're experimenting, when there is bound to be a coach who got experience in the AFL or another high fitness sport.

 

[Arcassius]

I think it's great that the club are looking at industry parallels and casting wider than footy circles. Better we get an outside the box thinker, that recruit people from within the system that have never known different. You should understand the concept. Board diversity and all that.

I'd rather the club try it. And if it doesn't work, try it again.

 

[M_rash]

Rowing coach with psy degree

Honestly this is either going to turn out really badly or be a surprise.

No idea why we're experimenting, when there is bound to be a coach who got experience in the AFL or another high fitness sport.

Can't be trend setters by following a trodden path. Give the bloke a chance before passing judgement. Don't need AFL experience to teach coaches how to be effective. Communication and building relationships will be key. Humans are pretty simple creatures. Footballers are pretty simple humans

 

[Okinakashi]

AFL or another high fitness sport.

Rowing not a high fitness sport? Rowers are some of the fittest athletes on the planet.

 

[Banker]

Can't be trend setters by following a trodden path. Give the bloke a chance before passing judgement. Don't need AFL experience to teach coaches how to be effective. Communication and building relationships will be key. Humans are pretty simple creatures. Footballers are pretty simple humans

I would have liked to seen an Mckinsey & Company bloke get the job.

 

[Mr Fonebone]

when do our boys start pre-season?

 

[Harry Reems]

Tania Armstrong tweeted that Marc Webb wanted out as he wasn't happy at Freo. Another apparent victim of Ross Lyon's demanding coaching style. Pffftttt.........She must get her info from Hagdorn.

 

[scon]

If it's true there's still the stand up or lie down choice in the face of Lyon's rumoured demands.
But if it's true why is he still there??
Can't see how you'd conceive of the AFL coaching climate as anything other than all consuming.