Brad Scott - 100 games

[TooUglyForFugly]

Difference is I have confidence Bon will coach at least 50 more than Hardluck.

 

[Event Horizon]

"I'm an infinitely better coach now than I was five years ago," - Brad Scott

With that in mind, and this would be true for every single young coach, why do AFL clubs persist with signing untried coaches virtually as a rule these days?
Surely, a recently sacked coach who has gone through the first 5 years of learning, is so much wiser and more ready for the job than he's ever been?

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Most have been assistants which is supposed to be their education.

I can't imagine Choco helping us progress.

 

[chubbspeterson]

The jury is still out on Scott taking us to the ultimate, but I hope he takes us there. He's stuck by the club and its players at every opportunity, handled the media with aplomb and is a large part of us taking some positive steps forward to where we are today.
I hope they get him a win and start to repay Scott for the faith he has shown in them all along

 

[Arthur Cloke]

Going 50/50 during a rebuild isn't a bad effort. What remains to be seen is if he can up our win% to around 70 for a few years which will equate to flag contention

Dont hold your breast.

 

[Zondor]

Dont hold your breast.

Can I hold Eva Green's breast? :stern look

 

[DarwinRoo]

"I'm an infinitely better coach now than I was five years ago," - Brad Scott

With that in mind, and this would be true for every single young coach, why do AFL clubs persist with signing untried coaches virtually as a rule these days?
Surely, a recently sacked coach who has gone through the first 5 years of learning, is so much wiser and more ready for the job than he's ever been?

Why draft an untried 18 year old when we can pick up a player who has been recently delisted say Josh Bootsma for instance

 

[Event Horizon]

Why draft an untried 18 year old when we can pick up a player who has been recently delisted say Josh Bootsma for instance

I'm thinking of more of a Dal Santo comparison than Bootsma.

There are coaches with experience out there.
Pagan until recently and Choco are premiership coaches. Ratten isn't a bad coach. Eade. Craig. Voss.

But instead clubs go for Leppitch, Neeld and Hardwick.

 

[DarwinRoo]

Funny you should mention Voss because he was an untried coach when Brisbane hired him.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

What of the notion that they're just not up to it anymore? I mentioned Chocco before. You reckon Port should've kept him?

Regardless of the cattle he had, Chris Scott still has a premiership.

 

[MagicalRoos]

I don't think Event Horizon is trying to say all coaches would be better second time around.
I share the view some coaches might make a better fist of things if giving another chance. Happens in all the other sports but for some reason we cut ours down and throw them in a heap.
I would be very interested to see how Gary Ayres, Voss, Matty Knights, Mark Harvey and even a third chance Eade would go.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

I don't see the point several years after the fact of his appointment. Unless it was discussed back then.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

The only thing hiring of previous senior coaches (completely ignoring youth) does is promotes the issue that recent graduates from science degrees are having at the moment.

The tendency has been to hire experienced staff for the last decade and not to put money into training new scientists, so now with the retirement of elder staff there is a distinct lack of younger people coming through to fill these roles with enough experience to do the job and the area is suffering.


Anyway good article on the AFL website.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-06-07/hardwick-v-scott

 

[hilly]

I can't believe we didn't win the 2010 premiership.

 

[DJ Dupree]

Well done to him.

He's had his faults, and therefore detractors, but overall I think he's done the job expected of him thus far.

He's certainly lifted the profile of the club, brought in a level of professionalism, and created an atmosphere of trust and positivity. He's been exceptionally good at selling the club, and he's every bit the North Melbourne person anyone else might claim to be.

I'd really like it now if, five years in, he recognised and used his real strengths to push the club forward. It was mentioned in that article about his record versus Hardwicks' - the handball attack of 2012, the conscious effort in 2013 to balance the kick/handball ledger, and this years' defence focus - he seems to be very reactionary. To have the record he does, with essentially a non-bottoming out rebuild taking place, and a new gameplan nearly every year, is a very good effort. I think we'd be a genuine premiership threat if we used the confident 2012 game (who cares about the amount of handballs, we killed it!!) with a touch of this years' lockdown footy when required. I see we have the talent there. I'd love to see Scotty use it and back them in, and not have them in two minds when running out there, which sometimes they seem to be now. They're not 'all defensive' players, and they shouldn't be 'all attack'; but they're talented enough and smart enough to do both now when needed, without over-correcting.

We don't have blue collar scrubbers asked to play one menial role in a dour gameplan anymore, we're not Sydney or Freo. I hope Scotty realises this in the next couple of years, because if everything clicks, it will have been worth the wait and he'll be a North legend. His attitude to our club since day dot had him well and truly on that path, and now I hope for his and eveyone elses' sake that he gets the results.

Congrats Brad