Coach Cam Sutcliffe - Backline Development Coach

[Schulzenfest]

Sutcliffe's ability to keep both AFL, SANFL, and AFL coaching jobs at Port for going on 8 years now despite never showing any aptitude in a single one of those roles, while also pulling Ash Woodland despite being a balding 33 year old, needs to be studied in a lab. The man clearly has access to fairy godparents or a luck totem or some other thing out of some fantasy novel.

It's genuinely a bigger mystery than Hinkley. Despite vehemently disagreeing, I can at least understand why a weak board who doesn't understand that premierships are the goal could think this bloke who is popular among the playing group and consistently achieved average to above average ladder positions is worth recontracting. Sutcliffe on the other hand has never even been adequate.

 

[tribey]

Sutcliffe on SEN confirms he’s contracted for another season.

Also said he’s the mids development coach.

This bloke must have a trove of polaroids to rival J. Edgar Hoover

 

[PowerLil]

Sutcliffe on SEN confirms he’s contracted for another season.

Also said he’s the mids development coach.

WHAT A LOAD OF HORSE SH*T

 

[PowerLil]

Sutcliffe's ability to keep both AFL, SANFL, and AFL coaching jobs at Port for going on 8 years now despite never showing any aptitude in a single one of those roles, while also pulling Ash Woodland despite being a balding 33 year old, needs to be studied in a lab. The man clearly has access to fairy godparents or a luck totem or some other thing out of some fantasy novel.

It's genuinely a bigger mystery than Hinkley. Despite vehemently disagreeing, I can at least understand why a weak board who doesn't understand that premierships are the goal could think this bloke who is popular among the playing group and consistently achieved average to above average ladder positions is worth recontracting. Sutcliffe on the other hand has never even been adequate.

To add insult to injury, inarguably he's the worse captain in Port Adelaide's storied history. What a ****ing disgrace.

 

[Us against the rest]

He's going to terrorise other midfield coaches.

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

I’m convinced he won the lottery. Imagine Port board whipping boy Cam Sutcliffe of all people pulling Ashleigh freaking Woodland?!

 

[Grave Danger]

Sam Cutliffe is the coriander of development coaches: the PAFC board can't get enough of him, while the BF Port board reckon he tastes like soap. Ash W. appears to be in the yum! camp, oddly.

 

[TazD]

 

[Bump Bailey]

while also pulling Ash Woodland

Swear she got married to another bloke not that long ago? Mustn’t have lasted long.

 

[Willsy10]

He seems like a good dude to me, i've never understood the hate he gets. I think it is pretty hard to measure the success or failure of a development coach, senior and line coaches are different, the proof is in the pudding with them. For instance, i think our forward line sucks more than any other area of the ground, so Chad Cornes as forward line coach had to go. Ken as senior coach obviously had to go. So we need to bring in at the least two high quality assistants to replace those two. Things aren't working at SANFL level so i think we need a change in Senior Coach there too.

We need new people in our high performance space.

They are the important appointments. Development coaches aren't as big of a problem for me.

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

Swear she got married to another bloke not that long ago? Mustn’t have lasted long.

She did. She married and became Ashleigh Saint just before she started playing for us in 2023.

Must’ve been a quick divorce.

 

[PowerLil]

He seems like a good dude to me, i've never understood the hate he gets. I think it is pretty hard to measure the success or failure of a development coach, senior and line coaches are different, the proof is in the pudding with them. For instance, i think our forward line sucks more than any other area of the ground, so Chad Cornes as forward line coach had to go. Ken as senior coach obviously had to go. So we need to bring in at the least two high quality assistants to replace those two. Things aren't working at SANFL level so i think we need a change in Senior Coach there too.

We need new people in our high performance space.

They are the important appointments. Development coaches aren't as big of a problem for me.

No disrespect Willsy but what does the fact that he may or may not be a good guy have to do with anything? He was an average footballer at Freo. What the hell we picked him up for I have absolutely no idea. He was a beyond terrible captain (I watched him live) and now a development coach on the back of no formal training or qualifications as confirmed by Richo at the AGM earlier this year.
It's a pissant appointment from a pissant head of football.
End of rant.

 

[Steve Dore]

He seems like a good dude to me .....

At the Kenny Hinkley Football Club being a good human trumps having any ability for the role you're in.

 

[gbear]

Useless, absolutely useless coach!

 

[Portmagpies36]

Sutcliffe's ability to keep both AFL, SANFL, and AFL coaching jobs at Port for going on 8 years now despite never showing any aptitude in a single one of those roles, while also pulling Ash Woodland despite being a balding 33 year old, needs to be studied in a lab. The man clearly has access to fairy godparents or a luck totem or some other thing out of some fantasy novel.

It's genuinely a bigger mystery than Hinkley. Despite vehemently disagreeing, I can at least understand why a weak board who doesn't understand that premierships are the goal could think this bloke who is popular among the playing group and consistently achieved average to above average ladder positions is worth recontracting. Sutcliffe on the other hand has never even been adequate.

Clearly his ability to pull attractive blondes is extremely commendable.

 

[all seeing eye]

Hasnt our midfield been our strength, not sure about the pile on. Being a average footballer has little to do with being a good coach, in fact many great footballers have been poor coaches. I need more concrete evidence.

 

[PowerLil]

Hasnt our midfield been our strength, not sure about the pile on. Being a average footballer has little to do with being a good coach, in fact many great footballers have been poor coaches. I need more concrete evidence.

Josh Carr is the midfield coach. Sutcliffe can go get some experience and "develop" elsewhere in the lower leagues, not at an AFL club.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Pay him out

 

[Willsy10]

No disrespect Willsy but what does the fact that he may or may not be a good guy have to do with anything? He was an average footballer at Freo. What the hell we picked him up for I have absolutely no idea. He was a beyond terrible captain (I watched him live) and now a development coach on the back of no formal training or qualifications as confirmed by Richo at the AGM earlier this year.
It's a pissant appointment from a pissant head of football.
End of rant.

There are a quite a few afl coaches that were average footballers, doesn’t mean anything, Fagan didn’t even play VFL or AFL and he is the reigning premiership coach. Conversely gun players don’t always make good coaches.

Didn’t he win a best and fairest in the magpies, sounds like selective memory and narrative.

 

[Blinky Nyland]

An inside source has informed me that Sutcliffe is likely to get a line coaching role. Not sure whether its AFL or SANFL.

 

[Chewy316]

An inside source has informed me that Sutcliffe is likely to get a line coaching role. Not sure whether its AFL or SANFL.

If Sutcliffe gets a line coaching role at AFL level it literally means that no one from Port's shortlist wanted to join them.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

An inside source has informed me that Sutcliffe is likely to get a line coaching role. Not sure whether its AFL or SANFL.

If it's AFL it means we missed all our targets

 

[Addy23]

If Sutcliffe gets a line coaching role at AFL level it literally means that no one from Port's shortlist wanted to join them.

I'd rather Hartlett as line coach than Sutcliffe

 

[Needs Gravy]

An inside source has informed me that Sutcliffe is likely to get a line coaching role. Not sure whether its AFL or SANFL.

Hopefully for Port Districts

 

[RossFC]

An inside source has informed me that Sutcliffe is likely to get a line coaching role. Not sure whether its AFL or SANFL.

If nothing changes, then he'll still be mid development coach, which is pretty much SANFL mids line coach.