I'm not. I was responding to you. The rest of your response says more about you than anything else.
It seems Laidler was in between. Thompson resigned on October 4th 2010, trade week was from October 5th-12th October, and Scott was appointed on October 15th (according to the club website).
Suspect Sydney's incredible offer to Mumford had more to do with it than anything. That was the universal opinion of every player and club official I spoke to at the 2009 Best and Fairest. Everyone wished him well too.
That wasn't what you said. You said they were kept around when Mumford left, which is patently incorrect.
Research would be your friend. I've always given (and will continue to give) Scott 100% full credit for the 2011 premiership. They're too hard to win to be dismissed flippantly.
Ah yes, the hysterical (and hilarious) injunction to tell supporters how to support. Good luck with that. I look forward to the next installment with your customary civility and charm.
As does pretty much everyone. Some suspect given the dazzling display in the Preliminary final it may not occur. Hope you're right.
First of all, I have never said to give Chris Scott 100% full credit for the 2011 flag. He is part of the reason for the win. Bartel helped by kicking three goals, Hawkins dominated Reid, Lonergan shut down Cloke, Varcoe had a day out.
I give Chris Scott credit too, because he outcoached a veteran coach in a Grand Final. Malthouse had no answers for the moves Scott made after half-time.
When Cloke started getting on top in the second quarter, Scott moved Lonergan onto him, which worked. Malthouse left Ben Reid on Tom Hawkins all day. Who made the right move?
I believe that a coach and the players all play a part in the success and premierships, and at times, the failures as well. It isn't always just the coach.
Also, if you give Scott 100% credit for the flag, then doesn't this earn him credits to be given more time? If he had coached us since 2011, without any flag, then questions should be asked, but winning a flag buys you three or four extra years, for mine. If we get to another three or four years without a flag, then questions should be asked, but give him more time to build this side. This isn't Damian Hardwick, or even Chris's brother Brad, we are talking about, both of who were appointed a year earlier, and still haven't won a flag, yet they get new contracts and not sacked. They deserve to be sacked sooner than a premiership coach in Chris Scott.
Hell, Mark Thompson took eight years before he got his first coaching flag. Chris hasn't been there as long, and has already won a flag. The club gave Bomber another chance (and I thought Bomber deserved the sack in 2006, when we missed finals, and hadn't won a flag in eight years under him, a league record at the time).In fact, I said that if Bomber didn't take Geelong to top 4 in 2007, we should not re-contract him, and get Dennis Pagan instead, who actually coached flags, and gave kicks up bums to players who had bad attitudes (which Geelong players had in abundance in 2006). Yet, I am more than glad to have been proven wrong. You should hope to be wrong about Chris Scott as well.