Connolly rates Bon 5th best coach.

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Connolly's 2010 coaches ladder

1. MARK HARVEY (Fremantle)
Was supposed to be the first sacked, instead he's just been reappointed. His Dockers have got harder, tougher and a lot more consistent without sacrificing flair.

2. ROSS LYON (St Kilda)
No rival has had anything like the amount of crisis management with which Lyon has had to deal, not to mention the loss of his most important player, but Saints remain near top.

3. MARK THOMPSON (Geelong)
Many thought the Cats could slide a little. Scarily, they might actually have got better, Thompson eking more out of lesser lights and breezing through the loss of key players.

4. PAUL ROOS (Sydney)
Did anyone think the Swans would be challenging for top four? Roos' last year as Swans coach is turning into one of his best, shaped by some smart coach-driven recruiting.

5. BRAD SCOTT (North Melbourne)
Big immediate impact on young list has the Roos playing a harder and more direct brand, the coach having turned around some potentially deflating early beltings.

6. RODNEY EADE (Western Bulldogs)
Dogs haven't been at their best, but Eade has kept them within striking distance nonetheless, some smart positional moves – and the recruitment of Barry Hall — paying off.

7. MICK MALTHOUSE (Collingwood)
Promotion of team culture has paid off in a very even spread of talent. Despite natural defensive instincts, has embraced a more attacking version of his Pies.

8. DAMIEN HARDWICK (Richmond)
Engineered remarkable transformation of a team regarded early as one of the worst ever to three wins from past four games, with young stars emerging everywhere.

9. BRETT RATTEN (Carlton)
Still wears supporter flak, but has dragged improvement out of many, and reorganised forward set-up so well Fevola has barely been missed.

10. DEAN BAILEY (Melbourne)
Demon kids have come on quickly, and Jamar is a veteran transformed. Melbourne plays an attacking Geelong-like game under his watch, and results are promising.

11. ALASTAIR CLARKSON (Hawthorn)
Good comeback by his Hawks, tempered a little by how badly things had spiralled out of control before then, the team's trademark physicality completely absent for too long.

12. MATTHEW KNIGHTS (Essendon)
Long-term vision still looks OK, and Dons have been more resilient and consistent, but there's been questions about selection and structure at times as well.

13. MARK WILLIAMS (Port Adelaide)
Things have fallen away too quickly for the Power, a temporary harder streak now completely absent, the flakiness not reflecting well on his capacity to motivate the group.

14. MICHAEL VOSS (Brisbane Lions)
The recruiting spree was bold, but appears to have backfired, too much ducks and drakes about fitness of key players, and mid-tier not responding to increased responsibility.

15. NEIL CRAIG (Adelaide)
Stunning demise for team a kick away from last year's preliminary final. Crows look shell-shocked, hesitant and at times completely confused by rigid methodology.

16. JOHN WORSFOLD (West Coast)
Eagles are playing an outdated game, too tall, inflexible, and without enough forward pressure. Skill level is at times atrocious, and doesn't appear to have improved.

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Yeah but they are sooo sh!t, it makes it even harder to believe they have won any games at all.
Don't forget they weren't too bad at times last year, and certainly haven't come from rock bottom when Hardwick got the job. They hit that rock bottom point under him this year, and now seem to have recovered from it.
 

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Yep, Hardwick is fantastic. Richmond have beaten Port, West Coast and Brisbane.....the 3 most out-of-form teams in the comp. Number 8 best coach my Ar$e!!

Agree with having Scott at number 5. We have a very good chance of making finals with one of the most inexperienced sides running around.
 

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I'm not sure if i feel comfortable with anyone from our club getting positive reinforcement from the media . It feels kinda weird .
 

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Yep, Hardwick is fantastic. Richmond have beaten Port, West Coast and Brisbane.....the 3 most out-of-form teams in the comp. Number 8 best coach my Ar$e!!

Agree with having Scott at number 5. We have a very good chance of making finals with one of the most inexperienced sides running around.
It is a fair effort with the the list he has though, any time a side full of kids wins it is a pretty good effort.
 

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Not sure why Eade has been rated so highly. The Dogs have been alright this year but surely, given pre-season hype, it's been a bit of a let down.
 

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If Freo lose to Carlton this Friday then you could argue Mark Harvey should drop down the coching order quite a few spots.

Still bemused why he didn't try and secure a home final against the Hawks in Tassie. I have never seen a coach run up the white flag that easily and especially against a side who I would hardly call dominant.

In a way I would love to see Freo do well in the finals, but the footballing purist in me hopes they get their just deserts for the Round 21 shennanigans.​
 
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Totally removing us out of the discussion, surely he should have backed his players in, and split the players rested over the last two weeks?

Im glad this is the sort of shit that Bon doesn't want us to do. Fair enough if you've consolidated a spot in the top 4, but with 3 games required to make the big one and the form they've carried in the 2nd half of the season - JYD Lite should have been a bit more realistic.
 
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