Dockers chase Sheedy

[freocynic]

I would want Sheedy but only as the Head coach - sorry Harvey - not in some half arsed "innovative" 2 coaches experiment.

I think Sheedy, being the AFL legend he is, his words are obviously gonna carry more weight than just about anyone else in the competition. Players will play for him.

 

[Somebody]

Would be v interesting to see what Sheedy does with such a talented squad, but he should just be offered the senior coaching position with Harvey as his assistant and probable successor within a couple of years or so.
With Sheedy as coach I'd predict a flag within 2 years.

The arrangement of him as manager - wouldn't work, he should just be in charge. Also why would he take that in Perth, when he could be senior coach in Melbourne??

Freo will blow a great opportunity if they don't just offer him senior coach unreservedly.

 

[mick ryan]

The fact is that Sheedy will never move out of Melbourne, why should he anyway? he can get job satisfaction and adequate remuneration there.

 

[Dr Ralph Dagg]

What a load of garbage (as per usual).

Name one coach in 20 years that's been "developed" (to use your terminology) by a club. Pagan at North Melbourne and Sheedy at Essendon are the only two that even come close to qualifying.

Moronic to even attempt to draw paralells between recruiting players and recruiting coaches.

Sheedy came from Richmond.

Roos took over at Sydney. Craig spent a long time at Adelaide before getting the head job. Jack Cahill at Port Power. You could also say Mark Williams learnt the coaching caper at the knee of his Dad and Cahill.

 

[Dr Ralph Dagg]

Who cares who I support?

I bet I know just as much about Freo as you. Maybe thats sad or maybe its because my whole family goes for Freo, my 2 closest mates go for Freo and whenever I talk about footy its about Freo because thats all they are talking about.

Ive been to all but 2 Freo games this year aswell as WC games. I hear the supporters complaining, I see the mentally handicapped bloke next to me on the verge of crying last week. And I see Cam Schwab every few days drive past my home in his $200k BMW. I know Freo just as well as anyone, the fact I dont support them means little.

Let's hope you're footy nous is better than your car valuations. If you think Schwabby's Beemer is worth $200K you need your head read. $200K buys an awful lot of Beemer.

 

[summerthebat]

Let's hope you're footy nous is better than your car valuations. If you think Schwabby's Beemer is worth $200K you need your head read. $200K buys an awful lot of Beemer.

My friends dad has a BMW worth more than 200k

 

[TOA.]

Let's hope you're footy nous is better than your car valuations. If you think Schwabby's Beemer is worth $200K you need your head read. $200K buys an awful lot of Beemer.

Not its not. He has one of the M series performance BMW. They alot more than the run of the mill 3 or 5 series.

I may have got alittle excited but his car would easily be closer to 200k than 100k.

What car he drives isnt that relevant, he's a CEO, any CEO of a half good company drives a car like that or similar.

 

[Dr Ralph Dagg]

My friends dad has a BMW worth more than 200k

Do they give you a lift to the footy?

 

[FREO81]

Sheedy has a lot of knowledge in football, especially when it comes to recruiting.
That should be Sheedy's role at the club in recruiting young rookies and being involved in the trade process. Sheedy will have some idea what freo needs at the club and on the field. He can train and develop the young rookies and leave Harvey to coach(providing Harvey gets the top job). He can offer some advise to Harvey come game day but thats all.

 

[dominguez]

Sheedy has a lot of knowledge in football, especially when it comes to recruiting.
That should be Sheedy's role at the club in recruiting young rookies and being involved in the trade process. Sheedy will have some idea what freo needs at the club and on the field. He can train and develop the young rookies and leave Harvey to coach(providing Harvey gets the top job). He can offer some advise to Harvey come game day but thats all.

Sheedy won't move to Perth unless he is offered the senior coaching job. If he doesn't find a role at a Victorian club he might be able to assist Fremantle in talent identification for us from Melbourne.

 

[pinkus maximus]

http://realfooty.com.au/news/news/dees-dockers-talk-to-sheedy/2007/08/01/1185647978454.html

Dees, Dockers talk to Sheedy
Stephen Rielly and Steve Butler | August 2, 2007

KEVIN Sheedy's appointments diary appears to be filling by the day, with the legendary coach set to meet Melbourne today and Fremantle next week.

Both clubs have already held preliminary talks with the Essendon coach about next year, albeit about roles that are different from one another.

But Sheedy is believed to be meeting the Melbourne selection panel in person today as the Demons start the third phase of their search for a replacement for Neale Daniher.

Equally, the Dockers have made contact with Sheedy in recent days and intend to fly east next week to speak with him, although not about the role of outright senior coach.

Rather, the club wants to pitch to him a role that would involve a partnership with caretaker coach Mark Harvey, a position that would involve help as senior counsel to Harvey and input into key football decisions.

Sheedy is one of two candidates Fremantle is considering for the role, which seems to suggest that Harvey, who played his decorated career under Sheedy and later spent eight seasons by his side as an assistant, is all but assured of holding on to the position he now has as Chris Connolly's successor.

Sheedy will lead an Essendon side to Perth in 10 days to play Fremantle, a timely journey that offers the chance of a meeting, but it is understood that the Dockers are keen to speak with him earlier and will fly to Melbourne to assess how seriously he is prepared to entertain the idea of sharing his authority as coach and of leaving Victoria.

The Dockers, who are also attracted to Sheedy for the cachet he would bring to a relatively young club, are intent on exploring the idea of a dual coach arrangement that is already in practice in some of European soccer's biggest clubs.

It is believed that after Sheedy, the Demons will interview several other candidates tomorrow.

Guy McKenna is one of them, the former Eagles champion also confirming he has meetings with Essendon and Carlton in the next week and hoped to arrange one with Fremantle.

McKenna, a 267-game star with the Eagles and now a Collingwood assistant, has a strong ally at Carlton in chief executive Greg Swann, who moved to the club from the Magpies this year.

The former champion defender said after the disappointment last year of being beaten by Ross Lyon to the St Kilda job, he was prepared to sell himself harder.

"I probably didn't sell myself enough and know this time around that if that's the only button I have to push, then I'm comfortable to push it," McKenna said.

"I was too conscious of how much I could tell St Kilda because I'd heard some horror stories about blokes who had missed out on jobs and then half of their presentation had been used by the coach who had been picked because they were better communicators. I'll be a lot better second time around."

McKenna has appointed veteran Perth player and coach manager Reg Gillard to handle his negotiations.

Demons caretaker coach Mark Riley said yesterday he, too, was officially in the running to secure the job permanently but would not be putting his hand up for the other three vacant coaching positions.

He admitted the Demons' huge losses against the Kangaroos and Port Adelaide, would not help.

"It doesn't tick too many boxes, let's put it that way," Riley said. "But I'm also of the opinion that I didn't inherit Phar Lap when I took over and everyone knows that."

Sheedy said Essendon president Ray Horsburgh had given him the freedom to be interviewed by other clubs before the end of the season.

When asked if he was a suitable candidate for the Melbourne coaching position, Sheedy said he didn't know because he was yet to meet the people running the club.

"I think the issue with a person like myself is to find out whether you want to coach other clubs," said Sheedy, who is in his 27th season with the Bombers.

With SCOTT SPITS