Dogs name the coach

[Event Horizon]

The Bulldogs have just announced Peter Rohde as their new seniour coach for the next two years.
That leaves us as the only club still without a coach.
Not that we really care who the Dogs choose and why, but it seems a bit puzzling to me how Rohde managed to beat Royal for that job...

 

[moomba]

Heard from a Bulldogs mate that a few of the players were not keen on Royal as a coach at all.

He always seems to be around the mark, but never gets through to the final result. Probably his last chance at a senior gig.

Moomba

 

[myee8]

And so the chances of JYD getting the gig at head coach of the Roos increase, meaning increased chances of a very pleased Tashi!

 

[Contra Mundum]

are they going to announce it before Syd Barker?

 

[tashibatts]

GO JUNKYARD DOG!!!!!!!! 03 & Beyond!!

Go Roos
If only it was announced tommorow.. that JYD is the new roos coach

 

[Jeff_99]

Hey Tashi do you have a profile of the JYD's playing career and coaching career you could post

 

[Event Horizon]

Originally posted by Jeff_99
Hey Tashi do you have a profile of the JYD's playing career and coaching career you could post

Here you are...no need to wait for Tashi:

Dean Laidley
Former West Coast and Kangaroos half-back/winger who overcame several setbacks to achieve the highlight of his career when he played in the Roos' 1996 premiership side. Played 52 games for the Eagles, missed 1991 with a knee injury and was unlucky not have played in West Coast's 1992 premiership side. Played 99 games with the Roos between 1993-1997 and has been an assistant coach with Collingwood since 2000.

Coaching Career 2000- : Collingwood assistant coach

Playing Career 1987-92: 52 games, 10 goals for West Coast Eagles

1993-97: 99 games, 5 goals for North Melbourne
Member 1996 premiership team

Played 6 state of origin games for Western Australia

 

[myee8]

Originally posted by Jeff_99
Hey Tashi do you have a profile of the JYD's playing career and coaching career you could post

I will start off a bit if you don't mind. 35-year-old Laidley, who retired at the end of 1997 after 151 games with West Coast and North Melbourne, moved to McHale Stadium with his former coach at the Eagles, Mick Malthouse, after a season as an assistant to Denis Pagan and then a year in the ACT. Laidley has been an assistant to Malthouse for three seasons and was a premiership defender with the Roos in 1996.

 

[tashibatts]

I can post a small profile on him.. here 'tis



Former West Coast and Kangaroos half-back/winger who overcame several setbacks to achieve the highlight of his career when he played in the Roos' 1996 premiership side. Played 52 games for the Eagles, missed 1991 with a knee injury and was unlucky not have played in West Coast's 1992 premiership side. Played 99 games with the Roos between 1993-1997 and has been an assistant coach with Collingwood since 2000.

http://collingwoodfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=coaches&spg=assistcoachprofile&personid=13848

Go Roos

 

[myee8]

Originally posted by vlad76


Here you are...no need to wait for Tashi:

Dean Laidley
Former West Coast and Kangaroos half-back/winger who overcame several setbacks to achieve the highlight of his career when he played in the Roos' 1996 premiership side. Played 52 games for the Eagles, missed 1991 with a knee injury and was unlucky not have played in West Coast's 1992 premiership side. Played 99 games with the Roos between 1993-1997 and has been an assistant coach with Collingwood since 2000.

Coaching Career 2000- : Collingwood assistant coach

Playing Career 1987-92: 52 games, 10 goals for West Coast Eagles

1993-97: 99 games, 5 goals for North Melbourne
Member 1996 premiership team

Played 6 state of origin games for Western Australia

Gee, that's a lot better than my crappy effort and mine was posted moments later too.

 

[tashibatts]

Gees Vlad!! Quick arent u?!

O well.. Jeff_99- now u can read it once and again, and you even have Myee8's summary!!

Go Roos
Go JYD

 

[The Hippie]

Damn shame he couldn't have played one more game to get any boys qualified for the revised father/son rule. Guys with his courage and desire don't grow on trees, and if any of his kids (if he hasn't already got any, I've got no idea) have any of those qualities passed on down the line, I know where I'd like them to be playing.

 

[Jeff_99]

Thanks for the info, I have also been digging around a bit, although I can't find anything on the West Perth FC site.

Does anyone remember the trade that was done to get Laidley to the roos, who did we swap, what was Laidley's reason for coming across. He certainly wasn't bitter toward Malthouse.

Laidley, the West Perth product who overcame a horrific knee injury to play 151 games with West Coast and the Kangaroos (including the 1996 grand final), had spent a year coaching Western Creek Wildcats in the ACT when he heard rumours towards the end of 1999 that Malthouse was considering a return to Melbourne.

"I thought, 'Right, I am going to get on the front foot,' " he said. "I wrote, 'I don't know what you are doing, where you are heading or even if you are going to to be coaching but if you are going to go back to Melbourne please give me a call because I wouldn't mind a chat.' I wanted to get back into the system as quickly as I could."


Laidley is a firm believer in the theory that the secret to a good coach is in the breeding. And in football terms that doesn't refer to their parents; rather, who they played and coached under. He reckons his breeding is pretty good, having played and coached under Malthouse and played under Denis Pagan, the two men he rates as the best two AFL coaches of the past 25 years.

The theory holds some weight, too, with Pagan learning from Ron Barssi, who in turn learned from Norm Smith, and Malthouse learning from Tom Hafey and Allan Jeans.

"Whether it means anything, who knows, but I think there is a bit behind it," Laidley said.

Asked what he admired most about Malthouse, he said: "I just think the people management skills are the best I have seen. They are not out of a text book by any stretch of the imagination but I admire the way he handles and reads people.

"He has a real care and responsibility for them. From the moment a young player walks into a club he becomes one of Mick's boys and I reckon the West Coast boys would say that about Mick as well."

He said the other great Malthouse achievement was to re-introduce a fierce drive for success at Collingwood. "Everyone was in neutral and just bobbing along when he first got here," Laidley said. "He has a real drive for success and that has been really pounded into the players now."

 

[Groucho]

Originally posted by Jeff_99
Thanks for the info, I have also been digging around a bit, although I can't find anything on the West Perth FC site.

Does anyone remember the trade that was done to get Laidley to the roos, who did we swap, what was Laidley's reason for coming across. He certainly wasn't bitter toward Malthouse.

He was traded for Selection 8 in the 1992 National Draft. West Coast chose Paul Symmons.
From memory I think he left West Coast because he thought he'd have a better chance of a regular game elsewhere (the Eagles had a pretty handy team then!). He'd had a few bad injuries and thought a new environment would give him a fresh start after he missed selection in the '92 premiership team.