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G'day Boys & Girls this is my first post and first thread so please be gentle! :D

I've been reading your posts for a while now in regards to Gary Ayres coaching the Crows and who is the right man for the job but I've hardly ever seen Gary O'Donnell's name mentioned.
I reckon he is the perfect replacement. His mentor for the past 5-6 years has been the best going around at the moment in Lethal.
He's knows all their secrets, structures & more importantly their weights programs (Which we desperately need).
I've read Lethal holds him in pretty high regard. I know there is the slight hesitation of hiring a rookie coach but i reckon this guy is worth a punt. Can't be much worse than who we got now!
 
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His name has also been mentioned periodically before and since.
 
Oops! Sorry dyertribe.

You've got fantastic views on football though i must say! :D

I've just thought recently all the talk is Terry Wallace & Rodney Eade (Disgrace) but the media haven't really mentioned him.
 

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Originally posted by maccas_no1
I'd take Gary O'Donnell for sure I reakon he would be great or Peter Jonas and Terry Wallace as a third option;)
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If AFC decide to replace Ayres nexy year, then these would have to be 3 candidates seriously considered. Not interested in Eade.
 
every single year, there is a hot assistant coach or 3, rarely do any of them ever amount to anything - other than director of umpiring of course.

I see nothing to convince me O'Donnell will break the mould - though maybe he will.
 
Enough is Enough!!

NOTE: "Hello is Gary O'Donnell there?............Yes it's the Adelaide Football Club here".
 
Originally posted by Crow-mosone
every single year, there is a hot assistant coach or 3, rarely do any of them ever amount to anything - other than director of umpiring of course.

I see nothing to convince me O'Donnell will break the mould - though maybe he will.
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Chris Connolly has done a good job. Grant Thomas has done a good job. John Worsfold has done a good job with a crap list. Mark Williams has done a good job (bar finals). Mark Thompson's work is finally coming to fruition. Paul Roos has done a great job.

These were all zero-game coaches in the last few years. All duds, eh?
 
Originally posted by dyertribe
I'd take Gary O'Donnell...

Played his career under Sheedy...
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As did Tim Watson and Mark Thompson.

Neale Daniher has so far been the best of the Sheedy-ites and all he can do with Melbourne is get them up again, down again.

No ex-Bombers for me, thanks.
 
Originally posted by DaveW
As did Tim Watson and Mark Thompson.
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As you conveniently leave out the fact I referred to his apprenticeship under Lethal.

Watson did no such apprenticeship and Bomber is starting to find his feet after finally rebuilding the shoddy list a certain ex-Hawk left him with.
 

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Originally posted by spindoctor
Chris Connolly has done a good job. Grant Thomas has done a good job. John Worsfold has done a good job with a crap list. Mark Williams has done a good job (bar finals). Mark Thompson's work is finally coming to fruition. Paul Roos has done a great job.

These were all zero-game coaches in the last few years. All duds, eh?
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Grant Thomas isn't a coach's ar... little toe. He is a one trick pony. Very talented list but has no answers when things are going against his team. Probably a good administrator and motivator, but coach? Sheesh.

My mother could coach that list to a premiership.
 
Interesting point I heard on 5AA last night, haven't been able to confirm it as fact but....


An AFL assistant coach has never gone on to because a AFL premiership coach.

Makes you wonder why everyone in footy these days seems to think you need to do an "apprenticeship" before becoming a senior coach.
 
Originally posted by MaccasNeighbour
An AFL assistant coach has never gone on to because a AFL premiership coach.

Makes you wonder why everyone in footy these days seems to think you need to do an "apprenticeship" before becoming a senior coach.
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Not true.

Denis Pagan won two Premierships after doing a long apprenticeship first as a Premiership coach at U19 level with North in the 80s and then Premiership coach at Reserves level with Essendon while also assistant coach under Kevin Sheedy.

Besides, a statement like that is misleading anyway as all the Premiership coaches since the VFL became the AFL have been old-schoolers who had/have been in the coaching caper since the 80s.

1990 - Leigh Matthews
1991 - Allan Joyce
1992 - Mick Malthouse
1993 - Kevin Sheedy
1994 - Mick Malthouse
1995 - David Parkin
1996 - Denis Pagan
1997 - Malcolm Blight
1998 - Malcolm Blight
1999 - Denis Pagan
2000 - Kevin Sheedy
2001 - Leigh Matthews
2002 - Leigh Matthews
2003 - Leigh Matthews

Once the established 80s fossils (who tend to coach at the more traditionally successful/well resourced clubs) move out, the younger breed - the majority of whom all do apprenticeships as assistant coaches as an accepted rite of passage - will obviously take over
 

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Originally posted by MaccasNeighbour
An AFL assistant coach has never gone on to because a AFL premiership coach.
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Interesting.

Did Matthews coach the Pies straight after his playing days?

Pagan came from Kangaroos U/19's I think.

Think Blight coached the Cats after coaching Woodville.

Gather the likes of Sheedy, Parkin & Walls went straight into coaching after playing - but before my time.

I'm sure I'll get corrected on some of the above.
 
It'll be an awesome time of wonderouseness, like the Saints went through.
 

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