Simpson's only claim to fame was taking Woosha's list, using Pikes gameplan and the injury gods team selection to a surprise GF appearance off the back of a favourable draw. In every other respect his tenure has been a failure.
That's possibly the grossest oversimplification of our 2015 campaign I've seen.
Woosha's list in 2013 included Cox, Glass, Kerr, Embley, Waters and A.Selwood.
Calling it "Pyke's gameplan" assumes that one of our assistants was responsible for the game plan and not the senior coach. I haven't actually seen the "web" credited to Pyke anywhere other than here.
The injury gods took out our 2014 club champion for the year, along with his backup, crippled our 2012 club champion for most of the year and kept our second key forward out until after the bye. Not exactly a dream run.
Similarly our "favourable draw" had us playing the minor premiers twice, along with two other finalists.