Opinion Get Clarko to The Hangar - 5 year deal done says Heppellfreak (post #334) - now with poll

[Schnitzengruben]

So bringing in a "senior footballing figure" to help him....in his 4th year? Wtf?

 

[Lore]

For clarity, “A senior football figure”. Not sure what that means for Cara.
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Ah, that might be a director of coaching then. That makes more sense

 

[Lore]

So bringing in a "senior footballing figure" to help him....in his 4th year? Wtf?

Worsfold had a director of coaching in his 15th(?) year, don’t see why we can’t have one during Rutten’s 3rd.

 

[dank420_]

All aboard the truck…. train.

 

[DapperDon]

Can't believe Rutten is going into his 5th year as coach, time flies.

 

[ghostdog]

SEN's all over Clarko to North. The suspense is killing me! The melts are going to be immense. It'll probably be Heppellfreak's fault.

 

[yodellinhank]

So bringing in a "senior footballing figure" to help him....in his 4th year? Wtf?

But to my knowledge Shotgun hasn't been around the elite level in ages?

 

[BomberFan355]

I don’t think many believe Clarkson was ever coming to Essendon.

 

[yodellinhank]

Worsfold had a director of coaching in his 15th(?) year, don’t see why we can’t have one during Rutten’s 3rd.

How did it go when we did it with Worsfold?

 

[Lore]

How did it go when we did it with Worsfold?

something something sow's ear

 

[eth-dog]

A coaching director is something that should happen.

 

[Albertross]

I don’t think many believe Clarkson was ever coming to Essendon.

Pfft! Well I was sold at post #334!

 

[BrunoV]

What is the role of a coaching director?

What is Mahoney's role?

What does the senior coach actually do?

We have a list boss.

There is no central coordinating figure in the footy department with authority.

This administrative set up, common as it is, is ridiculous.

I would love to know how these guys run down the clock in a day. Take the coach out of it, I guess there is about 8 hours of work a week between 3 or 4 roles.

 

[Lore]

What is the role of a coaching director?

What is Mahoney's role?

What does the senior coach actually do?

We have a list boss.

There is no central coordinating figure in the footy department with authority.

This administrative set up, common as it is, is ridiculous.

I would love to know how these guys run down the clock in a day. Take the coach out of it, I guess there is about 8 hours of work a week between 3 or 4 roles.

I’m sure people asked the same questions when the coaching role was separated from a playing coach, and then when that coach got assistants, and they added a fitness department and a boot studder and trainers and orange cutters and so on.

Here’s a job description for a similar role at Port Adelaide, dated 2013:

Director of Coaching: Port Adelaide Football Club

The Port Adelaide Football Club competes in the AFL competition and has a proud history of success and contribution to its community. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a strategic, driven individual, who is passionate about helping Port Adelaide achieve the highest coaching standards in...

www.afl.com.au

Here’s another roughly described role with a similar title for Sheedy at GWS:

Giants offer Sheedy director of coaching role

Bombers legend Kevin Sheedy torn as Giants and Dons both come knocking for 2014

www.afl.com.au

Job description from soccer and discussion of the relationship between this sort of role and other roles within club heirarchies:

What is a Director of Coaching and what are their responsibilities?

The Director of Coaching job is wide-ranging. Here, we provide a detailed guide on the responsibilities of a DOC and the challenges they face.

content.thecoachingmanual.com

Similar thing for basketball:

https://basketballwa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/170522-Position-Description-Director-of-Coaching-and-Development.pdf

I suspect that this isn’t just for the AFL coaching, a role like that would also look after the VFL coaches and the AFLW and VFLW coaches, organising their professional development, focusing on ensuring the team is functional and effective, redeploying staff from one program to another and such. Some descriptions also have them chairing list management and team selection meetings.

 

[yodellinhank]

What is the role of a coaching director?

What is Mahoney's role?

What does the senior coach actually do?

We have a list boss.

There is no central coordinating figure in the footy department with authority.

This administrative set up, common as it is, is ridiculous.

I would love to know how these guys run down the clock in a day. Take the coach out of it, I guess there is about 8 hours of work a week between 3 or 4 roles.

We've got a general manager of recruiting and a national recruiting manager.

Bloat our soft cap with more positions. That way the board has people on hand to blame and the people to blame can claim the problem is sideways to their area of operation.

 

[TheGrizz]

So they've torn the 5 year contract up?

I'm confused

God dammit. Trust Essendon to have to carry a 5 year mega deal in our soft cap without him having coached a game.

This ****en club.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Wasn't one of the positives of Truck to afford more in our soft cap? If Truck is on $600k plus needs a $3-400k~ coaching director - wouldn't it just make the most sense to get the better coach who doesn't need the additional help?

 

[TheGrizz]

Wasn't one of the positives of Truck to afford more in our soft cap? If Truck is on $600k plus needs a $3-400k~ coaching director - wouldn't it just make the most sense to get the better coach who doesn't need the additional help?

Where does it say he is on $600k a year?

 

[yodellinhank]

Where does it say he is on $600k a year?

Post above yours

 

[Call Me Cake]

So... we bring in a coach on training wheels... to teach a team on training wheels... and we even give him a whole year before it to settle in,

And going into the 4th year post-settling in, we just now think it? We just now have to put more training wheels on him?

Oh dear.

That's all I'm gonna say.

 

[Lore]

So... we bring in a coach on training wheels... to coach a team on training wheels... and we even give him a whole year before it to settle in,

And going into the 4th year post-settling in, we just now realise it? We just now have to put more training wheels on him?

Oh dear.

Watch us most likely come back here on August 9, 2023, staring back at the same predicament, wondering what the hell we were thinking...

I hope for our sake it doesn't happen... but the signs ain't filling me with confidence.

Strap yaselves in, folks.

We’ve had a director of coaching the whole time up until April when Matt Little left (a long planned departure for family reasons). It seems to be a fairly common role across professional sport generally and it’s weird actually that it’s been left vacant for so long, though possibly related to soft cap reasons or the review, and potentially investing some of that cash into another part of the program in the mean time. It’s supposed to be like a head of coaching or head of coaching development, just a different title.





I really don’t understand this idea that permeates that a coach should be able to do everything by himself, oversee all the other coaches, plan all the PD and training trips, setting goals, KPIs and organising courses for the entire coaching group, oversee the fitness and medical staff, make the game plan, do the team selection, sit on list committees, report to the directors every 8.5 seconds, and then interviews, press conferences, schmoozing the coteries, sponsors, functions, and do it all without punching holes in the plaster, grimacing, smiling, not grimacing or smiling, breathing weird, and apparently without support?

Oh and I forgot the part where they actually train the players, setting goals for player development, running programs and camps and whatever and motivating them as well probably important

Oh and liaising with the VFL team and making sure everyone is on the same page about game plan

And presumably eating and sleeping and driving his red tractor

 

[Call Me Cake]

I really don’t understand this idea that permeates that a coach should be able to do everything by himself

Then come with that same energy from the start, not bloody 4 years later.

What the hell was 2020 for then? This is something we should have been ironing then, not now.

To do it now just reeks of a winging it mantra, giving NFI, which doesn't exactly exude confidence for the future.

 

[Lore]

Then come with that same energy from the start, not bloody 4 years later.

What part of four years ago felt like no support to you?

 

[Call Me Cake]

What part of four years ago felt like no support to you?

If what we get from a review is, "he needs more support", then we're pretty late to that party. It's actually quite embarrassing and negligent tbh.

 

[Lore]

If what we get from a review is, "he needs more support", then we're pretty late to that party. It's actually quite embarrassing and negligent tbh.

That doesn’t answer my question.