Great - Connolly steps down as Freo coach

[apollo_creed]

Just because a player blankets another in 1 game, doesn't make them a better player over their career!

So we have no good young midfeilders to replace the fab-4. Have you watched the Crows this year? As a Roos supporter, you should know about under-rating players/teams. Thompson should make AA selection. Then there is Knights, Van Berlo & Reilly.

I'm more confident in the Crows future than Freos.

Reilly isn't going to win you anything.

Freo may demand VB and if you won't? PSD/Port Pav goes.

Knights is good.

The prevailing question is, does Pavlich seek a move (presuming he does) for family or football reasons?

Is your team going to be in better shape/greater competitiveness three years from now? (which is of primary relevance if he's moving for 'football reasons')

I wouldn't think so.

 

[bus24]

Reilly isn't going to win you anything.

We'll wait and see on that one.

He's one of our most important players, as he is one of very few that can always hit a target and that's vitally important anyway, but especially given the lack of quality up forward.

 

[JoondalupJ]

This SUCKS!!!!!

Freo will come out firing this week to respond to their new coach. Happens all the time. I wish he stepped down after they played us

How many times does a club fire up and have an impossible win after their coach is sacked or steps down?! We did it when Ayres left. Melbourne did it when Daniher left. It happens all the time.

We better ****ing win this week

What a negative lot you Crows are, its still the same dockers with snail like mid feild.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I think you find sides win only around 50% of the time after their coach has been replaced.

Yes, but those teams have usually been stinking it up and getting belted which is why the coach was sacked in the first place. On form these teams should have won closer to 0%. I think Gary Ayers is the only coach who finished midseason after win.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Reilly isn't going to win you anything.

Already has, so I can't be bothered taking the rest of your post seriously.

Suggest you back & watch the Crows against Freo in last years final.

Come back when you have a clue about our youngsters.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Yes, but those teams have usually been stinking it up and getting belted which is why the coach was sacked in the first place. On form these teams should have won closer to 0%. I think Gary Ayers is the only coach who finished midseason after win.

Like the the last new coach?

The Dees had actually won more games than they had lost in the last few weeks before he took over.

Coaches taking over mid-season have a slightly less than 50% winning record & I don't believe the % will improve this week.

 

[kirky]

If we don't beat Freo at HOME, we don't deserve to play finals. Only worry about things you control. End of story!

 

[bus24]

If we don't beat Freo at HOME, we don't deserve to play finals. Only worry about things you control. End of story!

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[jenny61_99]

I'm surprised Harvey is even in contention for a coaching gig. Talk about going from the fat to the fire. It reminds of a desperate move, alot like our little Robert Shaw episode. Ever heard Harvey speak. Would be a disastrous move by Freo IMO

I agree. I used to watch him when he was on Fox Footy Channel and the man is a fool! I mean he still used to giggle every week (and I mean giggle ) when he found a way to bring up "Dickie's" name every week. He is a lad and a larrakin, and I'm not entirely sure that he is what this very undisciplined side needs right now. They probably need someone like a Hafey to come in and clean up their act first.

 

[Crow-mo]

IThey probably need someone like a Hafey to come in and clean up their act first.

that's a joke right?

 

[Stiffy_18]

Call me dumb here but IMHO, the coach that would currently be a perfect fit for Freow ould be Gary Ayres. Now he probably won't get them a flag but what he will do is turn that culture around by being demanding of the players. He will harden them up and they will compete under him. He might lack a bit of tactical nous but he would shape that roster and turn it in the right direction.

Dockers need a bit of a disciplinarian and I think Ayres could get them there over the next 2-3 years and they you bring in someone else to take you all the way.

 

[Campbell's Chunky]

Call me dumb here but IMHO, the coach that would currently be a perfect fit for Freow ould be Gary Ayres. Now he probably won't get them a flag but what he will do is turn that culture around by being demanding of the players. He will harden them up and they will compete under him. He might lack a bit of tactical nous but he would shape that roster and turn it in the right direction.

Dockers need a bit of a disciplinarian and I think Ayres could get them there over the next 2-3 years and they you bring in someone else to take you all the way.

Mark Harvey?

 

[crow87]

Call me dumb here but IMHO, the coach that would currently be a perfect fit for Freow ould be Gary Ayres. Now he probably won't get them a flag but what he will do is turn that culture around by being demanding of the players. He will harden them up and they will compete under him. He might lack a bit of tactical nous but he would shape that roster and turn it in the right direction.

Dockers need a bit of a disciplinarian and I think Ayres could get them there over the next 2-3 years and they you bring in someone else to take you all the way.

Wouldnt be the worst guy they could get for the job for the exact reasons you mention above.

 

[Crow-mo]

Call me dumb here but IMHO, the coach that would currently be a perfect fit for Freow ould be Gary Ayres. Now he probably won't get them a flag but what he will do is turn that culture around by being demanding of the players. He will harden them up and they will compete under him. He might lack a bit of tactical nous but he would shape that roster and turn it in the right direction.

Dockers need a bit of a disciplinarian and I think Ayres could get them there over the next 2-3 years and they you bring in someone else to take you all the way.

yup, I agree with this.

you need someone to right the ship, get back to basics, and turn out an honest footy side. then you need someone to finish the job.

sometimes this is the same person, but not often. Malthouse strikes me as one of the few.

Ayres would be good for them, especially seeing as 1. they have the talent to adopt a more man on man style 2. the solution to tempo footy, and much of the modern trends, is direct contests.

He'd be good for them. no doubt.

 

[Vader]

But consider the position he'd leave for the next coach...

Freo have barely recruited any kids in the past 2-3 years anyway (sold the farm for Josh Carr, then repeated the process for Tarrant & Solomon). Factor in Ayre's penchant for recruiting 22-23 year olds and his successor would receive a team with nobody aged under 25, inside of 3 years.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

You have to admit it would be kind of funky to have Robert Shaw here this week as guest coach of Freo - it'd be kind of ironic, him having the opportunity to puncture Adelaide's finals hopes from without, as opposed to from within.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Shake it funky....or weird funky?

Like, y'know, wow, man, funky ...

 

[Super Goalie]

After having seen the Umpiring Appointments for this weeks game on Tuesday night, you'll think the new Freo coach is the last of our problems

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Apparantly Peter German will be A/coach.

Strange move by Harvey to turn the job down.

 

[jenny61_99]

that's a joke right?

Not Hafey persay (he'd be what, 80? ) but someone that demands discipline... something that is sorely lacking at Freo at the moment. Harvey is more like one of the lads, than a leader (unless it was first to the pub).

Interesting that he has not accepted the acting coaching position.... perhaps he's heard a little something about Sheedy?

 

[Crow-mo]

Not Hafey persay (he'd be what, 80? ) but someone that demands discipline... something that is sorely lacking at Freo at the moment. Harvey is more like one of the lads, than a leader (unless it was first to the pub).

Interesting that he has not accepted the acting coaching position.... perhaps he's heard a little something about Sheedy?

phew

I agree, they need someone to right the ship.

 

[NikkiNoo]

Interesting that he has not accepted the acting coaching position.... perhaps he's heard a little something about Sheedy?

That's a strange decision - if you want a senior job why wouldn't you jump at the chance to show what you could do? Any interview panel in future may look back at this decision and wonder why he didn't. He better have a bloody good reason for not taking the opportunity as I can see them asking about it.

 

[- PC -]

Its been confirmed he has accepted for the rest of the year

Mark Harvey will face Neil Craig this week

 

[jenny61_99]

Its been confirmed he has accepted for the rest of the year

Mark Harvey will face Neil Craig this week

I wonder what the "sticking" point was?

 

[Vader]

I wonder what the "sticking" point was?

Apparently he didn't want to be seen as having blood on his hands.

Wanted a reasonable amount of time to pass before taking up the position, rather than being seen to have jumped in while there was still blood in the water.