In: O'Donnell Out: Sheedy

[Philzsay]

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O'Donnell to steer the ship in Sheedy absence
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
After spending eight seasons as an assistant coach at the Brisbane Lions and Essendon, Gary O’Donnell is set to find out what life is like as a senior coach this Saturday afternoon at the MCG. O’Donnell is the man earmarked to take over from Kevin Sheedy who remains in hospital after undergoing major shoulder surgery.

Sheedy underwent almost three hours of surgery last night to repair a ruptured tendon in his shoulder. The frayed tendon had retracted and the surgery took longer than first expected. Sheedy will now spend a second night in hospital.

"It was a significant operation and he is in a fair bit of pain. He has had that much morphine he is making perfect sense," Essendon CEO Peter Jackson quipped.

"He will probably want to be there and want to coach on the weekend but we will do what we would do with any player and seek medical advice before we make a decision. Right now it is likely Gary O’Donnell will have to step into the role.

"Kevin felt that given Gary works so closely with the midfield and that is where most of the action happens on game day, that he was the right man to do the job should he be unable to coach. We don’t rank our assistant coaches in any order, it was just a decision made for those reasons."

 

[Philzsay]

" He has had that much morphine he is making perfect sense," Essendon CEO Peter Jackson quipped.

Love it! Perhaps we should give Sheed's a permenant supply of morphine, although the press confrences would no longer be interesting....

 

[Crave]

Knew that was going to happen, no doubt in my mind.

 

[Darealrath]

Sheedy will do everything he can to still coach on Saturday. He'd be that ****ed off if he missed a victory.

 

[go_the_bombers]

I wouldnt be surprised if Sheeds has someone in the coaches box with a mobile phone talkin to Sheeds tellin him all the going on's while Sheeds watches on the TV (Thats if its televised)

 

[S.C[BANKS]]

TV (Thats if its televised)

In foxfooty it will but not in ch 10.

 

[stander]

Love it! Perhaps we should give Sheed's a permenant supply of morphine, although the press confrences would no longer be interesting....

A couple of cases of cab sav and we may even have a permanent new coach. I might even head down to the Linc and deliver it personnally to Park Orchards .

 

[Longy413]

You're acting like having a bloke coach us that doesn't really want to be a senior coach, or at least at this stage is a good thing.

 

[stander]

You're acting like having a bloke coach us that doesn't really want to be a senior coach, or at least at this stage is a good thing.

Longy, we need the best next good thing.

 

[Longy413]

A bloke that doesn't want to coach?

 

[Dr Moose]

"It was a significant operation and he is in a fair bit of pain. He has had that much morphine he is making perfect sense," Essendon CEO Peter Jackson quipped.
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Let him coach I say! The pink elephants across the back line will be unstoppable, and the dancing goblins should dominate the midfield. As long as they can get the ball to Puff the Magic dragon in the goalsquare he should lead us to a fantastic victory!

 

[M29]

We'll still lose.

 

[stander]

A bloke that doesn't want to coach?

Our hands are tied at the minute.

 

[Longy413]

I agree, but I don't see it as something to get excited about.

 

[Barts]

As long as we dont have Garry Ayres doing the after match press conference i dont care who coaches us!

 

[jules101]

A bloke that doesn't want to coach?

Longy don't be so naive!
Whats GOD going to say? Yah I want to be senior coach, kick that old man from the club!!!
Course he is going to say he is not ready and he can wait...

 

[stander]

I agree, but I don't see it as something to get excited about.

The hawkers did all right when Jeans went down !

 

[Longy413]

Longy don't be so naive!
Whats GOD going to say? Yah I want to be senior coach, kick that old man from the club!!!
Course he is going to say he is not ready and he can wait...

Naive to what?

The bloke has never really had aspirations to be an AFL senior coach. Never.

 

[stander]

Naive to what?

The bloke has never really had aspirations to be an AFL senior coach. Never.

He would have picked up a few clues from Lethal- and why G.Allan (idiot ) dared to cross T.Daniher in 1990.

 

[Crave]

Dont rule out Sheeds turning up at the eleventh hour. He doesnt have to address the players personally between quarters but to be able to sit in the coaches box wouldnt be out of the question. He's only had his shoulder operated on, not his throat or anything of that nature. Im tipping we'll see him on matchday in the background at least.

 

[blumfieldisback]

Naive to what?

The bloke has never really had aspirations to be an AFL senior coach. Never.

thats is true longy but its focusing on the negatives, O'Donell also said he wouldn't have taken the position if he couldn't handle it, he has done the job for brisbane in a pre season match against sydney. I think it might add something to this game, at least he wont play reynolds on fevola this week. I think if you want to be an assistant coach you must have some appetite for senior coaching, why else would u do it.

 

[Crave]

thats is true longy but its focusing on the negatives, O'Donell also said he wouldn't have taken the position if he couldn't handle it, he has done the job for brisbane in a pre season match against sydney. I think it might add something to this game, at least he wont play reynolds on fevola this week. I think if you want to be an assistant coach you must have some appetite for senior coaching, why else would u do it.

Robert Shaw has had a taste of it, I think he was quite content remaining as a leiutenant to Sheeds

 

[red+black]

Essendon is notorious for making late changes so I expect Sheedy to be named 30 minutes before the game.

 

[MrAaron]

Naive to what?

The bloke has never really had aspirations to be an AFL senior coach. Never.

He was brought back to Windy Hill to take over from Sheedy in 2008. Even Jackson said so at the time. O'Donnell WILL be our next full time senior coach. GUARANTEE

 

[IsDonIsGood]

Let him coach I say! The pink elephants across the back line will be unstoppable, and the dancing goblins should dominate the midfield. As long as they can get the ball to Puff the Magic dragon in the goalsquare he should lead us to a fantastic victory!

Absolute gold!

The quip by Jackson was a corker, the cheeky devil. I hope someone brings it up in an interview with Sheeds, I'd like to hear his response.