Jared Rivers - New Assistant coach (Defence)

[The Nostradamus]

Could the decision by the club come down to money?

Traditionally line coaches have been on significantly more cashola than development coaches. Perhaps we cut ties with Rivers because it meant we could afford 2 other coaches instead of one?

Potentially but why not get rid of non coaching staff instead like an extra physio or 2 or an extra media staff, or other random staff to save money

 

[Twinkletoes]

He mentioned he’s the only defensive line coach in the league to be axed. I suspect that’s where his beef lies.

 

[muttley45]

You would think Rhyce has done a bit of assistant coaching in defense as a part of his apprenticeship, if it was a toss up between Patch, Scotland, and Rivers, the right choice was made, (imo).

 

[Bend_It_Like_Brown]

Surely we have made a big mistake here if we are the only club to sack their backline coach. Very stiff for Rivers.

 

[Twinkletoes]

You would think Rhyce has done a bit of assistant coaching in defense as a part of his apprenticeship, if it was a toss up between Patch, Scotland, and Rivers, the right choice was made, (imo).

Rivers said he thinks Rhyce is making the defensive line his own responsibility given the fact he was defensive line coach in Sydney and has plenty of experience. That was Jared’s theory on why his position had been made reduntant anyway.

 

[Ether]

Potentially but why not get rid of non coaching staff instead like an extra physio or 2 or an extra media staff, or other random staff to save money

How's our injury list looking?

 

[The Nostradamus]

How's our injury list looking?

Pretty s**t
Fire a club doc, high performance manager or some conditioning staff
replace with better fewer people in those areas

 

[Kanga Glory]

Build a bridge Jared

 

[SonofSamsquanch]

Every club be making bloody hard decisions.

Expect Caro to grab this and run.

Aaahhhh.... what can they bloody do? Send us to the Gold Coast?

 

[Long Live the King]

Rivers said he thinks Rhyce is making the defensive line his own responsibility given the fact he was defensive line coach in Sydney and has plenty of experience. That was Jared’s theory on why his position had been made reduntant anyway.

Makes perfect sense to make a role redundant if you have those skills elsewhere. Rational decisions and not emotional decisions are required.

 

[Rod Stroker]

They just said on AFL360 that because we've made him redundant, we now can't fill that role of defensive coach again for 2 years by law. Real concerning.

 

[Heaps of fun]

They just said on AFL360 that because we've made him redundant, we now can't fill that role of defensive coach again for 2 years by law. Real concerning.

Hmm, looks like we'll have to hire a "backline coordinator" instead.

 

[DesertRoo]

Rivers said he thinks Rhyce is making the defensive line his own responsibility given the fact he was defensive line coach in Sydney and has plenty of experience. That was Jared’s theory on why his position had been made reduntant anyway.

He’s had six months to make an impression, don’t mean to sound harsh but we obviously think he’s replaceable.

him airing his grievances via sen, probably means we made the right call.

 

[SonofSamsquanch]

They just said on AFL360 that because we've made him redundant, we now can't fill that role of defensive coach again for 2 years by law. Real concerning.

The role might be redundant as they say, but HR departments exist to get around these things by creating or exploiting loopholes and this would not even present the slightest concern to them. They do it every day in every industry.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Hmm, looks like we'll have to hire a "backline coordinator" instead.

"Backline Consultant"

 

[ferball]

Build a bridge Jared

Jared Rivers = The many to cross.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

"Backline Consultant"

Defensive Half Management.

 

[DesertRoo]

"Backline Consultant"

“Senior Vice President of Backline Strategy”

 

[nj23]

They just said on AFL360 that because we've made him redundant, we now can't fill that role of defensive coach again for 2 years by law. Real concerning.

The universities have a similar problem I think which is what some of the tension is between staff asking for redundancies vs the uni trying to trim fat- they can’t replace the redundancies so they want to control which position vanishes.

 

[Passmore]

“Senior Vice President of Backline Strategy”

Sounds like a role for Jmac.

 

[New_Roo]

Surely we have made a big mistake here if we are the only club to sack their backline coach. Very stiff for Rivers.

Are we also the only team whose current coach used to be a backline coach?


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[SpiderBurton22]

They just said on AFL360 that because we've made him redundant, we now can't fill that role of defensive coach again for 2 years by law. Real concerning.

He had a contract for 2 years. We're almost half way through the 1st. So basically we can't put on another coach next season.

Given the soft cap is going to reduce, this shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Merlin007]

They just said on AFL360 that because we've made him redundant, we now can't fill that role of defensive coach again for 2 years by law. Real concerning.

The fact that it is deemed a redundancy is actually a big tax benefit to Rivers - a Termination Separation Package (TSP) (which only applies to bona fide redundancies, ie where the position is 'abolished') has substantial tax concessions on the pay out, which wouldn't apply if we just 'let him go'.

 

[D23D]

“Senior Vice President of Backline Strategy”

Back one out specialist!

 

[Long Live the King]

quietly hoping this is the sign of things to come. That we dont need to have a dozen specialist coaches needing to justify their existence. Found it almost comforting listening to Mick Gayfers Open Mike recollection of Lethals coaching style....simply just beat your man. I like that.