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When was the last time a club appointed a new senior coach from within their own ranks? Excluding the Goodwin/Buckley/Cameron/Longmire type succession plans, I don't think it's been done since Matty Primus. Going by that, Schoey's best chance of landing the senior coaching gig would be to convince Ken that he needs a succession plan sometime before this current contract runs its course.

Look at the last 3 permanent coaches of each club

I use outsider in the following way -
outsider - never played for ( or only a few games many years earlier) or was not an assistant coach for that club before he got the gig,
outsider ex player - was an ex player who wasn't working as an assistant coach, and
assistant outsider - was an assistant coach when got the job but never played for the club

Adelaide - Sanderson - outsider, Walsh - outsider, Pyke - outsider
Brisbane - Voss - outsider ex player, Leppitsch - outsider ex player, Fagan -outsider

Carlton - Ratten - assistant ex player, Malthouse - outsider, Bolton - outsider
Collingwood - Shaw - assistant ex player, Malthouse - outsider, Buckley - assistant ex player

Essendon - Knights - assistant outsider, Hird - outsider ex player, *Thompson fill in for Hird's 1 year suspension - senior assistant ex player, Worsfold - outsider
Fremantle Connolly - outsider, Harvey - assistant outsider, Lyons - outsider

Geelong - Ayres - assistant outsider, Thompson - outsider, Scott - outsider
Hawthorn - Judge - outsider ex player, Schwabb - outsider ex player+assistant, Clarkson - outsider

Melbourne - Bailey - outsider, Neeld - outsider, Roos - outsider, Goodwin - assistant outsider
North Melb - Pagan -outsider ex player and assistant, Laidely - outsider ex player, Scott - outsider

Port Adel - Williams - assistant ex player, Primus - assistant ex player, Hinkley - outsider
Richmond Frawley - outsider, Wallace - outsider, Hardwick - outsider

St Kilda - Lyon - outsider, Watters - outsider, Richardson - outsider
Sydney - Eade - outsider, Roos - assistant ex player, Longmire - assistant outsider

West Coast - Judge - outsider, Worsfold - outsider ex player, Simpson - outsider
Western Bull - Eade - outsider, Mccartney - outsider, Beveridge - outsider ex player

2 new clubs
Gold Coast - Mckenna - outsider, Eade - outsider, Dew - outsider
GWS Giants - Sheedy - outsider, Cameron - assistant outsider
 
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Look at the last 3 permanent coaches of each club

I use outsider in the following way -
outsider - never played for ( or only a few games many years earlier) or was not an assistant coach for that club before he got the gig,
outsider ex player - was an ex player who wasn't working as an assistant coach, and
assistant outsider - was an assistant coach when got the job but never played for the club

Adelaide - Sanderson - outsider, Walsh - outsider, Pyke - outsider
Brisbane - Voss - outsider ex player, Leppitsch - outsider ex player, Fagan -outsider

Carlton - Ratten - assistant ex player, Malthouse - outsider, Bolton - outsider
Collingwood - Shaw - assistant ex player, Malthouse - outsider, Buckley - assistant ex player

Essendon - Knights - assistant outsider, Hird - outsider ex player, *Thompson fill in for Hird's 1 year suspension - senior assistant ex player, Worsfold - outsider
Fremantle Connolly - outsider, Harvey - assistant outsider, Lyons - outsider

Geelong - Ayres - assistant outsider, Thompson - outsider, Scott - outsider
Hawthorn - Judge - outsider ex player, Schwabb - outsider ex player+assistant, Clarkson - outsider

Melbourne - Bailey - outsider, Neeld - outsider, Roos - outsider, Goodwin - assistant outsider
North Melb - Pagan -outsider ex player and assistant, Laidely - outsider ex player, Scott - outsider
Port Adel - Williams - assistant ex player, Primus - assistant ex player, Hinkley - outsider
Richmond Frawley - outsider, Wallace - outsider, Hardwick - outsider

St Kilda - Lyon - outsider, Watters - outsider, Richardson - outsider
Sydney - Eade - outsider, Roos - assistant ex player, Longmire - assistant outsider
West Coast - Judge - outsider, Worsfold - outsider ex player, Simpson - outsider
Western Bull - Eade - outsider, Mccartney - outsider, Beveridge - outsider ex player

2 new clubs
Gold Coast - Mckenna - outsider, Eade - outsider, Dew - outsider
GWS Giants - Sheedy - outsider, Cameron - assistant outsider

Yep.

The current trend is appoint an outsider to start afresh or develop a succession plan from within.

Who knows how long that trend will continue for but it's been like that for basically a decade now.
 

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The other thing Jarrad brings is an intimate knowledge of the Subiaco players plus a good knowledge of the other WAFL players. Maybe he's identified players that Port could pick up late in the national draft or even rookie.

the quality of the wafl has improved in recent years

so fingers crossed
 
The other thing Jarrad brings is an intimate knowledge of the Subiaco players plus a good knowledge of the other WAFL players. Maybe he's identified players that Port could pick up late in the national draft or even rookie.

Luke Foley pls

Also Zac Clarke if Lycett falls through.
 
The other thing Jarrad brings is an intimate knowledge of the Subiaco players plus a good knowledge of the other WAFL players. Maybe he's identified players that Port could pick up late in the national draft or even rookie.
When you consider the level of talent that has come from the WAFL in recent years, this could be great for us. Sam Menegola, Liam Ryan, Tim Kelly, Matt Guelfi just to name a few.
 
The other thing Jarrad brings is an intimate knowledge of the Subiaco players plus a good knowledge of the other WAFL players. Maybe he's identified players that Port could pick up late in the national draft or even rookie.

It's unlikely to be from the Subi league side, there's some bloody good hardened footballers in that team that have driven the successful era that are now a bit too old to be realistically drafted - Horsley, Kitchin, Phelan, Delahunty, Wheeler. I'd say Zac Clarke will go somewhere as a backup ruckman.

A few guys now in their prime who've been on lists previously like Deluca, Litherland, Newton, Lockyer and Powell may be a chance to go again, though as solid a players they've become at state level there are alternative options in the WAFL who project a bit higher.

Gun goalkickers in Sokol and Halligan - both very strong guys and beautiful kicks of the footy, but basically think Brett Ebert-like limitations of playing a key forward role in the second tier what would be a small forwards body at AFL. Love to see them get a go but can see why clubs may be sceptical.
 

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Having watched a fair bit of Subi, Clarke deserves another go. Untouchable in the WAFL. A beautiful tap ruckman. Id prefer him over Lycett.
Wouldn't mind if Schoey brings my little brother to Port with him either (Josh Deluca)

Has attracted a bit of attention but that puts him in the frame for Carlton and Gold Coast priority picks sadly for your plans.

Sandover medallist Jye Bolton went head-to-head with his Magarey Medal counterpart Mitch Grigg during the State match in Adelaide this year and they are likely to be involved in another close tussle as Gold Coast look to bolster their list with three mature State league players.
But independent scouting expert Paul Prior has urged the Suns to consider four-time WAFL premiership player Josh Deluca ahead of other concession selections.

https://thewest.com.au/sport/subiac...n-josh-deluca-pickof-wafl-bunch-ng-b88975568z
 
At the game I found Bassetts forward line set ups fascinating.

Sometimes three talls, sometimes none.

And with different combinations they ran with totally different shapes of where the players stood.

The shapes stood out as very obvious formations rather than just players spreading out and making it up on the fly as it has seemed previously.

No wonder our disposal efficiency improved.

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Sometimes you hear coaches and players who are still involved in the game (e.g. Dangerfield commentating on the Dogs vs Swans) mention players need to be "running their patterns" or words to that effect.

I don't really know, but my guess is that "running patterns" in a forward line set-up would be similar to route running in NFL, but without the huge variety of options. Knowing where people are likely to be, rather than trying to guess where they're going based on their movements, should result in a better connection.
 
Had a 15-20 minute chat to Jarrad Schofield at the Club 1870 event last week. Spoke a little bit about this year and the expectations but mainly about his coaching at Subi, both his philosophy and game style and how he had control of the total footy program from u/18 up for several years at Subi, actually nearly all his 6 years at Subi.

Asked him if like Nathan Basset, he also would look after the U/14 and U/16 teams? He said he let the U/18 coaches take control of them but would go to the odd the training session to see how they were implementing his strategies he wanted to filter down to them. But he oversaw the reserves and U/18 teams.

We talked a lot about how he got guys into Subi, talked about how others say Subi is a wealthy club so its easy, but he said it isn't and he talked about taking a holistic view and looked at getting guys jobs and opportunities outside footy to attract them to the club so that they would be settled and could concentrate on footy. Talked very positively about his captain at Subi, Kyal Horsley .

We also talked about how do you get the kids who don't want to do year 12, can play the game and how to stop them being rejected by AFL recruiters because they haven't finished year 12 and have headed off to the work force early. Or the late bloomers like Kyal Horsley, who didn't really want to leave Kalgoorlie and was 20 when he left for Perth. He got picked up at 24 by GC as a rookie and spent 2 years played about a dozen AFL games there, before coming back to Perth at end of 2013 and Schoey made him captain and they won the 2014-15 flags. Schoey gets the club wide aspect of what we are trying to do despite losing the SANFL zones.

Asked him about Taj. Said he is getting on well with school and already got good group of mates, but was finding the footy stuff hard at his new club - think he is playing at Norwood - as his Subi mates aren't there and he is having to learn a different system and new players doing some different things to what his teammates he had played with for years back at Subi. But he said he will pick it all up before the year finishes.

He is loving it being back at Alberton. Said when interviewed by Baz, that he regrets leaving Port when he did. Said with hindsight he should have ignored family pressures to go back to WA and should have finished off his career with Port. Looks to be an outstanding choice by the club to get him back to Alberton.
 
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He is loving it being back at Alberton. Said when interviewed by Baz, that he regrets leaving Port when he did. Said with hindsight he should have ignored family pressures to go back to WA and should have finished off his career with Port. Looks to be an outstanding choice by the club to get him back to Alberton.
I remember feeling resentful towards him when he left straight after the premiership. As a supporter it felt like he used us for premiership success then ****ed off when he got what he wanted. I'm glad to hear he regrets the move.
 

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