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I thought knights was/is a good coach at essendon, the problems weren't with knights and he was made to look bad by the essendon board who were looking for any excuse.

Knights could be useful and i think he should be given a role at tigerland again.

Thoughts?
 
happy_punter said:
I thought knights was/is a good coach at essendon, the problems weren't with knights and he was made to look bad by the essendon board who were looking for any excuse.

Knights could be useful and i think he should be given a role at tigerland again.

Thoughts?
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I personally thought it was Matty Loyd white anting him from the media that caused a good portion of the crap. Would love to have him back but in what capacity I dont know
 
If we can find a role that will have Knighter helping our quest for 3-0-75, and he's happy to do it, then all aboard.

I'm not fussed who we get, as long as they help us achieve our goals.

In saying that, there is some romance in getting a stable full of ex-RFC Players/people doing the work, but not the be all and end all.
 

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Keep him away from any coaching positions. Although I wouldn't mind seeing him in a promotional role as he is a quality person and a tiger legend.
 
No thanks, we have a good bunch of admin and coaches, he is not needed.
 
Its only natural he will end up as an assistant or in development as his team mates Benny, Freezer, Cambo are all at the coal face. You don’t get to be a coach at senior level, even if you failed without first class footy smarts.

Its one thing BT said the other night on the wireless, that he has never seen so many ex Tiger champs at one gathering at the fundraiser. It’s a credit to Benny we are finally being reunited and all on the same page. They should sign him ASAP
 
I wouldn't mind seeing him being put in charge of our reserves when we finally got a stand alone side up and running. An experienced AFL coach who could be put in charge of helping develop the kids wouldn't be the worse thing we could do.
 
RT73 said:
I wouldn't mind seeing him being put in charge of our reserves when we finally got a stand alone side up and running. An experienced AFL coach who could be put in charge of helping develop the kids wouldn't be the worse thing we could do.
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Dont mind this as an idea, infact I think he could do well in a dvelopmental role.
 

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"No thanks, we have a good bunch of admin and coaches", lol, do we? I guess time will tell on yet another piece of Tiger optimism!
Don't think he is hard enough for Damien, but I agree 100 per cent, he is a legend for mine, and has great potential as a clubman and coach.
 
Loved Matty as a player but am unimpressed with his coaching career. His record at Port & Bendigo was unimpressive. Was he shafted at
Essendon ? Absolutely. Would be good to have him involved at the club but not coaching.
 
At the end of the day, let Knighta have a break from the shit sandwich that the bummers served up to him.

As someone else suggested a member of the team of the century is always in the mix in some capacity at our club.

Having said that, more often than not, appointments of fav sons to coaching panels, especially when they have had a taste of the big job, usually start the media frenzy, with the "Hardwick looking over his shoulder" crap. Which even if complete BS, can only be a destabilizing factor with every other loss of a game, especially if the performance of the team was shit house.

Summing up, leave it alone for now, we have a general who has a philosophy that needs to be validated or invalidated and the last thing we need is another philosophy clouding the scene. ;)
 
Development role sounds great, with Ben Cousins would be awesome for young blokes coming through!
 
Currently, who is our reserves coach? I too wouldn't mind having Knights as the reserves coach then we would have two senior coaches in one team, one dealing with the big guns and the other developing the kids into big guns.
 
Wayne Campbell should be the coach of our reserves stand alone team. I would have Knighter back in a motivator role. The guy may not have been a consistent coach results wise (but he got an average Essendon list to a finals campaign), but he does know footy.
 

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Bazzar said:
Cambo is to valuable to take him away from the main group. As RT said Knighter would be ideal to head up our reserves team if we go that way next year.
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Yeah it depends on how coaching a reserves team v being an assistant coach stacks up. It's fair to assume Campbell will apply for senior gigs at some stage. I only say Campbell as he will be familiar with the senior game plan and what Dimma wants.
 
He made the 8 in his 2nd year coaching in the AFL with a shonky list left by Sheedy so I'd be rapt to have him on the coaching panel. Having said that we can't afford him so it's probably invalid bringing it up.
Apparently Collingwood have about 10 video blokes putting stuff on USB's, Hawthorn 5 and we have 1 p/t bloke so if we can't afford another one of those, good luck affording Knighter.
 
Seriously shafted and never accepted by the Bombers.
Made the tough calls initially by cutting players loose and the Bombers fans and officials seemed almost resentful that he took the team to the finals in year one!
Not sure a coaching role is required, but happy to have him in player welfare!
And agree totally with Khan, think Matty Lloyd has plenty to answer for in regards Knighta!
 
mitch richmond said:
He made the 8 in his 2nd year coaching in the AFL with a shonky list left by Sheedy so I'd be rapt to have him on the coaching panel. Having said that we can't afford him so it's probably invalid bringing it up.
Apparently Collingwood have about 10 video blokes putting stuff on USB's, Hawthorn 5 and we have 1 p/t bloke so if we can't afford another one of those, good luck affording Knighter.
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We clear the debt, and raise the extra 1.5 mill, maybe we can.
 
A rookie top level coach at a huge club in decline.....he was never going to succeed at Windy Bottomand neither woud any other in his position but he is by no means a failure. I wouldn't want anything that undermined the current coach in any way but as an ambassador for the club yes he would be great.
 

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