Matthew Rendell Walks

[Kildonan]

Saints cut candidates down to four
07 October 2006 Herald-Sun
Mark Stevens

THE race for the St Kilda coaching job is down to four, leaving current assistant Matthew Rendell to explore his options elsewhere.

Rendell, a close ally of former coach Grant Thomas, was overlooked yesterday when the Saints announced a short-list of John Longmire, Ross Lyon, Chris Bond and Guy McKenna.

It means the highly rated Rendell will not be at Moorabbin next year.

Rendell could not be contacted last night, but sources close to the Saints indicated he had decided to leave the club.

A loyal Rendell publicly praised Thomas at the Saints' best-and-fairest award on Tuesday night.

"They are the best five years I've had in my football career," Rendell said of his association with Thomas at the emotion-charged function.

The other St Kilda assistants -- Mick McGuane, Jason Cripps and Jason Mifsud -- are yet to learn their fates.

McGuane said last night he was unaware of any developments.

Cripps is getting married in Hamilton Island this weekend.

Rendell also spoke glowingly about Cripps on Tuesday night, crediting him for the improvement in the team's defence.

 

[Kildonan]

I am saddened to see Matt leave.

I wish him well in his career persuits, I am confident that he will be snapped up at another club and will do well.

This appears to be another example of the club performing in an amateurish manner. It is beginning to make me nervous.

 

[SpInNeR]

Rendell was a but hopeless.


Time to gte Mcgaune out off there and we will be on our way...


The new coach usually brings in his own assistants anyways.

 

[Quigley]

Brisbane is in need of an experienced assistant. What do you think the chances of Matty coming back to Brisbane?

 

[Kildonan]

You'd have to ask him, I think.

If he accepts you would be getting a real quality assistant.

 

[HBF]

"They are the best five years I've had in my football career," Rendell said of his association with Thomas at the emotion-charged function.

Including his career with Fitzroy?

 

[Saint Corin]

Rendell was a but hopeless.


Time to gte Mcgaune out off there and we will be on our way...


The new coach usually brings in his own assistants anyways.

You gotta be kidding? Rendell is debatable nut not hopeless.... Mcguane I think you a very much mistaken... Was incharge of some players development and worked with Bj this year.... oh wow look what Bj accomplished, and he himself even credited Mcguane to his improvement saying that he went back to the basics of footy and stopped over analysizing things...

Mcguane has a lot of offer our club and is a very smart man.... I rest I could see go.. Misfud is in danger... Cripps im not sure...

I want to see.... New Coach (Longmire I hope), Mcguane still an assistant, Frawley possibly as an assistant or at the club, very good defence coach at the least, also a good clubman to the saints, then who ever Longmire wants to bring in.

 

[SpInNeR]

You gotta be kidding? Rendell is debatable nut not hopeless.... Mcguane I think you a very much mistaken... Was incharge of some players development and worked with Bj this year.... oh wow look what Bj accomplished, and he himself even credited Mcguane to his improvement saying that he went back to the basics of footy and stopped over analysizing things...

Mcguane has a lot of offer our club and is a very smart man.... I rest I could see go.. Misfud is in danger... Cripps im not sure...

I want to see.... New Coach (Longmire I hope), Mcguane still an assistant, Frawley possibly as an assistant or at the club, very good defence coach at the least, also a good clubman to the saints, then who ever Longmire wants to bring in.

So you are basing your high opinion of McGaune due to him appartentlly taking BJ under his wind and BJ preforming????

Right.

Because it had nothing to due will Goddard just coming of age and developing physically.

....He was a number one draft pick so obviously he would have had some talent.

 

[Kildonan]

I don't know how well the assistant coaches have performed.
I doubt many at the club even know how much of a contribution each has made. The senior players would probably have the best idea (apart from the coach - who is probably not consulted).

I'm sure that some form of quality assessment is undertaken like a post season review and I hope that the players input is given the highest weighting.

Anyone is entitled to an opinion, but surely the club will have the best interests of our future at heart. There should be some assistants retained from the group we currently have. It was only last year that the great search for our assistants took place - somewhat of a similar scale and hullaballoo (media-wise) as our great search for a new coach that we have now.

Many outside the club see Mick McGuane as a potential future coach, tactically sound and having the necessary experience (Premiership player and successful coach at a lower grade in two different competitions, plus being an experienced analyst at another AFL club)

I doubt that either McGuane or Mifsud have been disappointing in their roles and would hope that they are retained to add some degree of continuity to our coaching staff.

 

[Big Ted]

according to some reports, Rendell was the one doing ALL the coaching in the box. He was the thinker up there.

Its a sad loss, it really is.

 

[JeffDunne]

He's a loss no doubt but I reckon it's best for all involved. I was a big fan of GT & Bundy but if you are going to make change - then make it.

Has provided great service to the club but if he's serious about a senior position then he needs to move on (IMO).

 

[sainter]

He's a loss no doubt but I reckon it's best for all involved. I was a big fan of GT & Bundy but if you are going to make change - then make it.

Has provided great service to the club but if he's serious about a senior position then he needs to move on (IMO).

Have to agree.

I wasn't supportive of the decision to remove Grant Thomas but once the decision was made we can't afford for the club to be half-hearted about it.

 

[Fehring]

So you are basing your high opinion of McGaune due to him appartentlly taking BJ under his wind and BJ preforming????

Right.

Because it had nothing to due will Goddard just coming of age and developing physically.

....He was a number one draft pick so obviously he would have had some talent.

Goddard addressed some major weaknesses in his game this year and it was clear to me that he had made great leaps forward - it was not merely incremental improvement. For example, before this past season he basically could not read the ball in the air. All of a sudden he was more than competent above his head this year. It certainly suggested to me that he had received some help from somewhere, so if he's thanking McGuane, then maybe it was McGuane (call me crazy)....

 

[sainter]

Spinner, would you care to elaborate on your problem with McGuane?

As Stkildonan said he is highly thought of in football circles.

The new coach will more than likely bring in his own staff but I can't understand what your problem with him is.