New coach poll/ole
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HoneyBadger35
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Not a poll.
Also, Jack Watts.
Also, Jack Watts.
What's Kevin Sheedy up to these days? 
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Bomber Thompson. Get him on the phone
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I'm happy with Simmo until the end of the year. He's hitting all my KPIs.
After that:
Pyke.
Or a current untried assistant coach. Don't know enough about the candidates to pick one.
After that:
Pyke.
Or a current untried assistant coach. Don't know enough about the candidates to pick one.
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Out of interest, what would these be? Games into certain kids would be my guess?
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Don Pyke.
Former club Director, club life member, club champion and x2 Premiership Eagle.
Joined Adelaide at the end of 2004 as midfield coach under then caretaker N.Craig. The Crows had finished 12th of 16 teams. The Craig-Pyke coaching combination gave rise to the "Crowbots" that finished top 2 in the next two seasons, ironically losing in Preliminary Finals to West Coast in both of those years.
After 2006, he left coaching to focus on his family and continue previous business interests in oil and gas that proven to be extremely lucrative.
Returned to coaching again after the 2013 season, joining West Coast under new head coach A.Simpson, specialising in strategy, stoppages, and structure.
In two seasons, the club had climbed from 13th to playing in the 2015 Grand Final, showcasing an innovative zone and counteroffensive gameplan, that came to be known as the "Web".
At the end of 2015, Pyke left the Eagles and returned to Adelaide, this time as head coach after the tragic death of P.Walsh earlier that year.
The Crows had spent the past three seasons stuck between 11th and 7th, had just seen Dangerfield depart for Geelong, and were still reeling from the draft impacts of the Tippett-gate shenanigans.
In his first season, the Crows finished with a 16-6 record, just a single win away from top spot - yet still finished 5th in what was arguably the closest season ever, losing out in finals to minor premiers Sydney at the SCG.
The next year Adelaide finished the 2017 season top of the ladder, scoring almost 300 more points in matches than any other team and progressing to the club's first Grand Final appearance in 20 years. Then came the "Power Ranger" stance, the Tiger Army finding its voice, the arrival of D.Martin and it all turned to s**t.
The 2018 preseason camp on the Gold Coast run by Collective Minds, intended to strengthen the resolve of the playing group, only resulted in tearing it apart. A player exodus, and two under-performing seasons later, Pyke had resigned.
Less than a year later however, he was already at another club - joining Sydney as an assistant in strategy and structures to Longmire.
The Swans had spent the past two years in the bottom 4 coming into 2021, looking poised for the rebuild that had been long anticipated, but largely avoided for over a decade.
Instead the Swans radically shifted their approach, becoming the best "early adapters" to rule changes, winning their first four matches of the season, including against reigning premiers Richmond at the MCG. They moved from 9th to 2nd in metres gained differential, trailing only eventual premiers Melbourne. Despite spending half the season away from home due to Covid interference, they finished with a 15-7 record, missing out on a top 4 place by percentage alone. T.Greene heroics then dumped them in a Sydney showdown final played out in Tasmania.
The success of the approach continued in 2022, culminating in a Grand Final appearance from a group that was widely expected to be several years away from that level of competitiveness at the start of the season.
Pyke loves the club, has experience both at other clubs and outside of football, and is well-known to be a "total-football" person, constantly thinking about how the game is played, where it is going, how it can be improved.
Everywhere he goes, success quickly follows.
To me it goes without question that he should be at the very top of the shortlist.
Former club Director, club life member, club champion and x2 Premiership Eagle.
Joined Adelaide at the end of 2004 as midfield coach under then caretaker N.Craig. The Crows had finished 12th of 16 teams. The Craig-Pyke coaching combination gave rise to the "Crowbots" that finished top 2 in the next two seasons, ironically losing in Preliminary Finals to West Coast in both of those years.
After 2006, he left coaching to focus on his family and continue previous business interests in oil and gas that proven to be extremely lucrative.
Returned to coaching again after the 2013 season, joining West Coast under new head coach A.Simpson, specialising in strategy, stoppages, and structure.
In two seasons, the club had climbed from 13th to playing in the 2015 Grand Final, showcasing an innovative zone and counteroffensive gameplan, that came to be known as the "Web".
At the end of 2015, Pyke left the Eagles and returned to Adelaide, this time as head coach after the tragic death of P.Walsh earlier that year.
The Crows had spent the past three seasons stuck between 11th and 7th, had just seen Dangerfield depart for Geelong, and were still reeling from the draft impacts of the Tippett-gate shenanigans.
In his first season, the Crows finished with a 16-6 record, just a single win away from top spot - yet still finished 5th in what was arguably the closest season ever, losing out in finals to minor premiers Sydney at the SCG.
The next year Adelaide finished the 2017 season top of the ladder, scoring almost 300 more points in matches than any other team and progressing to the club's first Grand Final appearance in 20 years. Then came the "Power Ranger" stance, the Tiger Army finding its voice, the arrival of D.Martin and it all turned to s**t.
The 2018 preseason camp on the Gold Coast run by Collective Minds, intended to strengthen the resolve of the playing group, only resulted in tearing it apart. A player exodus, and two under-performing seasons later, Pyke had resigned.
Less than a year later however, he was already at another club - joining Sydney as an assistant in strategy and structures to Longmire.
The Swans had spent the past two years in the bottom 4 coming into 2021, looking poised for the rebuild that had been long anticipated, but largely avoided for over a decade.
Instead the Swans radically shifted their approach, becoming the best "early adapters" to rule changes, winning their first four matches of the season, including against reigning premiers Richmond at the MCG. They moved from 9th to 2nd in metres gained differential, trailing only eventual premiers Melbourne. Despite spending half the season away from home due to Covid interference, they finished with a 15-7 record, missing out on a top 4 place by percentage alone. T.Greene heroics then dumped them in a Sydney showdown final played out in Tasmania.
The success of the approach continued in 2022, culminating in a Grand Final appearance from a group that was widely expected to be several years away from that level of competitiveness at the start of the season.
Pyke loves the club, has experience both at other clubs and outside of football, and is well-known to be a "total-football" person, constantly thinking about how the game is played, where it is going, how it can be improved.
Everywhere he goes, success quickly follows.
To me it goes without question that he should be at the very top of the shortlist.
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He would be top of my list to be CEO. He's such a football mind as well and worker that it I would even have an extra quality staff member to handle quite a few of the off field responsibilities so he can spend more time with and as part of the football department. It's a way around the soft cap.
