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[MRB37]

I think Woosha is ordinary in that he's not the most tactically astute guy around. If we'd of paired him with someone like Pyke then they'd be a dream team combo IMO.

 

[Troy Nation]

I think Woosha is ordinary in that he's not the most tactically astute guy around. If we'd of paired him with someone like Pyke then they'd be a dream team combo IMO.

The players rate Woosha highly.

 

[FAITH]

would have liked woosha as a manager with pyke as senior coach/tactician, but i have faith in roo and fages.

 

[1970crow]

Moved on in favour of Vossy. Bet he regrets a few of those pasties knowing that now.

 

[40porpoise]

I'm gonna put something wild out here. Everyone's thinking about coaches currently involved in the game. What about somebody in the media, or somebody not even involved in the game but known back in their day for being a bit of a genius or a coach in waiting?

These are terrible terrible terrible examples, but just to give a better idea, we could be going for somebody like David King (lol) or Sam Kekovich (lololol) or Jason akermanis (lololololol).

I know my post sounds like a bit of a joke but I'm being serious. There has to be a diamond in the rough out there somewhere!

 

[Bernie L]

Adam White ‏@White_Adam 13m13 minutes ago

Adam Kingsley is a very impressive young coach and has spoken to Adelaide. Might not be his time yet, but his time will come soon enough.

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[Smithtastic33]

Adam White ‏@White_Adam 13m13 minutes ago

Adam Kingsley is a very impressive young coach and has spoken to Adelaide. Might not be his time yet, but his time will come soon enough.

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Oh goodness no.

 

[MRB37]

Oh goodness no.

Know much about him? Or is that just a reaction cause he played for Port?

 

[Smithtastic33]

Know much about him? Or is that just a reaction cause he played for Port?

Played for Port and assistant at St Kilda. Would like someone from a successful program.

Someone who knows what success looks like and knows what sort of pressure he has to accept. Robert Shaw couldn't cope and I don't think Kingsley would cope at the crows either.

 

[Pugsley]

Nope just the Richmond 137 point loss put the final nail in his coaching career coffin.

And he still hates us for it. Build a bridge Robert and get under it.

 

[Redline]

I think we are looking at someone older and more experienced than Kingsley.

 

[DJ75]

I put together a post last year that had the coaching panel of the top 8, and the difference between those clubs and ours, where that they mostly had at least 1 or 2 guys with resumes that read like "coached own side in local league for 2 premierships, development coach here for 4 years, assistant for 3 years with 1 premiership, assistant for 5 years." etc. or a really experienced senior coach.

That we brought in Sanderson with basically Neil Craig's coaching panel and then didn't really change it for Walsh as far as adding more experience, this means we really should be looking at making some big changes, especially if we are not bringing in a coach who hasn't been doing it at some level for 15+ years.

It's clearly outdated now but I'll paste in anyway. I think Fremantle's probably stands out the most from ours, somebody as experienced as Ross Lyon, yet he has the support of multiple coaches that have been doing it since the late 90's

Richmond -

Brendan Lade - Forwards coach
A former teammate of Coach Damien Hardwick, Lade takes up the role as ruck/midfield coach after his stellar 234-game career with Port Adelaide came to an end last year.

Ross Smith - Defensive Analyst
He led ACT club Ainslie to a premiership in his first season as its captain-coach, in 1997, and was then involved in several successful stints at TAC Cup, VFL and AFL level, before becoming an assistant coach at Hawthorn in 2005 and was a part of their successful 2008 Premiership season.

Danny Daly - Midfield Stoppage Coach
Following six seasons at North Melbourne in various roles, Daly joined the Tigers at the beginning of Damien Hardwick's helm as coach of the club.

Mark Williams - Midfield Spread Coach
After three seasons at Melbourne working initially as a development coach and then as midfield coach, the former Carlton and Footscray player joined Richmond in October 2011.

Coached Sandringham to three consecutive VFL premierships from 2004-06. Looks after Richmond’s offensive structures and
its forwards.

Mark Williams - Senior Development Coach
Previously served as senior assistant coach at GWS, where he worked under Kevin Sheedy for two seasons.

Before that he was head coach of Port Adelaide for 11 years, leading the club to its first AFL premiership in 2004.

Essendon - we know most of them, less experienced but under Mark Thompson

Neil Craig

Simon Goodwin

Nathan Bassett

Mathew Egan - Assistant Coach
He was appointed as an assistant coach in Geelong’s VFL side in 2009 before becoming an assistant for the Geelong Cats in 2010

Kangaroos

Leigh Tudor - Senior Assistant
Calder Cannons Asst. Coach 2001-2003
Western Jets Coach 2004
Geelong VFL Coach 2005-2008: P'Ship 2007
St Kilda Asst. Coach 2009-2010
Sydney Asst. Coach 2011-2013
North Melbourne 2014-

Shane Watson - Forward Coach
Northern Bullants playing assistant coach: 2001-2003
Lower Plenty head coach: 2005
Sandringham Dragons/Vic. Metro assistant coach: 2006
Eastern Ranges head coach: 2007-2009
North Melbourne assistant coach (Backline): 2010-2013
North Melbourne assistant coach (Forwards): 2013-

Darren Crocker - Midfield
After retiring at the end of the 1998 season, Crocker started his coaching career at Port Melbourne in the VFL. He spent one year at the Borough as an assistant before moving to Richmond.

Crocker was also an assistant coach at the Tigers and spent four seasons at Punt Road. At the end of 2004 he returned to the Kangaroos.

Josh Drummond - Defence
North Melbourne development coach: 2013
North Melbourne assistant coach (Defence): 2013-

Port Adelaide

Shaun Hart - Director of Coaching
Broadbeach Football Club senior coach (2008)
Gold Coast Football Club assistant coach (2009-2010)
Gold Coast Football Club NEAFL coach (2011-2013)

Phil Walsh - Midfield Manager
2013-present Port Adelaide Football Club midfield manager
2009-2013 West Coast Eagles strategy and innovations coach
1999-2008 Port Adelaide Football Club midfield assistant coach
1995-1998 Geelong Football Club strength and conditioning coach

Josh Carr - Midfield Coach
2012 - present Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) midfield coach

Mathew Nicks - Backs and Defence Coach
2013-present Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) defence coach2011-2012 Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) development coach

Tyson Edwards - Forwards and Offensive Coach
2014 - present Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) forwards coach
2012 – 2013 Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) development coach

Fremantle

Brett Kirk - Midfield
Kirk is responsible for Fremantle's midfield.

Michael Prior
Originally Fremantle's skills coach in 2007, He was East Fremantle assistant coach in 2005 and East Perth Colts coach in 2006 and 2007, winning a premiership in 2006. He was appointed an assistant coach at Freo at the end of the 2010 season.

Peter Sumich - Assistant Coach
had been an assistant coach with West Coast for the past 11 seasons before joining Fremantle in 2011

Simon Lloyd - Assistant Coach
was appointed as an assistant coach at the club at the end of the 2010 season.
He previously managed the Fremantle Dockers’ Development Academy since 2009 and is still a major contributor in that department.

Simon has a wealth of AFL experience, having worked at Hawthorn and Collingwood in key development, leadership and coaching roles before joining Fremantle.

He was at Collingwood from 2005 to 2008 as high performance manager and club psychologist.

Simon was previously at Hawthorn between 1998 and 2004, filling a number of roles including club psychologist, player development manager, development coach and assistant coach of the club’s VFL side Box Hill.

Mark Stone - Stoppages Coach
was appointed as stoppages coach for the 2012 season. The father of two has been stoppages coach at the Sydney Swans for the past four seasons.

Prior to that, Mark was stoppage and opposition analyst at West Coast from 2003 to 2007.

He was also an assistant coach at South Fremantle in the WAFL from 2001 to 2002 and senior coach of the Wagga Tigers (1999-2000) in the Riverina Football League.

Geelong

Dale Amos - Assistant
Geelong: Ass coach since 2012; VFL coach 2009-2011
South Barwon: coach 2004-08

Blake Caracella - Assistant
Collingwood: asst coach 2007-09
Geelong: asst coach since 2010

Shane O'Bree - Assistant
Geelong: Asst coach since 2013 Gold Coast: Asst coach 2011-2012

James Rahilly - Assistant
Geelong: Specialist coach, VFL assistant coach 2008-09; Asst coach since 2010

Hawthorn

Luke Beveridge - Assistant
spent time with Collingwood in 2009-2010, where he was a highly regarded Development Coach and viewed as a crucial role player in that club's premiership success.

The former Melbourne, Western Bulldogs and St Kilda player began his coaching career with the Victorian amateur competition where he oversaw the incredible feat of coaching St Bedes Mentone Tigers to the C, B and A Grade premierships in consecutive seasons.

Brendon Bolton - Assistant
After spending two seasons with the Club's VFL affiliate, Box Hill Hawks, Bolton was appointed Assistant Coach at Hawthorn.

Cameron Bruce - Assistant
Bruce joined Hawthorn first as a Development Coach in 2013, following his retirement from football during the 2012 season.

He impressed as one of the Club's development coaches and was moved into an Assistant coaching role at the end of 2013.

Brett Ratten - Assistant
Ratten joined the Hawks as an Assistant Coach in 2013, following his position as Senior Coach of Carlton.

Damian Monkhorst - Ruck
Monkhorst joined the Club as Ruck Coach in 2010, following a stellar career at AFL level.

Sydney

John Blakey - Defence
Joined the Swans at the end of the 2006 season after being an assistant coach with the Brisbane Lions.

Stuart Dew - Strategy and Stopages
Dew joined the Swans late in 2009 as a development coach.

Henry Playfair - Forwards
Playfair was appointed a development coach soon after the completion of the 2010 season, just weeks after he retired because of persistent injuries.

Handed the reins of the reserve side in 2011, Playfair led it to the Eastern Conference final in the new NEAFL competition.

Marty Mattner - Assistant Midfield
Mattner spent some time helping out with the Swans reserves side and eventually took on the role as an assistant coach during the break between the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

And now us -

Mark Bickley - Senior Assistant/Forward
Assistant Coach at Adelaide 2009 - present

Scott Camporeale -Midfield
Assistant Coach at Essendon 2008-2010, Assistant Coach at Adelaide 2011 – current

Darren Milburn - Defence
Assistant coach at Adelaide 2012 – current

Brilliant post. Thanks for re-posting that info. It shows how far away from the 'best footy department' we have been. Nowhere near it. And it shows how insular we are. Need people with plenty of experience away from Adelaide.

 

[BACCS]

Might just be me, but I actually have no idea what Pyke even looks like!

 

[AFC3000]

Brilliant post. Thanks for re-posting that info. It shows how far away from the 'best footy department' we have been. Nowhere near it. And it shows how insular we are. Need people with plenty of experience away from Adelaide.

I would think having a 'best footy department' means getting one or two of those "name always comes up when senior coaching jobs are available" types in over the next year or two or at least somebody with a similar resume.

I'm glad we seem to have all moved on from "champion ex-player has just retired, lets get him as our forwards coach", it's just not enough experience. We need to attract some proven, experienced assistants, who will challenge and assist our new coach, no matter how experienced they are.

We have to do more, I just hope we do it this year, no bring in the new coach, give him the year to see how everyone works together, that we hear often. If the review has happened lets get it right now.

 

[Crowfoot]

Might just be me, but I actually have no idea what Pyke even looks like!

Did you know what Walshy looked liked 12 months ago?

 

[crowsontv]

Could it be someone no one has even considered yet

 

[displacedaussie]

Could it be someone no one has even considered yet

Is it David Mackay? Is coaching the non-statistical role end-game for our 3-more-year contracted hero?

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Know much about him? Or is that just a reaction cause he played for Port?

He is an incredibly intelligent person in not only football but other things in general.

Problem is that every club he has been at as an assistant have been during their horrid period.

 

[Red mist]

He is an incredibly intelligent person in not only football but other things in general.

Problem is that every club he has been at as an assistant have been during their horrid period.

Your AV. May be the one.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Wasn't that this game?

It's hard to tell, Modra kicked 10+ against Richmond twice

 

[GrommoT]

You should feel pretty good if we land Pyke

Oh goody - getting an early start on the fishing jokes!

 

[Bicks]

Sydney Assistant and former North Melbourne Premiership Defender John Blakey now believed to be one of the frontrunners for the Adelaide Coaching job being reported in the media. Alex On Fire the only one so far to "rate" him above.....

 

[Crouch#44]

Sydney Assistant and former North Melbourne Premiership Defender John Blakey now believed to be one of the frontrunners for the Adelaide Coaching job being reported in the media. Alex On Fire the only one so far to "rate" him above.....

id put Blakey above pyke, great apprenticeship...
been learning under some great coaches

 

[conVINCEd]

Interesting re Blakey.

Pyke is still my pick but Montgomery and Mark Stone also interest me.

 

[Mismatched]

Interesting re Blakey.

Pyke is still my pick but Montgomery and Mark Stone also interest me.

Certainly has been involved in some successful programs, dual premiership player with the Roos, the coached Matthews at Brisbane, then Roos and Longmire at Sydney, with Premierships at both. 13 years now as an assistant.