Nigel Smart to coach Crows

[Mong]

.... one day..... I hope.


I would love Smarty to one day coach the Crows. He is just so good in the media, is a very smart guy and looks at things differently. Looks outside the square would be an innovator as a coach I believe. He is a very good communicator and handles pressure extremely well. Has a lot of confidence in his own ability. And has the strength to go with his own convictions.

Obviously I have no idea how he would go as a coach, you never know until they do it. But he has all the attributes that I think make a good coach.

He's the player in our ranks that I think is most likely to be the best coach.


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[tribey]

With the apprenticeship (a couple of years as an assistant at least) a must these days... I'd love to see if Darren Jarman can take the next step and become a senior coach. Having said that, I don't think this will happen as he seems to already be pigeonholed as a 'forwards-only/goalkicking' man.

As for Smarty - he has a lot of off-field commitments doesn't he? Do you reckon he'd put up with sitting in a glass box every weekend? He's always struck me as a guy who plays footy and bloody well, but doesn't eat, sleep and drink it - therefore not having the passion to devote his life to coaching.

Of the other ex-Crows...

Mark Mickan - Urgh.
Darel Hart - Thank GOD Gary Ayres became available.
Chris McDermott - Stick to the nightclub.
Tony McGuinness - Stick to the charity.
Scott Hodges - Go the Ramblers!
Wayne Wiedemann - Go Gaza!

Who else is there?

 

[DaveW]

Smart's an interesting choice for a future coach, and not one I'd really thought of.

I remember reading that in the early days of the Crows, Smart couldn't handle all the notes that Cornsey provided the players on their opponents. (In fact as I recall, Smart's dad went to tell Cornes off!) Hopefully Smart has somewhat matured in that area since.

I'd say he is smart enough for such a role. Maybe he can replace Anderson as coach of South next year.

Having favourite sons return to coach their old sides is starting to be a trend: Worsfold, Roos, Laidley. All served as assistant coaches before hand; Woosha and Laidley doing it at other clubs. I wonder if this would be the go for Smart, to seek out an assistant's role at another club.

 

[tribey]

Originally posted by DaveW
Having favourite sons return to coach their old sides is starting to be a trend: Worsfold, Roos, Laidley.

As long as Rehn doesn't follow suit...

 

[sapaul]

Originally posted by dyertribe

Of the other ex-Crows...

Mark Mickan - Urgh.
Darel Hart - Thank GOD Gary Ayres became available.
Chris McDermott - Stick to the nightclub.
Tony McGuinness - Stick to the charity.
Scott Hodges - Go the Ramblers!
Wayne Wiedemann - Go Gaza!

Who else is there?

Stephen Rowe...Norwood under 17s...currently bottom.

 

[DaveW]

Originally posted by dyertribe
Darel Hart - Thank GOD Gary Ayres became available.

Speaking of Ayres' appointment, there was something I was trying to figure out recently.

Did we poach Ayres from Geelong? (i.e. would he have continued with them into 2000?) Or was Gary already finished there?

 

[Mong]

Ayres left Geelong with one year remaining on his contract.

He asked for a contract extension and Geelong didn't want to give him one. Adelaide offered a 3 year deal so he came to Adelaide.

Yes we poached him.

I doubt Geelong were too bothered, though. They probably would've let him go the year after anyway, which Ayres knew and hence wanted to take Adelaide's 3 year offer.


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[DaveW]

Originally posted by ****
Ayres left Geelong with one year remaining on his contract.

He asked for a contract extension and Geelong didn't want to give him one. Adelaide offered a 3 year deal so he came to Adelaide.

Yes we poached him.

I doubt Geelong were too bothered, though. They probably would've let him go the year after anyway, which Ayres knew and hence wanted to take Adelaide's 3 year offer.

Thanks.

And yeah, I haven't heard any Geelong fans say they were too distraught at his loss. I wasn't too impressed with his arrival either!

 

[ok.crows]

Originally posted by ****
Ayres left Geelong with one year remaining on his contract.

He asked for a contract extension and Geelong didn't want to give him one. Adelaide offered a 3 year deal so he came to Adelaide.

Yes we poached him.

I doubt Geelong were too bothered, though. They probably would've let him go the year after anyway, which Ayres knew and hence wanted to take Adelaide's 3 year offer.


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Not strictly according to the way I recall it.

I recall Ayres saying that he had another year to run at Geelong, but his contract had a "get out" clause for that last year so that, if either he or Geelong didn't want to do the last year then the contract could finish a year early.

Ayres told Geelong he didn't want to do the (optional) last year, and that was it.

No broken contract, but then again at the same time not as complete a term at Geelong as could have been.

 

[maccas_no1]

What are you smoking???????? No way to smarty great player but we dont want him ruining anything if he cant coach and I doubt his coaching abilities