Coach North Melbourne Football Department Thread

[La Flama Blanca]

Not sure a culture based club like North works like that.

Old wood isn’t seen as dead wood - it’s seen as history and the basis of what makes North North.

No doubt hard calls will be made but I can’t see them throwing the shinboner spirit out the door

They all have specific roles. Just like out in the regular community, I think it's really just going to come down to who has the least expendable role give the parameters involved. I wouldn't like to think any of that other stuff would come into it at all.

 

[Gasometer]

Goldy could just about Coach anyone else in the League

 

[koshari]

Playfair?

fu** that.

I want a bloke called James Killemall or Roger Bulldozer as the backline mentor.

Pity Lemmy Kilmister isnt available.

 

[koshari]

Troy Makepeace?

he is to busy making megawatts these days.

 

[King Corey]

Wonder if Darren Crocker is part of the 25 staff, current role is head of culture but was previously senior assistant coach and a line coach before that so he’d be versatile to have multiple hats on

Would be the most experienced footy department staff we have along with Gav

Crocker stood down.

Surprised Adams and Scotland ahead of Whitecross and Rivers. Rate Whitecross especially.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

he is to busy making megawatts these days.

Is that some weird experimental cloning of Shannon?

 

[koshari]

Is that some weird experimental cloning of Shannon?

not quite,

 

[Firestarter]

1.21 SHANNON WATTS?!

 

[New_Roo]

So an increase in the football dept post jun1 does that mean we have space for rivers and whitecross to return....


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[The Nostradamus]

Whose our current head club doctor?

 

[The Nostradamus]

I note jona segal has been at our club for a long time

is it time to find an upgrade on our high performance manager?

time for a new fitness and conditioning program and a new voice

 

[The Warlord]

Interesting move re Gowans going and Crock taking over.

 

[The Y Factor]

Interesting move re Gowans going and Crock taking over.

Pure business. That would have hurt.

A real shame for Gowans, has done a good job and seems to fit in.

Lucky break for Crocker i guess but he has so many different strings, he will be very handy at the moment. no footy to scout either just now.

 

[Luke72]

Yeah I think this is a real tragedy. Scotty had a great relationship with the girls and really created a family environment. You couldn't have asked for much more from the first two seasons, I hope that they can bring him back as soon as things get back to normal.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Can someone confirm that aflw cap sits outside of our afl cap that will now be 6mil

and if so what is the aflw soft cap?

 

[Snake_Baker]

Can someone confirm that aflw cap sits outside of our afl cap that will now be 6mil

and if so what is the aflw soft cap?

Good luck getting those financials.

 

[giantroo]

Assistant coaches to be told within weeks of job cuts with football department spending to be slashed by about $4 million

The calls many assistant coaches have been dreading could have to be made within weeks as AFL clubs brace for the league’s football department spend to be cut by about $4 million next year. It is set to lead to huge changes at many clubs.
Jon Ralph, Herald Sun

AFL clubs will within weeks begin the horror task of informing assistant coaches there is no future role for them at the club next year.
Club bosses are dreading the inevitable decisions that will come when the AFL finalises the 2021 soft cap, aware they will need to purge dozens of coaching roles across the competition.
Some clubs with coaches already stood down are preparing to alert coaches of their futures by the end of the month.

The usual date is August 1 under an AFL Coaches Association agreement to allow unwanted coaches maximum notice to get another industry job or find time for alternate employment.

But with some coaches only on JobKeeper payments until the end of September, clubs will want to give them three months of notice, which would be the end of June.

North Melbourne assistant coach Brendan Whitecross handballs with Ben Brown.

AFL Coaches Association boss Mark Brayshaw told the Herald Sun the August 1 deadline might be “fluid” this year given so much uncertainty.

But with the AFL indicating to clubs this week the soft cap would be handed down within the month, clubs will tell assistants about their futures as soon as it is decided.

“The footy managers are waiting patiently for the soft cap number and then that will form their headcount for next year and fast-track those decisions,” Brayshaw said.



“As soon as soft cap numbers are determined we will be having those discussions with our members through their clubs. The August 1 deadline is certainly fluid.”

Clubs hope they might retain lists close to 40 but are bracing for a football department cap of around $6 million, down from $9.7 million.

It means clubs with as many as nine assistant coaches might have to reduce that number to five, with estimates 50-70 assistant coaches could be out of work.

North Melbourne’s Jared Rivers and Brendan Whitecross and Sydney’s Tadhg Kennelly are among those coaches who remain stood down despite football department limits rising from 25 to 30 in recent weeks.

North Melbourne has enough coaches inside its list of 25 match-day staff to cover for Rivers and Whitecross, and will not make a decision on an extra five staff until it becomes clear if it needs more coaching, medical or other performance staff.

Sydney has also stood down a handful of other coaching staff as well as former captain Stuart Maxfield, who works as an opposition scout.

Collingwood’s VFL coach Garry Hocking was another high-profile assistant coach stood down by the Pies given that competition will not go ahead for AFL clubs with VFL teams.

But the Pies had already gone in the direction of reducing the amount of full-time senior assistants so might have to cut fewer staff than rival clubs.

 

[Bend_It_Like_Brown]

Who replaced Steve 'groin guru' Saunders? Our injury management has been laughable.

 

[hotham]

Whose our current head club doctor?

He looks ancient

 

[Billy Not Really]

Assistant coaches to be told within weeks of job cuts with football department spending to be slashed by about $4 million

The calls many assistant coaches have been dreading could have to be made within weeks as AFL clubs brace for the league’s football department spend to be cut by about $4 million next year. It is set to lead to huge changes at many clubs.
Jon Ralph, Herald Sun


AFL clubs will within weeks begin the horror task of informing assistant coaches there is no future role for them at the club next year.
Club bosses are dreading the inevitable decisions that will come when the AFL finalises the 2021 soft cap, aware they will need to purge dozens of coaching roles across the competition.
Some clubs with coaches already stood down are preparing to alert coaches of their futures by the end of the month.

The usual date is August 1 under an AFL Coaches Association agreement to allow unwanted coaches maximum notice to get another industry job or find time for alternate employment.

But with some coaches only on JobKeeper payments until the end of September, clubs will want to give them three months of notice, which would be the end of June.

North Melbourne assistant coach Brendan Whitecross handballs with Ben Brown.

AFL Coaches Association boss Mark Brayshaw told the Herald Sun the August 1 deadline might be “fluid” this year given so much uncertainty.

But with the AFL indicating to clubs this week the soft cap would be handed down within the month, clubs will tell assistants about their futures as soon as it is decided.

“The footy managers are waiting patiently for the soft cap number and then that will form their headcount for next year and fast-track those decisions,” Brayshaw said.



“As soon as soft cap numbers are determined we will be having those discussions with our members through their clubs. The August 1 deadline is certainly fluid.”

Clubs hope they might retain lists close to 40 but are bracing for a football department cap of around $6 million, down from $9.7 million.

It means clubs with as many as nine assistant coaches might have to reduce that number to five, with estimates 50-70 assistant coaches could be out of work.

North Melbourne’s Jared Rivers and Brendan Whitecross and Sydney’s Tadhg Kennelly are among those coaches who remain stood down despite football department limits rising from 25 to 30 in recent weeks.

North Melbourne has enough coaches inside its list of 25 match-day staff to cover for Rivers and Whitecross, and will not make a decision on an extra five staff until it becomes clear if it needs more coaching, medical or other performance staff.

Sydney has also stood down a handful of other coaching staff as well as former captain Stuart Maxfield, who works as an opposition scout.

Collingwood’s VFL coach Garry Hocking was another high-profile assistant coach stood down by the Pies given that competition will not go ahead for AFL clubs with VFL teams.

But the Pies had already gone in the direction of reducing the amount of full-time senior assistants so might have to cut fewer staff than rival clubs.

I wonder if the effects of this are starting to show.

 

[Devington]

I wonder if the effects of this are starting to show.

Of course it is. Was always going to be a slow moving disaster, with some clubs getting through it better than others.

Spoiler alert, but clubs with new regimes trying to make new gameplans work are going to be hit hardest.

 

[Bend_It_Like_Brown]

David Loader (VFL coach) gone
Andrew Carson (VFL GM) gone
Brendan Whitecross (Forwards) gone
Jared Rivers (Backline) gone
Scott Gowans (AFLW) gone

Who else will be on the chopping board? Jona Segal (High Performance)?

 

[justroyal]

I've said this before and I'll say it again. Segal background is nutrition.
I have no idea how he turned into high performance.
Our best was when we had dan meehan

 

[Roosurgence]

There is nothing resembling high performance at this footy club at the moment. So Segal can * off!

 

[justroyal]

think dan burgess. An absolute freak and wizard in the sport science industry. Research, projects, you name it.
Think segal. 20 years at North with a sports nutrition and diatetics background.