News North's recruiting team resigns en masse

[Bunk Moreland]

WTF? Really bizarre.

Anybody got any idea other than relying on what Sam Edmond says?

 

[Engimal v3]

Glenn Luff must have been browsing North's BigFooty board and got sick of copping it lol

 

[Outtatym]

Copping it from ******* Kane Cornes

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would be the last straw for most.
Far out

 

[master bate]

Ben Birthisel was a team mate of Ziebell’s.

Zurhaar and JHF not signing on.

If players aren’t being developed or are going to leave then you’d be mad to stay then cop the blame.

The timing with the mid season draft has to be a worry. Not saying that’s a vital pick but it’s not ideal that they aren’t even sticking around to see that pick.

 

[footyfan1978]

Wow

 

[chopflop]

Something's rotten there atm. I hope they sort it out soon

 

[TheBigHorne]

So if Finnigan has been accepted by another club it's a sign he's adequate.


Combined with the amount of players going backwards, the whole spray incident. Something has truly gone wrong at a coaching/development perspective and these blokes didn't wanna cop the brunt of it.

 

[Kappa]

Gonna be a miserable decade for north. They literally have no idea who they should pick in the next few drafts now, total disaster.

 

[Toump Ass]

I feel so bad for North Melbourne that I don't even feel like trolling them now

 

[Thetrader15]

Gonna be a miserable decade for north. They literally have no idea who they should pick in the next few drafts now, total disaster.

With their picks, they may as well get Cal Twoomey to do it. The first couple are usually pretty obvious.

 

[La Dispute]

Want North to succeed and thought they made some good inroads last year, but Noble just isn't much of a coach despite being a good bloke and a nice cultural fit.

These guys knocked back 3x first round picks for JHF and it's looking like unless there's some significant turnaround onfield he's going to take up an offer back in SA and probably be playing finals quickly.

They opted for Phillips over McDonald which is looking like an absolute stinker. Not because Phillips is especially bad, but McDonald looks like an elite key forward and the Roos have a lot of young talented midfielders coming through at once already.

Luff will surely get a job elsewhere, but this is just weird. Their last (or maybe LM prior?) was abused by senior officials on draft night 2015 and lodged a worker's compensation claim against the club. Something is pretty rotten.

 

[Liam Boy]

like a lot of things at North currently, it'll be short-term chaos but could end up being better in the long term. Not sure how this'll effect the softcap but hopefully it gives them room to restructure things and fit new personnel in.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Come on down

 

[Liam Boy]

Another dimension to this is that Brady Rawlings

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essentially turned his role as footy department manager into a kind of super-list manager, and he could easily move into just directly managing the list and recruiting department.

Can't help but think this might be a "you can't fire me, I quit" situation where the club has been trying to restructure and hammer out inefficiencies, so the guys in those positions felt threatened and wanted to get out before the club could sack them. Who knows.

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

Come on down

They need someone with a proven pedigree. Might I suggest this bloke...

 

[Power Raid]

WTF? Really bizarre.

Anybody got any idea other than relying on what Sam Edmond says?

footy is a tough place when it is going wrong but this could be a sliding doors moment for the roos and tasmania

 

[FRUMPY]

Glenn luff, the bloke from SEN who bases everything on supercoach points/champion data crap?

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[tenderwarrior]

footy is a tough place when it is going wrong but this could be a sliding doors moment for the roos and tasmania

I have no doubt the AFL would love this, but I can't see it happening..

 

[jwikked]

I really wish North Melbourne never sacked Brad Scott.

 

[Liam Boy]

Glenn luff, the bloke from SEN who bases everything on supercoach points/champion data crap?

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yeah, we'll miss him terribly.

feels like a sacking was probably inevitable, we've done well picking midfielders with high picks (hard to get wrong) but the total lack of key position players picked up in the draft has been extremely conspicuous, and it's lead to comedy scenarios like 189cm Aiden Bonar playing on Harry McKay, and 186cm Kyron Hayden picking up Tom McDonald. Seems like he probably saw the writing on the wall and wanted to jump ship before he'd lost all currency in the wider footy world.

 

[master bate]

Want North to succeed and thought they made some good inroads last year, but Noble just isn't much of a coach despite being a good bloke and a nice cultural fit.

These guys knocked back 3x first round picks for JHF and it's looking like unless there's some significant turnaround onfield he's going to take up an offer back in SA and probably be playing finals quickly.

They opted for Phillips over McDonald which is looking like an absolute stinker. Not because Phillips is especially bad, but McDonald looks like an elite key forward and the Roos have a lot of young talented midfielders coming through at once already.

Luff will surely get a job elsewhere, but this is just weird. Their last (or maybe LM prior?) was abused by senior officials on draft night 2015 and lodged a worker's compensation claim against the club. Something is pretty rotten.

McDonald's been dropped twice this year and played 2 good games this year after not much last year. 1 against the ghost of the Eagles and 1 against Carlton. He still looks a bit slow and there's a wide range between putting it all together and being a big physical presence and being just a guy. A lumbering second option wouldn't help North in the short term and might not be required long term.

North's heavy midfield strategy really could work. Sadly they're all going backwards this year. Powell and Phillips having 2nd year blues or misfortune. TT lost between roles. Simpkin battling. LDU not making progress. A huge part of that philosophy was to make sure they improve quickly. Unfortunately they can't get any traction in the midfield, yet alone other areas.

 

[Some Idiot]

They need someone with a proven pedigree. Might I suggest this bloke...

Was gonna suggest Scott Clayton after his work building the Suns dynasty but apparently he's already at North..

 

[blueboy25]

With their picks, they may as well get Cal Twoomey to do it. The first couple are usually pretty obvious.

Shifter Sheehan must be available as well.

 

[Rioli2Rioli]

I smell a problem at North

 

[Juddernaut08]

They need someone with a proven pedigree. Might I suggest this bloke...

noooo don't want this absolute legend to leave the Dons!