Ric Charlesworth to the AFL

[Flipper]

Freo, Essendon and Hawthorn have offered him assistant coaching positions for 2001.

He is now deciding on which one to take (Freo being the favourite according to the Murdoch hacks)

Just one question - has the guy ever kicked a footy? Or does it even matter?

 

[Bloodstained Angel]

he should stick to hockey

God knows the men's team needs SOMETHING to help them break the drought ...

I mean, cripes, even Queensland has won two Sheffield Shields - can't the Kookaburras do likewise and break their losing run ?

 

[Shinboners]

BSA

I'll disagree with you here and say that Ric Charlesworth could do a club a world of good. He obviously knows how to manage and motivate players, so there's no question of his ability there. Also, Australian Rules has adopted methods and techniques from other sports like zone defence (basketball and soccer), tackling technique (rugby), fitness and stamina maintenance (athletics....remember James Hird's post-Grand Final tribute to Essendon's fitness advisor who has worked mainly in athletics?), so I can't see why Charlesworth wouldn't have something to offer as well. The other thing is that he would have an outsiders view and may see something that people with a long term involvement in the game may have missed.

 

[Visro]

Recently at a end of season hockey dinner for my school we had Terry Walsh as our guest speaker. He showed us this method which he said several AFL clubs use (Essendon) which incorporates having gigabytes of video footage of each game played. You can click on a player and only footage with him will come up. You may want to see the tackles your team dished out, you just click tackles, the goals whatever. It was very impressive with its accessibility and easyness to use. This technology will certainly help clubs in the future.

 

[Richmondfan#1]

Cool Visro!

Did they mention how much they were?!

 

[Visro]

Well you need someone to collect all the footage for you and assemble it and then you need one massive hard drive for the computer, Terry Walsh had a mactop, so I would think they would be very expensive, 10,000 dollars maybe? You need a good computer, the program which does it(i dont what its called) and you need to pay someone to organise it all. It wouldn't be very expensive for an AFL club however.

[This message has been edited by Visro (edited 04 October 2000).]

 

[Richmondfan#1]

Woah, that is way too much for some clubs to afford. Especially clubs that have salary cap problems.

 

[Shinboners]

The technology used by clubs has come a long way in the last few years. It could be argued that computer analysis was a key factor in Essendon's 1993 premiership. Neale Daniher was at the club and used a computer to analyse all of Carlton's centre square clearances and set plays throughout the season. Once they were worked out, Essendon came up with strategies to overcome them, and well, Carlton didn't really have a sniff in that game, did they? Also, someone had managed to get a copy of all the work done by Daniher and passed them onto Rod Ashman, who was then part of Carlton's coaching panel. Ashman never looked at the documents, and when Daniher's work was revealed, Ashman was sacked for not using the information.

 

[Richmondfan#1]

Oh okay then.

I have no idea.

 

[JUBJUB]

Ric Charlesworth would be the perfect assistant coach at Hawthorn.He's just coached one team of girls,now he can go and coach another lot of girls.

 

[Bloodstained Angel]

ah no problems Shinboners

I agree Charlesworth is the consumate professional who could offer heaps to any sporting outfit.

What I really meant was that the Australian Hockey needs Charlesworth far more than any AFL club. I cannot understand why Charlesworth is not being sought after to take over the Mens Hockey Team. They need someone like him and what he can offer the team is what could turn them from Australia's favourite losers into Olympic champions.

Charlesworth is needed most in the Mens Hockey squad - why is talking about getting a job in the AFL ?

Maybe the 'politics' of Australian Hockey has something to do with this ...

 

[Drakey]

Shinbonners.

We may have adopted the zone from other sports but it hasn't been to the betterment of the game. Flooding ruins the game as a spectical & the sooner something is done about it the better. Hopefully it will be the result of some smart coaching & not a rule change

 

[Shinboners]

BSA

Looking at it from your viewpoint, I can better understand your opinion on Charlesworth.

Drakey

I wouldn't worry too much about zoning...North use it all the time and a lot of good it did us in the end. I think teams now combat zoning by legspeed and precise passing. Essendon and Melbourne did it very effectively against us in the finals, and you can't say it was unattractive football. The game, as usual, will adapt.

 

[Eagle_Fan]

Ric Charlsworth is a genius, and will do any footy club a world of good, 'fledgling' ones in particular. He is a guest on 720 sportstalk or something over here sometimes, and has views on everything. Personally I'd like to see him help the Kookaburras to a gold though....

BTW/ Does he remind anyone else of a more severe Mick Malthouse?

That computer sounds pretty impressive. Hate to rub it in, but KJ was given $1million (that's right, one million) to 'play' with this season, preferably on footy based stuff for the club. I'm sure we could stretch it to a PC.

 

[Drakey]

Originally posted by Eagle_Fan:
BTW/ Does he remind anyone else of a more severe Mick Malthouse?

If he's more severe than Malthouse he probably should be looking for a job as an Eastern European Dictator.