Sack Jade Rawlings

[1980]

Check your sources Damian Monkhorst is our ruck coach

LMAO

 

[LVAK]

I think he's supposed to be a forward coach...I'm not sure what he does down at the club or if the club is happy with him, but the thing that gets me is: to be a successful club, surely we should have assistants who have achieved success and knows what it takes to get where you want to go. I'm not sure how much success Jade had and i remember at one point he was runnin around in the 2's because of lack of form or whatever.
I'm not having a go at him personally because i'm sure he's a top bloke, but in terms of success, how can pettifer, richo, schulz or whoever take him seriously? If I was one of our forwards, the first thing that would be in my mind would be 'yeah ok, u tell me to run here or lead here but how much success did you have with this?'

I know what you mean but Paul Roos or Tommy Hafey weren't premiership players either. From what I can tell Hafey was less successful as a player than Rawlings.
I think it helps to have some around with success but it doesn't guarantee that they will be successful coaches. One of many boxes on the checklist maybe


Sorry duckboy , didn't see your similar post

 

[duckboy]

Check your sources Damian Monkhorst is our ruck coach

I'm aware of that. There's a world of difference between Monkhorst spending an hour a week with our ruckmen and Jade Rawlings being a full time assistant coach. Sam Newman and Crackers Keenan still do the odd bit of "ruck coaching", I don't think anyone would call them part of the coaching staff though.

 

[1980]

I'm aware of that. There's a world of difference between Monkhorst spending an hour a week with our ruckmen and Jade Rawlings being a full time assistant coach. Sam Newman and Crackers Keenan still do the odd bit of "ruck coaching", I don't think anyone would call them part of the coaching staff though.

So ruck is not important?

Pattison is ready made and doesnt need development?

 

[duckboy]

So ruck is not important?

Pattison is ready made and doesnt need development?

Where did I say that 1980? Do you not agree that specialist coaching positions are a world apart from full time assistants? Monkhorst works with 3-4 guys and maybe our midfield group occasionally. Are you happy that Monkhorst is our ruck coach, and that Steve Alessio was last our ruck coach? I'm not.

If you're asking the club is the ruck important, then that's a different question. With their recent appointments you'd have to say we're obviously working a on a tight budget. In fact I don't think Alessio was even paid. By the looks of Monkhorst we must be paying him with pies....

As for Pattison, of course he needs development. All big kids do. Hamish McIntosh this year has been a great example of why you need to be patient with big kids. Do you think he'd improve faster though if we had someone like Simon Madden or Scott Wynd or Peter Everitt working with him?