Opinion Speculation over - Eade Coach

[supernova_]

Thompson is a genuine improvement on McKenna's credentials.

Bolton I don't think is, and would rather keep McKenna.

If we get Thompson as coach, Malceski will certainly sign. We might be able to pinch a Dempsey and Taylor Hunt as depth.

 

[Covertackle]

Well.i honestly didn't sèe that coming! Here is me saying Bomber won't leave essendon and......Wow! If we sign Bomber i would be the happiest Suns nut ever!!

Perhaps unfairly, but Bomber sniffs of Malthouse for me (though not an uncomfortable smell be comparison). I once wanted Malthouse here, and it may have been the correct decision a couple of seasons ago. But his petulance since has turned me off.

I just wonder if Bomber is a bit 'old school' albeit successful and experienced. The climate, challenge and list would do him the world of good also.

But im a Bolton fan, although he is relatively untested, but he has proven to be a new breed, a brain coach, much like Roos, but a younger, more NLP style coach , and a crack shot in every competition he has been in. He may not have played top AFL, but many of the worlds best coaches at any sport never played at the top level. it is their ability to teach and get the best from their team that wins them flags.

I'll not be disappointed with Bomber, but I think Bolton is the stand out and may be a missed opportunity. So do a few clubs. If we cant sell the GC and the GCS to a man like Bolton, over the SA slums, we didn't try hard enough!!

 

[Sunny_]

Interesting that the third party is believed to be another AFL Coach. I wonder who it is?

 

[Covertackle]

Interesting that the third party is believed to be another AFL Coach. I wonder who it is?

clarko

 

[Sunny_]

clarko

In the middle of a finals series? I doubt it.

 

[Covertackle]

Teamwork: Alastair Clarkson and Brendon Bolton hold the 2014 premiership cup aloft. Photo: Getty Images

With Adelaide looking for a new coach and Gold Coast appearing likely to be in need of a new coach - Brendon Bolton, the man who took over Hawthorn during Alastair Clarkson's illness - said he's ready for a senior position should the opportunity arise.

Bolton has an impeccable winning record as a senior coach after five straight wins as caretaker during Clarkson's illness when Hawthorn's season and attempt at back-to-back flags threatened to be derailed.
Now, he's happy to talk to clubs about senior coaching positions but was also content at the Hawks and to bide his time, he said.

"I understand it's a tough gig to try and get a senior job and the planets need to align both for the club and the individual and, if the personality and the club match, then it all works," Bolton said


"I think given the opportunity you create an environment but I understand it is not just me being ready. It is having the right people around you ready because teams now coach footy clubs so it is important to get a good system and structure around you - not just the individual.

"I have got some ideas about how I would go about it if that opportunity one day presented."
Bolton would need to hope clubs have finally overcome the prejudice against coaches who had not played senior AFL football in order to get a job. Brendan McCartney, at the Western Bulldogs, is the latest of only a handful of senior coaches not to have played AFL football.

He acknowledged it could be considered an issue at some clubs but felt it had become incidental now with the size and growth of the role of senior coach.
"I think, now, [with] coaching apprenticeships, time actually coaching is really important and education and understanding how people think. You need a variety of different people around you.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/im-ready-to-coach-brendon-bolton-says-20140928-10n7l0.html#ixzz3Epw3DqCf

 

[Covertackle]

Brendon Bolton wants to be a senior coach but isn’t sure about the Adelaide Crows job

HAWTHORN assistant coach Brendon Bolton wants to be an AFL senior coach, but he is still not sure if he ready or if the Crows vacancy best suits him.
Bolton is a certain prospect from the Adelaide job that is increasingly likely to be filled by a first-time coach with Sydney assistant Stuart Dew known to be very keen on returning to SA to become the Crows’ seventh full-time coach.
Having already sampled the main job in a coaching panel - he replaced Alastair Clarkson for five weeks with a 5-0 record in June-July - Bolton left the impression he will be measuring the Crows more so than being evaluated by Mark Ricciuto’s selection panel at West Lakes.

What I will say is coaching a senior team one day is on my agenda,” Bolton said while celebrating Hawthorn’s AFL premiership triumph.
“(But) it has to align for both the team you are going to and the personality you are. I know that won’t always align with every club.”
Bolton also noted too many young coaches grab a senior AFL job before they are ready.

The point being is you need to do a long, strong apprenticeship - that is what’s important,” Bolton said. “There are a lot of people who try to rush to get to the top.”
Bolton’s record in coaching includes leading North Hobart as captain-coach to a premiership when he was aged 24. He worked with Hawthorn’s VFL affiliate at Box Hill for two years. He is now in his fourth season as an AFL assistant coach.
Bolton would not reveal if he already has had an approach from Adelaide.
“They are a really proud club - and no doubt they will go through a thorough (interview and selection) process,” Bolton said of the Crows. “At the moment I am enjoying the win. So we’ll see how that unfolds.
“It will come down to whether or not the club fits my personality. Those things need to align.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...elaide-crows-job/story-fnia3xzy-1227073095880

 

[Sunny_]

Also still not sure on Bomber. It says he is expecting a call, but who knows when he'll get it? We're processing things at a snail pace here. By the time we reach out to him it could be too late.

 

[Covertackle]

This stuff has been going on for a wile. We are clueless....

It’s time to move on with haste as cracks begin to open at Essendon and the Gold Coast Suns. Coaches will very soon be in great demand.
Former Crows star Simon Goodwin is not a contender and while the pool of candidates is always large, the list of good fits for the Crows is not.
If it is time for change it must be for the betterment of this club, not just change for change’s sake. This is the club’s Malcolm Blight moment MkII but, unlike 1996, the messiah doesn’t appear to be in place.
I’m not sure he’s even in the country. Or is he?
Stuart Dew, John Worsfold, Brendan Bolton, Alastair Clarkson and Nathan Bassett have all had their names mentioned in the past 72 hours as the rumours begin

21 September 2014 01:35)


http://www.fchornet.com/news/8220-s...decision-is-to-make-no-decision-at-h1653.html

 

[kreglze]

Hard for him to field a call about a job that doesn't technically exist.

We are dragging our feet and it doesn't look good.

 

[Covertackle]

Hard for him to field a call about a job that doesn't technically exist.

We are dragging our feet and it doesn't look good.

I guarantee you feet are not dragging, and the job DOES exist. The outcome is so important, with us expected to be top 6 with a good coach, that Exeutive heads will roll next time if this decision isn't the right one.

 

[SunsSupporter]

We could land Malceski and Bomber Thompson as early as this Friday. That's not a bad start to a long weekend Suns fans.

 

[Sunny_]

We could land Malceski and Bomber Thompson as early as this Friday. That's not a bad start to a long weekend Suns fans.

Great result if it happens, but let's just wait and see.

 

[Covertackle]

Great result if it happens, but let's just wait and see.

shit sunny, its only Wednesday.....wait 2 more days ....? sheeeeez!

 

[Covertackle]

shit sunny, its only Wednesday.....wait 2 more days ....? sheeeeez!

THATS IT!! SHEEDDY?!!

 

[volkerball]

Also still not sure on Bomber. It says he is expecting a call, but who knows when he'll get it? We're processing things at a snail pace here. By the time we reach out to him it could be too late.

His agent could easily be in touch with the Suns. Look how quickly Ross Lyon got moved. The news could be nothing, nothing, nothing, Bluey is fired and Thompson is in. Quick as that.

 

[supernova_]

Interesting that the third party is believed to be another AFL Coach. I wonder who it is?

I took the third party as being the AFL - seeing they are helping us out off field in this drama with no CEO and no stable coaching dept.

 

[SandyToes]

You only get a few opportunities in life to trade up
House, career, (I won't say life partner - but I guess it happens), coach
We have fondness for Bluey because he was there from the start, but if the Club decides he isn't a premiership coach, we have to find someone who is.
I just sense there is some aversion from players towards coming to the Suns, and really that shouldn't be the case.
Gawd, you could just about commute from Melbourne and play here it's so user friendly
Something's rotten with us at the moment and it smelt god awful in the last 6 rounds of the year when we should have been building for 2015
Unfortunately for Bluey, you can't sack the team, so it usually ends up with the coach's neck on the block

 

[Matchu]

I just wonder if Bomber is a bit 'old school' albeit successful and experienced.

I was thinking Bomber could be the Gold Coast equivalent of Leigh Matthews for the Lions. He took Collingwood to the promised land in 1990 and took over the top job at Brisbane in 1999. Three years later lethal took Brisbane to the promised land and started a dynasty that no modern team has matched to this day.

If Bomber took over the senior coaching role on the Gold Coast it will have been six years since he coached Geelong to a premiership. The board would certainly be expecting big success in the first 2-3 years of his stint at the Suns so I think the Matthews comparison is fair. Before and after lethal took over:

1998: 16th (wooden spoon, Roger Merrett coaching)
1999: 3rd (Lethal's first year coaching Brisbane)
2000: 6th
2001: 2nd (first premiership)
2002: 2nd (second premiership)
2003: 3rd (third premiership)
2004: 2nd (fourth grand final)

With the exception of the number 1 draft pick who ended up leaving anyway, Brisbane's list didn't change a lot over those years so you saw the polar opposites between Roger Merrett and Leigh Matthews in coaching. Now I'm not saying Bluey is as bad as Merrett but sometimes a change in senior coach can open your premiership window.

 

[Covertackle]

I took the third party as being the AFL - seeing they are helping us out off field in this drama with no CEO and no stable coaching dept.

Well, one would imagine the AFL would be looking at the most powerful coaching staff of the top clubs. That would be Hawks, buy a street. I still believe its Bolton.

 

[SandyToes]

Thompson brings respect
Bolton brings a coaching manual

 

[Covertackle]

Well, one would imagine the AFL would be looking at the most powerful coaching staff of the top clubs. That would be Hawks, buy a street. I still believe its Bolton.

Where would Essendon be left without bomber? its unlikey Hurd will coach the dons again. tme thinks.

 

[Dammit]

Bolton is a happy moron. Very positive, but a moron nonetheless. Do not want.

 

[TheSunGod]

I was thinking Bomber could be the Gold Coast equivalent of Leigh Matthews for the Lions. He took Collingwood to the promised land in 1990 and took over the top job at Brisbane in 1999. Three years later lethal took Brisbane to the promised land and started a dynasty that no modern team has matched to this day.

If Bomber took over the senior coaching role on the Gold Coast it will have been six years since he coached Geelong to a premiership. The board would certainly be expecting big success in the first 2-3 years of his stint at the Suns so I think the Matthews comparison is fair. Before and after lethal took over:

1998: 16th (wooden spoon, Roger Merrett coaching)
1999: 3rd (Lethal's first year coaching Brisbane)
2000: 6th
2001: 2nd (first premiership)
2002: 2nd (second premiership)
2003: 3rd (third premiership)
2004: 2nd (fourth grand final)

With the exception of the number 1 draft pick who ended up leaving anyway, Brisbane's list didn't change a lot over those years so you saw the polar opposites between Roger Merrett and Leigh Matthews in coaching. Now I'm not saying Bluey is as bad as Merrett but sometimes a change in senior coach can open your premiership window.

In defense of Roger wasn't he only appointed as caretaker coach in 1998 when John Northey was sacked mid-season after vastly underachieving with the list they had?

 

[Covertackle]

Thompson brings respect
Bolton brings a coaching manual

that is a shallow argument.
I see Bolton as a Gus Gould (extremely successful young coach who never played rep footy. extremely cerebral coach) in an AFL personality. Bomber he been there sure, but he is just above mediocre, he has only worked with good lists.

Bolton had 5 shots (with a good list) at a time when player focus would have been all over the place. but they listened to him, he directed them and came out with an 100% win rate.