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Who will be our next Coach?

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TheSunGod said:
Interesting. Harbs has his shortcomings as a player but to apparently be singled out by Bluey seems out of character. We were comprehensively thrashed all over the park in the last Qclash, not just Harbs.

Edit: sorry, just read who the author of the article is...:rolleyes:
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Looked at the author first and decided it would be 5 minutes of my life I'd never get back...
 

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TheSunGod said:
Interesting. Harbs has his shortcomings as a player but to apparently be singled out by Bluey seems out of character. We were comprehensively thrashed all over the park in the last Qclash, not just Harbs.

Edit: sorry, just read who the author of the article is...:rolleyes:
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I find it interesting to read Harbs reaction to this. I don't know what was said as I was not there, but witnessed at another game this season, a player cop a post match spray from Bluey which left him in tears. If anyone has a right to complain it would be this player haha. What Harbs copped must have been bad
 
It's hard to buy into this story when all quotes and sources contradict what is being reported. Like, entirely.

If I wrote something like that in college with all sources contradicting me I'd get a fail for sure.
 
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Caro: 'I believe the Suns are of the view that Guy McKenna isn't the coach to take them to be a regular finals performer'
Now we all know where she gets her information from right !!!
 

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Post season questions:
GOLD Coast Suns coach Guy McKenna sits down to discuss some of the big issues facing the club after a year of ups and downs.

Q: THE 2014 year started with a bang but tapered off, how would you rate the season?

A: PROGRESS. What we’ll learn from the season is something we couldn’t do on the training track. Gary (Ablett)’s injury and other players missing in the second half of the season certainly made it difficult. But to see Dion Prestia, Tom Lynch and David Swallow get through that period, and Harley Bennell and Jaeger O’Meara. We were probably more consistent with our best side out there for longer.

Q: WHAT do you think was the biggest positive of the year?

A: OUR ability to sustain some good football. We played patches of really good, contested, exciting football. (And) the style of football that was put against us by the opposition that we’d normally struggled against.

Q: AT the other end of the scale, what about the negatives.

A: I wouldn’t say it’s a negative but you play a combative sport and injuries play a part. Our depth was tested and with personnel going down we were stretched. Every one will talk about Gary going out but we lost Brandon Matera and Charlie Dixon upfront, Steven May and Trent McKenzie missing down back for periods of time which didn’t help stability.

Q: THERE was a media report that painted a less-than-rosy picture of the environment and some player disharmony, and an internal review being brought forward, was that the case?

A: YOU probably have 30 players on a list who tick the club off, tick the environment off because they’re probably the ones playing. I certainly haven’t picked up any disharmony from players. To suggest we are underdeveloped I don’t know how you can say that when three 22-year-olds finished 1-2-3 in or best and fairest.

Q: IT appeared you became increasingly frustrated with the questions about Gary Ablett and the team’s ability to perform without him. Were those questions justified?

A: THEY They were certainly hard to avoid. Is Gary a very good player? Clearly he is. Does he affect us like Chris Judd affects Carlton? Probably to a degree. We will win when Gary’s not playing, I know that is going to happen and it will happen regularly. I still think it’s a bit of a stretch to ask our group to do that right now.

Q: IN his absence you had your vice-captains rotate through the captaincy on game day. Is that a model you will continue with next season or has someone stamped themselves as his successor?

A: IT’S interesting because it’s not a model I liked but I could see the merits in it. With Nathan Bock being injured I was probably leaning towards Michael Rischitelli but he was the first to say ‘it’s a great opportunity, give these boys a chance to grow’. I’m glad he did. The individual growth of those boys was enormous.

Q: DO you have any specific fixturing requests of the AFL for next season?

A: THE problem for us is our scheduling on a Sunday with a 4.40pm game. The airport shuts here on the Gold Coast (11pm curfew). Marcus Ashcroft stands there with like a cattle hose as the boys come off and drenches them. It’s about a half-hour swing-around, it’s ridiculous. Ask Brisbane to play the 4.40s because Brisbane’s airport stays open. Just cut us some slack and make it fair and reasonable. The AFL might argue ‘just stay over’ but that’s just another cost that we don’t have to have. Move the game an hour earlier and there’s no issue. That gives us 90 minutes after the game and then you can actually recover.

Q: WHAT type of players are you targeting during the free agency and trade periods?

A: EXPERIENCE is priority number one. With Bock, Matthew Warnock and Tom Murphy going out of the side ... any type of experienced player. I’m not talking coming up here on a pension, I’m talking someone who is really going to add some value and some grunt, forward or back, or through the midfield.

Q: THERE were times in the run home where they looked tired. How do you address this? Do you ease off in pre-season?

A: WE really can’t afford to (ease off). With Stephen Schwerdt coming on board and how he used to train Adelaide we’re going to be a lot closer to an AFL-standard.

Q: SOME clubs are moving away from the altitude pre-season camps. You guys are going back to the States. What are the tangible benefits and is it a cost-effective way to prepare a side?

A: THE physiological gains are there. The other part of the benefit was getting the boys together to know each other. Flagstaff where we’ve been before, it’s a two-street town so it’s hard to live on your phone. They live in each other’s pockets, share rooms, they get to know each other, certainly the competitive environment comes out.(The players) are still voting for it. If they turn around and say ‘we’ve had enough of this’ we’ll say OK.

Q: TRAVIS Auld, he was obviously a prime mover in the formation of the club, what sort of impact has he had on the team?

A: HE’S had players over for dinner. Liam Patrick was famous for going over there and playing his guitar. Trav had a good relationship with the players on that level. I remember Charlie Dixon and Rory Thompson and a few others at the early stages looking at a jumper and (having a say in) the design of the jumper. For him to be accepting and allow the boys into some of those decisions has been quite powerful.

Q: ARE you going to the Grand Final and who is going to win?

A: YES I am and ... I think it will be a Hawthorn and Sydney grand final. It might be a draw. Buddy lights up, Hawthorn kicks straight, I probably only slightly lean towards Hawthorn because they’re just more solid as a team.

Q: WHO is the game’s MVP?

A: I’M biased. Gary just keeps getting better. I’d love him to (win the Brownlow) because his season was so good, but I probably get the smell of Swallow, Lynch, Prestia, Bennell pinching a few votes off him. Maybe Joel Selwood sneaks a vote in the last round and goes past him.
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Bazza37 said:
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Caro: 'I believe the Suns are of the view that Guy McKenna isn't the coach to take them to be a regular finals performer'
Now we all know where she gets her information from right !!!
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I hate Caro's reporting, I truly do. But if she reports something she generally has some form of facts behind it.. I'm beginning to believe we won't be seeing bluey next year.
 
If we get rid of Bluey for someone like Voss or if we promote Primus I will lose it. I hate the prospect of sacking Bluey, but I can at least understand it if we get a damn good Coach to replace him with. Not a lot of them around though.

I still think we need more development and assistant Coaches. It would make a huge difference.
 
Sunny_ said:
If we get rid of Bluey for someone like Voss or if we promote Primus I will lose it. I hate the prospect of sacking Bluey, but I can at least understand it if we get a damn good Coach to replace him with. Not a lot of them around though.

I still think we need more development and assistant Coaches. It would make a huge difference.
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Couldn't have said it better myself! Spot on.
 

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SUNS said:
I find it interesting to read Harbs reaction to this. I don't know what was said as I was not there, but witnessed at another game this season, a player cop a post match spray from Bluey which left him in tears. If anyone has a right to complain it would be this player haha. What Harbs copped must have been bad
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Bluey has be accused of demanding size, strength, speed. Players of better pedigree have accused mKenna of neglecting skills in pursuit of physical pursuit of footballler perfection. Hell knows he got the list.....

JARED HARBROW May not fit the mould of Blueys supreme footballer, but Harbrows heart wouldnt fit in McKennas chest, nor in most of Harbrows team mates chests either. Most of them showed their heartlesness during Abletts absence! But not Jared! He stood up! The coach didnt!

Harbrow has a go. He isnt big, he isnt scintillationaly fast, he isnt a strongman. But he is frequently out best 6 on ground.

If MacKenna had Harbrow in tears, then sack MacKenna, keep harbrow, because i value heart over the strutting, pretending, only just performing coach we put up with year after year in the excuse that it is our young superstars letting him down.

Freo had guts. So did port. They identified mediocrity and kicked its ass out.

Harbrow in tears because of thar pretender of a coach we have.....wow. Get rid of the bum.
 
tigernova said:
Bluey has be accused of demanding size, strength, speed. Players of better pedigree have accused mKenna of neglecting skills in pursuit of physical pursuit of footballler perfection. Hell knows he got the list.....

JARED HARBROW May not fit the mould of Blueys supreme footballer, but his HEART WOULDnt FIT IN McKennas, nor in most of Harbrows team mates.

Harbrow has a go. He isnt big, he isnt scintillationaly fast, he isnt a strongman. But he is frequently out best 6 on ground.

If MacKenna had Harbrow in tears, then sack MacKenna, keep harbrow, because i value heart over the strutting, pretending, only just performing coach we put up with year after year in the excuse that it is our young superstars letting him down.

Freo had guts. So did port. They identified mediocrity and kicked its ass out.

Harbrow in tears because of thar pretender of a coach we have.....wow. Get rid of the bum.
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Have not watched too many games of Bluey playing football? lol
 
SUNS said:
Have not watched too many games of Bluey playing football? lol
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Not too many winning them....

I love Harbrow. From my RL BACKGROUND, I can see his ability and toughness, willingness to put his small body on the line. There are 20 other players ive attacked first. Harbrow is a goodun.
 
He is a 2 x premiership player. So finding winning games should not be hard.

2 x best and fairest. Captained the eagles for a few years and the Western Australia SOE team at least once.

You don't get that resumé by having a pea heart
 
SUNS said:
He is a 2 x premiership player. So finding winning games should not be hard.

2 x best and fairest. Captained the eagles for a few years and the Western Australia SOE team at least once.

You don't get that resumé by having a pea heart
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And at the end of the day all that means stuff all when it comes to coaching. looks at the resume of Michael Voss 10 times bette and look what happened to him.
Guy McKenna has to go he is holding us back
 
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