The AFL's top 10 worst coaches
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Ken Hinkley at the very least saw his team into a prelim, there's a handful of coaches who've done a lot worse - Port's previous coach, Matthew Primus, being one of them
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Surely Mark Neeld takes the cake
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1: Mark Neeld
2: Brendan Bolton
3: Hart
4: Judge
5: Watson
6: Brittain
7: Ditterich
8: Gellie
9: Graeme John
10:Buckenara
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Brendon Bolton is easily in the conversation
And he has grossly underachieved ever since ! All whilst having resources that Primus couldn’t even dream about getting.
Just quietly recon Phil Walsh played a much bigger part in 2014 than most people give him credit for !
Ken Judge was a very good coach. I know because he was my coach for a year. He took the Sharks to 2 premierships. He did inherit 2 AFL clubs in transition and has been deemed a bad coach for it. Of course all you Hawks and Eagles just overestimated your teams abilities just like every supporter does.
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Surely Hird and Neeld get short-listed?
Possibly because the thread was bumped from 2007. It would have been an impressive level of foresight to nominate Mark Neeld then.
Remember that period of a few years where whenever a new coach was hired, people in the media would wonder why Kenny Hinkley couldn't get a senior gig because he was so brilliant?
Maybe those club boards are better than we give them credit for.
Maybe those club boards are better than we give them credit for.
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1. Don Pyke
1 Kevin Murray (34 games, no wins)
2 Buckenara
3 Brian Dixon (hopeless)
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5 Bill Twomey (the elder)
6 Mark Neeld
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10 Graham Gellie
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If primus was given half the stuff Hinkley has he would had been more successful than Kenny has been
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If he gets sacked tomorrow in 2 years time he will all of a sudden be the greatest coach like Ratten that should never of been sacked.
Ratten has comments like this as well on here when he was a coach but all of a sudden he was a coaching messiah after we sacked him while still never being offered a role since.
I am sure if we sack Bolts the threads in support of him will be everywhere while the pot shots at the club will be abundant and the internet wants blood followed by hindsight internet heroism.
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Wait till he finishes his career before making this call.
Knights did have time and a chance to be honest. His time as the inaugural coach of Brisbane, fair enough. His time at Hawthorn, different story. Knights took over a TFL side that was top of the ladder, in his year(s) there took them to the spoon. After he got the Hawthorn gig, and left that TFL side won the premiership...
A great player not a great coach imo.
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At least Ratten was able to get Carlton to finals and was even able to win one which to get a side like Carlton there would take a real good effort, Brendon Bolton hasn't even looked close to even making finals
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So give it a few weeks
Primus.
Beat me by a moment
