The AFL's top 10 worst coaches
- Thread starter dirty2
- Start date
- Tagged users None
Justin davies? Was a forward utensil!All star backline of Davies,bower.watson.
Thornton .Russell.
Ratten daylight Bolton
how many games did he play? 10?Marcus actually clown
Stable member of the team
It definitely had some holes, but had some massive weapons as well.
Mark Neeld for me off the top of my head!
- Mar 28, 2018
- 10,491
- 8,454
- AFL Club
- GWS
Actually at $6 it's not a silly bet. It's all about probability and value. On round 1 form you'd say Freo's best could pull it off.Damien Drum the worst for Fremantle and that's at a club that could argue for at least 3 out of the top 10, and in only 25 years.
13 wins - 44 loses, including 9 straight to start 2001.
https://thewest.com.au/sport/freman...y-about-then-coach-damian-drum-ng-b881105868z
A bit of a beat up of a story but still, you'd be mad to put money on Fremantle to beat GWS this Saturday but I'm still hoping that's not the conversation Lyon is having with the players.
Sttew
Brownlow Medallist
Tony Jewell, 1980 premiership coach?
Sttew
Brownlow Medallist
Polly Farmer was one of Geelongās worst coaches. Gambling took precedence
Mick Malthouse, Carlton edition, needs to be mentioned here. No-one has destroyed a club as entirely in my lifetime.
Took over a young, developing team with a mandate to 'put them over the top'. A team that played fast, exciting football, had a host of young stars just entering their primes, and where the sky was the limit. When he left, the team was last placed, and needing a '3 year rebuild' to recover from the damage.
He had a forward line based around fast, quick small forwards who applied defensive pressure (Betts, Garlett, Armfield, Robinson) and mobile bigs (Waite,
Walker). He instituted a game play based around kicking long and slow around the boundary line to contests and moved Walker into defence. By the time he finished, Betts, Garlett, Waite and Robinson had left the club.
He had a backline with versatile, athletic but undersized players who were best at zoning and reading the play (eg: Henderson, Thornton, Laidler, Bower, Watson) and fast, running defenders who rebounded (Yarran, Touhy). Played strict man to man defence, with no zoning allowed. He insisted on playing Henderson forward. By the time he finished, Henderson, Yarran, Russell and Laidler had left the club, and the rest of the young defence was gone from the league, confidence shot.
He had a midfield entering its prime: Judd, Simpson, Carazzo, Murphy, Gibbs, all aged 22-27 when he took over the team, plus solid pieces around them also in the 22-27 age bracket (McLean, Bell, Curnow, Russell). By the time he finished, McLean, Bell, Curnow, Carazzo and Judd had finished their careers, and the primes of the rest were squandered.
Honestly, if he'd been a plant by Eddie McGuire to destroy Carlton once and for all, I wouldn't be surprised.
Took over a young, developing team with a mandate to 'put them over the top'. A team that played fast, exciting football, had a host of young stars just entering their primes, and where the sky was the limit. When he left, the team was last placed, and needing a '3 year rebuild' to recover from the damage.
He had a forward line based around fast, quick small forwards who applied defensive pressure (Betts, Garlett, Armfield, Robinson) and mobile bigs (Waite,
Walker). He instituted a game play based around kicking long and slow around the boundary line to contests and moved Walker into defence. By the time he finished, Betts, Garlett, Waite and Robinson had left the club.
He had a backline with versatile, athletic but undersized players who were best at zoning and reading the play (eg: Henderson, Thornton, Laidler, Bower, Watson) and fast, running defenders who rebounded (Yarran, Touhy). Played strict man to man defence, with no zoning allowed. He insisted on playing Henderson forward. By the time he finished, Henderson, Yarran, Russell and Laidler had left the club, and the rest of the young defence was gone from the league, confidence shot.
He had a midfield entering its prime: Judd, Simpson, Carazzo, Murphy, Gibbs, all aged 22-27 when he took over the team, plus solid pieces around them also in the 22-27 age bracket (McLean, Bell, Curnow, Russell). By the time he finished, McLean, Bell, Curnow, Carazzo and Judd had finished their careers, and the primes of the rest were squandered.
Honestly, if he'd been a plant by Eddie McGuire to destroy Carlton once and for all, I wouldn't be surprised.
- May 21, 2015
- 4,508
- 6,785
- AFL Club
- Richmond
Bolton has had how many first round draft picks, and has been coach at Carlton for how many years now? most decent coaches have made progress by their forth year, Brendon Bolton has taken Carlton backwards every year
Sttew
Brownlow Medallist
Hardwick. Bomber Thompson
James Hird went close to bringing down a (nearly) 150 year old club. That takes real effort.
For clueless on-field Tony Shaw, Damien Drum, Tim Watson, and Danny Frawley are all pretty bad.
Sttew
Brownlow Medallist
And to think there is serious talk of Hird returning
- Jan 13, 2004
- 8,387
- 13,753
- AFL Club
- Western Bulldogs
- Other Teams
- Harry's Heroes
Havenāt read whole thread but Mark Neeld has to be number one, the damage he caused to an already struggling team was so monumental that itād take a serious effort to dislodge him from top spot.
James Hird would like to challenge this statement...in the supreme court...more than once...infact, he'll take it all the way to CAS!
gingernuts
binlicker
Matthew Knights
gingernuts
binlicker
St kildas Malcolm Blight
Cotchins Hair Piece
Bouffant Flat Top
- Mar 6, 2019
- 4,774
- 10,355
- AFL Club
- Melbourne
Bolton. Close thread.
Sttew
Brownlow Medallist
To his credit, Neeld had a fairly awful bunch of players with which to work
- May 21, 2015
- 4,508
- 6,785
- AFL Club
- Richmond
Both had gotten their teams to finals by their forth years
Neesham is under rated - shouldnt have been let near recruiting but a lot of what he did changed the game of footy.
Would have been interesting to see what he could have done with a decent list.
Surely Paul
Cancelled
- Jul 9, 2017
- 355
- 359
- AFL Club
- Richmond
Why didn't they appoint this guy called Noone as coach then?
Brad Scott
