Mega Thread The Next AFC Coach?

Who do you think will be the next coach

  • Stuart Dew

    Votes: 73 17.0%
  • Leigh Tudor

    Votes: 17 4.0%
  • Scott Burns

    Votes: 5 1.2%
  • Peter Sumich

    Votes: 14 3.3%
  • Nathan Bassett

    Votes: 145 33.7%
  • John Blakey

    Votes: 7 1.6%
  • Brendon Bolton

    Votes: 47 10.9%
  • Alastair Clarkson

    Votes: 85 19.8%
  • Brett Kirk

    Votes: 7 1.6%
  • OTHER

    Votes: 30 7.0%

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The one thing I am wondering (hoping perhaps more accurately) is that we're wanting to announce the full set up at the same time.

Coach, senior assistant, list manager, any assistant coach changes. Rather than drip feed info that only shows part of the picture.
This is the only thing that makes sense.


I do hope we put in a DOC/Strategy and innovation as well as a senior assistant. One to work with coach and assistants on game plan. And one to work with the coach and assistants on man management.

We certainly need to have a more formidable and dynamic coaches box on game day too.
 

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Walsh as director of coaching does sound like a great get with Dew as senior coach..

The targeting of Walsh sounds very much Stewart inspired to me.. I'm hoping Stewart is having a big say because I know how close he is with Rendell
Then all we would need is Francou as midfield coach, Primus as ruck coach and Tredrea as forwards coach. We'd be fully smeared! ;)
 

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Rucci in the rag this morning reckons Bass didn't get the job because he won his premierships at Norwood with a defensive game and the Crows have to appoint a coach that will have an entertaining game style so that the 19th man can be appeased.
OMFG, such a bitter stupid campaigner.

….where's that swear jar being talked about 10 or so pages back?
 

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I doubt it will be the last we see of Bassett, unfortunately the next time we see him it may be coaching another team and kicking our butt.
I wonder if we passed on him because he wasn't good enough or because we weren't brave enough.
I just cant shake the feeling that perhaps this will be remembered as the offseason we passed on bassett...not the offseason that we signed *insert leftfield coach name here*
 

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Then all we would need is Francou as midfield coach, Primus as ruck coach and Tredrea as forwards coach. We'd be fully smeared! ;)
Replace Primus with Lade and we have the makings of a decent coaching panel. I rate Francou as a coach. Did a great job with North. Had them playing the game the right way.
Dew as HC, Walsh as DOC, Francou midfield, Milburn defense, ROK forwards, Lade rucks/stoppages, Bicks channel 9 and Treds mentoring JJ and Tex.
 

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The mysterious Roo virus shattered us in 06. I can remember laughing my arse off during games at how dominant we were.

06 was the one that got away.
It wasn't just Roo's virus. Trent Hentschel was massively important for us as well. He was our best key forward and on target to kick 50 odd goals in a season before he did his knee in a showdown. Losing both Roo and Rowdy robbed us of most of our firepower up forward and that was our weakness. We have a better forward line now than we did in 2006.
 

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I doubt it will be the last we see of Bassett, unfortunately the next time we see him it may be coaching another team and kicking our butt.
I wonder if we passed on him because he wasn't good enough or because we weren't brave enough.
I just cant shake the feeling that perhaps this will be remembered as the offseason we passed on bassett...not the offseason that we signed *insert leftfield coach name here*
If it comes down to who was better between Walsh and Bassett. Bass would lose all day at every Club interview process.

Walsh is one of those blue chip footy names, said with the same amount of reverence as the likes of Roos, Cook, Pert .... largely considered to be the best of his kind in his chosen field within the game

He is an A grader, that finally looks like he has designs on a senior coach after a decade of being considered the smartest bloke in the box wherever he goes. Walsh is what Bass might be in 10 years.
 

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I agree. If you take a coaches primary role to get players to improve on previous years output or even better have a career year then it makes compulsive reading.


Mackay - Improved on last few years.
Jaensch - Massive improvement, career year
Talia - Massive improvement, career year
Smith - Massive improvement, career year
Luke Brown - Improved, best year to date
Hartigan - Showed definite potential

Rest of team - Sauce improvement, rest backwards or tread water

I think Clark and Dasher should definitely stay if the new coach likes them but I would love to see the rest refreshed.
Bicks to the SANFL coaching role just feels right somehow.

I'd say Mackay hasn't improved . He is the one player who could take his game to the next level. The AFC are good at developing our kids to be good SANFL players and then C grade AFL players and then they stop... Too many to name
 

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Walsh maybe....Left field, maybe Bass hasn't been asked to present a 2nd time because the 1st was good enough?
Rucci in the rag this morning reckons Bass didn't get the job because he won his premierships at Norwood with a defensive game and the Crows have to appoint a coach that will have an entertaining game style so that the 19th man can be appeased.
Crikey, the BS that man prints!
Incidentally, he has an alter ego on the 'tiser blogs called 'Kym'. Get over there and have a go at him. He slags off the Crows after every article Rucci vomits into that online paper.
Rucci is only running it as speculation because Bass is an ex crow. We all know the shit storm that will swirl in the media if an ex crow dares get the job (again). Rowie and bones heads will explode with fury (however anything less than malthouse for those two probably would do it).
 

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But if Thompson stays Bassett won't - reportedly they don't get on at all.
Why does that not surprise me?

There is a very good reason why Thompson doesn't get along with Bass and why the Crows overlooked him..
If I were Roo I'd be looking for a very very safe pair of hands to run our club or else another disaster and our club is officially a basket case with a likely mass walkout of players.

And as you have seen Free Agency only helps the strong clubs. Right now I think we are the least desirable club in the AFL for a player to go to, maybe just in front of bulldogs and Melbourne..

Roo must get this next appointment right. And that is putting together a team of coaches who will work well together ..
 

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If it comes down to who was better between Walsh and Bassett. Bass would lose all day at every Club interview process.

Walsh is one of those blue chip footy names, said with the same amount of reverence as the likes of Roos, Cook, Pert .... largely considered to be the best of his kind in his chosen field within the game

He is an A grader, that finally looks like he has designs on a senior coach after a decade of being considered the smartest bloke in the box wherever he goes. Walsh is what Bass might be in 10 years.
its a wonder no one mentioned him two days ago.
we had a little poll and everything...:rolleyes: so how much of the 6.2% vote in the 'OTHER' category belongs to phil walsh?
Who says walsh is the head coach anyway?
 
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I heard that the list manager will be named after the draft to allow him to sort out players contracts in his current role (if it is Justin Reid as is being rumoured). Has anyone heard any different? And to keep it relevant... Does anyone know who are next coach will be?


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Would getting walshy be upsetting for the PAP fans?


Go Walshy you good thing!!
Its an absolute blast reading the Smears board at the moment. Talk about a meltdown. Those flogs actually think we wanted Haysman as our CEO but he turned us down. Everyone knows he was desperate for the job but the Crows could not employ a CEO who presided over the crisis at PAP where they nearly went bankrupt.
And the funny thing is that Walshy is going to be paid alot more than Kern is paid at the Smears.
 

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I reckon Walsh would be a very shrewd choice for the main job. When I first heard him mentioned it made me think back to an interesting article the Guardian published earlier this year:

"The coaching ranks of the AFL, whose tactical weaponry has been so derivative of foreign football leagues in the past two decades, remain noticeable immune from influence in one key area: by and large, the demographic profile of AFL coaches skews younger than that of the other codes.

In the NFL, the average age of the head coach is 52.7 while in the AFL that number currently sits at 44.8, a significant figure. All bar eight of the NFL’s 32 coaches are over the age of 50 with the oldest being 67-year-old New York Giants boss Tom Coughlin, and Pete Carroll who coached Seattle Seahawks to the Super Bowl last season is 62. Grey temples are just as common a sight in the English Premier League with the average age of its managers currently sitting at 50.7."

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...uld-realise-old-coaches-are-beautiful-coaches
 

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Sauce left Carlton not in best 22 and now is top 3 ruck in comp

Angus is a spud and was never AFL level, can't blame Doc

JJ spends more time training with forwards so Doc has limited time with him

Smack, he is just all over the shop
Cannot be serious!

Sauce was coming into his own as a ruckman, just look at his final against Mumford and that will tell you all you need to know. He was cherry ripe to have a breakout year.

McKernan on the list for how long and couldn't get it. Jenkins' ruckwork has not improved from his first season with is. Marić and Griffen leave the Crows and immediately blossom into very good ruckman.

Matthew Clarke has not developed a single ruckman in his time as a ruck coach and is the first one that should be shown the door. A very nice bloke but a shit coach!
 

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But you know better, right?

Sure, professionals make mistakes in all fields. But would you ask anyone on this forum for a serious legal opinion or to diagnose an illness because the professionals sometimes get it wrong?
Seriously, with experiencing first hand some of the appalling 'health professionals' in the adelaide system in recent weeks, I'd happily take advice from people in here over them.
 

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Why bother reading Rucci? He had his anti Crows column lined up no matter who we hired.

Bass: Crows hire ex-Crow, can't handle outside influences.
Bolton: Fire rookie coach to hire rookie coach. What were they thinking?
Walsh: They want to copy Port Adelaide.

He's a troll at this point. Don't even be bothered by anything he writes since he has no credibility.
 

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its a wonder no one mentioned him two days ago.
we had a little poll and everything...:rolleyes: so how much of the 6.2% vote in the OTHER category belongs to phil walsh?
Who says walsh is the head coach anyway?
Probably because he is not one of those same 10 names we always see because he is not one who constantly applies for any and all senior job every year when 4 coaches get sacked.

I'd have never put his name in the mix purely because he never has shown any interest. If that has changed, fantastic. Employ him, employ him now. No one had Fagan in any mix either.
 
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