Couldn't agree less with this one Sanders.
Sure you can, try harder
1. There is no pattern to picking the right coach. Don't confuse yourself trying to find the magic formula. Every setup is so complex that it's not worth looking at a particular coach without accepting that the reason for success is the entire picture. Take Clarkson out and plonk him in another team does not ensure success, same as putting in a rookie doesn't ensure failure.
Not sure I said there was a pattern. I said 2 things
That I could not think of a senior director / young coach setup that's worked. That's not about a magic formula, that's observation
I also said its about risk, and managing risk
2. Tore a hole in the fabric? What fabric are you talking about? Interested to hear what was torn. Feels more like removing a growing virus to me.
What we did may have been right, but it wasn't fair. Unless it was action related, I.e. He did something; it looks like an overall assessment of capability. Fine, I've never been a real fan of him as coach. But if he was sucking, did we tell him? If he lost the players that didn't happen overnight, it's a gradual thing. So we must have known a long time out. We extended him. It certainly looks a bolt from the blue
I think it was more about sending a message that we're the new, ruthless AFC than anything. I wouldn't have extended him, I'd have let him go. But nonetheless what we did is not the same as what we did. Seems we sacrificed him for PR
Which I'm ok with, but you need to have someone better in the wings. We must have known he wasn't up to it for a long time
You and I both know this is most probably a dumb kneejerk reaction without planning. Even if it was the right call
3. The new coach and sando's sacking are not linked. If Sando was sacked because of what he did / didn't do ... then that is one thing. Your suggestion that we keep someone who should be sacked because we are scared of what we might replace him with is crazy talk. As far as your "rookie coaches have a draft pick like success rate" - well only one coach wins each year. Tell me who is a successful coach, at the team they coach right now? Hawks, Sydney, Port? How did they get their man?
I could not think the new coach and the old coach's situation could be more closely linked. It's about planning and not going off half cocked.
Longmire, like Chris Scott and Alan Joyce at the Hawks in the 1980's took over already built clubs, I'm not ready to call them successful coaches in their own right just yet.
Clarko is the exception. And it only strengthens my point, look how few examples there are. Just because sloane was pick 44, it doesn't make the intrinsic worth of pick 44 any higher.
Rookie coaches are a lottery with poor odds.
Then, like a lot of people, you state that you aren't saying it's the wrong call - even if the points above sort of say that you do ... and then to cry that we are now "hostages to fortune" like somehow we werent before Sando was sacked.
Easy to knock down, hard to provide an alternative. What should the club have done exactly - tell me - not what they shouldn't have done. Hindsight is too easy.
I can't see how tt is is applicable at all. Not having a replacement lined up is my criticism, not having planned it when it's been apparent a long while is my criticism. How on earth is that not suggesting an alternative?
My alternative is to do the opposite of those things!

No hindsight needed. Don't extend, let him know he's on notice and have a contingency in place.