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Mega Thread The Next AFC Coach?
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jenny61_99
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This appears to be an issue with most coaches.
Or they may have spoken to Dew management
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Not the good ones.
jenny61_99
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No, sorry I should have said most unsuccessful ones. Sando, Buckley, Voss. All of the same era.
This exactly.
Bass coaching is a very romantic notion. No room for romance in footy.
Ask jarmen
The romance is largely with the Norwood contingent of Crows supporters
I just want the best person available
Should I take the day off?
No, I'd say tommorow the news trail will start to raise heads! I've got a good indication we will have a coach this week
I mentioned this before and had rocks thrown at me.
Agree with what you've said here, basically the same thoughts that are running through my head.
Its probably a touch early for Bassett, my ideal would be a coach >40 years old who has had experience at multiple clubs along with success at junior grades.
However, beyond perhaps Clarkson and Longmire, who probably aren't really available anyway, there's not many in the field that particularly excite me and when I look at Bassett, I love what he was able to do at Norwood.
He has essentially turned a club from a basket case, to one primed for success well into the future over the space of 3-4 years. What he has also done though is show a real capacity to get the absolute best out of his players, he has turned average SANFL footballers, into gun SANFL players and decent AFL footballers. It would be interesting to see what he could do with players with a higher level of talent.
One thing that I think defines the absolute best coaches, is they can make average footballers look like A-Graders and if Bass could translate what he did at SANFL level to AFL level he will make for an extremely good coach and perhaps he is the best option, with some senior heads around him.
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If it's Bolton, our club will get much media attention with all his press conferences......
The only trick he needs up his sleeve is a huge wad of money.
He'd be less romantic than Bickley or Goodwin coaching us though...
Have those two got a thing going??
It wasn't 3-4 years, it was 1 year. In his first year he took Norwood to 2nd, a kick and a broken jaw to Phillips away from winning the flag from the juggernaut Centrals.
Yes there is romance from Norwood supporters but that's because we've witnessed first hand what he is capable of. Our club right now needs hope and a coach that will inspire supporters. Clarkson has that in spades but he's not coming. Bassett is capable of bringing that. I don't buy into only 1 year in the AFL system. He had a long AFL career as a player. He coached a club for 4 years and has now had another year in the AFL as a coach.
He's a strong individual who could handle the load.
But alas I doubt we will pick him. If we go with the safe option of a Ratten then that will be disappointing, he will be a good choice but not great.
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I don't consider Dew as the right fit for the AFC, but that's from my distant view. As Mike Smyth said this appointment is so important. We just cannot have sacked Sando and cast our fate to the winds! Bassett put Norwood back together where other coaches over many years had failed. He has the runs on the board. I fail to see how the unproven Dew, even with a couple of extra years at assistant AFL level, (and excluding the calibre of his girlfriends) can be compared with Bassett.
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If we think Bass is "maybe 12-24 months off ready" we'll miss out on him.
Even better than Clarko now would be to land the next Clarko.
We want a 10-year coach to build a dynasty. Bass is the man, and build around him all he needs. Get the off-field employees elite & stable, and increasingly players will see that we're an exciting destination.
But even if we get Clarkson (ha!), how long would we have him?
We should not settle for a spike, we want to build an Everest!
Even better than Clarko now would be to land the next Clarko.
We want a 10-year coach to build a dynasty. Bass is the man, and build around him all he needs. Get the off-field employees elite & stable, and increasingly players will see that we're an exciting destination.
But even if we get Clarkson (ha!), how long would we have him?
We should not settle for a spike, we want to build an Everest!
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If we're getting a coach on calibre of gf's, Sloaney should be captain coach !!!
So true, but really the AFC has shocked everyone by being so decisive and unforgiving in it's sacking of sando, drawing vitriol from journos and Football identities all over Australia.
To act that way, then promise drastic change - a revolution as this board is calling it, and say we will get the best of the best people in the right places to take the club towards a premiership, and then to appoint Bassett, an untried AFL senior coach - an ex-player no less who will be seen as more of the same and a new boys club member, will take amateurism to a level never before thought attainable. I hope the AFC is better prepared than that.
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