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Analysis The Sack List: who stays, who goes in an AFC cleanout?

Who would you sack?

  • Chief Executive Andrew Fagan

  • Chairman Rob Chapman

  • Board member and powerbroker Mark Ricciuto

  • Football Operations Manager Brett Burton

  • High Performance Manager Matt Hass

  • Senior Coach Don Pyke

  • Defence Coach Ben Hart

  • Midfield Coach Scott Camporeale

  • Ruck Coach Matthew Clarke

  • Forward Coach Josh Francou

  • Sack the entire board

  • Chief Operating Officer Nigel Smart

  • Media Manager Ian Shuttleworth

  • 2019 Defence Coach Marty Mattner

  • 2019 Midfield Coach Michael Godden


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No need to delve into the back story - we all know what's going on. The real questions are: who needs to lose their job over this dog's breakfast, and even more importantly, will anyone be sacked at all?

An organisation is only as good as its people. Footy is a performance-driven industry if ever there was one, but certain people do not seem to have gotten the memo. It is clear that the only way to reverse this astonishing fall from grace is to move on underperformers.

Have at it. Who is responsible and who gets a pass?
 
Nuked from Orbit
Brett Burton - for hiring an organization as bullshit and unqualified as Collective Minds

Terminated
Matt Hass - head of the fitness program during a disaster injury run
Mark Ricciuto - key figure responsible for hiring Burton, who is unqualified
Ben Hart - incompetent defensive coach, boys club hire, definitely not the best candidate
Rob Chapman - chairman of the board during this disaster and the Tippett disaster

Contract Not Renewed
Scott Camporeale - time for some change in the midfield coaching group
Matthew Clarke - time for some change in the ruck coaching group (but continues as AFLW coach)
 

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Nuked from Orbit
Brett Burton - for hiring an organization as bullshit and unqualified as Collective Minds

Terminated
Matt Hass - head of the fitness program during a disaster injury run
Mark Ricciuto - key figure responsible for hiring Burton, who is unqualified
Ben Hart - incompetent defensive coach, boys club hire, definitely not the best candidate
Rob Chapman - chairman of the board during this disaster and the Tippett disaster

Contract Not Renewed
Scott Camporeale - time for some change in the midfield coaching group
Matthew Clarke - time for some change in the ruck coaching group (but continues as AFLW coach)
Agree completely. But christ the media would have a field day with this.
 
Nuked from Orbit
Brett Burton - for hiring an organization as bullshit and unqualified as Collective Minds

Terminated
Matt Hass - head of the fitness program during a disaster injury run
Mark Ricciuto - key figure responsible for hiring Burton, who is unqualified
Ben Hart - incompetent defensive coach, boys club hire, definitely not the best candidate
Rob Chapman - chairman of the board during this disaster and the Tippett disaster

Contract Not Renewed
Scott Camporeale - time for some change in the midfield coaching group
Matthew Clarke - time for some change in the ruck coaching group (but continues as AFLW coach)
Looks good to me
 
Please add Smart to the poll. I'm not sure what he does but he's part of the bad smell emanating from the club.

Burton needs to go now. Not at the end of the year, not when a suitable job comes up for him. Now.

Whoever is in charge of our SANFL setup (if it's not Burton) also needs to be shown the door.

Performance manage the shit out of Haas and the assistant coaches.
 

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Please add Smart to the poll. I'm not sure what he does but he's part of the bad smell emanating from the club.

Burton needs to go now. Not at the end of the year, not when a suitable job comes up for him. Now.

Whoever is in charge of our SANFL setup (if it's not Burton) also needs to be shown the door.

Performance manage the shit out of Haas and the assistant coaches.
Smarty now in the poll
 
Sack Fagan and Chapman.

Their replacements can take a view on what to do with everyone else after seeing them in action for some time.

It’s hard to judge an individual when the overall environment is poor.
 
I've gone for

Chapman - Was lucky to survive the Tippett sandal, but now another mess under his watch makes his position completely untenable.

The Turdman - this is the man most culpable for destroying both our 2018 season and potentially the fabric of the club if the rumours of infighting are actually true.

Matt Hass - A Burton disciple who has essentially has been served a shit sandwich by his mentor, but ultimately has to also take the fall for the disaster.

Ben Hart - Spent a number of years previously as a defensive coach before going over to Collingwood where he was ultimately let go. He's never really been rated all that highly and is essentially just a dirt cheap option that was quick and easy solution. A vanilla coach that only has a job because he's one of the boys and has a cheap price tag.

Matthew Clarke - Why is this guy still at the club ? He's been there through the Craig years, the Sanderson era and now the Pyke era. He was a tap ruckman who in my opinion struggled the read the game as a player. Should have been moved on 5 years+ ago.

Campo - another guy who has been at the club way too long, I have never been the biggest fan of his midfield setups and think that it's time for him to be moved on and some new ideas brought in.

I'd be telling Roo to pull his head in and letting him stay on the proviso that the job for the boys mentality stops now. Fagan is another who needs a rocket put under him, time to follow through with his "best candidates" policy rather than allowing the club to give jobs to cheap options.
 
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In an ideal world...

Burton - This one hurts for me personally, I was head of the Brett Burton fan club in my younger years & viscously defended him through his maligned playing days & I need him to leave before I start to hate the man who was also the friendliest footballer I ever met as a youngster.

Give Ricciuto the option to either quit his media positions and work full time in an area at the club or resign.

Others that are self explanatory:

Chapman
Hass
Camporeale
Clarke

Not sure we can sack Hart 1 year in due to the ‘soft-cap’ & coaches association so just move him to a graveyard position in the reserves team
 

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Burton and Haas.
Cancel contract with CM.

Roo to be reigned in a bit. Stop hiring his mates. He is a Board member not an employee. He has a lot of value in this role, just not in hiring key staff.

Ben Hart. He was sacked at Collingwood and unwanted by every other Vic club.

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In reality the board members should be wanting everyone’s heads, how can they be happy that this sort of shit is going on?
It was obvious our injury management would get worse as soon as Burton & Haas was hired, a simple google search could see that they failed in their past roles at Brisbane.
 
In reality the board members should be wanting everyone’s heads, how can they be happy that this sort of shit is going on?
It was obvious our injury management would get worse as soon as Burton & Haas was hired, a simple google search could see that they failed in their past roles at Brisbane.

The board is the root of our problem
 
Burton - This one hurts for me personally, I was head of the Brett Burton fan club in my younger years & viscously defended him through his maligned playing days & I need him to leave before I start to hate the man who was also the friendliest footballer I ever met as a youngster.

Are we talking valvoline viscous or penrite viscous?
 

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