The Very Worst

[theGav56]

How dodgy is that paper. Flip-flopping all over the place. As with all the media who have had a long term love of sinking the boots into us, now that they are behaving like sicko-phants (sic) it looks very messy.

I much prefer the Georges and Hags of the world to hate us.

 

[sumavich]

And Ch. 7, having a live x from mainwaring last nite.
Give me a break, Channel EAGLE !!

 

[dockersfan]

Welcome to the world of Bandwagon News

 

[Cheetah]

Everybody loves a winner.

 

[kanabar]

especially when the favourite son got hands down spanked by the little brother...."Supposed little brother".

 

[Borry]

And Ch. 7, having a live x from mainwaring last nite.
Give me a break, Channel EAGLE !!

Wasn't that supposed to be a closed session?

 

[theGav56]

I am so pee'd at todays back page. It is as if Bigfooty Troll has managed to get a gig, and on the biggest day in WA footy they come out with some monstrous lampoon of an idea that has no substance to it. Just ridiculous and foolish.

 

[Kapow!!!]

I am so pee'd at todays back page. It is as if Bigfooty Troll has managed to get a gig, and on the biggest day in WA footy they come out with some monstrous lampoon of an idea that has no substance to it. Just ridiculous and foolish.

What was it about?

 

[Cameron_K]

What was it about?

If Freo win today Connolly COULD ask for an extension.

No fact at all in the speculation, just out the blue.

 

[dockersfan]

I haven't purchased the paper today, doubt that I will

Was this the article that was causing the listeners to call 6PEERAH this morning/arvo?

Connolly on verge of million-dollar contract extension
9th September 2006, 8:00 WST

An historic first finals win for Fremantle against Adelaide at AAMI Stadium today will put coach Chris Connolly on the verge of a lucrative contract extension.


Less than three months after his tenure seemed doomed as the Dockers slumped to 10th on the AFL ladder, Connolly has orchestrated a stunning nine-match winning sequence which has guaranteed his team two games to achieve the club’s pre-season goal of winning a final.

Unless Fremantle endure a disastrous campaign and bow out in straight sets, Connolly’s manager, Colin Young, is expected to ask the club’s hierarchy to tear up the current contract, which expires at the end of next season, and replace it with a new deal which would run to at least the end of 2008.

If the Dockers beat the injury-riddled Crows, those plans could be fast-tracked as early as next week.

Connolly’s reversal of fortunes is likely to earn him a significant pay rise — he could command at least $600,000 a season — which would catapult him into similar company as dual premiership coach Denis Pagan at Carlton. Extending Connolly’s contract would add further stability to the club’s most senior ranks after chief executive Cameron Schwab agreed to extend his stay for another three years. President Rick Hart is soon expected to be re-appointed for the same period.

Fremantle came under fire at the start of last season when they announced a controversial two-year extension to Connolly’s contract. The club’s board defended the move by saying mounting speculation over the coach’s position in the last year of his contract could derail the team and voted 7-2 to extend his tenure.

But with the Dockers now $4.50 second favourites behind cross-town rivals West Coast ($2.80) to win the premiership, a new extension is unlikely to spark the same criticism.

Hart said yesterday the board would consider any approach from Connolly’s management relating to extending his contract, but it was yet to be discussed.

Hart said the board was satisfied with the team’s performance under Connolly in the wake of criticism over his contract extension.

“It’s not about vindication, at the time you do what you think is in the best interests of the club,” Hart said. “We’ve had a plan which has not been an overnight one, it’s been in place since 2002.”

Connolly has recorded a 54 per cent winning strike rate with Fremantle in his five years as coach.

In the lead-up to this season’s first western derby in May, Connolly was rated by Sportingbet Australia at $4 as the second most likely coach to lose his job in 2006.

The same bookmaker last week installed him as the least likely to go, at $2001.

Former Hawthorn coach Peter Schwab, who Connolly served under as an assistant until he moved west to Fremantle, said yesterday his former assistant had shown that his ability to coach was equal to anyone in the AFL.

“I never had any doubt he would become a good senior coach. It’s his fifth year, he’s proved he can do it and there’s no doubt he’s as capable as any going around,” Schwab said


Steve Butler
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