Hardwick has a better flag strike rate with multiple flags. Should be the Hardwick Medal and McHale Medal should be for the person who coaches the VFL flag as he was a VFL coach.
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Hardwick has a better flag strike rate with multiple flags. Should be the Hardwick Medal and McHale Medal should be for the person who coaches the VFL flag as he was a VFL coach.
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Best coach per club?
Adelaide - Blight
Brisbane - Matthews
Carlton - Parkin
Collingwood - McHale not that anyone can remember
Essendon - Sheedy
Fremantle - Lyon
Geelong - Thompson over Scott
Gold Coast - meh
GWS - Cameron, but not for much longer.
Hawthorn - Clarkson
Melbourne - Smith
North Melbourne - Barassi over Fagan
Port Adelaide - Williams
Richmond - Hafey
St Kilda - Jeans
Sydney - Roos over Longmire
West Coast - Malthouse
Western Bulldogs - Beveridge over Sutton
Adelaide - Blight
Brisbane - Matthews
Carlton - Parkin
Collingwood - McHale not that anyone can remember
Essendon - Sheedy
Fremantle - Lyon
Geelong - Thompson over Scott
Gold Coast - meh
GWS - Cameron, but not for much longer.
Hawthorn - Clarkson
Melbourne - Smith
North Melbourne - Barassi over Fagan
Port Adelaide - Williams
Richmond - Hafey
St Kilda - Jeans
Sydney - Roos over Longmire
West Coast - Malthouse
Western Bulldogs - Beveridge over Sutton
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Thats sweet. If the medal is for dismantling your club by destroying those you are meant to love and care for then the medal must be named after Hardwick.
How many games of footy did Ernest Copeland play, lol? Copeland Trophy should be granted to whoever fills in forms the best.
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How many games of footy did Ernest Copeland play, lol? Copeland Trophy should be granted to whoever fills in forms the best.
So now you are arguing against yourself. Thanks for proving my point.
McHale only didn't divorce his wife due to his Scottish blood, didn't want to pay for the bus fare to the courts.
Cool yarn.
Colemans record at Essendon would have been pretty good
2 flags in the 60s - Ess were very strong in the 60s - basically in the finals most years - his win /loss record youd think would be good
And he only coached them for say 6-7 years because Jack Clarke was coach in 68 when they made the GF
Some of these other coaches quoted coached for an eternity , 20 plus years
Honourable mention to Dennis Pagan at North , because they were going nowhere , they lost that game in Adelaide by 100 plus points , they sacked their coach , brought in Pagan and he had an instant impact , they became a very good side and won 2 Premierships
2 flags in the 60s - Ess were very strong in the 60s - basically in the finals most years - his win /loss record youd think would be good
And he only coached them for say 6-7 years because Jack Clarke was coach in 68 when they made the GF
Some of these other coaches quoted coached for an eternity , 20 plus years
Honourable mention to Dennis Pagan at North , because they were going nowhere , they lost that game in Adelaide by 100 plus points , they sacked their coach , brought in Pagan and he had an instant impact , they became a very good side and won 2 Premierships
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If Simpson pulls us out of this mess and snags another flag then he prob overtakes Malthouse.
Doubt he's at WCE this time next year though
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Of course I'll say Clarkson. But after reading an article about Norm Smith that appeared in the GF Replay Record of 2010 (they had five days to put out another nearly 200 page record, amazing job!), you'd be hard pressed to argue against that guy...
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He is a good coach but he is no Ken Hinkley lol
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If Geelong win the flag this year it will be hard to argue against Chris Scott being on the top 5
Hawks Jeans over Clarkson by a mile
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It’s just based on the amount of flags really.
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Clarkson won 4 flags to Jeans 3 at the Hawks so it's very arguable Jeans was better by a mile.
Jeans only won three at the Hawks but his fingerprints were all over two more in 1988 and 1991. he also got the Hawks to three more GF.
Plus the only Saints one
You forgetting the one he got with the Saints
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You're forgetting my post was about flags per team not in total.
Hence I said best per club!
4 > 3.
No it's not read the previous posts. Plus it doesn't mention that in the thread title
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Re-read my post you quoted!!!
I said clearly best per club... & I repeated it then in my last post... so I assume you are just being a pain in the arse... given you quoted me originally not the other way around.
It really isn't a hard concept that Clarkson had more flags at the Hawks.
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He does but I still put Yabby ahead missed 89 due to illness and team played in all those GFs back to back. BTW a pain in the arse is one of the nicer things i've been called Thank you for your kindness
No-one is disputing Clarko has more flags at Hawthorn, but if that is the only metric then there’s really no need for the discussion.
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Winning one flag at St Kilda is probably equal to winning three at any other club
