News Welcome to Carlton Luke Power & Henry Playfair

[Aphrodite]

Luke Power

Blues boost with Playfair, Power

Carlton has bolstered its coaching staff with two significant off-field appointments.

www.carltonfc.com.au

THE Carlton Football Club has bolstered its coaching staff with two significant off-field appointments, welcoming Head of Coaching Performance Henry Playfair and Head of Development Luke Power to Ikon Park.

The pair will bring with them a combined 41 years of experience as players and coaches at the elite level and arrive at the Blues with highly-respected reputations across the industry.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Just replace Soul with Teague

Very exciting news, two very well credentialed and respected assistants to our coaching panel.

Power especially is a very significant coup. Haven't been this excited about assistant and development coaching appointments, well since forever.

Well done to Cain Liddle and the rest of the CFC board for making it happen !

 

[Blue__Balls]

Power is well known - anyone got some insight into Playfair? Not sure he helps with our lack of mongrel...

 

[AndyLucimitis]

Have a friend who works in AFL Development and said Power is a 'gun' and great coup for Cain Liddle to get.

 

[gandaal]

https://au.linkedin.com/in/henryplayfair

 

[ajb72]

+1 to the hipster latte set quota!

 

[RAPPA]

More power under Power. We already play fair. Time to bring the hardness!

 

[Golden Tonsils]

Excited about Power

 

[agro]

These two appointments shape up as important as Andrew Russell’s appointment last year.

 

[Aphrodite]

Power is well known - anyone got some insight into Playfair? Not sure he helps with our lack of mongrel...

Back line coach at the Saints.

Henry Playfair - Senior Assistant Coach (Back Line) - saints.com.au

After four years in offence, Playfair coached the Sydney defenders for two years, a role he will now perform at St Kilda in 2018.

www.saints.com.au

Henry Playfair - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Jeremias]

Awesome. Both of these are great appointments IMO.

Welcome to Carlton.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Congratulations to Luke and Henry.

I’ve got nothing else. I used all my best puns on the other thread.

 

[NewDarkNavyBlues]

They keep coming these astute appointments.

Good luck Luke and Henry!

 

[Arr0w]

Both strong appointments

Power highly regarded at club and AFL level, his development of youth is second to none

Playfair has done a long apprenticeship, playing, coaching, development and a strong background in fitness, well rounded resume'

 

[gandaal]

Back line coach at the Saints.

Henry Playfair - Senior Assistant Coach (Back Line) - saints.com.au

After four years in offence, Playfair coached the Sydney defenders for two years, a role he will now perform at St Kilda in 2018.

www.saints.com.au

Henry Playfair - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

7 years coaching in Sydney as well.

 

[Doro]

Nice. Playfair is an interesting one, hadn't heard his name tossed up at all. Head of Coaching Performance is a little less abrasive term than Director of Coaching, but I imagine they are the same role. Power is a really good get.

 

[Mr_Plow]

Nice.

 

[TerryWallet]

Good solid progressive appointments. People in their prime who know what success requires.

Synergy in our appointments , all moulded around a group going forward together. The Team as the nucleus group. The Club as the orbiting group.

For someone who kept getting disappointed in what our Club did for 20 odd years, yes even thru the mid 90's, i keep being bouyed by practically every decision made since the watershed Club reckoning of late 2015.

The house is in good order. The performance will follow. Well done to all those who turned The Titanic around.

 

[BlueGum]

Dig their last names. Hoping they lead more improvement across the club.

Things keep getting better from what i can see.

 

[F_therest]

Nice. Playfair is an interesting one, hadn't heard his name tossed up at all. Head of Coaching Performance is a little less abrasive term than Director of Coaching, but I imagine they are the same role. Power is a really good get.

I'm interested to find out what exactly Playfair's job will entail.

As a coach he's not actually super experienced...it's not like he's an older ex-senior coach, Teague has more experience than him. And Playfair has only been at 2 clubs, Sydney & Saints.

I don't think the coaches will report to him, Director of coaching implies he'd be essentially the boss of the coaching group. More his job is almost like a consultant, providing them with support and resources and help them be the best coaches they can be.

 

[TerryWallet]

I'm interested to find out what exactly Playfair's job will entail.

As a coach he's not actually super experienced...it's not like he's an older ex-senior coach, Teague has more experience than him. And Playfair has only been at 2 clubs, Sydney & Saints.

I don't think the coaches will report to him, Director of coaching implies he'd be essentially the boss of the coaching group. More his job is almost like a consultant, providing them with support and resources and help them be the best coaches they can be.

There is an interview with him on the Club website FTR. Explains his role. It's pretty much as your last sentence .

 

[onesilop]

Recently listened to some podcasts recently with these two and thought at the time, “good guy to get to the blues”

Playfair

Whooshkaa Shows

player.whooshkaa.com

Power

Whooshkaa Shows

player.whooshkaa.com

 

[Blubagger71]

Awesome acquisitions for the club. Spending the soft cap wisely to become a more contemporary, relevant club. Love it.

Just going to get my shades...

Welcome gentlemen.

 

[HARKER]

We obviously have a very good idea for how these appointments play out and a big welcome to Luke & Henry, but I can't make heads nor tails out of what Playfair is coming to us to do.

I hear the words, but have no idea of the practical elements of them....and then he covers the VFL coaches and the AFLW coaches? What is this?

 

[Doro]

I'm interested to find out what exactly Playfair's job will entail.

As a coach he's not actually super experienced...it's not like he's an older ex-senior coach, Teague has more experience than him. And Playfair has only been at 2 clubs, Sydney & Saints.

I don't think the coaches will report to him, Director of coaching implies he'd be essentially the boss of the coaching group. More his job is almost like a consultant, providing them with support and resources and help them be the best coaches they can be.

I don't think D.O.C implies that at all, the senior coach is the boss. People were whipping themselves into a frenzy about the position but this is what it essentially entails. An extra set of eyes and ears.