What now?

[anjing merah]

So what the process? Does Sheedy walk in today and pack his office and go? What happens in the interim? We may be without a coach for 6 weeks. Who sets up the individual planning process until then? There is talk of assistants leaving as well. Who makes decisions on list management? Trade options? Interested to know how a club operates for that time.

 

[saladin]

preliminary list assessment is done by several people at the club, not just the coach. So Egan, Knights and Dodoro will begin individual player reports. a lot of "specialist" positions now exist within clubs, and the head coach is more of a collator of all these different area's of information. Remember that 2/3rd's of the list will be contracted for next year, so in some ways the new coach will have his hands tied as to who get's cut anyway.

 

[anjing merah]

preliminary list assessment is done by several people at the club, not just the coach. So Egan, Knights and Dodoro will begin individual player reports. a lot of "specialist" positions now exist within clubs, and the head coach is more of a collator of all these different area's of information. Remember that 2/3rd's of the list will be contracted for next year, so in some ways the new coach will have his hands tied as to who get's cut anyway.

Thanks Saladin
I understand this and I presume the fitness coaches design routines to maitain a fitness base. However its a huge void for setting up 2008. We could potentially go to the trade discussion day without a coaches input. Take a player like Kep. One candidate might see him as a running link player, another a key forward, another a potential trade. What happens with players now may preempt the decision of who may be the next coach and his ideas.

 

[ant555]

Thanks Saladin
I understand this and I presume the fitness coaches design routines to maitain a fitness base. However its a huge void for setting up 2008. We could potentially go to the trade discussion day without a coaches input. Take a player like Kep. One candidate might see him as a running link player, another a key forward, another a potential trade. What happens with players now may preempt the decision of who may be the next coach and his ideas.

We wont be going into the draft or trade period without a coach. Given the following time line.

Tuesday Oct 2 - Friday Oct 5
NAB AFL Draft Camp

Saturday Oct 6
Victorian State Screening Session

Monday Oct 8 to 2pm Friday Oct 12
Exchange Period

Saturday Oct 13
South Australian State Screening Session

Sunday Oct 14
Western Australian State Screening Session

Wednesday Oct 31 (2pm)
List Lodgement One, including rookie promotions, retained second year rookies and father / son selections

Wednesday Nov 14 (2pm)
Draft Nominations Close

Friday Nov 16 (2pm)
List Lodgement Two

Wednesday Nov 21 (2pm)
Delisted Player Nominations Close

Saturday Nov 24 (10am)
NAB AFL Draft Selection Meeting

Tuesday Nov 27 (2pm)
Uncontracted Listed Player Nominations Close

Friday Nov 30 (2pm)
List Lodgement Three and TPP Estimates

Friday Dec 7 (2pm)
Delisted Player Nominations Close

Tuesday Dec 11 (10am)
NAB AFL Pre-Season Draft Selection Meeting

Tuesday Dec 11 (10.15am)
Nomination of Brisbane Lions and Sydney eligible rookie list players

Tuesday Dec 11 (10.30am)
NAB AFL Rookie Draft Selection Meeting

Even if we dont announce a coach until the Monday after the GF there is still a week before trade week begins.Until that time we use our list manager, Adrian Dodoro but there will be a coach in place to make the final decisions on trades.