Agree totally. Also remember him coaching Davenport to a spoon. Also remember after a new coach took over they won the TFL premiership within 2 years after his departure.
Top player, not a great coach.
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Agree totally. Also remember him coaching Davenport to a spoon. Also remember after a new coach took over they won the TFL premiership within 2 years after his departure.
Top player, not a great coach.
He may be able to coach, but he still managed to be the worst coach Essendon has ever had.
No way. He is the guy who rebuilt a rabble. His only problem was that the club and supporters were too impatient for the rebuild to come to fruition. Played all the kids. We had a ridiculously young team under KB. The 1995 finals side under Northey was basically KB's creation.
Hahaah..
I used to read his Craig Report on the Melbourne website.
I good friend of mine(demons fan)
Used to bemoan the gibberish he spoke and how out of touch he really was.
Yes. We will never know.
It did seem blatantly odvious.
Remember when he was flying up to Brisbane shopping himself for Michael Voss's vacant job whilst coaching Melbourne all the while proclaiming that he wasn't sure if he was ready to coach again.?
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Paddy Scanlon's (1935-1937) 8-46 record would take some beating.
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Hmmn .... had forgotten about the entitled tory duffer, Damien Drum. He might surpass all others (excluding Bomber and the Hird who are special k cases)
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Yeah Shaw. Although in fairness recruiting was awful. Too many rejects and stuck with spuds too long. Actually started a rebuild in 99 (when he knew he was cooked) and actually did a pretty decent job that year.
your premiership coach. hahaha.
tony shaw and buckley have coached your club and you go for the premiership coach.
boy they have done a number on you.
thread needs more james hird and crazy vossy.
For us John Devine would have to be close.
For us John Devine would have to be close.
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Came here to say Walls by a country mile...but Plough was also pretty terrible for us, worse than Spud in my opinion
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Wallsy was a good coach, tho a bit old school as he now admits.
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If you could stage a match with stars everywhere on both teams, it would be interesting to see Drum and Neeld go head to head in the box. Neither of them could coach their arse to fart.
ballzy comment, should never be regarded as one of our worst coaches, but there is a lot here I agree with...
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Terry Wallace. Swans coaching career as short as Mal Meninga's political career.
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Damian Drum. Possibly the worst coach any team has ever had..
That is harsh on Joyce who I would say was moreso just not a good fit for that club at the time. The guy was always a professional. YOTD just highlighted a new breed of coach coming through the ranks in the mid/90s (ie Wallace), whereas Joyce had done his dash.
Anyway, you guys also had Peter Rhode, I’m not sure he had any idea what he was doing.
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Even Terry Wallace and Danny Frawley were better coaches than Hird
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Robert Walls and Allen Jeans are my nominations for Richmond.
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Jeans was only there for one season, what happened..ill health?
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WC with slim pickings in this topic. 6 coaches, 3 of them premiership winners.
The remaining three -
Ron Alexander, inaugural coach, lasted one year and had an 11-11 record from memory.
John Todd. 2 seasons, one of which included the club's first finals appearance. Had a shocker in the following year, replaced by Malthouse.
Ken Judge. 2 seasons, very poor period for the club, no finals. So the rumours go, he highlighted some "cultural issues", got the flick.
I'd have to go with Judgey. Was never the right fit, for whatever reasons, and had the worst record of the 3.
The remaining three -
Ron Alexander, inaugural coach, lasted one year and had an 11-11 record from memory.
John Todd. 2 seasons, one of which included the club's first finals appearance. Had a shocker in the following year, replaced by Malthouse.
Ken Judge. 2 seasons, very poor period for the club, no finals. So the rumours go, he highlighted some "cultural issues", got the flick.
I'd have to go with Judgey. Was never the right fit, for whatever reasons, and had the worst record of the 3.
First season I followed Ian Stewart was coach.
Six or seven weeks into season he was gone. All vague as to what happened as was just a kid. Still to this day, do not know exactly what went down but bad blood between coach Ian Stewart and captain Robert Walls. I believe at one point Walls might even have had a go at coach physically. Walls left in the season to Fitzroy as could not stay with him and coach such bad blood. Next thing is Stewart gone as we need a new coach and near bottom of ladder. Famously Jezza too over reluctantly as captain-coach. North were reigning premiers and Collingwood runners up. Within weeks of taking over Jezza had us beat both teams. Amazing first season as little kid to follow. We ended up making top 5 after such poor start to season and even won one final. Next season Jezza took us to premiership where only time we did not score over 100 was a few muddy wet days. Then he resigns and his old mate Percy Jones took over and that gap year we did not win premiership. Percy Jones was more of a clown than coach to me and given we won 3 premierships around the seasons he was coach, Percy has to rate as one of our worst coaches. Having said that, Ian Stewart and Mick Malthouse is hard to top as worst. But I must admit as much as could not stand Malthouse coach I think Pagan was even worse when think it all through.
Six or seven weeks into season he was gone. All vague as to what happened as was just a kid. Still to this day, do not know exactly what went down but bad blood between coach Ian Stewart and captain Robert Walls. I believe at one point Walls might even have had a go at coach physically. Walls left in the season to Fitzroy as could not stay with him and coach such bad blood. Next thing is Stewart gone as we need a new coach and near bottom of ladder. Famously Jezza too over reluctantly as captain-coach. North were reigning premiers and Collingwood runners up. Within weeks of taking over Jezza had us beat both teams. Amazing first season as little kid to follow. We ended up making top 5 after such poor start to season and even won one final. Next season Jezza took us to premiership where only time we did not score over 100 was a few muddy wet days. Then he resigns and his old mate Percy Jones took over and that gap year we did not win premiership. Percy Jones was more of a clown than coach to me and given we won 3 premierships around the seasons he was coach, Percy has to rate as one of our worst coaches. Having said that, Ian Stewart and Mick Malthouse is hard to top as worst. But I must admit as much as could not stand Malthouse coach I think Pagan was even worse when think it all through.
Richo.
