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Draftee
Greetings All.
There are a number of things which strike me of the current coaching departments going around at the moment - the relative youth on senior coaches' side. Example: Mark Thompson, mid-fortiies. Williams: 44. Alistair Clarkson: 40. and some of the new coaches commencing this year - all around forty. Indeed, most of these coaches commenced with their senior coaching roles in their late thirties. At the other end of the scale are older coaches - Matthews is in his late fifties, Craig, 51, Pagan was 59, Sheedy the same. It strikes me that there is a movement in the AFL at the moment to younger, fresher coaches who have the opportunity to stay with a club, if good, for ten or more years.
Coaching; The AFC - let's not cut our nose off despite our face. We've got the beginnings of a good squad. A cleanout seems to be happening, or on the cards. Frankly I don't care if Hudson goes, McGregor et al or other delistings or trades, with the exception of our core group (we know who they are, they've been spoken about often enough on here recently). What I'd like to see though is a Blight like approach to things. Clean out, then blood youth. From that point, a hard approach to football. Strikes me Adelaide are trying to play champaigne footy too much. But you look at the teams who've won premierships recently - hard at the play sides. Look at Geelong this year - not much different to Adelaide last year when we were on a roll, right? Throw some ideas up in the air, make changes.
So, questions:
In regards to coaching ages I mentioned, where do we think Craig fits in, does he have what it takes to take us to a premiership, and can he get any better as time goes on?
Who looms as a next potential Adelaide coach, say three years down the track if Craig fails? I'm putting my bet down on Andrew Jarman.
How do Adelaide get back to their dominating position akin to 2005, most of 2006? After all, we could have challenged for the past two premierships (so we have only ourselves to blame), yet surely this could happen again relatively soon...? Discuss...thoughts?
There are a number of things which strike me of the current coaching departments going around at the moment - the relative youth on senior coaches' side. Example: Mark Thompson, mid-fortiies. Williams: 44. Alistair Clarkson: 40. and some of the new coaches commencing this year - all around forty. Indeed, most of these coaches commenced with their senior coaching roles in their late thirties. At the other end of the scale are older coaches - Matthews is in his late fifties, Craig, 51, Pagan was 59, Sheedy the same. It strikes me that there is a movement in the AFL at the moment to younger, fresher coaches who have the opportunity to stay with a club, if good, for ten or more years.
Coaching; The AFC - let's not cut our nose off despite our face. We've got the beginnings of a good squad. A cleanout seems to be happening, or on the cards. Frankly I don't care if Hudson goes, McGregor et al or other delistings or trades, with the exception of our core group (we know who they are, they've been spoken about often enough on here recently). What I'd like to see though is a Blight like approach to things. Clean out, then blood youth. From that point, a hard approach to football. Strikes me Adelaide are trying to play champaigne footy too much. But you look at the teams who've won premierships recently - hard at the play sides. Look at Geelong this year - not much different to Adelaide last year when we were on a roll, right? Throw some ideas up in the air, make changes.
So, questions:
In regards to coaching ages I mentioned, where do we think Craig fits in, does he have what it takes to take us to a premiership, and can he get any better as time goes on?
Who looms as a next potential Adelaide coach, say three years down the track if Craig fails? I'm putting my bet down on Andrew Jarman.
How do Adelaide get back to their dominating position akin to 2005, most of 2006? After all, we could have challenged for the past two premierships (so we have only ourselves to blame), yet surely this could happen again relatively soon...? Discuss...thoughts?
