has the rod been at a successful club?
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A thread I created about this a few months back.
Interesting if we are looking at going the Hird boys club route, spike McVeigh has the best resume of the 3 mates. An assistant under Cameron, Longmire and now Cox, coached the Allies to their only ever championship and also has experience in the big seat at Giants interim coach (which King did previously as well). He also seems pretty switched on and is a good motivator in front of the team, I’ve seen a few of his speeches.
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Prying spike and jarryd out of Sydney would be worth it. But being a nsw boys it may be hard work
See that last bit confuses me.
James Hird is workshy?
There is absolutely nothing in his history to back this up. On field, off field, banned from field. Nothing.
What’s the appropriate qualification path for leading a team of young men in competitive sport? What courses should James do, or what skills should he pick up from, say, Adem Yze, about bringing Essendon out of this intergenerational uselessness? Are there some LinkedIn Learning quickbites he can do on the topic of positive reinforcement without emojis in the Millennial age?
I mean, I don’t even care to compare what Hird didn’t do to what Brad didn’t do before we appointed him, but it’s a valid point.
It’s James Hird.
If I could Farking well find it anywhere online I’d post the footage of his first game back after the horrific facial injury in 2002, where after 8 weeks out with car crash style injuries, his first action in the first minute was to slide for a contested ball, straight towards the knee of an approaching bulldogs opponent (possibly two), win possession and deliver it lace out up the field.
It’s James Hird. He is a winner.
How many of those do we have at our club right now?
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Great post @dingus 
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When the whole “Stand by Hird” thing was happening, I emailed the club. I must have posted it here because Darli posted it on Twitter where I sadly have had to log on to in order to find it.
My feelings haven’t changed.
If anyone is in possession of footage of the first quarter of Rd 14, 2002 v Western Bulldogs o would very much like to see it. Not only because it was one of the more inspiring things I’ve ever seen in sport, but also to check exactly how wide of the mark my recollection was…
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not sure the current coach does
It’s a made up point based on “I d0n’T LikE bRaD”
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Prob right, but I wasn’t talking about him
Wait. Are we bringing him back as a player?
I can absolutely get around that.
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You could say with any new coach we get, if Scott gets fired
I’m not advocating for Hird, but Scott is not it.
A sense a theme here
Really good assistants help make a really good coach that wins
Who are our assistants again?
Ok I’m in. Otherwise Hirdy.
We need a coach who’s going to put time into the relationships needed, but who also carries an aura about themselves. I think we need the “Leigh Matthews” effect on the players. They need to respect, admire, fear, and hopefully love the coach and want to win for him and each other.
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Good to see that the free speech acolytes are on board, demanding that the thread about the club’s greatest player should be shut down because the poster does not want him to be the coach.
Why are they so desperate?
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Probably not a lot at the moment. The carbon rod my be shinier?
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Coz cults scare people.
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I think the one thing that often gets lost in this Hird discussion is that the last season he coached for us we completely fell off a cliff. Hird resigned late in 2015 after we lost by 112 points to Adelaide at home.
The few weeks prior featured 90 point losses to the Bulldogs and the Saints who ended up finishing 14th.
Hird had since admitted that he completely lost the players by the end (has also said that he thought that was asada related, but who really knows.)
He has had no meaningful coaching experience in the ten years since.
Now, despite all this, could he still be a successful coach again? Maybe? But it seems like a big “if” and a hell of a risky decision to make given this history.
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Did you remember these stats or you went back to the archives?