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All good. Got a team of therapists helping me with it
I completely disagree with this revisionism. His coaching was boring as hell and had no plan B. The only move he ever had was throwing Carlisle forward late in games and he had the best coaching panel ever put together behind him. Also, his knowledge on footy shows is average at best. (watch the coaches corner segment), Bartel runs rings around him on footy knowledge.
The one thing he does have is he’s an extremely likeable guy and funny, I can see why the players played for him at Essendon initially, but his coaching and tactical knowledge was average imo. It was also a very boring style of play, the extra around the ball and never changing it up was frustrating to watch to say the least. He’d need a tactical genius underneath him to set the game plan, bringing back Caracella night help in this respect. Bartel as midfield coach, Lloyd are forwards coach and choco Williams as development coach, get rid of Stanton and Hurley.
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J Hird in handover to Pops Kelly or J Bartel, add in Spike… Hinkley/Longmire Director of Coaching…
Hirdy might want more than a handover but it would neatly sidestep the “it’s all about him” annoying narrative
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wasn’t there some Bs level 1 coaching course vlad or gil made him do. when he came back after year away in France.
Hird will need a strong panel.
There has been some good suggestions above
Hird, Bartel, Kelly, McVeigh, Chaplin, Greene (post Free agency contract)
Yikes. I agreed with the rest of your post, but that was jarring.
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What was the process involved in these instances?
My memory is Worsfold being parachuted in for “culture”
Rutten was then parachuted in because we were scared that Adelaide were after him.
Scott came after the actual interview process once they found out that he was available…it was a pretty mickey mouse “process”
Knights was probably the only one who went through anything resembling a proper process post Sheedy.
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Respectfully disagree
There was no process when we appointed knights,worsfold,Rutten and Scott
Knights was an internal hire of sorts. We never went through proper candidates. Bomber Thompson wanted us to wait until after the GF so he could decide if he wanted to come across. We didn’t wait
Worsfold was head hunted and hired.
Rutten was an internal hire, no proper process or other candidates were interviewed
Scott. We had to hound him and keep asking him to apply. , and surprise surprise he got the job
Our issue is we never go through a proper process when picking a coach to get the best available. We hire almost out of gut feel.
Go through the proper process and interview experienced coaches and young coaches. If Hird was to throw his hat in the ring, that’s cool. Then pick the actual best person for the job. If we go through a proper genuine process and it ends up being Hird- then so be it, he will have my full support
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But if we have learnt anything from history, it is that our Brains Trust can’t be relied upon to make correct decisions.
In matters great or small.
The best way is, as you say, to go through the proper process and interview experienced coaches and young coaches. Then give the Board (which when last I checked contains a Colingwood supporter) a list of two candidates.
Then appoint the one they did NOT select.
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And none of them had the fan base licking their lips with the excitement of “oh boy we got a good one here”
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I find the best coaches are usually the ones people were like ‘gee that’s a suprise, why did they select him for’? Those types of appointments. I remember having that reaction with Clarkson, McRae and Steven King.
The guy I wanted years ago before he was even really on the radar was Josh Carr, to me he had the perfect resume to be a modern successful coach and he seems to already be doing well at Port, even with an average list.
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We need some one from outside the club to make sure the club is running a proper legit process for selecting it’s next coach no more sham process club can’t be trusted.
I would say the AFL should be the ones but they are dodgy themselvs
Someone like Lewis or Montagna?
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Bartel he’s not on the panel but he’s there to make sure it’s all legit.
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Jordan Lewis and Robert Walls - both hate Essendon, probably chose Scott knowing he would set us back.
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Bring back Thompson.
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Hmm maybe Bartel and Dunstall. One helped choose Kingsley, the other was the main one behind choosing Clarkson when he was a nobody. Yes Montagna would be good too. The first two have both great footy knowledge, experienced in choosing a coach and not egotistical. You’d obviously need to add the CEO and chairman to them.