Interesting and insightful read.
I just don’t care anymore. I don’t care if the joint folds.
BRING BACK BEN RUTTEN
Or if you can’t do it. hire Ken Hinkley
I nearly had him as a gif over my post. Yes we could buy him a parrot and a straight jacket and a rocking chair on joining the club.
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It would be fascinating if we could peek into the alternative timeline and see how Truck would have gone v Brad fours years on.
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Dont think Longmire would want it.
McVeigh as ‘interim’ coach.
Three ticks - premierships at Hawthorn 
, premierships at Brisbane and not deemed suitable at Carlton .
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Under bomber actually
There’s a near zero chance of poaching another club’s assistant to be our interim.
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Because that has worked so well.
Knights- Failure
Hird- Mildly sucessful
Thompson- Sucessful
Worsfold- Failure
Rutten- Failure
Scott- Failure
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Which part of their tenure did you consider ‘Successful’?
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Yep. I wouldn’t say Thompson’s brief stint as head coach was any more successful than Hird’s.
“to spend more time with his family”
57% win rate.
didn’t have a 10 goal loss.
2014
He unearthed Joe Daniher as a star - he won the Essendon goal kicking that year with 28, and kicked 4 in the final. Debuted Zach Merrett.
Cale Hooker made the All Australian Team.
Heppell - had best year of his career.
Watson - had second best year in career after Brownlow year.
Zaharakis - had best year of career to date.
Chapman - best year at EFC, probably stays longer if Bomber was coach.
Hibberd - had best year career to date
Myers - best year of his career
Baguley - best year of career
Hooker - best year of career to date.
Hurley - best year of career to date, break out year.
Colyer - best year of career
Fletcher - best year since 2007
Carlisle - best year of career
And we still managed to bottle it in the EF.
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Still it was our best performance in a final in last 20 years.
We were unlucky with injuries.
Funny, isn’t it? Not a lot wrong with HD’s post and yet the best that team could manage was 7th and an elimination choke
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Yeah, and it amounted to sweet FA. I get your point, but 2014 was an average year at best.
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0 finals wins.
Don’t get me wrong, I would put Thompson as senior coach today, but he didn’t have any success. Neither did Hird. In fact, they were part of the reason we are still crap today.
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2013 we earned a spot in the finals despite the players being told they would not play finals five games out.
2014 we made the finals.
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