Great advertisement tonight for any coach considering having a crack at coaching Essendon, we have something to work with.
They’re knocking on the door now ..
Just looking through some of the recent successful coaches and they tend to have a mix of the following.
- Worked in development at some point.
- Been under multiple different coaches.
- Have seen new coaches come into clubs as part of the coaching panel themselves.
- Have received internal promotions, elevated to senior assistant.
- Coached under successful coaches during their apprenticeship, seen how a successful team/coach operates first hand.
- Coached their own team (VFL or interim head coach).
- Won coaches awards.
Interestingly, when I put all this together, I realised the best qualified young assistant going around is probably Daniel Giansiracusa. He has been under bevo during their premiership, coached his own VFL team, saw multiple coaches come in at Essendon and fail (Rutten and Scott), so would know what not to do and is now under Mitchell who I think is the best coach in the game by a fair way. It rounds off his resume nicely and he already has relationships at Essendon, so wouldn’t be going in cold turkey. He also has a bit of charisma, which funnily enough I think a senior coach needs to draw people in.
Others from left field who’s CV I don’t mind, McVeigh (if we wanna go the boys club route) and Troy Chaplin. They both tick a few of those boxes too. I’m strictly sticking to new young coaches here, if we actually did a proper process for the first time since Sheedy.
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I was surprised by Blitz’s reaction to Gia’s departure. Was a huge loss.
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Yeah he was really our only assistant with a good resume and that was highly regarded I think. I do wonder if coaching across multiple lines, defence, midfield and forward is another good string to ones bow. I dunno which ones he has done.
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I don’t mind Kelly, but why is he more qualified than Gia? Less experience, never coached his own team, I don’t think promoted internally in any jobs. Also Chris Scott is obviously a great coach, but they have a talented list. I prefer the experience under Bevo and Mitchell.
Gia seems to be a perpetual bridesmaid.
Hard to replace Scott with such a large contract left. I don’t think we can afford to pay him out.
Surely you make some exceptions
Egan
Kelly
Skipworth, Kelly, or Enright.
Or Hird for 90k
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Is meant to be super highly rated and has been earmarked to take Ross’s job.
So was Kingsley, yze and King, I don’t think it matters these days. He also had the disadvantage of being at a crap club the past 5 years, new coaches are rarely selected from cellar dwellers, that’s why he went to the Hawks.
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We need an assistant from the Hawthorn program.
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Why do they have to be young ?
Daly and Davis both would fit this bill, both were there to see what it takes to build a club from the bottom up and both super highly rated
as criteria I do like someone who has seen the bottom of the ladder and gone through to success. its easier to coach when you have a gun team at your disposal
Yeah I think the Hawks program is the most cutting edge coz their list is crap, but they play like millionaires. Only a few years ago Mitchell was accused of tanking and going to be last for years and then they came good within about 12 months.
@Tbone I don’t mind an old aged but new coach either, I looked into Daly’s resume yesterday and it wasn’t that impressive from memory. I tend to think the more exposure to different coaches and the more exposure to successful coaches is important, because you’d borrow bits and pieces from all of them.
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The worrying thing is that this club has botched the last 4 coaching appointments so will there be a 5th fark up?? Highly likely.
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They make leaders, they don’t recruit them. Their successes creates a winning and no bullshit culture. They have a history of ripping the club apart for the greater good. They literally traded out all their premiership leaders to start a rebuild. We won’t even contemplate trading a bunch of hacks.
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He has been through alot of systems, was at collingwood went to north (maybe this is why we should stay away) then went to richmond with hardwick and then to lions under fagan that seems a fair resume to me.
also came from coaching his own local team through to the head of football at a back to back premiership side is pretty impressive
I’m big on getting Graham here, I think he has the skillset and knowledge to actually address the areas we are bad at.
However the other Id be very keen on bringing in is Cam Bruce from the lions - assistant coach of the year and is the architect behind Brisbane’s midfield. Would also not be opposed to looking at Rahilly too considering he has specialised in ball movement at crows and now cats.
If you wanted someone who has actually coached teams before though, just open the book for Skipworth or McVeigh
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