Has 2 years left on his contract
Bring him home Essendon
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you could argue dimma was hard on the field, and hard as a coach.
I think the drugs stuff and cousins and the commentary of him using and abusing players and letting them get on the gear messed with his psyche after about 07 ish.
SheedsâŚ
We can always pay the monetary penalty for breaching the soft cap. Club has plenty off dollars with X focussing on the balance sheet rather than the team.
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This is the most ridiculous part of it.
To make it fair for all the clubs with no members and poor sponsorship deals, every club has to cut back on their football department spending.
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Matthews
Sheedy
Bomber
Dimma
The Scott twins
Longmire
None of them shrinking violets. Thats just off the top of my head.
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do you really think this is true now?
we havent had gate receipts, merch sales all year. Membership is going to be down next year. Our pokies venue is closed.
All clubs will be penny pinching for the next 24 months.
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Crowds look decent in WA. And the AFL has paid for the hubs for clubs.
So I would imagine they(wa clubs) would go alrightâŚ
Need to see our membership numbers. Assume many kept them to support our club, overheads are down. So there is some positives.
in the past few days
- vfl cancelled
- neafl cancelled
- a heap of afl senior employees let go
- now the clubs are letting coaches go.
There is a heap of pain to come.
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Oh yeah i know. Its trying to bring a little optimism that its not a total wipeout
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Essendon donât feel pain. Not sure we feel anything anymore!
Resilient.
I for one am pleased about losing some coaches. There is absolutely no need for the amount of coaches that now exist at every club. A waste of money for the most part.
Clarkson was a merchant of cheapshots
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Messages may actually get across with less coaches.
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Little angry man syndrome?
Clear all the deadwood so the books look good and Gill can still get his bonus.
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100% - Solomon was tough but he did it in a way that inspired resilience and others to do as he did. He has presence and this would definitely translate through the group.
If they are genuine about clearing out the old, there are worse options than to bring him in. In fairness to Worsfold was a good coach in his time, but his time has past.
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Why donât they reduce the umpires back to 2.
Wonât make any difference, they donât see things with 3.
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Sounds like he can coach.
âDark cloudâ over AFL fairytale as greats baffled by Dean Solomon sacking that just makes âno senseâ
A chorus of AFL greats have rallied around Dean Solomon, who will leave the Gold Coast Suns at the end of the year despite having two years remaining on his contract.
Foxfooty.com.au first reported Solomonâs impending departure on Monday morning, and as the day unfolded multiple retired greats expressed their shock at the clubâs decision to let go its long-time senior assistant.
The financial ramifications of the decision were heavily critiqued, but senior Fox Footy journalist Tom Morris clarified the impact the Suns decision would have on the clubâs bottom line.
âRedundancy and termination payments of footy department staff donât have to be included in the soft cap in 2020,â Morris said.
âThe AFL has made a one-off allowance to reflect the league making clubs cut $3.5 million out of the soft cap due to Covid-19. The Suns will still need to pay him out, but itâs not necessarily out of the soft cap budget.â
Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy was nevertheless perplexed, declaring Gold Coast is âthrowing money down the drain no matter which way you look at it.â
âThis is on the same day as the AFL â which pays the bills for the Suns â are sacking so many people. It makes no sense whatsoever. I canât come up with a rational answer on this one,â Healy said on Fox Footyâs On The Couch.
Melbourne great Garry Lyon agreed.
âWhat is it about Dean Solomon that they need to pay him to get him out of the club?â he asked.
âI know Dean Solomon personally and everyone says heâs a great football person. He was an interim coach in 2017. He applied for the job (that Stuart Dew got).â
Healy doubled down, adding the decision puts âa dark cloud over one of the great stories of the year,â while Nick Riewoldt said the Suns playing group will be âworse off because of this.â
One of the most telling responses came from a former teammate of Solomon, Matthew Lloyd on Footy Classified.
Lloyd intimated that Solomon and Dew had fallen out and reflected upon a conversation with Jaeger OâMeara in which the midfielder claimed Solomon was the best coach heâd had at the Suns.
âJust when you think they are going somewhere, they make a decision like this,â Lloyd said on Channel 9.
âSome might say Iâm talking about a former teammate, but I bumped into Jaeger OâMeara when he was leaving the Suns. He said the best coach he ever had was Dean Solomon.
âThe current players there say the best coach there is Dean Solomon for his relationships, his ability to develop players.
âHow have the Suns come to this decision instead of listening to their players?
âHe must have had a falling out with Stuart Dew or Stuey Dew doesnât want him as part of his plans. No wonder theyâve fallen away in the last few weeks when players start to see their best coach is getting let go.â
Jonathan Brown, who remains closely connected to Queensland football, echoed a similar sentiment.
âHe is very popular among players and staff,â Brown said On The Couch.
âYou just wonder what is going on.â
The social media reaction was equally strong among former Gold Coast players.
In response to Fox Footyâs tweet, ex-Sun Luke Russell â who spent six years ath the club - wrote: âThe best coach I had during my time at the club. Genuinely cared about his players and he was always there for me on a personal note. Such a great person and the next club will be very lucky to have him. Itâs guys like him you want to play for.â
The tweet was âlikedâ by former Gold Coast players Jack Hutchins, Mitch Hallahan and Karmichael Hunt.
Solomonâs ex-Essendon teammate Andrew Welsh took it one step further, questioning whether Dew felt âthreatenedâ by Solomon.
âThis smells a bit for mine. Perhaps a senior coach seeing how good Solomon is and is threatened but will hide behind a soft cap decision,â wrote Welsh.
âNo doubt every club will want to talk to him but the call doesnât seem like a GC best interest call.â
Campbell Brown replied: âUnbelievable coach. Honest, tough, reliable, honourable and a great footy IQ. Will make any club better the minute he walks in the door.â
Rodney Eade, who mentored and worked alongside Solomon for years, also voiced his confusion on Tuesday morning.
âI think as much of a shock that heâs on that list, is that last year he signed a contract until the end of 2022⌠Somethingâs happened, I donât know what,â Eade said on RSN Radio.
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