When Hirdy started, he was able to hand pick his support team and we seemed to be developing a very competitive game style. Since his suspension, Bomber, Goodwin and Wellman have all left the club and other than Egan, our coaches’ box looks completely different. If the club backs James in, they need to give him some power back and allow him to make some changes i.e. get his own people in.
Based on our dysfunctional forward line this season, Bassett needs to go. Personally, I think Neil Craig is a joke and needs to GTFO. I have no idea why he has a match day role. Skippy might be a nice bloke and Harvs is a legend, but we need a proper midfield coach and neither of them is the answer. Right now, it’s pretty obvious the players are cooked, but it looks like there’s a massive disconnect within the coaches’ box as well and some personnel changes are required to fix it. In my opinion, a new coach with the same hacky support crew will fare no better than Hirdy.
Dont think any coach could motivate them, imagine an outsider coming in and asking the players to lift......they'll be like, you got no farkin idea what we are going through.
Then he would drop them and play guys who are up for it.
We need a coach to come in with new ideas, a fresh pair of eyes and be ruthless.
Who is left to play?
Players that can perform under pressure on the playing field
So if Hird goes, who do we get? Do we go for another untried coach? Or do we chase Worsfols (not keen on him) or go for Roos or try and coax out someone currently coaching?
Looking pretty bleak.
Kevin Sheedy. Strictly for the remainder of this season.
The channel 7 flogs going full bore on sack hird .if these clowns and the rest of the scum,that we have had to put up with over the last 3 years get their way ,then we are a weak club.we decide who our coach is.the corrupt clowns at the afl caused this mess and it is starting to show ,25,000 at today’s game.probably 15000 down on what it should be.I bet the boys club at spotless catering are having a word in the Polo players ear.we might get pies for 3 doliars next year.gils greatest achievement since taking over is the 4 dollar pie.
When Hirdy started, he was able to hand pick his support team and we seemed to be developing a very competitive game style. Since his suspension, Bomber, Goodwin and Wellman have all left the club and other than Egan, our coaches’ box looks completely different. If the club backs James in, they need to give him some power back and allow him to make some changes i.e. get his own people in.
Based on our dysfunctional forward line this season, Bassett needs to go. Personally, I think Neil Craig is a joke and needs to GTFO. I have no idea why he has a match day role. Skippy might be a nice bloke and Harvs is a legend, but we need a proper midfield coach and neither of them is the answer. Right now, it’s pretty obvious the players are cooked, but it looks like there’s a massive disconnect within the coaches’ box as well and some personnel changes are required to fix it. In my opinion, a new coach with the same hacky support crew will fare no better than Hirdy.
BUT if you decide to make a big move at the end of this season because - as this topic says "the team is crap, this is not good enough, enough is enough, let's make some changes to this cack coaching panel we have", it is ludicrous to make the big sweeping change of sacking everyone (or near enough to everyone) BUT keep the unproven (on the whole), nonperforming senior coach. That we would look at it and go "yeah you're right guys, it's a real ■■■■■■ box, let's surround our boy HIRDY with some better assistants, that'll fix the problem amirite guys?" is absolutely ludicrous. It would be like deciding to cut the list ultra deep and do a huge rebuild of the list around Steinberg and Melksham.
..........For mine, the club has absolutely dicked Jim Hird, just as much as the players. With Knights (again, a popular trope) they basically gave him an open cheque book going into '09 to chase any assistant he wanted - which he knocked back, presumably fearing one of them would usurp him. I get that that was Knights' 3rd year and this would technically be Hirds' 5th, but I don't think it would be the craziest move. Every chance if Hird gets chopped the new bloke would bring in new assistants anyway.
I'm curious about this - where did you hear it? In all my time on Blitz I've never heard that story before. I thought the general thinking was that Knights was short-changed in the football department (as was Sheedy before him) and it wasn't until Hird got there that they started undoing all the damage Jackson did to the off-field setup. I'm not saying this is right, but its what has always been stated (that I have seen).
Not sure TBH, we're going back a few years, but I was reasonably confident it was legit.
Club were talking to experienced guys (not sure if Bomber, but that sort of person) to basically do the same role Bomber did for Hird, experienced head, looking over his shoulder, sounding board etc. Suffice to say Knights said no, stuck with Hickmott et al.
When Hirdy started, he was able to hand pick his support team and we seemed to be developing a very competitive game style. Since his suspension, Bomber, Goodwin and Wellman have all left the club and other than Egan, our coaches’ box looks completely different. If the club backs James in, they need to give him some power back and allow him to make some changes i.e. get his own people in.
Based on our dysfunctional forward line this season, Bassett needs to go. Personally, I think Neil Craig is a joke and needs to GTFO. I have no idea why he has a match day role. Skippy might be a nice bloke and Harvs is a legend, but we need a proper midfield coach and neither of them is the answer. Right now, it’s pretty obvious the players are cooked, but it looks like there’s a massive disconnect within the coaches’ box as well and some personnel changes are required to fix it. In my opinion, a new coach with the same hacky support crew will fare no better than Hirdy.
You are some sort of ■■■■ bag. You’ve basically said that everyone who isn’t Hurd is responsible for our onfield performance. Which is basically the same as saying that everyone except for Hirf was responsible for our supplements program. Choose one or the other
Who is the last coach who survived 3x80 point drubbings at the Essendon football club?
When was the last time a teams been through what we’ve been through? This is an unprecedented situation and impossible to judge the team or coach fairly.
How about we let him coach to the end of his contract to see what he can do without WADA hanging over the club, before we go out and Matty Knights the ■■■■ out of things by extending a guy who could still be a dud
In your crazy logical world, sure.
Although, to be fair, if he was a player who’d been alright for exactly 1.5 years then out for 1.5 years, we’d probably extend. It’s what we do.
Given Kevin Sheedy has said that James will be a successful coach and needs to be given a fair go without WADA hanging over the Club’s head, that’s good enough for me.