According to Cal, Hinkley was a big reason for Lappin coming to Tassie. Tassie had approached him before signing Hinkley, and he said no.
Given our big need for development and better player connection, a Hinkley/Lappin combo would have been pretty good.
Former West coast star Mitch Brown Iām keen to hear from too.
Did McVeigh run over your cat or something?
Finals football has been about contested ball and pressure for a reasonably long period of time now.
I would have thought the āmodern gameā is trending more towards transition running and precise ball use - at least over the last couple of years.
Somewhat ironically, werenāt we trying to almost exclusively launch our attacks from half back around the Hird era, which was regarded as futile at the time?
Maybe he was way ahead of the curveā¦
I can only imagine what it would have cost the AFL to get Lappin to finally move from Geelong after countless offers over the last 17 years.
I doubt the cats are happy about it either - which makes it even better.
Unfortunately they donāt have score source data from that time period.
With contested possession where just above afl average so around 8th and clearance we were average one year and way below the other
Whoever ends up coach it will be fascinating to see what they see as our point of difference.
It will be for sure overall Iāll be happy if who ever comes in can improve our defensive running numbers and increase our pressure rating consistently across four quarters that would be a good year one metric and get games into as many young players who buy into that.
If the coach comes in and tries to establish an attacking game plan straight off the bat I think they will fail.
Tom Morris is generally spot on. Worried about this McVeigh thing. After all this process, if it is McVeigh, it will be underwhelming.
if it helps, every time he talks about it into a microphone, he says āi donāt know, itās just a gut feelingā
Iād be happy if the new coach can just teach them to kick and handpass a football
Hope our man HIRD blew them all away with his final presentation today (or tomorrow)
Was today I believe.
That may be asking a bit much
Can dream
Oh man, Iād forgotten about that. Meningaās 28 second poitical career is just about the most awkward thing you can watch.
Other than this one obvioulsyā¦
If it was tomorrow heād have the job! Apparently
I donāt think itās underwhelming. Iām getting annoyed at this weird narrative that itās some sort of appeasement pick. McVeigh has earnt his shot at a senior job. We would be lucky if itās at our club
He hasnāt been in a premiership winning environment as a player or as an assistant coach. His interim coaching experience was also bad like Solly.
Everything shows that he is not quite the best candidate we have interviewed.