Assistant Coaches

[Vred]

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How would we feel about:
Bevo, Dew, Ratten, Lade
With Jackson Kornberg, Clay Smith & Spang as development coaches

[Hotdog60]

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I saw Ratten would be available. Is this your inside knowledge?

[Vred]

Re: Assistant Coaches

I saw Ratten would be available. Is this your inside knowledge?

Negative, I'm a bit 50/50 on the guy, hasn't really done much when he was a head coach, and I don't know enough about him when he was an assistant to really give my two cents.

Timing is curious tho, specially with his former connections to Bevo and Lade.

[Bornadog]

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How would we feel about:
Bevo, Dew, Ratten + 1 more as a coaching panel?
With Jackson Kornberg, Clay Smith & Spang as development coaches

What happens to his former assistant Lade?

[Vred]

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What happens to his former assistant Lade?

Look, alright, I'm tired, it's been a long week lol

[GVGjr]

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How would we feel about:
Bevo, Dew, Ratten, Lade
With Jackson Kornberg, Clay Smith & Spang as development coaches

Not sold on Ratten being a great fit for us but Bevo, Dew (2IC) Lade and Spangher would be a strong group.
Is Kornberg in the mix to head our way or is that contingent on Dew coming in?

Any news on Maddocks and Martin?

[Scraggers]

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How would we feel about:
Bevo, Dew, Ratten + 1 more as a coaching panel?
With Jackson Kornberg, Clay Smith & Spang as development coaches

I think this starts to tread in dangerous waters. Bevo is Head Coach. Ultimately all decisions are his responsibility. He sits in the seat, he takes all accolades and all the heat associated with the responsibility.

Having one assistant with end-of-line experience is great as a sounding board and brings experience to an otherwise shallow coaching panel. Having two, you are suddenly outnumbered and the balance of power shifts too far to the assistants. I like the idea of Stewie Dew as a senior assistant (or even in the roll of Football Manager or coaching advisory role) but not two ex-head coaches.

[Vred]

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Not sold on Ratten being a great fit for us but Bevo, Dew (2IC) Lade and Spangher would be a strong group.
Is Kornberg in the mix to head our way or is that contingent on Dew coming in?

Any news on Maddocks and Martin?

I'm lead to believe Maddocks will remain, Martin will be going.
Kornberg is moving back to Vic end of the VFL season, I'm told we've asked the question of him and that'll be regardless of Dew coming in.

[Axe Man]

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I think this starts to tread in dangerous waters. Bevo is Head Coach. Ultimately all decisions are his responsibility. He sits in the seat, he takes all accolades and all the heat associated with the responsibility.

Having one assistant with end-of-line experience is great as a sounding board and brings experience to an otherwise shallow coaching panel. Having two, you are suddenly outnumbered and the balance of power shifts too far to the assistants. I like the idea of Stewie Dew as a senior assistant (or even in the roll of Football Manager or coaching advisory role) but not two ex-head coaches.

Agreed. We could have 1 former head coach like Dew, Ratten or Cameron, not 2. Plus the soft cap would be blown to smithereens (not sure I've ever used smithereens in a sentence before).

[Vred]

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I think this starts to tread in dangerous waters. Bevo is Head Coach. Ultimately all decisions are his responsibility. He sits in the seat, he takes all accolades and all the heat associated with the responsibility.

Having one assistant with end-of-line experience is great as a sounding board and brings experience to an otherwise shallow coaching panel. Having two, you are suddenly outnumbered and the balance of power shifts too far to the assistants. I like the idea of Stewie Dew as a senior assistant (or even in the roll of Football Manager or coaching advisory role) but not two ex-head coaches.

I agree, not sure I even see it with Ratten. I'd actually like to see us target a recently-retired player, someone like Jack Riewoldt.

[azabob]

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Phil Davis would be my first choice for a recently retired player.

[GVGjr]

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I'm lead to believe Maddocks will remain, Martin will be going.
Kornberg is moving back to Vic end of the VFL season, I'm told we've asked the question of him and that'll be regardless of Dew coming in.

Any news on Stuart Edge? Seems to have a good relationship with Bevo and Footscray have done exceptionally well given the disadvantage of not having a home ground.

[Vred]

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Any news on Stuart Edge? Seems to have a good relationship with Bevo and Footscray have done exceptionally well given the disadvantage of not having a home ground.

There's some talk over on BigFooty that he'll be expanding his coaching and going full time in the men's senior program, although I haven't been able to confirm or deny that.

Could he do both senior VFL and AFL at the same time???

Very good coach tho, would be a great-get for the mens program if he could do it.

[GVGjr]

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There's some talk over on BigFooty that he'll be expanding his coaching and going full time in the men's program, although I haven't been able to confirm or deny that.

Very good coach tho, would be a great-get for the mens program if he could do it.

He did additional work over summer by attending a lot of Bulldogs sessions and then obviously doubling up with the Bulldog boys. Both Poulter and O'Donnell acknowledge his work with them.

Hard to know if he would serve the club better by sticking with Footscray or moving more into a development role.

[hujsh]

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How would we feel about:
Bevo, Dew, Ratten, Lade
With Jackson Kornberg, Clay Smith & Spang as development coaches

Love the idea of those 2 at the club. Could maybe see the Suns guy stepping up to a line coach role (so replacing Ratten in the hypothetical)