Assistant Coaches

[MrMahatma]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Do we know that we’ve tried to get senior assistants in the past but failed? We got one lady year.

[GVGjr]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Good assistants have only ever walked out of our club under Bevo, not in. I?m not sure if it?s exactly a draw card, on current evidence looks like more the opposite to be completely honest.

Hansen, Gia and King were ambitious assistant coaches who want to prepare for a chance to be a senior coach. Moving clubs helps them gain a broader experience to hopefully achieve their goals. On the flip side we brought Lade in who also has ambitions.

I think we are a good destination for assistant coaches.

[Axe Man]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Do we know that we’ve tried to get senior assistants in the past but failed? We got one lady year.

Lay Ladey Lay?

[ledge]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Hansen, Gia and King were ambitious assistant coaches who want to prepare for a chance to be a senior coach. Moving clubs helps them gain a broader experience to hopefully achieve their goals. On the flip side we brought Lade in who also has ambitions.

I think we are a good destination for assistant coaches.

We have been good at giving coaches their first go .. Bevo , Malthouse , Wallace were successful ones . Hart, McCartney being terrible.
If you’re looking for a club to take a chance you would look at the dogs.

[doggies ftw]

Re: Assistant Coaches

To be fair they walked out after 5-6 years, searching for upgraded opportunities, so it can't have been that bad.

Since then both King and Hansen have coached AFL games haven't they? Probably feeling pretty vindicated.

They left for similar opportunities, nothing wrong with that. But when a team who has just played in a GFs two best options to replace them are literally a first time coach at any level!! And Webb. Well that says a lot.

All started with Monty early days who saw the writing on the wall I guess, Monty, Gia, Hansen, King, Corey even Dal who wasn?t even under the same umbrella as Bev didn?t want to work with him, all one way traffic, the one big signing we?ve had under Bev was Lade a guy who has never worked in a successful environment in a decade long coaching career.

We?ll see what happens this year, but from where I?m standing people are definitely not scrambling to work under a great coach in Bev, quite the opposite. I wonder why?

[Vred]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Michael Barlow
Stew Dew
Andrew McQualter
Brendan Lade

Not a shabby panel if you ask me.

[JanLorMill]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Lay Ladey Lay?

Lay across my big brass bed

[JanLorMill]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Michael Barlow
Stew Dew
Andrew McQualter
Brendan Lade

Not a shabby panel if you ask me.

Unfortunately only one of them is actually with us atm and his influence was questioned this year.

[GVGjr]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Michael Barlow
Stew Dew
Andrew McQualter
Brendan Lade

Not a shabby panel if you ask me.

It almost has too many senior assistants but like to get Barlow. Webb's role was stoppages and opposition analysis. That might be a good role for one of them.

[jazzadogs]

Re: Assistant Coaches

It almost has too many senior assistants but like to get Barlow. Webb's role was stoppages and opposition analysis. That might be a good role for one of them.

Can you have too many good assistant coaches? I agree they can't all have the title of 'senior' assistant but if they're getting paid enough they probably don't care.


Just as an exercise I looked up other panels from this year and we stack up pretty well on numbers and experience...

2023 coaching panels
Bulldogs
Bevo
Lade
Webb
Smith
Spangher
+ Maddocks, Stef Martin, Varcoe (development)

Collingwood
McRae
Brendan Bolton (director of coaching, defence)
Leppitsch (Strategy, Forwards)
Hayden Skipworth
Scott Selwood
+ Fraser, Jetta, Roughead (development)

Melbourne
Goodwin
Alan Richardson (General Manager of AFL football performance ???)
Yze (mids)
Troy Chaplin (backs)
Greg Stafford (forwards)
Mark Williams (Head of Development)

Carlton
Voss
Hansen (forwards/"offense")
Hamill (backs)
Tim Clarke (mids)
Kreuzer (rucks)
Luke Power (development, VFL)
Lonergan, Brad Ebert, Torin Baker (development)

Note Brisbane has four ex Bulldogs on their coaching panel - Adcock (backs), Ben Hudson (VFL coach), Morris (development), Hahn (academy)

[jazzadogs]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Michael Barlow
Stew Dew
Andrew McQualter
Brendan Lade

Not a shabby panel if you ask me.

Is this a thought, or based on your sources?

[mjp]

Re: Assistant Coaches

It almost has too many senior assistants but like to get Barlow. Webb's role was stoppages and opposition analysis. That might be a good role for one of them.

I don't think it is the roles below Bevo that are necessarily a problem. I'm pretty sure most of the guys in JD's list can coach and communicate.

It 'feels' like covering for the Maple 'role' (whatever that is - pretty sure he just did what he did after being at the club for a long time without everything being spelled out in a JDF) has left not just Bevo but the AC's and Hi-Performance team trying to fill gaps...

Again - I don't know but it feels like unity and leadership is the key, not names on a page. And whilst I'm sure the names (Barlow, Dew, McQualter et al being mentioned) impress some people, players wont care. They want people who show through their actions they are willing to support them and help them improve their game...

[Vred]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Is this a thought, or based on your sources?

All coaches we are chasing.

[jazzadogs]

Re: Assistant Coaches

All coaches we are chasing.

Hopefully we get one or two off the list. If we get none, then the 'nobody wants to work with Bevo' drums start pounding pretty loudly.

[kruder]

Re: Assistant Coaches

Michael Barlow
Stew Dew
Andrew McQualter
Brendan Lade

Not a shabby panel if you ask me.

Yze is Richmond's coach so McQualter will be on the market