Assistant Coaches

[azabob]

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Any newly retired prospects who would make good coaches?

I wonder about Cotchin.

I like Phil Davis as an option. Well spoken, understands the modern game, experienced ups and downs of footy success wise. Would be a great resource for our young backs and forwards.

[hujsh]

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I like Phil Davis as an option. Well spoken, understands the modern game, experienced ups and downs of footy success wise. Would be a great resource for our young backs and forwards.

Can see him being a good development coach but not sure he'd come to us necessarily.

[jazzadogs]

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Can see him being a good development coach but not sure he'd come to us necessarily.

I think he'll prioritise media over coaching. He's on trade radio.

[JanLorMill]

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Phil Davis priorities himself over anything. A grade wanker

[Bornadog]

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I think he'll prioritise media over coaching. He's on trade radio.

and i don't like some of the stuff he says on TR

[ledge]

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Just looking at retired players who would make good assistants .. Cunnington , Hurn and Shuey? They were all pretty hard players if we want to toughen the team up, bring in Clay Smith with Cunnington and that’s some serious madness.

[jazzadogs]

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Just looking at retired players who would make good assistants .. Cunnington , Hurn and Shuey? They were all pretty hard players if we want to toughen the team up, bring in Clay Smith with Cunnington and that’s some serious madness.

I think Cunnington will go the way of Ryan Griffen and have absolutely nothing to do with football now. Might be wrong.

Would Hurn or Shuey want to leave WA?

if we get Leppitsch and Kornberg, that seems like a good haul. Ex players come in and start as development coaches like Varcoe and SSSM.

[azabob]

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and i don't like some of the stuff he says on TR

BAD, why are you listening to trade radio? I can only imagine it would make you angry!

[GVGjr]

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From SEN

The Western Bulldogs are chasing Justin Leppitsch for an expanded role at Whitten Oval under Luke Beveridge, SEN's Tom Morris reports.

Leppitsch, one of the key figures in Collingwood’s premiership and a much-loved person at the AIA Centre, is yet to confirm a decision.

But the Bulldogs have three vacancies under Beveridge with former assistants Rohan Smith, Marc Webb and Travis Varcoe all departing the club in recent weeks.

In backing Beveridge to lead the club back to the competition’s pinnacle, the Dogs are looking to get some fresh faces around the 2016 premiership coach.

Leppitsch fits the bill having won premierships at the Magpies and Richmond as an assistant, while he also coached Brisbane for three seasons from 2014.

Morris told SEN Breakfast that Leppitsch had been offered a senior role under Beveridge.

"Justin Leppitsch, the Bulldogs are chasing him as more than an assistant coach, a senior football department staffer sitting below Luke Beveridge," he began.

"He’s been at the Pies for two years, it’d be a big decision for him to make to leave a premiership team alongside his premiership teammate Craig McRae from the Lions."

Leppitsch – alongside Brendon Bolton – joined Collingwood shortly after Craig McRae, with the trio credited with rebuilding the Magpies into the force they now are.

Breakfast co-host and five-time premiership player Dermott Brereton also weighed in on Leppitsch.

"When you supply something to a team and you do incredibly well and you are part of the reason why that team succeeded, your stocks rise," he said.

"I think he’s perfectly suited to the 2IC, a really high 2IC job, he has that history of success."

Leppitsch is Collingwood’s head of strategy. Earlier this year he considered joining the Richmond coaching race before ruling himself out, while Kane Cornes in April described the 48-year-old as “miles ahead of the next best” assistant coach.

The football department soft cap will increase by an aditional $250,000 in 2024 after a $500,000 rise this year, giving clubs more flexibility with their staff.

[Bornadog]

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BAD, why are you listening to trade radio? I can only imagine it would make you angry!

Haha, you know me well

[MrMahatma]

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From SEN

The Western Bulldogs are chasing Justin Leppitsch for an expanded role at Whitten Oval under Luke Beveridge, SEN's Tom Morris reports.

Leppitsch, one of the key figures in Collingwood’s premiership and a much-loved person at the AIA Centre, is yet to confirm a decision.

But the Bulldogs have three vacancies under Beveridge with former assistants Rohan Smith, Marc Webb and Travis Varcoe all departing the club in recent weeks.

In backing Beveridge to lead the club back to the competition’s pinnacle, the Dogs are looking to get some fresh faces around the 2016 premiership coach.

Leppitsch fits the bill having won premierships at the Magpies and Richmond as an assistant, while he also coached Brisbane for three seasons from 2014.

Morris told SEN Breakfast that Leppitsch had been offered a senior role under Beveridge.

"Justin Leppitsch, the Bulldogs are chasing him as more than an assistant coach, a senior football department staffer sitting below Luke Beveridge," he began.

"He’s been at the Pies for two years, it’d be a big decision for him to make to leave a premiership team alongside his premiership teammate Craig McRae from the Lions."

Leppitsch – alongside Brendon Bolton – joined Collingwood shortly after Craig McRae, with the trio credited with rebuilding the Magpies into the force they now are.

Breakfast co-host and five-time premiership player Dermott Brereton also weighed in on Leppitsch.

"When you supply something to a team and you do incredibly well and you are part of the reason why that team succeeded, your stocks rise," he said.

"I think he’s perfectly suited to the 2IC, a really high 2IC job, he has that history of success."

Leppitsch is Collingwood’s head of strategy. Earlier this year he considered joining the Richmond coaching race before ruling himself out, while Kane Cornes in April described the 48-year-old as “miles ahead of the next best” assistant coach.

The football department soft cap will increase by an aditional $250,000 in 2024 after a $500,000 rise this year, giving clubs more flexibility with their staff.

I just feel a release from the Pies is gonna drop any minute saying "Leppa is going nowhere".

But I felt a bit that way when we were going to get Treloar and that eventuated. Feels like getting Leppa or at least some similar calibre support, is more important than what we do in trade week.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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I just feel a release from the Pies is gonna drop any minute saying "Leppa is going nowhere".

But I felt a bit that way when we were going to get Treloar and that eventuated. Feels like getting Leppa or at least some similar calibre support, is more important than what we do in trade week.

Agreed. Leppa is traget no 1.

Itd be a huge win to get him signed.

[Bornadog]

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Graham Wright says they are working with contractual obligations for Leppa, but is keen to keep him

[Critter]

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Graham Wright says they are working with contractual obligations for Leppa

"...working with contractual obligations... ".
Wonder what that means? Is it, this is why we can't/won't let you go. Or is it, these are the details of your new contract with Collingwood? Or maybe it's, this is what you need to do before we let you go to the Dogs?

[Bornadog]

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"...working with contractual obligations... ".
Wonder what that means? Is it, this is why we can't/won't let you go. Or is it, these are the details of your new contract with Collingwood? Or maybe it's, this is what you need to do before we let you go to the Dogs?

Wright is keen to keep him