Assistant Coaches

[Rocket Science]

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What's Port Adelaide's mantra? 'We exist to win Premierships'?

Ours could be 'We exist so you can feign interest while helping your agent leverage an extension and/or promotion out of your current employer' ...

Satisfaction, guaranteed.

[SquirrelGrip]

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Fair enough decision by Leppa. My concern is there has been more chatter about our assistant coaching discussions (and more names mooted) than Richmond had for their entire senior coach selection process. It is very unprofessional IMO and paints the club in an unflattering light.

The very first thing I would have done if I was Grant/Bains a couple of years ago was completely shut down the incessant leaking at the club. It has been festering ever since the "Freed From Desire" leak after our PF win in 2021. I hate it almost as much as Bevo clearly does.

Shit clubs leak.

I agree. Lepptisch's name shouldn't have become public until he was signed, sealed and delivered.

[GVGjr]

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Leppa just Josh Porter'd our arse

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[hujsh]

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Which Kornhole? I'd laugh if Kane Cornes came in as a coach.

The GC bloke I'll learn how to spell the name of if he actually comes. Was a coach of Bailey in his junior years and he credited him for helping a lot to develop his game.

Could be a win-win, we get a highly rated coach into our system and Bailey gets an anchor that maybe helps him settle a bit more at the club (cause it sounds like he's a bit of an outsider amoung the playing group)

[Sedat]

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I agree. Lepptisch's name shouldn't have become public until he was signed, sealed and delivered.

Yep - you could substitute Leppa's name for Cameron, Dew, McQualter, etc..

And they are still yapping to the media about Matthew Egan this time. Seriously, just shut up and get it done.

[jeemak]

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Fair enough decision by Leppa. My concern is there has been more chatter about our assistant coaching discussions (and more names mooted) than Richmond had for their entire senior coach selection process. It is very unprofessional IMO and paints the club in an unflattering light.

The very first thing I would have done if I was Grant/Bains a couple of years ago was completely shut down the incessant leaking at the club. It has been festering ever since the "Freed From Desire" leak after our PF win in 2021. I hate it almost as much as Bevo clearly does.

Shit clubs leak.

It was probably Lepitsch's management who leaked.

[Sedat]

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It was probably Lepitsch's management who leaked.

Even if so, get his management before-hand to sign a confidentiality agreement/NDA. Happens all the time in most industries and it's not that hard. Why would you even want the entire world to know your business behind the scenes anyway?

Did Cameron, Dew, McQualter, Egan, etc.. management do the leaking as well?

Very sloppy by us, and that's being kind. We have 2 years of form with regard to leaking - seriously just fix it.

[Danjul]

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Oooff. Fixed.

Don?t go upsetting Dunkley.

He Is the only one left that might come and help the club.

[Critter]

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I don’t think the club is in dire circumstances. I think that, quite simply, we are na?ve when it comes to negotiation and performance management. When we allowed it to become public knowledge that we were disenchanted with our on-field performance, and would conduct a “Review” (whatever that word might mean), we sent a signal to the AFL community that Luke Beveridge was under scrutiny. One slant, perhaps the official one, was that he needed better support to succeed. So, we sacked a number of incumbent support staff. Another, unintended slant was that, but for a two-year contract, Beveridge was dead man walking.

To any potential coaching aspirant, the inference was clear – Beveridge and his coaching panel are on shaky ground and, in all likelihood, he remains at the club because he has a two-year contract. Any assistants offered an appointment will understand quite clearly that it was management that has mandated that they be appointed, not the coach. The worrying question then for them is: where is the coach’s head?

Any chance of an assistant coach being successful will be dependent upon Beveridge’s willingness to embrace different voices and to take advice. And what is his demonstrated willingness to date to innovate and to take the advice of others? Sketchy, at best. No senior aspirant worth his salt would come to a club under these circumstances.

The better path would have been to have negotiated Beveridge’s departure immediately the season finished and to have appointed a new coach. Clear the decks, so to speak. Bit late now.

[Grantysghost]

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I'm really happy with our Assistant Coach strategy.

We've been calling for change for a while, and now we are going for it which is great.
We've been ambitious with our targets so far, I'm sure we have some others in mind so I'm ok with this.

[Go_Dogs]

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I think it’s now the quantity of unknowns that is causing concern. We have no news from an assistant coaches perspective, with lots of alleged missed targets. No word on our fitness appointment. Realise this may take some time, but surely we had a few things in the works, maybe not.

The chips will fall at some point, however it would be good to commence November with these things locked down to give our playing list and coaching staff a bit of certainty, and maybe a holiday for Bevo and a few others too if they haven’t had a break yet.

It’s not panic stations yet, we need to get a wiggle on though.

[hujsh]

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Best case is we have most of the line coaches sorted and signed and just want the Director of Coaching role filled before announcing them all.

But I kinda doubt it.

[Rocket Science]

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It's okay everybody, we've got our best man on it.

[Grantysghost]

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It's okay everybody, we've got our best man on it.

Hahaaaa

[SquirrelGrip]

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I think it’s now the quantity of unknowns that is causing concern.

Maybe Donald R is interviewing for our Director of Coaching role?

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.”