Assistant Coaches

[hujsh]

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With the assistants we've gone after, are they for the same/similar roles?

I've liked what I have heard from Leppitsch, Dew, McQualter and Egan but for different reasons.

I'll preface this with wtf would I know about how good an assistant they are, but my feels:

- Dew and Lepitsch really come across as strategic guys who maybe are not the greatest at dealing with players. Leppitsch was Head of Strategy or whatever it was called and has been kinda promoted/job created/give a more appealing name. So basically we targeted him for Director of Footy. I imagine Dew would have been similar.

- Egan I like but he seems a bit the opposite. Really more with the human skills. He is in a development role at the Cats I believe.

- McQualter seems a bit more all-rounderish.


If we get Egan, will he fill the same role as we intended for Leppitsch?

You'd think not given he's in development right now (and was at Melbourne) but it only came out we were talking to him once Leppitsch said no so it leads one to that conclusion.

He was an assistant proper at Essendon (leading the team post drugs scandal for 3 games) and it looks like he was there from 2011 as an assistant (not sure I love a guy around during the injections coming in but I can't speak on his knowledge) as an assistant running the forwards, the defenders and moving into head of development post 2016. https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/141071/coach-egan

To me that doesn't scream 'director of coaching'. Replacing Jamie Maddocks and moving Maddocks to VFL coach maybe I can see. But that's also a third lateral move for Egan so why leave?

[G-Mo77]

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I'd like to see Clay at the kennel as the hardness development coach!

He'd be an absolute asset but probably has other fish to fry right now

[SquirrelGrip]

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I've looked 3 times but didn't see him.

Mea culpa, I thoroughly apologise - I was wrong. I was sure I saw him, plus I’m convinced it’s all happening after seeing him at the B&F. Maybe it’s the mixture of tattoos, scratchy mustaches, and the red white and blue in the video that put Clay in my head.

.. or maybe it was the Trade Whisperer that said it and I’ve just fallen for it.

Sorry WOOFers.

[jeemak]

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Mea culpa, I thoroughly apologise - I was wrong. I was sure I saw him, plus I’m convinced it’s all happening after seeing him at the B&F. Maybe it’s the mixture of tattoos, scratchy mustaches, and the red white and blue in the video that put Clay in my head.

.. or maybe it was the Trade Whisperer that said it and I’ve just fallen for it.

Sorry WOOFers.

Nets. Strempel Edition!

[SquirrelGrip]

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Nets. Strempel Edition!

I am ready ?

[jeemak]

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I am ready ?

He should've bowled beamers that day.

[hujsh]

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He should've bowled beamers that day.

I mean he bowled every ball at the body except one just to take the stumps. I think he used his time wisely

[jeemak]

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I mean he bowled every ball at the body except one just to take the stumps. I think he used his time wisely

Yeah but the ball bounced which is unacceptable.

[GVGjr]

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Yeah but the ball bounced which is unacceptable.

He should have bowled two juicy half volleys before he 'buzzed the tower'

[azabob]

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Sedat will be pleased.

According to Brad Johnson this morning we hadn’t even spoken to Matthew Egan.

So should we assume we are not chasing Egan?

[JanLorMill]

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Sedat will be pleased.

According to Brad Johnson this morning we hadn?t even spoken to Matthew Egan.

So should we assume we are not chasing Egan?

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Just announce someone.

[bulldogtragic]

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Sedat will be pleased.

According to Brad Johnson this morning we hadn’t even spoken to Matthew Egan.

So should we assume we are not chasing Egan?

Brad Johnson wanna be an assistant. Or director of coaching. Or fitness boss? His pick.

[azabob]

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Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Just announce someone.

Not sure. But it was reported we were targeting him. So clearly wires are crossed or the club be leaking.

[jeemak]

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More and more this points to rabble raising outside of the four walls.

We need coaches, thus, we're talking to every coach seemingly in contention for a gig.

Now if I was a manager, what I'd be doing is making sure there's sufficient competitive tension in the process to get the best deal for my client. How might I do that.......?

This NDA/ CA talk troubles me because all managers would already be governed by NDA/ CA as representatives of their players and coaches via their contracts/ accreditations (and if they're not, they should be).

So to what extent do you go to as a club to protect confidential information if you can't control your own organisation. Is it just that AFL people aren't very smart and have to have all their meetings in Port Melbourne at bogan hot spots or close to footy club headquarters instead of dead cafes in Southbank?

[MrMahatma]

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Sedat will be pleased.

According to Brad Johnson this morning we hadn’t even spoken to Matthew Egan.

So should we assume we are not chasing Egan?

Look at it this way, maybe that means there aren’t leaks in the club!?