Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

[macca]

Re: Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

I agree with Macrae assessment. I am not convinced he was played to his strengths. The mad 2 way running by the pies and hanging in games was something we utterly lacked.
All these changes made and yet no kicking kicking coach ?

[GVGjr]

Re: Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

I agree with Macrae assessment. I am not convinced he was played to his strengths. The mad 2 way running by the pies and hanging in games was something we utterly lacked.
All these changes made and yet no kicking kicking coach ?

Brad Johnson is the kicking coach Macca. I think he's down at the club once per week.

[Can Bar]

Re: Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

I doubt many in the media point the finger at an assistant coach and that is likely to be done more by supporters with a good understanding of the workings of the club. I'm not sure that we have any real problem and Lade appears to be a good senior assistant from what I've seen. We've had a few changes to the assistant coaches and it was probably needed but the buck does stop with Beveridge if we don't perform to a good finals position this year.

I am not being critical of Lade, have not heard anything negative or positive for that matter. I just feel Kano has been alot more critical of bevo since Lade arrived. I have listened to him for a long time now, I understand he is in the opinion business, just think their is a bit more motivating him to be critical of bevo. almost implying anyone could coach the want for nothing bulldogs

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

‘Frayed relationship’: Report claims tensions at Dogs between Bevo and footy boss

Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge reportedly has a “frayed” relationship with executive director of football Chris Grant ahead of a defining season.

Beveridge is contracted until the end of 2025 but enters the 2024 season expected to lead a club rebound after missing the finals.

The Dogs’ struggles in 2023 led to a review of the football department, which resulted in some role changes in a bid to maximise performance and cohesion in 2024.

Nine News’ Braden Ingram said on Thursday the relationship between Beveridge and Grant had been a casualty of a difficult year, which included the decision to part ways with long-time employee Rohan Smith despite Beveridge’s opposition.

“I can tell you tonight the relationship between head of football Chris Grant and Luke Beveridge has been strained,” Ingram said.

“It’s well known Beveridge wanted to keep departed assistant Rohan Smith last year, but Grant and CEO Ameet Bains had a different view, this contributed to the frayed relationship.

“After employing Matthew Egan from Geelong as coaching performance manager, the Dogs promoted him just months later to general manager of footy ops following a review into the football department, meaning basically Beveridge doesn’t report directly to Grant but instead Egan.”

Ingram noted the arrangement was “highly unusual” in the eyes of several other clubs, barring St Kilda where Ross Lyon reports to club president Andrew Bassat.

“The Dogs say the change was made to ease the workload on Grant, but it’s fair to say the relationship between the two men is no longer the strongest,” Ingram said.

Link: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...mmendedCount=0

[Grantysghost]

Re: Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

Gawd.

[meenies]

Re: Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

Not necessarily new news on this forum.

[ledge]

Re: Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

Couldn’t find a new story obviously .
Next is the blow out of Wallace and the club.
I like the statement about no other club does it this way implying it’s wrong.
How about well that’s a move to a changing landscape.
I hope we win the flag now just to show that change isn’t always bad.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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"Ingram noted the arrangement was ?highly unusual? in the eyes of several other clubs, barring St Kilda where Ross Lyon reports to club president Andrew Bassat."

Which arrangement is this referring to? The new or the old? I would think the old given the reference to Lyon.

[angelopetraglia]

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"Ingram noted the arrangement was ?highly unusual? in the eyes of several other clubs, barring St Kilda where Ross Lyon reports to club president Andrew Bassat."

Which arrangement is this referring to? The new or the old? I would think the old given the reference to Lyon.

Ross Lyon reporting direclty to the President is one of the more bizarre things I have ever heard.

[GVGjr]

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This reeks a bit of a captain obvious conclusion from my perspective.

I'm of a firm belief that the club has under performed and I know many others on here don't share that view.
I also make allowances for the impact training at Skinner and in a make-shift gym and a highly compromised facility would have on the playing groups results last year and I also know that is out of sync with many other views on here.

I actually want the senior people in the footy department to be challenging each other on how to fast track a return to a more competitive performance during the season providing it's done in a positive way.
Grant and Bevo are highly paid footy executives and it appears both have taken a bit of a hit in terms of losing some control and that seems fair enough to me given the results. I expect professionals like them to work it out and I'm sure they will.

As for the reporting lines mentioned in the news report. I'm pretty sure Bevo reported to Chris Maple except for last year where he reported to Chris Grant and installing Matt Egan into the GM role is a return a well tried and true set-up that we had going back to when Graham Lowe was the GM for Footy.

The report last night is more based on an emotional slant than reality from what I'm seeing.

[mjp]

Re: Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

As for the reporting lines mentioned in the news report. I'm pretty sure Bevo reported to Chris Maple except for last year where he reported to Chris Grant and installing Matt Egan into the GM role is a return a well tried and true set-up that we had going back to when Graham Lowe was the GM for Footy.

Aren't reporting lines always "spiders webs" though?

We're talking about an organisation where lots of people have (valid) opinions and we want them expressed...whether Bevo reports to Grant or Ameet or Egan...it's all semantics. As long as they are ultimately pulling the boat in the same direction, who cares...I'm pretty sure there is more than enough work to go around.

[GVGjr]

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Aren't reporting lines always "spiders webs" though?

We're talking about an organisation where lots of people have (valid) opinions and we want them expressed...whether Bevo reports to Grant or Ameet or Egan...it's all semantics. As long as they are ultimately pulling the boat in the same direction, who cares...I'm pretty sure there is more than enough work to go around.

That's why I feel the news report is more based on emotion than fact. Since Bevo's been at the club he's always reported to the GM of Footy role not the director except for last year and the club fixed that mistake. There needs to be some tension within the footy department when a club doesn't quite meet it's potential and I think there were some telling reasons why last year we fell short of the mark.

[jeemak]

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Reporting lines when it comes to the senior coach are often murky, in many cases the senior coach has more pull than their manager.

[Uninformed]

Re: Peter Jackson helping Dogs with review

It seems this may be an unpopular view, but I think the power focus at a footy club should be firmly with the coach. Not the CEO, Footy boss or board. Certainly not behind outside consultants.

The board needs to fully understand that a clubs mission statement is contained completely in four words 'Win games of football."
No pages of DEI crap, just those four words.

The key to winning is getting the right coach and providing the support he needs in assistant coaches, conditioning, medical, recruitment and admin. staff.

The board, CEO and other admin roles should be to provide an environment where things hum along in support of the coach as the pivot of power.

Why the coach? Because the coalface in the pursuit of wins is the coach, the assistants and the players. The senior person at the coalface in pursuit of winning is the coach, so everything should pivot around the coach.

If you are not getting the wins, first step is to see which areas around the coach need improving, the list, the conditioning, medical assistants etc. based on the coaches view.

If you are still not getting the wins/premierships you might then consider a new coach. This would be the one occasion where the Board would be the power centre and obviously not the coach. Otherwise the Bored, (couldn't resist) managers and the like should do their admin stuff efficiently and just raise funds to support the coaches and players.

And the fans should restrict themselves to the only thing they can do to help with the mission in going along and cheering like mad and putting every ounce of positive energy they have behind the coaches and players that we have.

[SonofScray]

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Not really news is it?

They’ve packaged up a handful of facts, review happened, reporting lines have changed and Egan now sits in a role between Bevo and Grant. Then, they’ve added the pinch of drama to make it news worthy.