Coach resigns

[boydogs]

Re: Coach resigns

Because then the immediate reply is 'he has resigned'. (Obviously we know it wasn't purely a resignation....but it's the club line).

He tripped up on that one as well.

http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/video/2014-10-10/gordon-garlick-field-press-questions-part-1

0:40 - A contract is a contract, during a press conference sacking a coach contracted for 2 more years

http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/video/2014-10-10/gordon-garlick-field-press-questions-part-2

1:45 - "We have made a judgment as senior management and the board to make a change, Macca's agreed with that"

2:15 - "It formed part of the evidence on which we made a decision"

[jeemak]

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Griffen moving on to go to GWS as a contracted player is not the same as the club suggesting McCartney should resign and McCartney subsequently resigning, from a contractual perspective.

One scenario has mutual agreement, while the other doesn't. It's a non-argument, irrespective of the moral point of view one might want to bring into the debate.

There's no contradiction at all, and of all people PG would know that.

[Bornadog]

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Griffen moving on to go to GWS as a contracted player is not the same as the club suggesting McCartney should resign and McCartney subsequently resigning, from a contractual perspective.

One scenario has mutual agreement, while the other doesn't. It's a non-argument, irrespective of the moral point of view one might want to bring into the debate.

There's no contradiction at all, and of all people PG would know that.

There were also clauses in Macca's contract which meant we would never pay him out for the remainder of his contract.

[ratsmac]

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Cameron Ling tweeted this

After 3 seasons, Macca 20wins 46 losses v Clarko 28wins 40 losses. Dogs baulk v Hawks didn't. Average club v great club. Success takes time.

I have to agree with Cameron on this one.

[ratsmac]

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Actually I might add to the Bulldogs defence that the Hawks didn't have their captain entertain treason and up and leave did they.

[Mantis]

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Cameron Ling tweeted this

After 3 seasons, Macca 20wins 46 losses v Clarko 28wins 40 losses. Dogs baulk v Hawks didn't. Average club v great club. Success takes time.

I have to agree with Cameron on this one.

Ling is an A grade flog and shouldn't be allowed to come into our rooms... Has always been on the B-Mac bandwagon and has let his emotion cloud his judgement on this one.

And were Hawthorn a great club in 2007? Easy in hindsight.

[Rocket Science]

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Brendan McCartney post-departure interview about to air shortly on ABC Grandstand for anyone interested.

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/player/?station=grandstand

[Remi Moses]

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Hawks made the eight in his third year, and we're on the way up.
Silly comparison

[Topdog]

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Hawks made the eight in his third year, and we're on the way up.
Silly comparison

Love the twisting of a good stat

[Sedat]

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After 3 seasons, Macca 20wins 46 losses v Clarko 28wins 40 losses. Dogs baulk v Hawks didn't. Average club v great club. Success takes time.

Terrible comparison from Ling. Hawthorn made finals and won a final in Clarko's third year and then won the flag in his 4th year. Irrespective, his comparison had Clarko 8 wins ahead of BMac at the same stage of which the differential was 7 of wins alone in year 3. By his demented logic, BMac would have won the flag with us next year.

If only Sydney could have taken both Ling and Harley, that way both of them would not have bored us shitless with their moronic drivel on Ch 7 Friday nights

[G-Mo77]

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He tripped up on that one as well.

http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/video/2014-10-10/gordon-garlick-field-press-questions-part-1

0:40 - A contract is a contract, during a press conference sacking a coach contracted for 2 more years

http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/video/2014-10-10/gordon-garlick-field-press-questions-part-2

1:45 - "We have made a judgment as senior management and the board to make a change, Macca's agreed with that"

2:15 - "It formed part of the evidence on which we made a decision"

I love that one.

[Mofra]

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Its great your a big fan of Maca, and think he has done everything right at the club, but when multiple players say they can't work with him, not just senior players, but lots of players - surely you can see there were issues.

PG said in his presser, there were issues in the way he communicated to the players for the second half of the year. These players are not precious, you think they can't handle a rocket?? because as Mark Stevens tweeted, the senior players are use to a rocket from Rocket. What is missing with Macca is the way you deliver or communicate to players.

Forget the coaching issue for a moment.

Are you actually so quickly willing to forgive the captain of the club for spending 6 months talking to another club about a trade, and lying to both the president and to Chris Grant?

[boydogs]

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Hawks made the eight in his third year, and we're on the way up.
Silly comparison

Yeah I noticed Clarkson had coached 2 extra games. 8 wins more is nothing to sneeze at either

[LostDoggy]

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All the doom and gloom from you guys
New coach
Tom Boyd/Cameron? ++for 29 yo Griffen
Everybody might be happier next week
Im a bulldog thru and thru
Throw away lines from some leaving the club... definately not true supporters

Hate so say this but one week and a cool head makes a big difference
Tony lockett part 2

[Bulldog4life]

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Haven't got the link to it but it was emailed to me by my sister. Article by Jon Ralph.

"Brendan McCartney’s expectations and assessments of his players when he was coach of the Western Bulldogs were too personal and cost him his job, says the Herald Sun’s Jon Ralph.
His reputation as a tough leader was always well known but it seems the 53 year-old became an unpopular figure at the Whitten Oval after questioning the personalities of various players.
“So, basically the things that he said to them were game-changers, they irreparably damaged that relationship.
“Maybe he just snapped and felt that he had had enough.
“He said things to Adam Cooney and Will Minson that were insults that rocked them to the core,” Ralph explained on Hungry for Sport.
It was initially thought that players were unjustifiably whinging because they were unhappy with the McCartney’s particularly harsh evaluations in their end of season exit interviews.
A former Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade was famous for his demanding and fiery character but the senior players felt McCartney took it a step too far.
“It’s not only the senior players, some of the younger players love him but others felt like he was too tough.
“What some of the senior players are saying is that we can accept sprays, but he basically ripped into their personalities.”
Those players who took offence to the negative feedback clearly made their issues with McCartney known to senior figures at the club and ultimately led to his ‘resignation’.
“If someone rips into the core of your being, it’s pretty hard to come back from that.
“He attacked their personalities, and attacked them as people.
“So those players asked how they overcome that, this is the person I am at 30 years of age.”