Footscray 2015!

[Twodogs]

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Rumors on twitter are suggesting that Ash Hansen will be the coach of Footscray in 2015 leaving premiership mentor Chris Maple to focus on player development.

So they'd pretty much be swapping jobs?

[westdog54]

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That's a very special moment.

Funnily enough I am sitting watching the game V Box Hill at Whitten Oval on replay. Clay Smith is about the smartest footballer for his age I've seen, I really hope he makes it.

Seconded.

First time I really noticed it was in the game against Essendon last year when he got injured. Just the really subtle things he does to buy himself an extra second or two. He's a gem and if he hadn't done two ACL's I firmly believe he'd be one of the most talked about players on our list by now.

[westdog54]

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Is that the game where he drills a goal from a set shot 45m out on the boundary line in the wet late in the 3rd quarter?

I remember saying at the time Clay is one of only a couple at the club that could've kicked it.

Yet you ask any of his detractors and apparently he can't kick. Go figure...

[Bornadog]

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So they'd pretty much be swapping jobs?

Hansen was an assistant, Maple will be head of Development.

[Twodogs]

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Hansen was an assistant, Maple will be head of Development.

I thought that Hansen was the development coach last year. I wasn't 100% certain though.

Anyway, one year, one premiership for Maple puts him on the same pedestal as Charlie Clymo. Clymo coached Geelong to the 1931 VFL premiership in his only year as senior coach.

[westdog54]

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i thought that hansen was the development coach last year. I wasn't 100% certain though.

Anyway, one year, one premiership for maple puts him on the same pedestal as charlie clymo. Clymo coached geelong to the 1931 vfl premiership in his only year as senior coach.

how do you know this stuff???!!! (That should have all been in Capitals, damned forum autocorrect)

[divvydan]

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2015 Fixture is out, can be viewed here or downloaded in various forms from here

Main thing to note is that we have 9 home games, all at the Whitten Oval with the first game and flag unfurling to be against Box Hill in a grand final rematch.

[Twodogs]

Re: Footscray 2015!

2015 Fixture is out, can be viewed here or downloaded in various forms from here

Main thing to note is that we have 9 home games, all at the Whitten Oval with the first game and flag unfurling to be against Box Hill in a grand final rematch.

Great news about the 9 games at Whitten Oval. I'm really looking forward to the flag unfurling.