out with the new, in with the old
Jul. 24th, 2011 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
passionpop It is very much like the Queen of Hearts when I scream ‘off with their head’, but I think I am justified. No one listens to me but I will continue to say that the coach of freo needs to be sacked. I don’t have anything against Mark Harvey as a person, he is just not coaching material and he is the anchor weighing the team down.
I know the argument, Fremantle have a lot of injuries. I am fed up with that excuse though. The Dockers have had a high amount of injuries for a number of seasons, if they don’t have the highest in the competition, they are pretty bloody close. When you have so many injuries for so long, you have to ask what is the root cause and in the end it can really only be that something is wrong with the way the players body conditioning is being managed, and the person in charge of this management is the coach.
I know you can’t just sack a coach…. Well you can and the Dockers have, but there are contract conditions and as long as the coach is meeting these, sacking him within a contract period is pretty hard. One has to go about it more subtly. This is where Eddie McGuire comes in.
I know it is a jump to from freos failings to the pies, but last week Eddie Everywhere said something that made me think ‘coaching is too big a job for one man’. yes, he is mainly creating a ‘Director of Coaching’ position for Malthouse as a backup to keep him incase Nathan Buckley fails, but he has got a point. With all the fitness, training, study, strategising, publicity and media commitments, coaching is a 14 hour, 7 day a week job. Too bad if you have a family because lets face it, you wont see them for 8 months of the year. Even with assistant coaches, there is still a massive body of work that a head coach is responsible for.
Enter the director of coaching. Basically you get all the role of the coach and divide them in two. If freo did this, they could undermine Mark Harvey but not have to sack him and lose money in his final pay out. Eddie must actually be female to come up with a plan so manipulative to Malthouse, and as a chick, I see you genius and I want to steal it
So, Harvey’s strength is discipline. Let him have that and the media. Get someone with a brain to work on strategy and body conditioning (as they go hand in hand. Who could do that though? Who in Western Australia has the smarts enough to do this?
Gerard Neesham.
Freos management needs to admit they were wrong in letting Neesham go. He developed the running game that now dominates AFL. His WAFL boys are cleaning up in the Foxtel cup, so pull out the cheque book and grab him, NOW.
I know the argument, Fremantle have a lot of injuries. I am fed up with that excuse though. The Dockers have had a high amount of injuries for a number of seasons, if they don’t have the highest in the competition, they are pretty bloody close. When you have so many injuries for so long, you have to ask what is the root cause and in the end it can really only be that something is wrong with the way the players body conditioning is being managed, and the person in charge of this management is the coach.
I know you can’t just sack a coach…. Well you can and the Dockers have, but there are contract conditions and as long as the coach is meeting these, sacking him within a contract period is pretty hard. One has to go about it more subtly. This is where Eddie McGuire comes in.
I know it is a jump to from freos failings to the pies, but last week Eddie Everywhere said something that made me think ‘coaching is too big a job for one man’. yes, he is mainly creating a ‘Director of Coaching’ position for Malthouse as a backup to keep him incase Nathan Buckley fails, but he has got a point. With all the fitness, training, study, strategising, publicity and media commitments, coaching is a 14 hour, 7 day a week job. Too bad if you have a family because lets face it, you wont see them for 8 months of the year. Even with assistant coaches, there is still a massive body of work that a head coach is responsible for.
Enter the director of coaching. Basically you get all the role of the coach and divide them in two. If freo did this, they could undermine Mark Harvey but not have to sack him and lose money in his final pay out. Eddie must actually be female to come up with a plan so manipulative to Malthouse, and as a chick, I see you genius and I want to steal it
So, Harvey’s strength is discipline. Let him have that and the media. Get someone with a brain to work on strategy and body conditioning (as they go hand in hand. Who could do that though? Who in Western Australia has the smarts enough to do this?
Gerard Neesham.
Freos management needs to admit they were wrong in letting Neesham go. He developed the running game that now dominates AFL. His WAFL boys are cleaning up in the Foxtel cup, so pull out the cheque book and grab him, NOW.