Opinion Non-Crows AFL 5: Save Ken

[kirky]

Roo may have his shortcomings but to compare him with Hird is nuts.

I was referring to the idolisation.

 

[DJ75]

It's amazing how little criticism they've received this year despite their drop down the ladder.

Absolute protected species club.

Probably need another FS top 5 pick to help them out...
Poor darlings.

 

[Bay62]

I like Nick Reiwoldt’s take on what players are looking for in a coach. Hope this is happening with us

 

[SugarShane]

I don't really know the history here.

But are you saying the Hawthorn was given priority pick 2 in 2004, after only 2 years not making finals and finishing 10th and 9th?

And another priority pick 3 in 2005 after only the third year not making finals?

Apart from the one traded in, I'm pretty sure the only metric back then for a PP was the team had to win <4 games or something like that. Didn't matter if you won the flag the year before.

 

[FR0GGY]

I very much hope Ben gets success but I don’t want it to be at Essendon.

 

[FR0GGY]

 

[hippyhippy]

Clarkson probably took one look at how Essendon treated Rutten and was like "no ******* thanks"

Hopefully nobody tells him about noble...

 

[FR0GGY]

Clarko saying Essendon were way too late to the party.

 

[Slippery Pete]

I like Nick Reiwoldt’s take on what players are looking for in a coach. Hope this is happening with us

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Sounds just like chicks

 

[LeftyLuke]

So is Ben sacked?

The idiots running their club have made his position untenable. They will have to pay him out in full now.

 

[Vader]

I don't really know the history here.

But are you saying the Hawthorn was given priority pick 2 in 2004, after only 2 years not making finals and finishing 10th and 9th?

And another priority pick 3 in 2005 after only the third year not making finals?

Back then the qualification for a PP was that clubs had to finish the H&A season with less than 16.5 premiership points.

PPs were taken in reverse ladder order (i.e. wooden spooner picks first), before the 1st round of the ND.

This led to games like the Kruezer Cup, R22 2007, when Carlton successfully out-tanked Melbourne for the 1st pick in that year's draft - Matthew Kreuzer. For some reason the AFL thought this was undignified, and made several subsequent modifications to the PP rule - which now reads (paraphrased) as "the AFL can give PPs to whoever they want, whenever they want, and **** everyone else".

 

[GameofSloanes]

Essendon considering bring back James Hird?!

Are they on drugs?

 

[chrisso crow]

Does Truck get the sack now, or maybe even walk?

The way he’s been treated this week for nothing must be the worst for him

He should tell them to GAGF, and they can still pay his contract for next year.

I think he'd be welcomed as an assistant at a lot of clubs. Maybe this is a good way out for him without his reputation as a senior coach being too tarnished.

 

[Geoffa32]

For financial reasons only. They won the flag in 1991 and played finals the year the merger was being floated (1996). Pretty sure when Clarko got there 10 years later he wasn't managing accounts payable.

True.

But they were a small club, and rose with success.

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[GROTTO]

Cant believe the odds for North lol.

Mind you nothing can be more surer than the AFL scheduling either us/Eagles/Dons to play them in R1 at the Dome.

 

[chrisso crow]

Yes I am.

2004 AFL Draft and Trade Period - Draftguru

www.draftguru.com.au

The PP (Luke Hodge) in 2001 was actually Fremantle’s but Fremantle traded it to Hawthorn in exchange for Trent Croad I believe. Fremantle finished bottom in 2001 (2 wins) after finished 12th in 2000 (8 wins).

Back in those days they gave PP out like candy.

Looking into it it appears teams got a PP for having les than 5 wins.

"Three teams were allocated priority draft picks for winning 5 or less games in the previous season, Richmond, Hawthorn and Western Bulldogs"

EDIT - a couple of others have already answered this.

 

[kirky]

Cant believe the odds for North lol.

Mind you nothing can be more surer than the AFL scheduling either us/Eagles/Dons to play them in R1 at the Dome.

I personally like this one. I’d be guessing Roos vs Hawks for R1 2023.

 

[Vader]

Looking into it it appears teams got a PP for having les than 5 wins.

"Three teams were allocated priority draft picks for winning 5 or less games in the previous season, Richmond, Hawthorn and Western Bulldogs"

Yes. Then they changed the rule, so you had to have less than 16.5 premiership points for consecutive years. Then they changed it so that your first PP was after the 1st round, and you had to fail another year for a PP was before the 1st round.

 

[GROTTO]

I personally like this one. I’d be guessing Roos vs Hawks for R1 2023.

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Thats been there for a while, since the Lions lost to the Tigers.

 

[GROTTO]

He should tell them to GAGF, and they can still pay his contract for next year.

I think he'd be welcomed as an assistant at a lot of clubs. Maybe this is a good way out for him without his reputation as a senior coach being too tarnished.

Pretty sure he will never coach again at senior level after Essendon.

I agree Truck should get paid out, its untenable his position at the Dons.

 

[MrBarry]

Glad he chose North, especially after the media chest beating from people like Wilson, cornes etc who were saying there was no way he wouldn't choose Essendon "because they are such a big club".

Some of the Victorians have there heads so far up the traditional clubs asses it's not funny.

 

[Thetrader15]

Very much sounds like a "we can't sack him right now because it's too close to the game, but after that he's done"

Sounds like a "We were about to sack him, but then Clarkson went to North, and now we don't have many options to replace him"

 

[LeftyLuke]

Clarko saying Essendon were way too late to the party.

The fact they already had a contracted coach meant he was never going to Essendon. Essendon embarrassed themself.

 

[Peter Doherty]

Yesterday the AFC twitter account called them Port Power and Nicks today has called them that.

It's a little thing, but I like it.

 

[GROTTO]

Yesterday the AFC twitter account called them Port Power and Nicks today has called them that.

It's a little thing, but I like it.

I decree that from this point forth that they are referred to only as Port Power.

There never was any Adelaide in Port. Its why they are what they are and will always be.