News 2015 Saints Media Thread (please use player threads for player-specific news/articles)

[sammm]

Yeah I have heard all that, I guess we will know for sure when Hammil, Kingsley, Welsh or Sexton move on who gets promoted.

It would also depend if she wanted to move away from development.

 

[Dopey BJ]

It would also depend if she wanted to move away from development.

Don't want to argue about it, all I was doing was passing on information that had been given to me.

 

[Persevering Saint]

With all due respect Dopey, that is a pretty disrespectful comment to both Peta and our footy club. Have you heard Peta speak about footy? She would know more about how the game is played than all of us put together. She's a terrific footy person.

Watch her video with Joey. She knows her stuff. I don't buy that it's token.

 

[hayes]

All dwarfs breathe a big sigh of relief!:

No mad Monday for Sandy this year?

 

[Kilroy]

No Mad Monday for the Saints this year.

"We'll just get together with the coaching staff and the football department and we'll just have a nice little sit-down lunch"

The fun begins on Tuesday.

http://www.zerohanger.com/no-mad-monday-for-saints-1836/#mDJK2aZbz9JUoLor.97

 

[BrianSpeaking]

With all due respect Dopey, that is a pretty disrespectful comment to both Peta and our footy club. Have you heard Peta speak about footy? She would know more about how the game is played than all of us put together. She's a terrific footy person.

I'm very close with Pete, the fact that she is a woman definitely got her in the door when we were rebuilding our brand, she would be the first to admit it. It was a brilliant strategic move by Finnis and the AFL, after all without Mums driving their kids to training and matches we have no AFL!
As far as her footy knowledge goes, she is an out and out gun, one of the best in the business. This two year extension is no token appointment. I'm hopeful she will be our senior VFL coach in 2017.

 

[Axcellence]

On a separate side note - I read that Gilbert is in the coaching the vfl side and specialist kicking coach to the senior team. Peta is the vfl forward coach.

What happened to the saints academy model?

 

[King_Steele]

On a separate side note - I read that Gilbert is in the coaching the vfl side and specialist kicking coach to the senior team. Peta is the vfl forward coach.

What happened to the saints academy model?

Simon McPhee runs the academy, I'm pretty sure, with development coaches as help.

 

[Dopey BJ]

I'm very close with Pete, the fact that she is a woman definitely got her in the door when we were rebuilding our brand, she would be the first to admit it. It was a brilliant strategic move by Finnis and the AFL, after all without Mums driving their kids to training and matches we have no AFL!
As far as her footy knowledge goes, she is an out and out gun, one of the best in the business. This two year extension is no token appointment. I'm hopeful she will be our senior VFL coach in 2017.

This was exactly my point, as I said we know how good she is if and when a promotion comes.

 

[lewdogs]

Not sure , my mail is she is token as asked by the AFL

Go to a VFL match and watch her address the players. Gun coach.

 

[Periphery]

This was exactly my point, as I said we know how good she is if and when a promotion comes.

If she is more than capable of doing the job that doesn't make her a token appointment.

 

[Axcellence]

She had a referral from Gary Ayres before joining the saints.

I think his endorsement counts for some. He had also endorsed Jack Sinclair before the draft.

 

[Half Back Pocket]

She coaches the Sandy Fwd line. Is very well respected by the players, and certainly knows her stuff.

 

[Persevering Saint]

The other thing that Peta has is her training as a teacher. You could clearly see that in the video with Joey. It's one thing to know all the stuff - it's another to be able to effectively teach that to the players.

Increasingly, it seems to me, footy has strong "university" facet to it, or at least VET/TAFE facet to it. These are primarily 18-23 year olds, so they are that uni kind of age. The players seem to spend as much time in a classroom (effectively) as they do on the training track. They have to learn what are increasingly-complicated positioning patterns. As a tertiary educator myself, I've noticed a strong resonance between what people like me do, and what the coaches are doing with the group in the debriefs we see from club videos, etc.

As such, being a teacher, understanding pedagogy is extremely useful for the new breed of coaches (pedagogy is the technical side of how you teach... although technically that's how you teach kids, which is what Pete would have learned in her education training, there are similar techniques for adragogy, or adult learning).

 

[Persevering Saint]

Actually, come to think of it, I wonder if the Club has ever considered making coaches do a Cert IV in Training and Assessment. That's the standard expectation for any lecturer at VET level (which given the practical nature of playing sport, is probably more applicable to them, as opposed to training in a diploma in Higher Ed teaching that increasingly us Higher Ed lecturers have to do). I reckon there'd be some value in that.

 

[Dopey BJ]

Actually, come to think of it, I wonder if the Club has ever considered making coaches do a Cert IV in Training and Assessment. That's the standard expectation for any lecturer at VET level (which given the practical nature of playing sport, is probably more applicable to them, as opposed to training in a diploma in Higher Ed teaching that increasingly us Higher Ed lecturers have to do). I reckon there'd be some value in that.

Thommo wrote a piece in the Age a few years ago about putting potential coaches through Uni to give them a leg up in people management, planning and a host of other units that would set them up to coach.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Token? I thought you said taken. So I'm still a show then.

 

[BrianSpeaking]

She coaches the Sandy Fwd line. Is very well respected by the players, and certainly knows her stuff.

She's a specialist defensive coach by trade, the best I've seen.

 

[maanco]

2018 grand final saints vs dogs
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...8-will-look-like/story-fnp04d70-1227514222754

 

[joop]

2018 grand final saints vs dogs
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...8-will-look-like/story-fnp04d70-1227514222754

For all us tight-arses, can you copy the text?

 

[TheLonieRanger]

For all us tight-arses, can you copy the text?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...8-will-look-like/story-fnp04d6y-1227514222754

half way through it, reads like it was written by a child, but I'll persevere


*He really gives it to the demons.. luv it!

 

[joop]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...8-will-look-like/story-fnp04d6y-1227514222754

half way through it, reads like it was written by a child, but I'll persevere


*He really gives it to the demons.. luv it!

Yeh I'm not a subscriber, anyway it surprises me Crawford is paid money to write.

 

[Studbuddy]

From memory, Jay Clarke said on Triple M that Lenny is moving up to GWS to be an assistant coach.

 

[Easy Mode]

Yeh I'm not a subscriber, anyway it surprises me Crawford is paid money to write.

This link will work for non subscribers: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...8-will-look-like/story-e6frg6n6-1227514222754

 

[sverik25]

From memory, Jay Clarke said on Triple M that Lenny is moving up to GWS to be an assistant coach.

Damnit Lenny, they don't need any more help!