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I'm okay with Sam not getting coach of the year.
He's done an awesome job.
Everyone who says "he took a team that was 0-5 to the finals" needs to remember he also took at team that was 0-0 to 0-5. He had an awesome year but ultimately coached a side from third last to 6th. A great season - but probably a final win or two short of being coach of the year.
None of that is criticism by the way. Every great coach needs a ramp up season like we've had.
What I think is notable about how Mitchell has coached is that in the Cats/Lions prelim, The lions played a lot like Hawthorn. Spread the ground and then found avenues forward either wide or through the middle and ultimately won with small forwards doing the work with talls halving the aerial contests.
I think Mitchell has influenced the prevailing game style more than any coach this year.
He's done an awesome job.
Everyone who says "he took a team that was 0-5 to the finals" needs to remember he also took at team that was 0-0 to 0-5. He had an awesome year but ultimately coached a side from third last to 6th. A great season - but probably a final win or two short of being coach of the year.
None of that is criticism by the way. Every great coach needs a ramp up season like we've had.
What I think is notable about how Mitchell has coached is that in the Cats/Lions prelim, The lions played a lot like Hawthorn. Spread the ground and then found avenues forward either wide or through the middle and ultimately won with small forwards doing the work with talls halving the aerial contests.
I think Mitchell has influenced the prevailing game style more than any coach this year.
moginie
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Not even the Betoota Advocate considers Tasmania as part of either group.
Note: Not mine, I just found this on a Facebook post celebrating Hinkley's achievement of making this milestone earlier in the year.
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It’s voted for by their peers
No surprise then that Chris Scott and Clarkson have never won one and it’s easy to understand how Sam would be following in their footsteps
No surprise then that Chris Scott and Clarkson have never won one and it’s easy to understand how Sam would be following in their footsteps
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I'll never understand people who reckon the AFL will be pissed there's no Vic team in the GF.
The only result they want more than Sydney/Brisbane is GWS/Gold Coast.
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It's funny, we never had an assistant win the assistant coach of the year either but 9 of the last 11 premiers were either Hawthorn or have had former Hawthorn assistants as head coach, and it could be 10 of the last 12 after this weekend.
Iceman!
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I have long said this is one of the worst awards in the sport, maybe the rising star as well but this goes close so i shouldn't care. It is just a most improved team award almost always but that is what pisses me off most.
I watched Clarko get ignored for this dog shit award for over a decade because he was just expected to keep trotting out top 4 restults. But when 2 of the clearly best lists finish where they are expected to they now finish ahead of Mitchell who dragged 'one of the worst lists and clear bottom 4 team in the league to the finals'
Holy shit no consistency on how they vote for this.
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"he also took at team that was 0-0 to 0-5."
Chris Fagan took a team that was in the grand final last year to 2-5 and then onto the GF (net 0 improvement thus far)
Mitchell took a team that was 16th last year to 0-5 from 0-0 and then to finals. There is no comparison.
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Yeah it's pretty crazy how it varies year to year.
Clarko didn't win one in 2008 when he beat a team that had the 2nd best season of all time, and he didn't win one for any of the 3 grand final years. So neither rapid improvement or sustained excellence worked for him.
John Longmire managed to win in 2014 by making a grand final with a team that had already won a flag, and the addition of the best player in the league. Hinkley in 2013, Beveridge in 2015 and Fagan in 2019 won theirs off the back of rapid improvement but none of those teams won a final, the Lions even went out straight sets in 2019.
Sam coming in third is as comical as Newcombe coming in third for the Rising Star in 2022.
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It's really 'Coach of the year' (who also is the most popular amongst the other coaches in the comp )
Sam would have ruffled a few feathers on field with some now coaches and assistents . Got no doubt this will sway some people's voting .
Also why Scott/Clarko haven't won it .
Mcrae voting Hinkley is laughable when you think about it , was nothing more than a sympathy vote .
Sam would have ruffled a few feathers on field with some now coaches and assistents . Got no doubt this will sway some people's voting .
Also why Scott/Clarko haven't won it .
Mcrae voting Hinkley is laughable when you think about it , was nothing more than a sympathy vote .
Sam wouldn't give a flying fk.
It's flags. That is all.
It's flags. That is all.
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It’s mug betting (actually it all is)
Sixpence
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Dillon's wife clearly knew. Let slip on the red carpet that Bont was nowhere near it.
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In fairness based on her red carpet answers I don’t think she watches the game at all and just happened to know who the Bont is.
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You mean the burly Armaguard bloke (when literally no Armagaurd people look like that) who couldn’t open the suitcase was a prop?
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Awkwardly, I know an Armaguard bloke who looks exactly like that.
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Question - is it only field umpires who get to vote on the Brownlow or do goal umpires also get a look in? I would think they would have a different opinion given they deal with people scoring and stopping scoring.
Cripps is a really good footballer - but his team only limped into the finals and conceded 10 goals before scoring in their finals appearance. I don't think he helps them win games
Cripps is a really good footballer - but his team only limped into the finals and conceded 10 goals before scoring in their finals appearance. I don't think he helps them win games
Coach of the year is a popularity contest. That Hinkley has won it 3 times while most Port fans have wanted him sacked for most of his career and Clarko and Chris Scott have 0 between them says it all. If Brisbane win on Saturday, Fagan would be a worthy objective winner but really who cares?
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The other coaches are probably just trying to keep him in the job
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