Coach Adam Simpson Megathread est. 2017 - Staying for 2024, Lyon’s Cryin’

[The wily weagle]

Ahhhh yes, the "ask Simmo" segment

A friend of mine actually got his question asked as to why the club is so poor at tackling

No word of a lie, Simpson tried to justify it as "tackling efficiency", even though we were 18th in the league for tackles and would have been leading the lead in broken tackles

 

[CursoryMercenary]

I hope we fill some good people around a first time coach. This list will challenge a first time coach as they basically have no one to build the team around

This will be our toughest rebuild. From 2000-2002, 2008-10 & 2013-14. We had players with experience young enough to carry through with the rookies. At this stage we have the likes of Duggan, Barrass, McGovern, Sheed (not many other midfielders of note). Which is why we need to load up on picks this upcoming draft. No need to keep Gaff and Darling around anymore for next season onwards.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

What I wanna know is who plays caretaker coach if Simmo goes away mid-season?

Schofield, surely?

Simmo won’t go midseason though.

 

[Shuestar13]

Simmo going “away”. On holidays?

 

[Priddis Is Done]

I still hope Simmo changes. I like him, I want him to be successful.

I don't think he has it in him. Yes there are extenuaniting circumstances but 'quasi half blaming' the off-season is poor. It was last year as well. And the year before and year before.

It was 2019 when for the vast majority of games we turned it on for a quarter and a bit to scrape through.

Sure Rioli ruined that final but that should never have been an away game to begin with.

The standards and accountability, team selections, sticking young kids to die on a HFF, land of the giants, underdone players and credits in the bank, that's all on you Simmo. And 3 years to figure out the gameplan was in the bin.

Maybe you have wanted to change this year but the above paragraph contradicts this. The rot started in 19 and it's hard to turn the ship around 3.5 years later.

The players you have put faith in have continually let you down. You let yourself down for not accepting the reality staring in front of you.

Just accept, be honest without yourself and us and you might have a chance.

Stop the spin.

 

[PremiershipNo4]

Very sad

 

[PremiershipNo4]

It depends. If we are in freefall maybe. No one wants to be in freefall you know!

We are in freefall

 

[PremiershipNo4]

I'm the next coach?

Too immature

 

[PremiershipNo4]

There will be no change… in the short term. He is all in with the current group. Sidestepped the questions about JD’s form, mind you JD is just one.

I don’t anticipate any major changes personnel wise. Just got to hope the green shoots of a more attacking gamestyle from some of the games thus far can be built on, starting from this week

How’s ya green shoots going? Go Simmo!

 

[Shuestar13]

How’s ya green shoots going? Go Simmo!

Yes as I said before, very sad indeed.

Not sure quoting posts from weeks ago is a winner, but anyhow.

Do you disagree that the first month of the season was “passable” given the situation with injury and COVID? And that there were hints of some change with an increase in pressure acts and some more attacking ball movement, particularly in the Collingwood game?

Clearly things have fallen apart since and it is not acceptable, there wouldn’t be one WCE supporter who would not acknowledge that.

If things don’t improve then I don’t see any other way out than Simmo moving on. It will be a disappointing end to a premiership winning coaches tenure, but that’s football, not many coaches go out on their own terms. Either way, he will forever be a WCE premiership coach and a part of our great clubs history

 

[PremiershipNo4]

The Neesham link is very odd…
Not sure what to make of all that tbh.
But I would imagine that there are serious discussions forming now. I did post after the Sydney game (despite the common belief I am a total ‘optimist’) that continued total uncompetitiveness and losing at home would be a catalyst for change. I didn’t think the Sydney game could be topped, but a fortnight later - here we are

Yes, the money is in the bank re memberships. But if the crowds drop off, then the club will lose, I’d imagine crowd levels are tied into targets with the stadium deal, i.e if we don’t meet the crowd expectation, we have to fork out for the food and beverage costs etc etc. Simplistic? But who knows honestly.

Keep trying to catch on you might even learn a thing or two

 

[Shuestar13]

Keep trying to catch on you might even learn a thing or two

Extremely sad. I do note how you ignored my reply to you in the post above.
I can only hope you are of a younger age and are just mucking around etc. Otherwise I am quite embarrassed for you. Truly

 

[javaguice]

 

[Tyberious Funk]

A big NO from me (opportunity 4 Simmo to rebuild)...as other posters mentioned earlier, which young players have WCE developed under Simmo.....Fork All.

Like to send him off along with the retires, Nisbitt, ROB and fitness team @ end of season.

IMHO the real question is who are our development coaches?

Currently Mark Nicoski, Kyle Horsely and Jacob Brennan. To the best of my recollection, Horsely and Brennan are reasonably new acquisition, but Nicoski has been in his role for 8 years now.

 

[RookiePick]

IMHO the real question is who are our development coaches?

Currently Mark Nicoski, Kyle Horsely and Jacob Brennan. To the best of my recollection, Horsely and Brennan are reasonably new acquisition, but Nicoski has been in his role for 8 years now.

I'm sure Nico is all over player development. In between ripping bongs and checking the surf report ofc.

 

[southcoast]

IMHO the real question is who are our development coaches?

Currently Mark Nicoski, Kyle Horsely and Jacob Brennan. To the best of my recollection, Horsely and Brennan are reasonably new acquisition, but Nicoski has been in his role for 8 years now.

Drew Petrie has been seen in a few TV shots. Not sure of his role though.

 

[30stm]

IMHO the real question is who are our development coaches?

Currently Mark Nicoski, Kyle Horsely and Jacob Brennan. To the best of my recollection, Horsely and Brennan are reasonably new acquisition, but Nicoski has been in his role for 8 years now

IMHO the real question is who are our development coaches?

Currently Mark Nicoski, Kyle Horsely and Jacob Brennan. To the best of my recollection, Horsely and Brennan are reasonably new acquisition, but Nicoski has been in his role for 8 years now.

True that...Covid soft cap restrictions is to blame (Nizzy)

 

[southcoast]

Playing with Beagles can’t be great for development either.

A team with limited WAFL quality players sprinkled with our ressies being largely uncompetitive must be great for ‘learning’ football.

 

[greatwhiteshark]

Playing with Beagles can’t be great for development either.

A team with limited WAFL quality players sprinkled with our ressies being largely uncompetitive must be great for ‘learning’ football.

There is no other solution, how else can you do it?

 

[Scotland]

There is no other solution, how else can you do it?

How do Adelaide do this? They are 4-1 in the SANFL and have had a mix of up and down seasons. They are the closest comparison.

Other than Nathan Freeman and their senior listed players I don't recognise any of the names in their SANFL 22 this week.

I do feel like the Beagles are set up to fail not being a real WAFL team first and foremost. Our injury list and COVID hasn't helped, but having a reserves team and then picking Black from West Perth and Giro from Subi as fill ins is just weird. But the non-listed players are WAFL ring-ins really so we are hardly going to call them up.

 

[ep2018]

Word on the grape vine we're grooming Jarrad Schofield

Jarrad Schofield

Age

49

Ht

178cm

Wt

80kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.0

4star

K

10.5

4star

HB

5.5

4star

M

3.4

3star

T

1.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

6.0

2star

K

3.4

2star

HB

2.6

3star

M

1.6

2star

T

0.8

3star

to be our next coach. Simmo will be coach until the end of next year at the very least.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Playing with Beagles can’t be great for development either.

A team with limited WAFL quality players sprinkled with our ressies being largely uncompetitive must be great for ‘learning’ football.

Couldn't agree more. We pushed so hard to retain the WAFL side but set up as is, what good has it actually done?

Running around with a bunch of ammos accepting that you're pretty much guaranteed to lose most games is terrible for our kids development. I'd much prefer to go back to the old system of spreading our players around the WAFL clubs.

Having to fight for a spot against men who actually care about winning games would be so much better than what they get with the current system

Just need to look how Greg Clark stepped into the AFL, or how the WAFL top ups played when given the chance

 

[DanWCE]

Word on the grape vine we're grooming Jarrad Schofield to be our next coach. Simmo will be coach until the end of next year at the very least.

There is no grapevine about the Eagles head coaching direction 18 months from now.

There's some logic that suggests if Simmo is done with WC and visa versa that we may have a suitable replacement now within the club, but let's not pass this off as Trevor told the cute lass making his coffee who told her Eagles supporting BF who posted it to the boys in WhatsApp and now it's just fact.

 

[greatwhiteshark]

How do Adelaide do this? They are 4-1 in the SANFL and have had a mix of up and down seasons. They are the closest comparison.

Other than Nathan Freeman and their senior listed players I don't recognise any of the names in their SANFL 22 this week.

I do feel like the Beagles are set up to fail not being a real WAFL team first and foremost. Our injury list and COVID hasn't helped, but having a reserves team and then picking Black from West Perth and Giro from Subi as fill ins is just weird. But the non-listed players are WAFL ring-ins really so we are hardly going to call them up.

I don't know how Adelaide do it? Either way the Beagles need to stick to the salary cap and there is no way the other WAFL clubs are going to allow them to have an open cap and for them to do what ever they want.
If the Salary Cap at the WAFL clubs is 250k which I think it is approx then the Eagles cap is on a ratio of that as they play AFL listed players every week.

The best system is farming the players to the WAFL clubs in regards to player development. They play weekly in a competitive environment, they can't have a cruise as they are expected to perform and will be the laughing stock as an AFL listed player not performing.
I know having them all together is the preferred model but the reality all that does is create a training session for them and they get no real competitive footy as the club has no interest in winning the WAFL.

 

[Chump Change]

Word on the grape vine we're grooming Jarrad Schofield to be our next coach. Simmo will be coach until the end of next year at the very least.

You just made that up and claimed people in the know are talking about it....