Think his contract is till the end of 24.
Coach Adam Simpson Megathread est. 2017 - Staying for 2024, Lyon’s Cryin’
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Long thought to be end of 2024 but that was incorrect information reported across the industry and not corrected by West Coast.
End of 2025 has now been confirmed by multiple sources in the last month. Club didn’t announce the extension at the time and haven’t commented since, because **** the fans. Nobody needs to know our business, not even us.
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This thread can move quickly at times so you seem to have missed the update
We all thought his contract expired in 2024 but it came out a few weeks ago that it actually runs until 2025
It wasn’t particularly well publicised and didn’t crack much more than a passing interest in the media for whatever reason
The decision to extend simmo to 3
2025 may come under scrutiny next year when we're 0-10 and fielding 12 premiership players.
2025 may come under scrutiny next year when we're 0-10 and fielding 12 premiership players.
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Surely Simmo has some control over it? It just looks like the senior players have just wanted to take short cuts and not put in the hard work required since the flag. Not only fitness but attitude. The amount of times I see Gov giving the umpires the look like he's hard done by (when he isn't) says a lot. It's a mindset. Part entitlement, part excuses, and all "I just don't want to do the hard work and win at all costs".
Simmo surely has the power to;
1. Put it on his senior players and ask why they have skin folds
2. Play them in the 2's until they are AFL fit
3. Go and speak to the S&C and demand minimum standards.
What has transpired between 2019 and 2022 - the buck stops at the coach. We can't even pin this on Sam Mitchell.
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Just heard that Scott Morrison secretly signed a 3 year deal as co- coach of the Eagles in 2020…it all begins to make sense…
Surely you saw a completely different mindset in our last game as compared to the beginning of the season? Effort and skillsets have quadrupled and we are playing 6 or 7 young bloods and could turn this around as soon as next season with skillfull drafting.
And to be fair 6-7 new bloods is way different to half a dozen top ups off the street. My gut feel is that the club has reset and is now on the right track. Time will tell if this is well executed.
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I was actually waiting for someone to come in here saying “Essendon have won seven games and they’ve sacked their president and coach, why aren’t we doing that??”
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Sure be we still fat.
Gameplan has changed - we've moved away from guarding space and now we're putting direct pressure on the ball carrier. Bazzo looks a 200 game player to me. Hoff looks good. Culley looks good. O'Neill has shown he may be able to play.
But it doesn't change what happened in 2019 - 2021.
And to think we can turn it around next year? Why do we want to "turn it around"? We want to build a team capable of winning a flag don't we?
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These things are mutually exclusive.?
Essendon's hierarchy historically has been a bit deluded about the state of the club and their list. They seem to overrate their players and expect results that are unlikely.
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No, but they're not always the same.
Can't live in the past CC. Forgive and forget because it is nearly 2023 season.
I have to agree with Miguel here, "turning it around" means to me we are on the improve. As i said earlier, if we draft well and move on a couple and maybe next year is looking different already.
For mine the team has made a complete turnaround and we will become a functioning unit next year. Maybe not finals yet but the year after (2024)
Simmo has the players behind him.
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I'm not bothered about the past - what happened, happened and we can't change it. I'm also in the "lets play it out and see what happens" boat. But I still think that's a massive shortfall on Simmos behalf and wonder if he has what it takes going forward.
As for turn around - if that's how we define turn around then I'm fine by that.
Mods - can we get a poll added to this thread?
Biggie I'll give you a mean reach-around if you do....
Some suggestions for responses:
Biggie I'll give you a mean reach-around if you do....
Some suggestions for responses:
- I am a Simmo sycophant/fanboi
- SMitch won the Premiership
- Trevor Nesbitt is to blame
- COVID/Injuries ruined the season
- Jack Watts
- Too many >30's
- Learning new gameplan
- Collective Minds camp required this pre-season to toughen the boys up
just make it simple, contract aside do you want Simpson to coach next year. Yes or no.
No
But there are mitigating reasons to keep him on.
The contract kills the discussion really.
Simmo has been horrible since last year's bye
We hopefully have some good assistant coaches who I reckon have more influence from their 2nd season onwards when they feel more comfortable floating ideas and have a better feel for the players available
A few young lads coming through, and I am excited about getting a top pick for the first time in ages.
And I struggle to come up with a better replacement
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