Said it this evening on Backchat.
Brayshaw was also dropping hints on Monday(Steven king books).
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Brayshaw was also dropping hints on Monday(Steven king books).
Shuey - our storage coach - failure. Tell the Hawks we are 4-5 years away! Just draft and recruit way smarter that we have. Such as, who is the genius that thought Ginbey is an A Grade Mid?
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Regardless of where we all sit on Hinkley, I think we can agree that we need to steer clear of Bevo if he becomes available. Massively underperformed with that list.
No the split pick Hewitt who was touted as the best WA mid and Gibney who has a good athletic profile and leadership potential may still be a good draft. The Chesser one when West Coast had such a thin midfield and needed a safe draft selection was horrendous. I hope Chesser comes good however I've watched a lot of footy and I don't see it.
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With the floated possible head of football or coaching or whatever suggested for Danny Daly maybe we could be bringing Ol' Uncle Kenny over for that role.
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He might be the favourite for the job but there’s no way an actual decision has been made.
Duffield identified 6 of the 8 names on the shortlist in his article on Monday, 2/9. In that article were the following points :
• They’d cut their list of people of interest to 8 which would be pruned to 4 within weeks
• Wanted a coach in place by the end of September but that was dependent on finals results and which candidates remained involved as finals progressed
• King had spoken with West Coast following the Geelong game
• Several candidates wanted to see out their current coaching commitments as their immediate priority
So as of Monday (per Duffield) we didn’t have a final short list and some candidates wanted to wait until finals were over before going through the process that wasn’t expected to be concluded until the end of September
But Will says they found out Monday which would mean a decision was made before concluding the process of even doing a short list or talking to people of interest
I’m backing what Duffield says in a properly researched article over Schofield’s throwaway comments that often change the wind
the split pick!! so absolutely dumb. Athletic profile but a slow thinking footballer with average skills at best. Hewitt - best in the glue factory?? Chesser is now very unlikely to come good.
Its a competition, we have to be better then positions not have nice profiles. Its also a national comp - touted best in WA isn't a big sell.
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Love Boots the player but his leadership stint and coaching to date has not shown anything that inspires confidence.
He's miles of development away from senior coaching roles IMO.
Hewitt before getting injured was considered by many as a top three pick, surely your not writing him off just yet?
Gibney has hardly been a bust.
Time will tell if the decision to split the pick that year was a good decision or not.
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Looking forward to Schofields pressers when he’s in the job full time. No more of this “I’m just thankful for the opportunity / hashtag blessed rubbish”. Just campaignery answers to dumb campaignery questions. It’s gonna be yummy
This is hilarious how some of you are judging assistant coaches performance based on two finals.
Thank god you are not the ones doing the appointing.
Bloody funny though.
Thank god you are not the ones doing the appointing.
Bloody funny though.
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Hell no (we can hope) - but many often means WA inbred media and others. He may be brilliant and he may get well. But the many didn't think the Bombers gun was any good even when training with us, and the SD reserves player walks into the Cats team, etc, etc.
Not that I am cynical but many close to WC would walk past a Farmer/Cable combo. Wouldn't have the right athletic profile or something.
I still think the split pick was a good decision. Having said that I think the drafting got to cute and the the team took their eye off the ball in regards to age profile management.
There is a new list manager now and a new coach is coming so we will see what happens now.
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It’s not just our talent identification that’s the issue, but also our lack of player development. I can’t remember the last time we had a late draft pick be developed by our club into a decent player. We seem to do the complete opposite of what we should be doing with players - for example, we take a guy like Brayden Ainsworth who was an inside ball winning player at junior level and we put him on a wing. He has the worst kicking skills in the competition. Why would you put him on the outside where you need good skills when he doesn’t have good foot skills? It makes no sense.
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If we could align with the Demons sooner rather than later then we could benefit from his experience.
It’s not going to happen, Perth changed their constitution just a few years back that it cannot happen.
Unfortunately for the Eagles their dictatorship type of working together has meant no club wants to go near them. But I agree it would be the best thing. Perth obviously do t think so .
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I'm not giving up.
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They're not going to pick him, Mitch.
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Yep, can’t step up and can’t hold his nerve this bloke, not like a leader would.
Calls for a head coach apprenticeship are well premature, but let’s be serious here about who Luke Shuey is.
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