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As l said identified as way to comfortable.
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I personally think he has done a good job of building a foundation for success.
I remember how far back we were at the end of 2018. So crook that we got a big list of draft and list concessions and a lot of the usual Melbourne blowhards were OK with it.
And now there are a lot of very talented players who have signed on for multiple years at fair money for a northern club.
Some big ticks in that.
But now is the time for some cold hard light of day decision making. Can he do the rest? Can he get enough of these players playing their best team football and influencing wins week after week and be able to win 13 or 14 games?
He had 1/2 a chance last year and got a pass mark (10 wins and 12 losses) and another go at it. With some big injuries.
He had a pretty decent chance this year to do something and we started 1-4 after the Freo loss and after getting blown away early against both the Swans and the Saints. Clawed back, but a pass mark this year has to be 12 wins and 11 losses and we are miles off that. And we have had a healthly list most of the year. Touk played the 1st 5 games before he went down.
Bottom line is that not enough of the players are playing as well as they can, and we keep having long periods in some games where we get flogged. Getting flogged gets you the boot. Whether we like it or not.
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I get that, I just won't be surprised when some leave.
As the old saying goes, it’s easier to sack one coach than 22 players.
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Isn't this the classic re-build move to?
Coach comes in when the club is at rock bottom, rights the ship to some extent (good man-management/team builder). Then gets the arse as the list matures and needs more of a tactician/new system to give them the next push?
Coach comes in when the club is at rock bottom, rights the ship to some extent (good man-management/team builder). Then gets the arse as the list matures and needs more of a tactician/new system to give them the next push?
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Yeah …. They run story lines through her to see how the public react
How does Adam Simpson stay in his job yet Dew gets the sack?
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Yes in all sports
Look at soccer there are coaches specifically hired to coach teams towards the end of the year with the soul purpose of not getting them relegated
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God I hope there’s nothing really dark in dimmas past that comes out just as we hire him.
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He's drawing the poison so to speak. Better to let him cop the criticism for now rather than a new coach.
That and he's on a big salary right?
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He won a flag. Dew hasn't finished above 12th.
Quality admin that would be the reason plus they are realistic about where they are
Its the right time and right move by the club. Gives us time to stabilize before the year is out and if we lock in 'Hardwick', it gives us alot of time to attract some new talent to the club. If we left him for another year and it didnt pan out we would have alot of players wanting to leave anyway.
Credit to Dew for bringing stability and building a place where everyone was happy to come to work. Gotta give him credit for that. There was brief moments where I started to believe he was the man to take us all the way...
In the end the results speak for themselves, not enough winning....
Credit to Dew for bringing stability and building a place where everyone was happy to come to work. Gotta give him credit for that. There was brief moments where I started to believe he was the man to take us all the way...
In the end the results speak for themselves, not enough winning....
Ultimately we are here to win games.
The bigger risk was going in to next year with a lame duck coach and have another failure of a year.
If you want to leave because a good guy who was your coach who couldn't get the job done then there's the door.
The bond is the players wanting to play together and hopefully win together.
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It's why it had to be done this year whilst they are all still in contract, next year the likes of king come out of contract which a coach sacking would make him more likely to move then.
It's similar to Essendon last year, the players liked rutten and had a sook at his treatment, but now they all can't stop frothing over how great Scott is and how amazing it is to be winning.
Is this guy serious. Flag winning coach multiple final appearances and now basically has a WAFL State league team to coach they have so many injuries.
In the past we kept making excuses injuries, training facilities, lack of experience. Well friends that's all dried up now what do we have to blame?
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Yeah I agree with a lot of others here. Right time to move him on. He’s had more time than any coach I can recall without ever getting close to finals. Gives us plenty of time to get a good replacement rather than being last out of the blocks and getting left the scraps. Might even convince a decent player to make the move up north too.
The players will be gushing over Hardwick after 1 month in charge. Bookmark that.
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The AFL will likely pay a big chunk of Dimmas contract as an 'ambassador'.
A big name to bring attention, a quality assistant or two, and maybe a player or two.
And the ambassador money should really helps with bringing in assistants under the soft cap that we probably could not afford before. A bit of the AFL 'magic' book keeping.
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