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News Coaching Thread: The Hardwick Era
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This is exactly my thoughts, strike while the iron is hot.
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Pretty sure McQualter is staying in MelbourneDamien Hardwick is set to poach Andrew McQualter as an assistant coach at the Gold Coast.
Any truth to this rumour?
Crazy if too.
The other rumour is a new name
Goldcoast sabre tooth tigers
Certainly, Hardwick would want very, very much to lure a big-ish name here. But I also imagine he'll discover exactly how difficult that has been historically for us, and how difficult it still is.
If he does succeed in bringing some sort of impressive player up here, I'm sure we all understand the significance of that and how big a 'tick' it should be for those with any concerns about his appointment.
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Barrett is a flog in my opinion. Looks likes the dogs are a better chance then the kangas to trade picks
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Barrett's really dropped off in the last few years, wonder if he's burnt too many contacts and isn't getting the inside word any more. Enjoyed him getting shot down over Mills on the Rub the other day. Tried to get all outraged and Daisy and Montagna weren't having it.
Regarding that IF/Then statement, it's pretty stupid - of course Dimma/GC would like a big name signing, no shit. This has been discussed a lot on this board though, big name players will only move if they are a reasonable chance of success. Dunkley to Brisbane last year a clear example of what is possible.
But it's not like the Free agent market is hot, it's a pretty poor class.
Contracted players likely won't want to go to the Suns, even with a new coach.
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Since he moved across to the AFL
He prob just trying to push the AFL a gender of the Suns needing a big name player
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Jerk journalism straight out of the Kane Cornes playbook.. talks up the crows at the start of the year just to spend the season hacking them for not living up to his inflated standards
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Lucky for us he only talks bad so I’m never outraged
Does he know something we don't? If you think about it, trading out Chol + Hollands + Sharp would clear around $1 million in salary cap space so it's entirely possible we'll have enough cap room for the elusive "big fish".
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The optimist in me believes this is the case. Time will tell.
Likely most of that will be used to re-sign Ben King.
We cleared up Bowes contract last season to match any offers Rowell and Anderson got.
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Still gives us a year to play with because King's current contract is in place for 2024. So let's say Kingy is making $800k in 2024 and that's set to go up to $1.2m from 2025 onwards. All we'd have to do is clear $400k at the end of next season (Casboult & Day's retirements, Ellis & Witts coming off long deals that should be lowered) and we'll have over $1 million cleared for both of those years to use on the "big fish".
If we spend only 95% cap in 2024, then we can go 105% the following year.
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What would you expect dusty to cost per year as a free agent next year? If he wanted to come
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If it was anything more than 600k I'd be telling him to stay in Melbourne.
Yeah we fecked.
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Well we took one Geelong coach, so now they take ours. Net neutral…
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Definitely retribution. C Scott is a petty type I reckon.
They seem ( from an outsiders perspective) to be like that in all facets. Yet are an incredibly successful club.
And never satisfied.
Now going after Olli Wines…
You just have to sit back and ask how?
Very aggressive, something I personally would like to see more from our club
I don’t think there is anything sinister in Geelong going for King. He has experience as a head coach now and it makes sense for him to move on and get more experience in a new environment while he builds his resume and waits for the next round of coaching vacancies to open. Would know the Geelong setup as well having played there and was always going to be a hot commodity.
Would be a big loss, but our coaching staff still looks decent with Dimma, Shaw, Drummond, Grigg and whoever we bring in to replace King, and maybe even gives premiership winning Drummond the chance to step into the senior assistant role?
Would be a big loss, but our coaching staff still looks decent with Dimma, Shaw, Drummond, Grigg and whoever we bring in to replace King, and maybe even gives premiership winning Drummond the chance to step into the senior assistant role?
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