Chadwiko
@ChadwikoTWW
- Sep 25, 2004
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Get rid of Laidley now, or at the end of the year? It's an interesting question. Our young list offers some tantalising prospects for a new coach if he's prepared to put in the hard yards.
Clearly, if we get rid of him now, which I think is the appropriate course of action, we need a caretaker coach.
The issue is who would we get? I don't want King or Longmire. I couldn't stand Hardwick as a player, but word is he's got quite the good coaching brain. I just can't see Crocker as a caretaker coach. Blakey is probably another feasible option, but ehhhhh. Not sure.
Malthouse, Williams, Mark Harvey and Leigh Matthews are the only coaches with senior experience who could feasibly be available to us (at some stage) you'd think. I'm not including Terry Wallace because we're not that dumb. Of those four, you'd think only Williams and Matthews would possibly be keen, but they are both longshots.
The most important thing as far as I am concerned is, in the short term at least, we need a coach that the players will play for. The team clearly isn't playing for Laidley at the moment. So here's my waaaay out of left field idea;
Bring in Glenn Archer.
There is no way you can try telling me that the players won't play for Arch. He's got a good footy brain, and if he's just a temporary caretaker coach, he won't have the pressure of expectations put on him by the footy world. He'll nurture the young kids to play natural tough footy. He'll get the best out of the senior players who he has played footy with for years. And the media would love the story of North's favourite son saving us in our hour of need.
Long shot, but i'm getting wood thinking about it.
Clearly, if we get rid of him now, which I think is the appropriate course of action, we need a caretaker coach.
The issue is who would we get? I don't want King or Longmire. I couldn't stand Hardwick as a player, but word is he's got quite the good coaching brain. I just can't see Crocker as a caretaker coach. Blakey is probably another feasible option, but ehhhhh. Not sure.
Malthouse, Williams, Mark Harvey and Leigh Matthews are the only coaches with senior experience who could feasibly be available to us (at some stage) you'd think. I'm not including Terry Wallace because we're not that dumb. Of those four, you'd think only Williams and Matthews would possibly be keen, but they are both longshots.
The most important thing as far as I am concerned is, in the short term at least, we need a coach that the players will play for. The team clearly isn't playing for Laidley at the moment. So here's my waaaay out of left field idea;
Bring in Glenn Archer.
There is no way you can try telling me that the players won't play for Arch. He's got a good footy brain, and if he's just a temporary caretaker coach, he won't have the pressure of expectations put on him by the footy world. He'll nurture the young kids to play natural tough footy. He'll get the best out of the senior players who he has played footy with for years. And the media would love the story of North's favourite son saving us in our hour of need.
Long shot, but i'm getting wood thinking about it.
