Coaching Staff Former Coach Ben "Truck" Rutten - Sacked for real this time - 21/8

[raskolnikov]

Genuine question with no silly business. How do you guys feel about a potential Hird reunion?

 

[jmoo wan]

I’m not pissed. Ben will be fine, he’ll get his payout and he’ll be employable next year.

It’s the right decision. Now for Campbell and Dodoro

see the problem with this line of thought is this is it - they have their scapegoat, no other people will be found responsible and they all keep their positions, and can blame it on da coach

 

[Shanghaistu]

Genuine question with no silly business. How do you guys feel about a potential Hird reunion?

Terrible. It will be the final climax to a horrible tragi-comedy. Wonder what else they can come up with in our glorious 150th year. Amateur hour at its best (or worst)

 

[jmoo wan]

Genuine question with no silly business. How do you guys feel about a potential Hird reunion?

don’t be lazy - read the thread.

 

[raskolnikov]

What unearthly spell does Dodoro have over this club?

 

[Tassieboy]

Genuine question with no silly business. How do you guys feel about a potential Hird reunion?

It’s got to be a joke, right? There’s no way surely that the club would even consider that.

 

[DonsRule]

Genuine question with no silly business. How do you guys feel about a potential Hird reunion?

No just god no

 

[The Donners]

Please take ken Hinkley

Laughing with you not at you.

 

[BratPack]

Genuine question with no silly business. How do you guys feel about a potential Hird reunion?

Said it earlier and I'll say it again. The day that happens is the day I walk away from this club and start barracking for Fremantle

 

[tandino]

Please take ken Hinkley

You guys keep trying to palm off Ken Hinkley to other clubs. We've got our own coach problems, we don't need yours as well

 

[FlyingV]

Cue club message of: “we are going to go through a thorough process for our next coach”

Reality of: Take a short cut with Lyon, or, bring back Hird

 

[The Donners]

It’s got to be a joke, right? There’s no way surely that the club would even consider that.

It tried to hire Clarkson after he’d already agreed to join North and while we had a coach - who will didn’t tell. There is most definitely a way they would consider it. They would embrace it.

 

[DonsRule]

Well he’s gone

 

[_007_]

Thanks everyone. Except jmoo wan hehe.

Hope you guys turn it around.

 

[scatman john]

Had to go but the club couldn’t have handled it any worse. Sooner that the old boys and coterie are not involved, the better. They’re the true problem

 

[Lore]

Great post.

Sacking a rookie coach 2 years into the role without previously providing strategically identified constructive feedback is ridiculous. When gaps are identified and support structures are put in place to address, if he still doesn't hit these KPIs then there's a valid reason to get rid of him and get someone else to do the job right.

What's seems to be happening is we haven't identified what the issues are, but we want to get rid of the guy running the show without knowing if he can fix them, while bringing in someone new without knowing what skillsets they need to have

Underrated post.

 

[JayJ20]

Genuine question with no silly business. How do you guys feel about a potential Hird reunion?

I’d literally not follow the club for the whole duration that Hird is coach. Rutten can’t have a bad year (after making finals last year with a bad list!) and Hird is welcomed back with no issues for overseeing what nearly destroyed the whole club because he is an Essendon person? Not on my watch.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Has there been a worse period to be a supporter of a club than what we've had to go through the last 10 years? I'm not old enough to remember the final years of Fitzroy - maybe that would be comparable?

Zero success on-field, a shambles off-field, having to endure the worst scandal in football history. Seriously, **** this.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Genuine question with no silly business. How do you guys feel about a potential Hird reunion?

 

[hurlygurdy]

On reflection I’d take back Hird just for the off chance that we win a gf with him as coach and get to watch the afl world go into the biggest mega melt that there ever was or ever will be. Plus shoving it up wada

 

[Tassieboy]

Pretty disappointing. Like the last 20 years really.

 

[Bombermania]

Best of luck to Rutten, he will land a new and better job soon enough.

 

[windyhill]

Please take ken Hinkley

You take jimmy, we’ll take Kenny.

 

[isthisit13]

Hope he's joined by the entire board, CEO and List Manager

He ****ing should be but he won't. I have no words for this club anymore. Sick of dealing with the bullshit that goes with supporting this ****ing rabble.

 

[Donakebab]

Genuine question, can/how do members force a spill of the board?