Toast Giants Coaching: the Adam Kingsley Era (Coach of the Year 2023)

[Colonial]

Great re-signing, culture at all time high.
Tigers had to be sniffing around.

Even when we lose our tsunami style is exciting, and extremely frustrating lol, to watch.

Add to that the talented youth coming through and re-signing when we all thought we would be lol Norf for a decade.
Well deserved.

 

[Giant Strides]

Happy with that. He's got a lot more to give.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Wait until this time next season. I have lived through all the mistakes Port have made with Hinkley and don’t want to see the same mistakes at GWS

I do get the logic of that, and of course we don’t have a great record re extension for Leon.

The Leon/Ken extensions do have a spooky similarity and I think both Port/Giants still have PTSD re past extensions.

However, I do agree AK has earned this first extension.

The bar will be set very high for any future extension.


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[ClockworkOrange]

If it goes south, we can still fire a coach.

This is an important point that supports an extension.

From memory, there’s a cap on coaching contract payouts of 6mths for clubs receiving VFL HQ support.

So, in effect, I believe our downside is limited.


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[Waspy79]

If it goes south, we can still fire a coach.

Being a league owned franchise we have less power than we would like on that front.

 

[Waspy79]

Yeah ... let's risk losing him. No one was ever interested in Ken ... Kingsley is different

Well that is factually wrong. The suns approached Hinkleys management around 2018 and Koch panicked and signed Ken to an underserved extension. I wonder if Port approached Kingsley. I strongly doubt it.

 

[Orange crush]

Well that is factually wrong. The suns approached Hinkleys management around 2018 and Koch panicked and signed Ken to an underserved extension. I wonder if Port approached Kingsley. I strongly doubt it.

The suns …. Yeah. As if Kenny would go there

 

[Waspy79]

The suns …. Yeah. As if Kenny would go there

I suggest you pipe down before embarrassing yourself further.

 

[Orange crush]

I suggest you pipe down before embarrassing yourself further.

O waspy, where art thy sting?

I guess gcs were a better option than China

 

[dlanod]

This is an important point that supports an extension.

From memory, there’s a cap on coaching contract payouts of 6mths for clubs receiving VFL HQ support.

So, in effect, I believe our downside is limited.


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Being a league owned franchise we have less power than we would like on that front.

ClockworkOrange has been reported as being correct several times. Six months payout.

 

[Waspy79]

ClockworkOrange has been reported as being correct several times. Six months payout.

I assume that relates to the final year of said contract?

 

[dlanod]

I assume that relates to the final year of said contract?

Nope. If there's two years to go, still only six month payout

 

[GWS Goose]

Well that is factually wrong. The suns approached Hinkleys management around 2018 and Koch panicked and signed Ken to an underserved extension. I wonder if Port approached Kingsley. I strongly doubt it.

Hinkley would be reasonably in demand if available.
There were rumours that someone was looking at Hinkley last year as well, can't remember who

 

[Giant Strides]

Hinkley would be reasonably in demand if available.
There were rumours that someone was looking at Hinkley last year as well, can't remember who

Supposedly we were interested 2 years ago!

 

[Battlepants]

Amazing win yesterday.

I just have to say how blessed we are to have Kingers as coach of this club. These last couple of weeks have shown just how damn good he is. Able to fire up the boys and willing to change things around when needed. That lack of a plan B has been issue for this side for so many years, but the way Kingers has been able to move things around on the fly and find ways to win has been inspired. Moving Daniels and TFG to the stoppages against Hawthorn last week. Sending Whitfield forward against the Lions etc.

Repurposing Bedford as a tagger and Ward as a winger (be honest would any of us even imagined those changes working?) have also been incredibly effective.

He's putting on a coaching masterclass this year.

 

[Giant YoYo]

Amazing win yesterday.

I just have to say how blessed we are to have Kingers as coach of this club. These last couple of weeks have shown just how damn good he is. Able to fire up the boys and willing to change things around when needed. That lack of a plan B has been issue for this side for so many years, but the way Kingers has been able to move things around on the fly and find ways to win has been inspired. Moving Daniels and TFG to the stoppages against Hawthorn last week. Sending Whitfield forward against the Lions etc.

Repurposing Bedford as a tagger and Ward as a winger (be honest would any of us even imagined those changes working?) have also been incredibly effective.

He's putting on a coaching masterclass this year.

I think it also shows the faith he has in the group and the faith the group have in him because if they didn't back him, I doubt it would be as effective. He's made moving some of these cogs around look so seamless and it's paid major dividends.

Wowee is all I'm going to say.

 

[MelbourneGWS]

I think it also shows the faith he has in the group and the faith the group have in him because if they didn't back him, I doubt it would be as effective. He's made moving some of these cogs around look so seamless and it's paid major dividends.

Wowee is all I'm going to say.

To be honest, I wanted premiership winning Clarkson to be the replacement for McVeigh/ Cameron, rather than Richmond assistant coach Kingsley. Happy to admit I was wrong, and that Kingsley is the right coach for us. I genuinely believe that Kingsley will be our inaugural premiership winning coach

 

[Giant Strides]

I would like him to find a Plan A that works in Q1 though.

 

[Giant Pete]

I would like him to find a Plan A that works in Q1 though.

And win clearances more often.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

I would like him to find a Plan A that works in Q1 though.

Just have a gut feeling we may see something very special from our team at home next week vs Freo.

Kingers four-quarter plan may be fully realised before our eyes.


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[MelbourneGWS]

I would like him to find a Plan A that works in Q1 though.

Maybe he and Longmire should have a brain storming session as they have the same Q1 issues!