Most coaches only get once shot. His career has spanned an average lifespan. He's done well. Had he handled the media a little better he may have got the extra year.
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Analysis Is Leppa the Right Man for the Job?
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Most coaches only get once shot. His career has spanned an average lifespan. He's done well. Had he handled the media a little better he may have got the extra year.
mpal6
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Leppa - packed off
Next coach - AFL decided
New facility - AFL funded
Priority pick - before pick 1, so Bombers don't land the first pick for trying to hookwind the system.
With Hurley and everyone coming back, I don't think Essendon would care about a pick 1 or 2 that much. They still have PSD 1 anyway. Everyone wins.
Next coach - AFL decided
New facility - AFL funded
Priority pick - before pick 1, so Bombers don't land the first pick for trying to hookwind the system.
With Hurley and everyone coming back, I don't think Essendon would care about a pick 1 or 2 that much. They still have PSD 1 anyway. Everyone wins.
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Not sure about messy, will get interesting for sure.
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We have had 2 go's at fixing this mess. Angus Johnson overseed Vossy effort #1. Sharpless/Leigh overseed Leppa effort #2. Rightly or wrongly, the outcomes got stuffed along the way inspite of the best intention of coaching and admin personnel at various levels.
I am sick of our crap facilities, hoping for light at end of tunnel and be disappointed since 2010 and our players doing their ying-yang every off season. Happy to take a massive AFL directed restructure so I can finally see some resurgence like Melbourne. I am emotionally detached from our past heroes failing on their attempts to fix this club, Vossy's failure hurt a little bit more - with Leppa I am completed sanitized. Senior players who think they can be better elsewhere, they can go too. If AFL overlords want to oversee this end to end and they want Leppa gone, so be it.
Enough with mucking around ourselves, not going anywhere. I want to win, climb up the ladder and have a competitive team who can be part of finals action consistently like Sydney (I believe this is the key to unlock player retention, all the rest are eyewash) - whatever it takes to get there, let's do it.
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so what is the pass mark for leppas replacement 4,5,6 wins. would like some refrence when we sit in the bottom three next year and certain people are asking for his head.
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The next coach is already on notice that the only thing that matters is the win loss ratio. Going to be an interesting ride.
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Well if we are looking for instant wins my guess is we should have a new coach every year for the next few years
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Yep. Saints are alot better side this year,but not a team that should be able to put 160 on you.
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loose by 1 or 101 you still loose and i know if you loose by one your more competitive but i dont think this list is mature enough to loose by 1 yet. I might be wrong but i doubt it.
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Agree with your sentiment.. but can't see anything seriously fixing it..Whatever happens it will only be a band aid remedy
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If the next coach comes in and does the same or even only a bit better than Leppa over 3 years then move him on too. All we want is signs of improvement or an upward tredjectory, of which there is currently none and a downward tredjectory. Leppa can play dumb on his KPIs all he wants but I aint buying it, hes had long enough to at very least stop the bleeding. Its a special job requiring a special coach so keep searching untill we find one. He and Voss have enough in common to suggest this has all been part of the same Leigh Matthews led mess, its time for a real fresh start. Anyway, if he is removed now all it will do is save us wasting next year when he gets sacked after round 10 - we are heading downward, and once a team under a coach gets as humiliated as we are now, theres no coming back. After all has been evaluated (i said i would wait until the end of the year) the correct decision is about to be made, the thought of risking another year of this makes me feel sick.
this thread could explode tomorrow afternoon if the board announces- we are staying with Leppa everything is going to plan.
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Frankly I am stunned that anyone thinks that will happen. The tea leaves are pretty easy to read at this point.
i will be stunned if he stays, i don't think it is going to happen but it would be interesting reading if he did.
i wonder if Roylion will be stunned?
I'd love to see the quotes from before the season started. I believe Leppa himself said "There are no excuses this year." or something along those lines.
Just today in the press conference he was full of them. "Unprecedented injuries" and a tough draw.
He also said today that he has never had W/L mentioned as a KPI. My memory isn't perfect but I remember pre-season discussions of targets and an expectation to improve on 2015.
Just today in the press conference he was full of them. "Unprecedented injuries" and a tough draw.
He also said today that he has never had W/L mentioned as a KPI. My memory isn't perfect but I remember pre-season discussions of targets and an expectation to improve on 2015.
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Absolutely......Draws crap ... Blood the young... it's a Club backed tank
He knew... This from Swanny in February '16.
(Swann) "We'd be really disappointed if we don't win ... I better not put a games figure on it, someone's going to kill me, but vast improvement.
"I think you'll see us pushing up double last year's number of wins ... seven or eight.
(Swann) "We'd be really disappointed if we don't win ... I better not put a games figure on it, someone's going to kill me, but vast improvement.
"I think you'll see us pushing up double last year's number of wins ... seven or eight.
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You're not saying that because you heard Derwayne say it, are you? This season doesn't even make the top ten.
I like the S.M.A.R.T. objectives system, I'm sure everyone's familiar with it but just in case:
S = Specific
M= Measurable
A = Achievable
R = Relevant
T = Timely
This is why I would prefer Win/Loss to be an important KPI, indeed perhaps the only KPI, rather than something fairly nebulous like "long-term development"
S = Specific
M= Measurable
A = Achievable
R = Relevant
T = Timely
This is why I would prefer Win/Loss to be an important KPI, indeed perhaps the only KPI, rather than something fairly nebulous like "long-term development"
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Everyone's agenda, first and foremost, is to win games. Surely.
Why debut people knowing that it's going to impinge on the team's ability to be competitive?
It seems that Leppa's brief, or so he felt, was to give youngsters experience AT ALL COSTS. So, if that were the case, why didn't he drop Rich or Hanley during the season for poor performance and give others a run?
And how can he be relying on things like future picks? A veritable lottery, with a pay-out date 4 years in the future. It's nonsense.
Why debut people knowing that it's going to impinge on the team's ability to be competitive?
It seems that Leppa's brief, or so he felt, was to give youngsters experience AT ALL COSTS. So, if that were the case, why didn't he drop Rich or Hanley during the season for poor performance and give others a run?
And how can he be relying on things like future picks? A veritable lottery, with a pay-out date 4 years in the future. It's nonsense.
From an opinion piece at afl.com.au:
Given Roos' unavailability, the first phone call for the Lions on Monday is to Neil Balme, about to be replaced as head of football at Collingwood. He won't come cheap, but we suspect with the right sort of, ahem, encouragement from the AFL, he'll be interested enough.
Given Roos' unavailability, the first phone call for the Lions on Monday is to Neil Balme, about to be replaced as head of football at Collingwood. He won't come cheap, but we suspect with the right sort of, ahem, encouragement from the AFL, he'll be interested enough.
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