pantskyle
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I'm taking legal action.
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I'm taking legal action.
Ochre
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We mutually agreed that pants' tenure would come to an end.
Smeg Head
Just take a bite
As long as you keep your nips to yourself
As your lawyer I advise you to settle
- Aug 23, 2022
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Anyone have access?
Matera92
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Take illegal action you wuss bag.
West Coast have cut their coaching wish list to eight people of “interest” which will be pruned to four short-listed applicants within weeks.
The Eagles hope to have Adam Simpson’s permanent successor in place by the end of September but have conceded that the speed of their process depends on results in the AFL finals and which candidates stay involved deep into September.
Although West Coast CEO Don Pyke has been adamant that he would not provide a running commentary on the process and as recently as late last week did not want to reveal how many potential candidates the club had interest in, he did confirm there were more than six.
It is believed that six of the eight the club has interest in are interim coach Jarrad Schofield, current Melbourne assistant and Richmond’s 2023 interim coach Andrew McQualter, former Port Adelaide premiership star and current Bulldogs assistant Brendon Lade, Brisbane footy boss Danny Daly who had an extensive assistant’s resume before moving into an executive position, Giants assistant Brett Montgomery and Geelong assistant Steven King.
Adam Simpson was removed from the job in July. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)
It is understood King spoke with West Coast after the round 24 clash between the clubs at GMHBA Stadium.
Of the six, Lade, Daly, Montgomery and King will all be involved in finals this week.
Pyke said several candidates had expressed a wish to see out their current coaching commitments as their immediate priority.
Another identified by colleagues as potentially ready to coach is former Crow Hayden Skipworth, now a Collingwood assistant after a lengthy stint at Essendon.
The Eagles have also been urged to sound out former assistant Adrian Hickmott because of his popularity with players during his stint with West Coast around the 2018 premiership.
Former West Coast player Scott Selwood who is currently at Collingwood and Geelong champion Corey Enright, who has impressed at St Kilda are others believed to have coaching potential but who may not have the experience to pull off a challenging rebuild.
Pyke used the term “people we are interested in talking to” which is an indication that at least some targets may not have committed to going through the selection process.
Pyke’s CEO career at the Eagles might be less than a year old but the next month shapes as tenure defining, with the club still in the rough early stages of what shapes as a major rebuild.
Pyke’s role in the appointment of the next coach is seen as pivotal.
Dean Cox has ruled himself out Photo by Brett Costello
Those close to Pyke label him highly intelligent but also potentially autocratic.
He is expected to be the dominant voice on a coaching selection committee which includes himself, the club’s general manager of football Gavin Bell, Director of Football Affairs from the board Rowan Jones, fellow director Jan Cooper and former Geelong champion Harry Taylor who is the club’s performance and leadership consultant.
It has been a slow moving process so far, more known for those who have opted out than those who might be in.
Former club great Dean Cox, now John Longmire’s senior assistant at Sydney, has doubled down on not being involved after it was suggested that he might yet be talked into putting in for the job.
The club’s 2006 premiership centre half forward Ash Hansen has also declared he will not go through the process. Hansen is a senior assistant with finalist Carlton and club sources believe there may be a further attempt to woo him if the Blues are an early finals casualty.
Fremantle forward line coach Jaymie Graham, a former Eagles player and a former assistant coach at the club is another to declare he is out of the running, as have Port Adelaide’s Josh Carr and former Western Bulldog Daniel Giansiracusa, currently an assistant at Essendon.
It is understood the club also reached out to former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley who said he was not ready to coach again yet.
Ashley Hansen is also out of contention. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)
Pyke did not rule out any level of experience provided the candidate had coaching potential.
“Adam Simpson (at the end of 2013) was hired off three or four years as an assistant coach but he had also had 300 games of on field and leadership experience,” Pyke said.
“Everyone brings a different range of experience but that doesn’t automatically mean they are excluded from the process.”
Asked how long it would take to land their next coach Pyke said the process would run as quickly as circumstances allowed, confirming several people the Eagles were interested in still had finals involvement.
“We are not going to rush this but we are not dragging our feet either,” he said.
I don’t mind our grading but the reigning premiers missing finals is a bloody fail. Schoey also wanted to give the the Dee’s a D plus. Honestly there’s season has been a cluster **** from start to finish and another deserving an F
UseR2006
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Also had issues with Schoeys arbitrary ratings.
They never go into what their expectations were at the start of the year for the clubs contrasting with where they ended up. If i remember correctly didn't Schoey think we'd be lucky to win a match for the year?
and rating us worse than both the pies, dons and dees seasons was laughable.
WCEConnor23
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The more the merrier, hopefully we can get Skipworth and Enright to go through the process along with the known candidates.
Probably more so worse then the crows, they should of been a big old F.
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Don't know whether to say hi ho or ho hum!
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Can only be a good thing?
Turning to the clubs: AFL hires former Eagles boss
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The AFL has hired highly experienced former West Coast chief executive Trevor Nisbett to help the league deal with clubs on key areas such as competitive balance and club funding.
AFL boss Andrew Dillon told the clubs that Nisbett – one of the game’s longest-serving and most successful CEOs at club level – would begin a new role as “executive manager clubs.”
“Trevor will work closely with David (Grossman, general manager clubs and scheduling), myself and our executive team in that advisory capacity on the development of the future club funding model and related competitive balance policies,” Dillon said in a memo sent to the club bosses on Monday.
Nisbett was first head of football and then CEO at the Eagles for more than 30 years, stepping down only this January and handing the reins to former West Coast premiership player and ex-Adelaide coach Don Pyke. He is arguably the most influential official in West Coast’s history, given that he was either the head of football or CEO for all four premierships won by the club so far.
Nisbett’s role is part-time, but his hiring appears to be a recognition that the AFL administration has lost decades of experience in its executive ranks, having lost CEO Gillon McLachlan and senior executives Travis Auld and Kylie Rogers, with the latter pair becoming CEOs of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation and the VRC respectively. Auld and Rogers were candidates for the CEO role at the AFL, competing with Dillon for the top job.
Dillon also announced a restructuring of part of the executive to assist the 18 clubs, creating a new, yet-to-be filled, position of general manager club finance, performance and growth, and appointing Grossman to the upgraded role of GM clubs and scheduling. Both executives will report to senior executive Matthew Chun.
The AFL’s need for experience at club level was also underscored by the hiring of veteran administrator Geoff Walsh last year to help the AFL in football operations, with Walsh having served at Collingwood, North Melbourne, Carlton, Fitzroy and (briefly) St Kilda.
“It is important that we have 18 financially strong clubs who compete on and off the field,” said Dillon in the memo announcing the changes. “It is also important that we are set up for the next collective bargaining agreement and the next broadcast agreement.
“I know both of those are some years away but what we do now and how we approach it, is important in getting us into the right position and attracting the best possible players and people to our game whilst building the strongest possible industry balance sheet.”
No Brownlow for Bont would be a ‘travesty’, says Treloar; AFL hires former Eagles boss; Dons suffer double injury blow
Adam Treloar says it would be a travesty if club great Marcus Bontempelli finishes his career without a Brownlow Medal. Meanwhile, the AFL has hired a former Eagles boss to fill a key role.
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Man, those credits never run out.
RookiePick
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Nissy finally invited to put his snout in the trough after overseeing the hatchet job on West Coast?
#totheconspiracyboard
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Essendon can be nothing other than a massive F. Traded in multiple mature players, had an absurdly easy fixture (5/6 double-ups against teams that didn't end up making finals) and won the same number of games as 2023.
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that story about how after getting the sack he drove past mineral resources on training day and tooted the car horn
Miguel Sanchez
(Unique injury) TBC
Did Richie Benaud tweet this from the beyond?
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Wagner the least potato shaped of the three. Yeesh.
Dont think freo fans would be that happy with this news.
Would be equivalent of us extending petch another 4 years.
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Banfieid pretty much lost them that last game from what I saw.
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