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Coach NEW HEAD COACH - Welcome to West Coast: Andrew McQualter
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No. Freo not giggling, more like rofling.
Mini-Gun?
Thats getting better
World’s biggest micro penis
Geez, Cox Dick Willie now Mini
Don’t forget thicc boy Cockie
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Any Intel on when Mini and family will arrive in WA?
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1st - 4th year players return to training on November 11 so McQualter should be over here within the next 10 -12 days
When he was first appointed he indicated his family wouldn’t move over until after Christmas so they could see out the school year in Victoria
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No idea how true it is, and it may have been posted here too, but I was told that King had the job until his medical episode
Very keen to see how McQualter goes.
Eh
they're in for a herculean task no matter who we hired as coach...though it would've been real interesting if Longmire had pulled the pin WHILE we still had the vacancy.
Phil on here said itNo idea how true it is, and it may have been posted here too, but I was told that King had the job until his medical episode
Very keen to see how McQualter goes.
I find it very hard to believe unless he also declared a serious health issue that would put his viability for the job at risk. If you considered someone the preferred candidate but they got sick, why on earth would you suddenly pull the pin?
Was Skipworth ever in serious contention? It seemed like he faded out as quickly as he appeared.
What about J Schofield? I was surprised he didn't get through to the final round, even just to show respect to an assistant coach they wanted to retain.
HOW MUCH LONGER CAN ARCHIBALD MCQUILTER BE PLAID?
It was whittled down to 2 pretty quickly. Schofield would have had to have won every game after Simmo was let go and actually showed a gameplan. He coached in a manner where the club could see who was at what level and let things go very one vs one.
So Schofield was never a serious candidate then?
If Schofield was happy to be feeling out the list like that then it makes sense he would have no issues staying on under McQualter
This kind of relates to that topic of Schofield -
(from the Big Questions on WCE 2025 season from Mongrel Punt)
7 – DOES IT HURT JUST A LITTLE TO SEE JACK DARLING PLAY HIS 300TH IN DIFFERENT COLOURS?
Yeah, a little, but at this point in his career, most had jumped off the Darling bandwagon. That was a shame, because he did a lot of heavy lifting for this club over a long period of time.
Sure, it is easy to focus on the moments where he didn’t exactly cover himself in glory, but when he went down with an ankle injury during the 2018 season, he was arguably the best player in the competition at that point. That’s the Jack Darling that West Coast supporters should remember, and it is a shame that he’ll be running out for game 300 wearing North Melbourne colours.
This may not sit well with some, but anyway… Jarrad Schofield coming in and “making a statement” by dropping Darling likely cost him the chance to run out for game 300 in West Coast colours. For a bloke in an interim role to do that, even if he was auditioning for the top job, demonstrated a lack of foresight.
Do you think, had Darling played his 300th last season, he would have gone on for another year at North? Or do you think that with 300 games under his belt, the time would have been right to walk away?
Maybe he wanted more and thought he had more to offer, but being sent off in front of an Optus Stadium crowd, in game 300… it would have been a good way to go out.
Sure, we can look at the situation through the lens of the interim coach. He needed to get something out of his team, and with Darling in the twilight of his career, he was an easy target. Drop him… make a statement.
And now he’s out of there. Both of them are.
Great statement.
I often see this in the work I do. Someone comes in, attempts to implement three or four new ideas to impress someone further up the chain, and then… they’re gone. Off to another job, and they leave behind them the mess. I am sure Schofield had the best of intentions, and maybe thought he could be the man to lead the Eagles into 2025 and back to glory, but his statement left a premiership player two games short of 300, and that type of thing only makes one sort of statement.
And it’s not a good one.
It may be intended to draw a line in the sand in terms of performance, but when you take a club great, and despite his detractors, 298 games and 500+ goals is a GREAT career, and kick him to the curb, it may not be the statement you intended. And it may not be something that holds you in good stead, going forward.
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Darling played much better after he was dropped and came back in. Without that form I doubt we win the two close games against Suns and North. I think it was a big turning point for this squad that credits were over and form would be rewarded.This kind of relates to that topic of Schofield -
(from the Big Questions on WCE 2025 season from Mongrel Punt)
7 – DOES IT HURT JUST A LITTLE TO SEE JACK DARLING PLAY HIS 300TH IN DIFFERENT COLOURS?
Yeah, a little, but at this point in his career, most had jumped off the Darling bandwagon. That was a shame, because he did a lot of heavy lifting for this club over a long period of time.
Sure, it is easy to focus on the moments where he didn’t exactly cover himself in glory, but when he went down with an ankle injury during the 2018 season, he was arguably the best player in the competition at that point. That’s the Jack Darling that West Coast supporters should remember, and it is a shame that he’ll be running out for game 300 wearing North Melbourne colours.
This may not sit well with some, but anyway… Jarrad Schofield coming in and “making a statement” by dropping Darling likely cost him the chance to run out for game 300 in West Coast colours. For a bloke in an interim role to do that, even if he was auditioning for the top job, demonstrated a lack of foresight.
Do you think, had Darling played his 300th last season, he would have gone on for another year at North? Or do you think that with 300 games under his belt, the time would have been right to walk away?
Maybe he wanted more and thought he had more to offer, but being sent off in front of an Optus Stadium crowd, in game 300… it would have been a good way to go out.
Sure, we can look at the situation through the lens of the interim coach. He needed to get something out of his team, and with Darling in the twilight of his career, he was an easy target. Drop him… make a statement.
And now he’s out of there. Both of them are.
Great statement.
I often see this in the work I do. Someone comes in, attempts to implement three or four new ideas to impress someone further up the chain, and then… they’re gone. Off to another job, and they leave behind them the mess. I am sure Schofield had the best of intentions, and maybe thought he could be the man to lead the Eagles into 2025 and back to glory, but his statement left a premiership player two games short of 300, and that type of thing only makes one sort of statement.
And it’s not a good one.
It may be intended to draw a line in the sand in terms of performance, but when you take a club great, and despite his detractors, 298 games and 500+ goals is a GREAT career, and kick him to the curb, it may not be the statement you intended. And it may not be something that holds you in good stead, going forward.
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I'm sure the club knew Darling was looking elsewhere at that point as well. From his statements in the media, I'm sure he was happy to stay but if someone was offering two more years, he was going to take the cash. The club wasn't in a position to extend him (as we have young talls that need game time) so off he goes.
I'll always think of him as a 300 game player for us (as he was if you count preseason games which they do for AFL membership). I hope he goes OK at North but not great and that I'll forget he even played for them (like others who left - Q Lynch, Rosa and Scott Selwood).
I posted this more about Schofield - but he seems happy to remain assistant coach, and in hindsight was too entrenched in the Simmo environment - Mcqualter was a fresh broom with a different perspective, regardless of the outcome.
Darling made it clear he wanted to play on somewhere, and he wanted to keep the income rolling in, family, mortgage, all that jazz..he's entitled too and good luck to him!
Might be a bit weird to see him actually playing in a Roos strip, but will wear off quickly when he kicks his first goal against us?
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Are the club higher ups impressed with Mini's game plan?
I feel like Simmo's game plan was a bit stale for the current footy landscape.
I think a lot of fans are very excited to see a more contested attacking style
