Past Coach NMFC Senior Coach - David Noble has parted ways with NMFC

[F_therest]

Concerning that teams like Collingwood and Hawks were looking shit last year, got new coaches and now doing reasonably well.

The main thing is you can see a clear style of play to get fans excited. Been covered in the media that Collingwood are playing like Richmond with fast, chaotic movement and forward half turnovers. Hawks have a really strong rebound game and Sam Mitchell seems like a smart tactician, implementing tactics specifically for Melbouene last week to help them nearly win.

Both teams also playing like a unit and with spirit.

Cant say the same with North right now.

 

[Shermanator]

Concerning that teams like Collingwood and Hawks were looking shit last year, got new coaches and now doing reasonably well.

The main thing is you can see a clear style of play to get fans excited. Been covered in the media that Collingwood are playing like Richmond with fast, chaotic movement and forward half turnovers. Hawks have a really strong rebound game and Sam Mitchell seems like a smart tactician, implementing tactics specifically for Melbouene last week to help them nearly win.

Both teams also playing like a unit and with spirit.

Cant say the same with North right now.

 

[Billy Not Really]

I can't believe I'm saying this.

But I miss Brad. We at least looked like we had a semi-coherent team even on his last days as coach.

And come to think of it, the game in tassie that did him in is nothing compared to now, and we've been staggardly rebuilding ever since.

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[Roadrunner]

Told you so Noble can't coach. Get rid of him ASAP.

 

[DuckYeah]

Told you so Noble can't coach. Get rid of him ASAP.

Neither can the assistants

 

[Page8383]

I’m really starting to turn on Noble now.

I can’t put up with much more of this shit

 

[Hazey1977]

Neither can the assistants

I am wondering what Blakey must be thinking? What differences is he seeing completed to Swans? Is he making any recommendations/suggestions or just sitting there quietly?

Renovate animos

 

[sutcliffe's hotel]

Been wondering the same as Noble doesn’t strike me as a dictatorial leader.

 

[Cool Kangas]

So has Noble got a 2 year contract? Is that right?

 

[bhoysdontcry67]

So has Noble got a 2 year contract? Is that right?

It’s a rolling contract each year.

 

[Cool Kangas]

It’s a rolling contract each year.

Ok so that means by season end the club can employ someone new if they choose - correct?

 

[Roosurgence]

Ok so that means by season end the club can employ someone new if they choose - correct?

They can, but I doubt they will.

You only have to read / hear the crap that club leaders spout. They are already conditioning us that he stays.

We are told that a need to endure pain. Well I am that numb about this club, that I can’t feel anything but disgust.

 

[Cool Kangas]

They can, but I doubt they will.

You only have to read / hear the crap that club leaders spout. They are already conditioning us that he stays.

We are told that a need to endure pain. Well I am that numb about this club, that I can’t feel anything but disgust.

Yep. It’s a tricky one. Like if I remember correctly wasnt Hardwick virtually out the door before Richmond turned it around? Brisbane were pretty bad in the first couple of years under Fagan. Could this just be the lowest point before the gradual improvement?

 

[DuckYeah]

Yep. It’s a tricky one. Like if I remember correctly wasnt Hardwick virtually out the door before Richmond turned it around? Brisbane were pretty bad in the first couple of years under Fagan. Could this just be the lowest point before the gradual improvement?

Things can’t get much worse? The only thing that would be worse than right now, are 1) players walking 2) this continues for longer than anticipated.

 

[rm3504]

They can, but I doubt they will.

You only have to read / hear the crap that club leaders spout. They are already conditioning us that he stays.

We are told that a need to endure pain. Well I am that numb about this club, that I can’t feel anything but disgust.

If noble is coach next year you would imagine membership and attendances would fall dramatically
It’s not even a young rebuilding team

Freo were younger

 

[gokangas]

They can, but I doubt they will.

You only have to read / hear the crap that club leaders spout. They are already conditioning us that he stays.

We are told that a need to endure pain. Well I am that numb about this club, that I can’t feel anything but disgust.

What they say publicly doesn't always equal what they are saying behind the scenes. If they are not dumping him now they have to support him.

 

[RossHenshaw]

What they say publicly doesn't always equal what they are saying behind the scenes. If they are not dumping him now they have to support him.

100% correct.
What they say publicly is rehearsed , pre written going by the question they expect . Which are usually as obvious as they come .
For me having played and watched a lot of sport . We look like a totally disunited club . I don’t buy or believe any of the crap Noble says or the players are told to say . The Apple rots from the core . We have troubles very deep from high up internally we are not being told about spewing out all the way to the team.
As a natural reaction to all this The players are all in self preservation mode , not playing their natural game & have no idea what the heck to do or is going on .
I just heard Nobles presser….
GGF …. Dead man walking

 

[Roosurgence]

If noble is coach next year you would imagine membership and attendances would fall dramatically
It’s not even a young rebuilding team

Freo were younger

We won’t even have to wait until next year for that to happen.

I can’t imagine too many will be fronting up to watch us for the rest of the year.

I struggled to watch us from the comfort of my couch, I am not looking forward to going to any of our remaining games.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Concerning that teams like Collingwood and Hawks were looking shit last year, got new coaches and now doing reasonably well.

The main thing is you can see a clear style of play to get fans excited. Been covered in the media that Collingwood are playing like Richmond with fast, chaotic movement and forward half turnovers. Hawks have a really strong rebound game and Sam Mitchell seems like a smart tactician, implementing tactics specifically for Melbouene last week to help them nearly win.

Both teams also playing like a unit and with spirit.

Cant say the same with North right now.

I said this a couple of weeks ago, but the senior players McRae and Mitchell have at their disposal make their jobs very much easier, through their skills, experience and onfield leadership. We only have one senior player in Goldstein who has ever been near the top flight, and even he’s rarely been a guy who’d drag the team with him. Our older players bring bigger bodies for some protection and that’s about it - Noble has to build from almost nothing and it will take way more than 30-odd games.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

If noble is coach next year you would imagine membership and attendances would fall dramatically
It’s not even a young rebuilding team

Freo were younger

Averages are stupid.

 

[Themanbun]

100% correct.
What they say publicly is rehearsed , pre written going by the question they expect . Which are usually as obvious as they come .
For me having played and watched a lot of sport . We look like a totally disunited club . It don’t buy or believe any of the crap Noble says or the players are told to say . The Apple rots from the core . We have troubles very deep from high up internally we are not being told about spewing out all the way to the team.
As a natural reaction to all this The players are all in self preservation mode , not playing their natural game & have no idea what the **** to do or is going on .
I just heard Nobles presser….
GGF …. Dead man walking

Yep. A friend made an observation to me the other day that the players look and play like they're those workers at a toxic organisation (you know the type that has 'praise walls', lunchtime yoga, but is just not a nice place to be involved with).

We don't know what goes on behind closed doors. It's just as likely as not that this goes beyond the coach himself and his power to change things. If that's the case then no proven coach in the industry would want to join us.

On the other hand, it could literally just be the coach and a more astute and competent one looking for a challenge might take it up. I don't know.

All I can observe is that the body language of most of our players is a look of not wanting to be there.

All I know is we haven't got a plan. No discernible milestones. No targets. Nothing against which the club can be held accountable except for the nebulous 'time'. People had a crack at me for wanting the club to publish its ambitions and be held accountable against them, but the absence of any direction or vision is absolutely killing our supporters.

 

[Roosurgence]

For a guy that is supposedly very big on the teaching element of the game, he seriously seems out of touch with what is happening on the field.

Without knowing what he is trying to teach, because it’s hard to see any kind of plan of direction. Is he trying to teach calculus to 1st Graders?

A good coach will know the limitations of his list and work within those limitations while applying incremental change. This bloke seems to want to make the change all in one hit and the players are just not capable.

I’ve read it many times in here that the fault lies with the players. A coach lives and dies by his players, so for a coach to not recognise what you are doing is not possible with this group and stubbornly press ahead anyway, means he deserves what should be coming.

 

[Roosurgence]

I said this a couple of weeks ago, but the senior players McRae and Mitchell have at their disposal make their jobs very much easier, through their skills, experience and onfield leadership. We only have one senior player in Goldstein who has ever been near the top flight, and even he’s rarely been a guy who’d drag the team with him. Our older players bring bigger bodies for some protection and that’s about it - Noble has to build from almost nothing and it will take way more than 30-odd games.

We need to stop looking to blame the players.

Currently we have a coach in place that is systematically destroying a playing group.

Yes the leaders need to be better, but we are seeing the results from a playing group that is not playing for their coach. Secretly I think a lot of them are probably hoping to see the back of him by the way they conduct themselves on the field.

 

[Roosurgence]

Did having Paul Roos around last year mask a lot of Noble’s deficiencies?

As much as we joke about Roos, the bloke still knew how to coach a playing group.

Now he is out of the picture and the safety blanket is gone, I think we are seeing the real capability or lack of it with Noble.

 

[Themanbun]

Did having Paul Roos around last year mask a lot of Noble’s deficiencies?

As much as we joke about Roos, the bloke still knew how to coach a playing group.

Now he is out of the picture and the safety blanket is gone, I think we are seeing the real capability or lack of it with Noble.

What worries me is that it looks like Roos didn't want a bar of us after spending a year in our environment.

Either he is that smug that he thought "well well well my job is done", which is a real possibility. The other real possibility is he saw what he was working against to change and ran like the wind.

I've heard nothing but praise for him from Melbourne peeps. I know he doesn't have a good rep here and I'm kinda sus on him too, but if he's as good at what he does as Melbourne say and he's getting outta dodge then that's a real worry.