Coach Our Next Coach

Who do YOU want to coach us?

  • Ken (best man for the job)

  • Ken (better the devil you know)

  • The Bassett Hound

  • Not Ken, but I trust the club to pick the best candidate

  • Hardwick

  • Schofield

  • Buckley

  • Montgomery

  • Other

  • Carr

Results are only viewable after voting.

Remove this Banner Ad

EskimoPAFC said:
With all the talk of Bucks lately it does need to be mentioned that if Carr doesn't take over after a handshake deal that kept him out of the Richmond job, that's a ****ing slimy way to treat a Port legend.

And no this isn't a criticism of us looking outside, but a criticism of the idiotic decision to ever try to make a succession plan with a failed coach in the first place, rather than just giving him the job if we thought he was up to it.
Click to expand...
I'm not convinced the 'succession plan' was ever real tbh there's too much mixed messaging, I'm not sure why Caro talking handshake deals is considered as bankable she's gotten things wrong before & quite honestly been fed bullshit for other agendas.

Carr expressing doubt about being ready & his family preferring to live in Adelaide could just as well be the main reason he pulled out of the Richmond job.
 
I’m starting to think that the Josh Carr “succession plan” was just a back-up plan and an easy way out if things went to shit.

They were happy for Hinkley to continue, but if it went wrong then they had a very easy way out.
 
Marmozet said:
I’m starting to think that the Josh Carr “succession plan” was just a back-up plan and an easy way out if things went to shit.

They were happy for Hinkley to continue, but if it went wrong then they had a very easy way out.
Click to expand...
Wouldn't put it past the club to do this!
 

Log in to remove this ad.

EskimoPAFC said:
With all the talk of Bucks lately it does need to be mentioned that if Carr doesn't take over after a handshake deal that kept him out of the Richmond job, that's a ****ing slimy way to treat a Port legend.

And no this isn't a criticism of us looking outside, but a criticism of the idiotic decision to ever try to make a succession plan with a failed coach in the first place, rather than just giving him the job if we thought he was up to it.
Click to expand...
They moved to Adelaide for his wife's family. They were not going to just suddenly pick up and move to Melbourne.

Here...https://www.afl.com.au/news/843223/dockers-shuffle-coaching-roles-as-carr-heads-home-to-port
 
HinkleysHeroes said:
They moved to Adelaide for his wife's family. They were not going to just suddenly pick up and move to Melbourne.

Here...https://www.afl.com.au/news/843223/dockers-shuffle-coaching-roles-as-carr-heads-home-to-port
Click to expand...
If its this clear why would he have been involved in the Richmond process to begin with?
 
This sort of intro would make supporters sit up and take notice

 
Yea I’m not sold on Bucks . Carr it’s hard to say because as we’ve seen tha assistans get dragged along with the head coach a bit .
I reckon Justin Leppitsch would go alright of the available ( he’s probably under contract at the Pies )
 
EskimoPAFC said:
With all the talk of Bucks lately it does need to be mentioned that if Carr doesn't take over after a handshake deal that kept him out of the Richmond job, that's a ****ing slimy way to treat a Port legend.

And no this isn't a criticism of us looking outside, but a criticism of the idiotic decision to ever try to make a succession plan with a failed coach in the first place, rather than just giving him the job if we thought he was up to it.
Click to expand...
As far as Josh Carr, I wouldn’t be too sentimental, he walked out on Port a day after the 04 Grand Final and sentiment won’t bring us success.
We need to get the best available in Australia.
 
Portmagpies36 said:
As far as Josh Carr, I wouldn’t be too sentimental, he walked out on Port a day after the 04 Grand Final and sentiment won’t bring us success.
We need to get the best available in Australia.
Click to expand...
Didn't Josh only leave so he could play alongside his brother at Freo? And I thought he came back to Port once his brother stopped playing. I really didn't have a problem with that.
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

Janey said:
Didn't Josh only leave so he could play alongside his brother at Freo? And I thought he came back to Port once his brother stopped playing. I really didn't have a problem with that.
Click to expand...

How I remember it. Also pretty sure he's on record saying at the time if we hadn't won the flag in 2004 he wouldn't have left as there was still unfinished business.

For some reason of all my memories from the 2004 Granny, a banner in the crowd "Josh - Don't Nick out on us" is one of them.
 
Portmagpies36 said:
As far as Josh Carr, I wouldn’t be too sentimental, he walked out on Port a day after the 04 Grand Final and sentiment won’t bring us success.
We need to get the best available in Australia.
Click to expand...
Its not about sentiment though its about bad business practice. The way we've routinely scapegoated assistants to protect Hinkley has meant that no decent assistants are willing to consider Port. Now we're a club whose word means nothing either to potential head coaches. Its amateur hour.
 
JimmyBC said:
I'm not convinced the 'succession plan' was ever real tbh there's too much mixed messaging, I'm not sure why Caro talking handshake deals is considered as bankable she's gotten things wrong before & quite honestly been fed bullshit for other agendas.

Carr expressing doubt about being ready & his family preferring to live in Adelaide could just as well be the main reason he pulled out of the Richmond job.
Click to expand...


From what I heard a day ago it won’t be Carr anymore. Train didn’t even land at the station.

Perhaps it was a thing but the way the Ken situation is playing out it makes you wonder if that buggered it all up for them.

Not sure on Buckley but keeps Port in the news as he is a big name in Melbourne + the Port fairytale link.

I’m sure Carr will stay, piss the rest off.
 
If we don’t interview Buckley, Sumich, Cox, Pyke, Dew, Graham, Hansen, Schofield, Carr, Reeves, Bruce, Leppitsch, Bolton, Skipworth, Tudor, Caracella, Lappin, Egan, Harvey, Varcoe and Mark Williams we are doing ourselves a disservice.

Let’s be bold, be brave, get the feel on them all and see where they think we are at, what they would do and who they would bring in. See how they see the game progressing and transitioning moving forward.
 
RangaInTeal said:
If we don’t interview Buckley, Sumich, Cox, Pyke, Dew, Graham, Hansen, Schofield, Carr, Reeves, Bruce, Leppitsch, Bolton, Skipworth, Tudor, Caracella, Lappin, Egan, Harvey, Varcoe and Mark Williams we are doing ourselves a disservice.

Let’s be bold, be brave, get the feel on them all and see where they think we are at, what they would do and who they would bring in. See how they see the game progressing and transitioning moving forward.
Click to expand...
I'm not across how the process normally goes for a senior coach position but 21 interviews seems like way too many. I would've thought that number would be 5 at most. Maybe a few more phone calls but we aren't having 21 candidate going through a formal process.

Most candidates aren't going to want to go through a process unless they feel like they are a genuine chance of getting the job, but if you are 1 out of 21 it really shifts those goal posts and we would be probably doing ourselves a disservice with a scatter gun approach. I reckon many candidates would pull out of the race if we conducted it that way.

And Choco? Carn, maybe back as a development coach or coach of the SANFL team but formally interviewing him for the Senior Coach job is crazy.
 
Last edited:
Yeah it's not talked about enough how badly Bucks was shafted at Collingwood.

List management was horrendous, with Ned Guy resigning after signing Dayne Beams and Brodie Grundy on billionty dollar contracts which forced their 2021 fire sale.
 
Willsy10 said:
I'm not across how the process normally goes for a senior coach position but 21 interviews seems like way too many. I would've thought that number would be 5 at most. Maybe a few more phone calls but we aren't having 21 candidate going through a formal process.

Most candidates aren't going to want to go through a process unless they feel like they are a genuine chance of getting the job, but if you are 1 out of 21 it really shifts those goal posts and we would be probably doing ourselves a disservice with a scatter gun approach. I reckon many candidates would pull out of the race if we conducted it that way.

And Choco? Carn, maybe back as a development coach or coach of the SANFL team but formally interviewing him for the Senior Coach job is crazy.
Click to expand...
All Don’t have to be sit down, 3 hour long interviews with 14 people… Stewart Dew may never want to coach again, Darren Reeves may not want to leave Adelaide, Mark Williams may not be able to relocate back to Adelaide for Health Reasons? But you still engage them and have a chat, cross pollinate and see if there is any IP to be obtained.

Koch, Tredrea and ?Simon Madden? Head up the coaching panel to find whom is next.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Enviable Tradition
Coach Our next senior assistant
2 3
Replies
50
Views
2K
just_kick_it
just_kick_it
elbarton
Coach Our next mistake
Replies
20
Views
1K
VineValerian
VineValerian
Enviable Tradition
Opinion Our Next Captain
10 11 12 13 14
Replies
349
Views
14K
Ford Fairlane
Ford Fairlane
Enviable Tradition
Our Leaky Board
2 3 4
Replies
78
Views
3K
1954
1954
Marmozet
AFLW Our Next Captain
Replies
13
Views
1K
Marmozet
Marmozet
MrMeaner
Strategy Our next Chairperson
2 3 4
Replies
78
Views
4K
DaTBird187
DaTBird187
Enviable Tradition
Opinion Rank our ruck/forwards
Replies
11
Views
563
EskimoPAFC
EskimoPAFC
Back
Top