I dont know who. Best available at the time, about three years ago when Chocko was nearing the end.
Hardwick perhaps.
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I dont know who. Best available at the time, about three years ago when Chocko was nearing the end.
Hardwick perhaps.
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Well if you succeed as a senior coach you're loving life and if you fail you can always go back to a cushy assistant's role like Bailey and Harvey have done.
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I feel sorry for Primus. Everyone i've spoken to who knows him says he's a genuinely top bloke.
Unfortunately he's the scapegoat here. In this instance, it's hard to soar like an eagle when you're surrounded by turkeys.
Unfortunately he's the scapegoat here. In this instance, it's hard to soar like an eagle when you're surrounded by turkeys.
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Or to the media like Watson and Shaw.
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Surely he would have known what he was getting himself into though.
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He had the whole white knight thing going on, like those guys who think they can rescue strippers by making them his girlfriend and then getting them into law school.
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Everybody likes to think they can be the one to turn things around.
It seems pretty clear to me that there are too many chiefs and not enough indians at Port.
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Malthouse to come back and save the world?
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Digging into the why
I hear chocco williams still wants to coach
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When there's only eighteen of these jobs, I genuinely think that they're blind to the task ahead. I don't recall many prospective coaches knocking back an interview (Buckley at North, which was a pretty exceptional circumstance).
Sure, you could move back to an assistant's job or the media, but think of an example like Knights. No matter what he does for the rest of his life, he'll be judged on what he did in two and a half years at Essendon and hated by the majority of Essendon supporters. Or you could become an ongoing punchline, like 'List Expert' (or whatever they call him), Wallace.
I feel sorry for Primus, he took on a tough gig. The club needs money and players and a board that will carry out due diligence and appoint an experienced coach. Much respect for the job Williams did while he was there, it couldnt have been easy.
I also feel sorry for Primus. Not his fault that the club is the worst managed on and off field in the game.
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Poor fella - Maybe Ratten will take the job.
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Sttew
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Simon Goodwin next coach? Adelaide boy. They need someone from outside this time.
Also, I wonder if Boak might rethink his alleged commitment to staying with Port.
Also, I wonder if Boak might rethink his alleged commitment to staying with Port.
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Its a shame for Primus because he is genuinely a bloody good bloke. Always up for a chat, always positive. Its not all his fault, but he certainly needs to shoulder the blame for a good percentage of whats happened.
The club needs to put their hand up and say we did the wrong thing. Duncanson needs to leave immediately - he reappointed Choco and then appointed Primus. Arguably the two worst decisions in the clubs long history. To appoint Primus and then give him an SANFL reserves level coaching group was ludicrous.
But in the end, Primus is the one in charge of motivating the players, developing the players and coming up with a gameplan that will win games of football. 8 games in 2 years isnt good enough in any standard. To lose to Gold Coast from 40 points up, and lose to GWS who hadnt been close to a win for 2 months isnt anywhere near good enough. You listen to him try and explain his gameplan and its like listening to a 10 year old trying to explain quantum physics. We havent been near AFL standard in terms of fitness in either year he was coach. Our skills this year are rock bottom in the league and consdiering we play a largely uncontested game plan, thats a horrible, horrible position to be in.
He couldnt continue. Great bloke. Inspirational leader on the field. Couldnt coach. Hes not the first.
The club needs to put their hand up and say we did the wrong thing. Duncanson needs to leave immediately - he reappointed Choco and then appointed Primus. Arguably the two worst decisions in the clubs long history. To appoint Primus and then give him an SANFL reserves level coaching group was ludicrous.
But in the end, Primus is the one in charge of motivating the players, developing the players and coming up with a gameplan that will win games of football. 8 games in 2 years isnt good enough in any standard. To lose to Gold Coast from 40 points up, and lose to GWS who hadnt been close to a win for 2 months isnt anywhere near good enough. You listen to him try and explain his gameplan and its like listening to a 10 year old trying to explain quantum physics. We havent been near AFL standard in terms of fitness in either year he was coach. Our skills this year are rock bottom in the league and consdiering we play a largely uncontested game plan, thats a horrible, horrible position to be in.
He couldnt continue. Great bloke. Inspirational leader on the field. Couldnt coach. Hes not the first.
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Primus has been hard done by IMO if this is true
Port simply have a rubbish list, there recruiting has been terrible and they needed to have a major clean out when Primus came on board, instead they are throwing away second round picks on rubbish players like Renouf and wasting compensation picks (forgot the guys name but he's crap).
Ports troubles go deeper then simply the head coach.
Port simply have a rubbish list, there recruiting has been terrible and they needed to have a major clean out when Primus came on board, instead they are throwing away second round picks on rubbish players like Renouf and wasting compensation picks (forgot the guys name but he's crap).
Ports troubles go deeper then simply the head coach.
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I feel a little sorry for him to be honest, but not for the club.
The decision to appoint him in the first place seemed so dodgy and I'm not really surprised it ended in tears.
The decision to appoint him in the first place seemed so dodgy and I'm not really surprised it ended in tears.
Wasn't Rehn interviewed for the Adelaide job? Seems more suited for a specialist assistant role, rather than the head coaching gig. Still, they'll be more Melbourne then Adelaide next year, even if they do sign a very good senior coach.
Reckon Josh Francou will get a look?
Reckon Josh Francou will get a look?
Think that they should go for an experienced coach who can bring some experienced assistants with him. But don't think that any of the current coaches are out of contract?
Failing that, an assistant coach that has been to a couple of different clubs.
Needs to be someone not from South Australia.
Suma is off limits
Failing that, an assistant coach that has been to a couple of different clubs.
Needs to be someone not from South Australia.
Suma is off limits
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That's what happens when you have a jobs for the boys approach. Primus may well have the basics for what it takes to be a senior coach, but he wasn't ready and lacked exposure to anything bar footy the port way. This nepotism has now ruined the career of a favourite son of the club and left the club in disarray - at a time when they literally can't afford such turmoil.
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Wonder if the board kept the promises they would have made to him.
Many clubs have promised change then discovered powerful cliques that refuse to relinquish power no matter what happens to the club.
Eddie had to sack all the voluntary positions when he came to power at the Pies. Those people hated change and the loss of power.
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