Footy Dept. Talent & Operations Manager Matt Rosa - interview on the club website - 5/10

[Vindicater]

Trade week is Hawks and Tigers to loose

Tigers looking to get a bounty of FRPs from guys that want to leave and could have up to 9 top 30 picks when alls said and done. Maybe more.

Hawks seemingly have battle and Barass locked up while not needing much.

Honestly not sure what Essendon could do to be considered to have won trade week Short of getting a Star out of nowhere.

Swapping Parish for Houston outright would be a huge win. (And yes I know not happening)

 

[bomberlegend2007]

The irony of criticising posts on a board that solely exists for people to give their views…positive or negative (and yes, including your right to give your view about my post)…but yeah let’s all pretend no one is pissed about the last 20 years…

Having said that, I really just want us in a position where the coach can have a crack with (mostly) his own players and coaching staff, and with not 1 hand tied behind his back due to background noise…we all know what I’m speaking about. I don’t think he’s had that so far…clean air.

I’m fully backing Vozzo, Scott and Rosa to fix this.

I get that. And understand it. But, because of what’s happened previously, doesn’t mean it will happen in the future.

The club has some taken some real strong steps getting the footy department back to where we should be. The reward for the patience is coming.

 

[ant555]

I’m not really agreeing with any of that.

Break out season in 22, still at that same standard but injured for part of 23, unceremoniously punted in 24.

Wright again now finds himself in the same position he was in on the GC where he’s an under-utilised commodity by an idiot coach who’s giving him the cold shoulder.

Clutching at straws comes to mind.
He gets under-utilised because he has too many short comings and got plenty of chances. Not like the made him play VFL before the end of the year.
It is not the idiotic coach. It is blind faith. Same as Perkins. Given every chance to play in the position he wanted to play and was drafted to play.
It seems the coach is only idiotic when the player you rate is not really the player you think he is.

 

[fairbump_playon]

If the last 20 years have taught us anything, we need to do the opposite of everything we've done. So Rosa needs to lose the trade week, to actually win the trade week.

It worked for George Costanza

 

[fairbump_playon]

It’s self sabotage because you get a worse immediate outcome because we’re a better team with Wright in the side now AND it’s not good for Caddy’s development because he will get smacked on the regular, and physically beat up as well. You are making a significant investment in Caddy and then setting him up to fail.



I don’t think you can reasonably say Wright is a culture killer when they’ve exiled him and then completely wilted without him two years in a row. The last time he played a full year he lead us to finals. If you want to talk about really poor cultural reflections how about Wright getting stuff all support from anyone at the club when he got suspended? The Swans named Heeney in the seniors after he got rubbed out, backed him to the hilt and defended him to the end of the earth. I bet he feels loved and wanted up there.

Wright should have got better support. Including us appealing.

But he’s on the outer because he is one of the main reasons teams punish us when they get their hands on the football. The year he “led us to finals” we were shocking in defending opposition I50s from our forward turnovers. Transition defense needs immediate pressure from forwards and he is a witches hat. Only takes one weak link to create overlap.

I honestly don’t think he makes the current team better. Like on a really good day for him, yep. On other days, no. It’s 50/50 with him and Draper.

The commitment to playing two rucks means it’s not Draper vs Wright - it’s actually Draper, Bryan and Wright vs Draper and Bryan.

 

[ydc55]

No, what I’m saying is some posters on this forum are no-hopers when referring to anything this club does. No matter what we do, it’s a fail.

The club has failed for 20 years.
Reality is reality

 

[ydc55]

Matt was there both days on the weekend.
Prepared and working with his team.
I could not say the same for Adrian .

 

[Kong]

Matt was there both days on the weekend.
Prepared and working with his team.
I could not say the same for Adrian .

Was where, sorry?

And isn't Adrian on forced, sorry, paid leave?

 

[Lore]

Interviewed by Jobe Watson in Dutton's hangar (they didn't call it that, but idk it's a big warehouse thing full of cars with a high ceiling that looks like a hangar afaic) for the Member Exclusive content on the club website.

Official AFL Website of the Essendon Football Club

The official AFL website of the Essendon Football Club

www.essendonfc.com.au

Talks about the workload for the year in the recruiting department, the amount of contact they have with the draft prospects and what they're looking for with different parts of that to inform decision making, collaboration between coaches and list management and strategy, about the upcoming draft and the depth/shape of that pool.

Interesting points:

• He spent the first period of time at the club focusing on building out the VFL list and developing a strategy for that over the course of that year, and is now into the recruiting and list management space with the AFL list.
• Trade period will involve trying to improve our draft hand and looking at bringing in youth. Lots of growth to be had in the list as well (e.g. Durham, Caldwell had a lot of growth this year).
• RFK sorts out the final draft order (he means our order of preference/power rankings/whatever you wanna call it).
• There's an analytics department that supports both the coaching and list management teams.
• Recruiters cooperating with the coaches to learn what kind of roles any incoming players would need to play and that then informs the strategy.
• Brad Scott is on the list management committee.
• Full time team works in Melbourne, loads of spotters around the country and have eyes on everything, including other comps where mature players might be found.
• We've finished the exit interviews with the players (of course we have), him saying that indicates he was involved in that process.

At the end he comes back to the collaboration point so I'm guessing that's a message he really wanted to get across (or someone wanted him to).

 

[Atavistic]

Interviewed by Jobe Watson in Dutton's hangar (they didn't call it that, but idk it's a big warehouse thing full of cars with a high ceiling that looks like a hangar afaic) for the Member Exclusive content on the club website.

Official AFL Website of the Essendon Football Club

The official AFL website of the Essendon Football Club

www.essendonfc.com.au

Talks about the workload for the year in the recruiting department, the amount of contact they have with the draft prospects and what they're looking for with different parts of that to inform decision making, collaboration between coaches and list management and strategy, about the upcoming draft and the depth/shape of that pool.

Interesting points:

• He spent the first period of time at the club focusing on building out the VFL list and developing a strategy for that over the course of that year, and is now into the recruiting and list management space with the AFL list.
• Trade period will involve trying to improve our draft hand and looking at bringing in youth. Lots of growth to be had in the list as well (e.g. Durham, Caldwell had a lot of growth this year).
• RFK sorts out the final draft order (he means our order of preference/power rankings/whatever you wanna call it).
• There's an analytics department that supports both the coaching and list management teams.
• Recruiters cooperating with the coaches to learn what kind of roles any incoming players would need to play and that then informs the strategy.
• Brad Scott is on the list management committee.
• Full time team works in Melbourne, loads of spotters around the country and have eyes on everything, including other comps where mature players might be found.
• We've finished the exit interviews with the players (of course we have), him saying that indicates he was involved in that process.

At the end he comes back to the collaboration point so I'm guessing that's a message he really wanted to get across (or someone wanted him to).

I hope RFK didn't learn everything he knows about drafting from Dodoro.

 

[Nicholas61]

Interviewed by Jobe Watson in Dutton's hangar (they didn't call it that, but idk it's a big warehouse thing full of cars with a high ceiling that looks like a hangar afaic) for the Member Exclusive content on the club website.

Official AFL Website of the Essendon Football Club

The official AFL website of the Essendon Football Club

www.essendonfc.com.au

Talks about the workload for the year in the recruiting department, the amount of contact they have with the draft prospects and what they're looking for with different parts of that to inform decision making, collaboration between coaches and list management and strategy, about the upcoming draft and the depth/shape of that pool.

Interesting points:

• He spent the first period of time at the club focusing on building out the VFL list and developing a strategy for that over the course of that year, and is now into the recruiting and list management space with the AFL list.
• Trade period will involve trying to improve our draft hand and looking at bringing in youth. Lots of growth to be had in the list as well (e.g. Durham, Caldwell had a lot of growth this year).
• RFK sorts out the final draft order (he means our order of preference/power rankings/whatever you wanna call it).
• There's an analytics department that supports both the coaching and list management teams.
• Recruiters cooperating with the coaches to learn what kind of roles any incoming players would need to play and that then informs the strategy.
• Brad Scott is on the list management committee.
• Full time team works in Melbourne, loads of spotters around the country and have eyes on everything, including other comps where mature players might be found.
• We've finished the exit interviews with the players (of course we have), him saying that indicates he was involved in that process.

At the end he comes back to the collaboration point so I'm guessing that's a message he really wanted to get across (or someone wanted him to).

I asked the question during the year who built our VFL list - some impressive youngsters. In fact I thought a number of our VFL players (non AFL listed) had more promise than some who were on the senior list. It might be the case we need to get others out of Rosa's way.

 

[ydc55]

Was where, sorry?

And isn't Adrian on forced, sorry, paid leave?

Matt was at every Coates final.
Adrian often did not attend or came very late spending most of his time talking to others and not with his team.

 

[ant555]

Matt was at every Coates final.
Adrian often did not attend or came very late spending most of his time talking to others and not with his team.

And standing in line for coffee.

 

[ghostdog]

Matt was at every Coates final.
Adrian often did not attend or came very late spending most of his time talking to others and not with his team.

And standing in line for coffee.

Adrian can not f*** off quickly enough.

 

[Lore]

Adrian can not f*** off quickly enough.

I ****ed his thread off to the history board, since he’s no longer at the club in any meaningful capacity. If you wanna talk about his historical role at the club then you can find him filed there under ‘delisted’.

 

[ant555]

Adrian can not f*** off quickly enough.

He is already gone. That is why Barham thanked him for his service. If the rumor is right he will be working at Pror Melbourne.

 

[Lore]

I asked the question during the year who built our VFL list - some impressive youngsters. In fact I thought a number of our VFL players (non AFL listed) had more promise than some who were on the senior list. It might be the case we need to get others out of Rosa's way.

I don’t see much VFL but I’d like to hear more from the VFL watchers about the list this year… eth-dog ant555 Yoda_

 

[Nicholas61]

I don’t see much VFL but I’d like to hear more from the VFL watchers about the list this year… eth-dog ant555 Yoda_

I am not sure if Rosa was responsible for all of the following but Campbell Gray, Foley, Hoare, Nyko, Eckersley among others were impressive. Hately was a good get. Peris was handy for speed in the forward line. Gray is the one although he made some clangers could be a star - he does the unusual and has tricks. Took strong contested marks (something most of our senior tall forwards can't) and has a nice set shot. At times couldn't tell the difference between him or Caddy. Richmond fans were pretty stoked with his performances and he changed a couple of games in their VFL until he did his hammy but they saw enough to sign him for next year.

 

[Yoda_]

I don’t see much VFL but I’d like to hear more from the VFL watchers about the list this year… eth-dog ant555 Yoda_

VFL list was god, found some very solid VFL foot soldiers amongst the local talent we brought on board.

I know Cam Nyko was targeted as he is from out of the region and made a big impact. Few kids id be ok putting on the rookie list

 

[ant555]

I don’t see much VFL but I’d like to hear more from the VFL watchers about the list this year… eth-dog ant555 Yoda_

I was critical that the VFL list got gutted again but maybe that was a result of them looking for the change they wanted. Doing it set them back early but they did sign some good young players who should be good VFL players for a few years if they can keep the core group and develop them. There will always be young guys coming through but we have been guilty of not keeping a core group of 4 or 5 top end VFL players for any length of time for the last 6 or so years. Have to say that they got a lot right with the blokes they selected and not many wrong. The thing they need now is a coach that is going to be on board for more than 5 minutes as we have had a new coach every year for the past 4. Like the base line of what they have done. Now we need the stability.

 

[eth-dog]

I don’t see much VFL but I’d like to hear more from the VFL watchers about the list this year… eth-dog ant555 Yoda_

We've gotten a pretty good core group in XON, Hately, Nyko, Hoare, Foley, Eckersley, Peris, Scott and Toma. Jack Jedwab has some raw ability as a key forward too. Key is to keep at least 7 of that 10 and build around that.

Next 3 years is the key for this VFL program. Need to hire a coach for the next 3 years. No more chopping and changing.

 

[Yoda_]

We've gotten a pretty good core group in XON, Hately, Nyko, Hoare, Foley, Eckersley, Peris, Scott and Toma. Jack Jedwab has some raw ability as a key forward too. Key is to keep at least 7 of that 10 and build around that.

Next 3 years is the key for this VFL program. Need to hire a coach for the next 3 years. No more chopping and changing.

key is to keep 2 of them for more than 4 years.. when we were really flying, Duscher, Freezer,Coghlan had been around for 5+ years. We built around them

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Interviewed by Jobe Watson in Dutton's hangar (they didn't call it that, but idk it's a big warehouse thing full of cars with a high ceiling that looks like a hangar afaic) for the Member Exclusive content on the club website.

Official AFL Website of the Essendon Football Club

The official AFL website of the Essendon Football Club

www.essendonfc.com.au

Talks about the workload for the year in the recruiting department, the amount of contact they have with the draft prospects and what they're looking for with different parts of that to inform decision making, collaboration between coaches and list management and strategy, about the upcoming draft and the depth/shape of that pool.

Interesting points:

• He spent the first period of time at the club focusing on building out the VFL list and developing a strategy for that over the course of that year, and is now into the recruiting and list management space with the AFL list.
• Trade period will involve trying to improve our draft hand and looking at bringing in youth. Lots of growth to be had in the list as well (e.g. Durham, Caldwell had a lot of growth this year).
• RFK sorts out the final draft order (he means our order of preference/power rankings/whatever you wanna call it).
• There's an analytics department that supports both the coaching and list management teams.
• Recruiters cooperating with the coaches to learn what kind of roles any incoming players would need to play and that then informs the strategy.
• Brad Scott is on the list management committee.
• Full time team works in Melbourne, loads of spotters around the country and have eyes on everything, including other comps where mature players might be found.
• We've finished the exit interviews with the players (of course we have), him saying that indicates he was involved in that process.

At the end he comes back to the collaboration point so I'm guessing that's a message he really wanted to get across (or someone wanted him to).

I'd be interested to know what they do as from what I can tell the in-house people at AFL clubs don't have the expertise to do anything meaningful with all the data they generate, and so they often get in outside people (my brother has done some of this work with a few teams).

 

[eth-dog]

key is to keep 2 of them for more than 4 years.. when we were really flying, Duscher, Freezer,Coghlan had been around for 5+ years. We built around them

I think you're mixing Freezer and Ferry into one. I think the two had one combined year over a 5 year period haha.

 

[jdstorm]

I'd be interested to know what they do as from what I can tell the in-house people at AFL clubs don't have the expertise to do anything meaningful with all the data they generate, and so they often get in outside people (my brother has done some of this work with a few teams).

I know Essendon and Carlton hired people to head up an analytics team 2 years ago.

Before that I don’t believe either team had anything.

I believe it comes out of soft cap spending so outsourcing a lot makes sense to some degree given the cost of really good data people.