Coach Who should be our next coach?

[Lore]

Spoiler: Timeline and reported candidates

15/8 Board toppled (reportedly will pursue Clarkson)
19/8 Alastair Clarkson to join North
21/8 Ben Rutten

Ben Rutten

Age

41

Ht

190cm

Wt

98kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.4

3star

K

6.3

2star

HB

7.0

4star

M

5.3

5star

T

1.3

3star

No current season stats available

D

10.6

3star

K

6.2

3star

HB

4.4

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.0

3star

sacked
22/8 Coach selection sub-committee to be established to find a replacement
26/8 Committee members announced: Josh Mahoney

Josh Mahoney

Age

47

Ht

180cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

4.5

3star

M

3.5

4star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.9

4star

No current season stats available

D

9.2

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

3.8

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

(GM-Footy, chair), Dorothy Hisgrove (Board member), Andrew Thorburn, Simone McKinnis, Robert Walls, Jordan Lewis

Jordan Lewis

Age

38

Ht

186cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.5

5star

K

12.1

4star

HB

11.5

5star

M

5.5

5star

T

2.7

4star

MG

310.5

4star

No current season stats available

D

15.0

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

8.2

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

2.8

5star

7/9 James Hird, Dean Solomon

Dean Solomon

Age

45

Ht

189cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.8

4star

K

9.4

4star

HB

5.5

4star

M

3.9

4star

T

3.7

5star

No current season stats available

D

17.6

5star

K

13.4

5star

HB

4.2

4star

M

6.2

5star

T

2.8

5star

, Brendon Lade

Brendon Lade

Age

48

Ht

199cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.4

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

4.0

3star

HO

15.1

5star

No current season stats available

D

11.2

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

4.4

4star

HO

9.6

5star

, Adem Yze

Adem Yze

Age

47

Ht

187cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.2

5star

K

14.4

5star

HB

3.8

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

1.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

5.2

2star

K

3.4

2star

HB

1.8

2star

M

0.6

1star

T

0.6

3star

interviewed at EY
13/9 Daniel Giansiracusa

Daniel Giansiracusa

Age

42

Ht

182cm

Wt

81kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.6

4star

K

11.0

4star

HB

6.6

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.2

4star

No current season stats available

D

10.2

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

2.8

3star

M

5.2

5star

T

2.0

4star

G

1.0

4star

reportedly interviewed
17/9 Don Pyke “not pursuing that at this stage”
21/9 Brad Scott contacted by the club but won’t make a decision on whether to pursue the role until after the Grand Final
21/9 Adem Yze

Adem Yze

Age

47

Ht

187cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.2

5star

K

14.4

5star

HB

3.8

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

1.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

5.2

2star

K

3.4

2star

HB

1.8

2star

M

0.6

1star

T

0.6

3star

has second interview and tours the training facilities at Tullamarine
22/9 Blake Caracella

Blake Caracella

Age

47

Ht

186cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.5

4star

K

10.1

4star

HB

6.4

4star

M

4.7

4star

T

1.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

8.8

4star

HB

4.4

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

0.6

3star

will put his hat in the ring
27/9 Brendon Lade

Brendon Lade

Age

48

Ht

199cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.4

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

4.0

3star

HO

15.1

5star

No current season stats available

D

11.2

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

4.4

4star

HO

9.6

5star

appointed as assistant coach at the Western Bulldogs, out of the running for Essendon job
28/9 Brad Scott to be interviewed on Thursday
29/9

 

[TheUnicorn]

If I could actually support another club I would take it in an heartbeat. But the reality is

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And to think I could have been a Geelong supporter The amount of bribes and brain washing my stubborn ass persevered through for this

 

[bomberlegend2007]

I honestly wish some of you posters supported another Club. Two faced weak as piss soft *****.

Watch out, we have a real internet tough guy here.

 

[Cold Sober]

Many of us wish the same of you.

It's not "weak" to think bringing Hird back is dumb. It actually shows intelligence.

I was more about how our supporters chop and change on their opinions anything Essendon.
RE . 2mt Pete, Phillips, Especially Heppell, Hird , Sheedy. I d like to think I've been reasonably consistent with my opinions.
In no way am I disrespecting anyone else's opinions.

 

[The Donners]

That solution she came up with was revolutionary… oh wait…

 

[FrankGrimes]

What did he need to stand up to?

And if he didn’t listen to doc Reid who would be Listen to then?
If we employ hird club is totally stuffed

 

[Cold Sober]

Watch out, we have a real internet tough guy here.

No, just a person with an opinion about what idiots post.

 

[bomberlegend2007]

No, just a person with an opinion about what idiots post.

 

[Cold Sober]

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No argument there, best reply I've ever had.
PS. not really. I was too lazy to cover my arse.

 

[Lord Nicholson]

I honestly wish some of you posters supported another Club. Two faced weak as piss soft *****.

Exactly. I get the overwhelming sense from many EFC supporters that not only have they forgotten the lyrics to Point Break's "Stand Tough", but they are not taking said lyrics to heart which is not only un-Essendonian but un-Australian as well.

 

[fishardansin]

And if he didn’t listen to doc Reid who would be Listen to then?
If we employ hird club is totally stuffed

Hird supported Reid and coauthored the letter to the board to sack Dank and Robinson. It was Evans who said paying them out while we have our hand out for the Tullamarine precinct is not a good look.

 

[FrankGrimes]

Hird supported Reid and coauthored the letter to the board to sack Dank and Robinson. It was Evans who said paying them out while we have our hand out for the Tullamarine precinct is not a good look.

Reid wrote to james and question the programmed and said don’t do it from memory, hird didn’t listen to him, hors isn’t the answer for our next coach.. 3 months of coaching in 7 years..

 

[Doss]

 

[doug85]

I honestly wish some of you posters supported another Club. Two faced weak as piss soft *****.

Cheers for the new sig

 

[IHurley]

It doesn't matter for our purposes if Hird was unfairly scapegoated (spoiler alert: he was) what matters is that the young guys in our team don't know anything about Hird except what they read about him in the papers after 2013.

The single most important part of whether or not a system works is that the players trust it. And trusting the system means trusting the coach.

How are they going to do that with Hird? It's not like he has any runs on the board as a finals winning coach to offset the negative views players would have of him.

 

[bennyg12]

just find someone and get moving

 

[frodos gardener]

The Hird conversation has been done to death. It’s just circle work at this stage, but it will continue until he is ruled out or rules himself out, assuming that’s the outcome. I can’t wait until the club has made its decision so they can get on with it one way or another.

 

[Lore]

It doesn't matter for our purposes if Hird was unfairly scapegoated (spoiler alert: he was) what matters is that the young guys in our team don't know anything about Hird except what they read about him in the papers after 2013.

The single most important part of whether or not a system works is that the players trust it. And trusting the system means trusting the coach.

How are they going to do that with Hird? It's not like he has any runs on the board as a finals winning coach to offset the negative views players would have of him.

I don't know that players necessarily have negative views about him, they've probably actually met him a couple of times as Tom's dad or at functions and stuff.

But neither the players, nor us as fans, nor the club's management, can really point to anything positive about his coaching that isn't several years out of date.

 

[faible]

the young guys in our team don't know anything about Hird except what they read about him in the papers after 2013

They know he's Tom's dad. It would be like being back in the U14's for them when one of their teammates dad is the coach.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

just find someone and get moving

I'm someone.

Spoiler

 

[Dave]

And to think I could have been a Geelong supporter The amount of bribes and brain washing my stubborn ass persevered through for this

My kids could have been hafforne. And yet they still love me.

 

[freo1997]

Bombers talking to Hardwick.

Source Brad Hardie.

 

[justlookingaround]

I honestly wish some of you posters supported another Club. Two faced weak as piss soft *****.

Wish I could say this was the first time I've been called this...

 

[Beerfish]

Bombers talking to Hardwick.

Brad Hardie.

Dimma I get but why the **** would we be talking to Brad Hardie?

 

[eth-dog]

Bombers talking to Hardwick.

Brad Hardie.

Crazy given that we literally sacked the architect of his gameplan.

 

[freo1997]

Dimma I get but why the * would we be talking to Brad Hardie?

Source Brad Hardie