Who's our Coach for 2014?

Which Coach do you prefer?

  • Paul Roos

    Votes: 139 48.9%

  • Adrian Fletcher

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Mark Harvey

    Votes: 22 7.7%

  • Justin Leppitch

    Votes: 38 13.4%

  • Nigel Lappin

    Votes: 4 1.4%

  • Alan Richardson

    Votes: 12 4.2%

  • Brent Ratten

    Votes: 14 4.9%

  • Mark Williams

    Votes: 24 8.5%

  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 30 10.6%
  • Total voters
    284

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Panthera said:
But one question remains: How was there a conversation about coaching; why was there dialogue at all???

Brisbane, from memory, has not moved geographical location in the last few months, it's always been interstate from Sydney :confused:

I call BULLSHIT on Angus (either on the "conversations" he said he's had or the response from Roos) :thumbsdown:
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Yeah if he botched it that is an issue to be explored, but either way, Roos is gone now and we need to move on when discussing our future coach.
 

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I want Blynd Freddie myself.

The press conferences would be amazing and the best way for the opposition to have no idea about our gameplan is for our own players to have no idea what he is talking about either.
 
TheBrownDog said:
I want Blynd Freddie myself.

The press conferences would be amazing and the best way for the opposition to have no idea about our gameplan is for our own players to have no idea what he is talking about either.
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Oh yeah. I'd love that. Cerebral coaching.

And they thought Sheeds was left field.
 
Urge to kill rising, RISING!

Eade, really? Does he still have it? If you know what I mean
 
TheBrownDog said:
Who would have thought that all the times Paul Roos said "no" that he actually meant "no".

Thank god we can move on from the hopeium laced conspiracy theories now.
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find this fairly antagonistic.

God Forbid people should discuss Roos on the 'Who's our Coach for 2014' thread.

You yourself sprung into action on the Roos front when the news on the new ticket was announced.

And it seems we are not to believe AJ on anything, ever, unless he states something that supports something that suites a certain view?

I would actually maintain, that Roos is still a chance, the Moving to Brisbane line sounds like utter BS to me, and Matthews is yet to sit down with Paul and put forward his vision, assuming his ticket win at the EGM. There is nothing new or unexpected about Roos saying 'No' to an offer from AJ led board.
 
So at this stage we have Roos, Roos' manager, Angus Johnson and Leigh Matthews all saying that Roos doesn't want to coach next year. Now this might be a little naive, but that suggests to me that Roos won't be coaching next year. Everyone has been pretty consistent on their statements all the way through. It sounds like Leigh has already sounded our Roos about the position (going off his public statements that the chance of Roos coaching Brisbane was close to nil) because it would obviously look very good for the board challengers to have Roos on their side. I don't think there would be any reason at all for Leigh to be putting up a smokescreen at this point so I think we have to take him at his word.

Anyway, I'm fairly happy since I think appointing Roos would have been a mistake anyway. It's been fairly apparent to me, going off his public statements, that his passion for coaching isn't there and dragging someone back into coaching on that basis just leads to trouble (eg. Blight at St Kilda). He'd also be extremely costly and (this is my personal view) he'd have us playing a style of football that I find incredibly dull and uninteresting. He's won a premiership playing that style of football I agree and premierships are the ultimate prize in the end but that's not the only way to a win a premiership. I don't want us to be a Freo where neutrals just don't watch our games.

In terms of who will coach us next year, I think I'd be happy with an experienced assistant coach who's worked at some successful clubs. I don't necessarily follow the view that it has to be an experienced coach. I just think whoever is appointed needs the appropriate support that the club can provide.
 
ZoBlitz said:
So at this stage we have Roos, Roos' manager, Angus Johnson and Leigh Matthews all saying that Roos doesn't want to coach next year. Now this might be a little naive, but that suggests to me that Roos won't be coaching next year. Everyone has been pretty consistent on their statements all the way through. It sounds like Leigh has already sounded our Roos about the position (going off his public statements that the chance of Roos coaching Brisbane was close to nil) because it would obviously look very good for the board challengers to have Roos on their side. I don't think there would be any reason at all for Leigh to be putting up a smokescreen at this point so I think we have to take him at his word.

Anyway, I'm fairly happy since I think appointing Roos would have been a mistake anyway. It's been fairly apparent to me, going off his public statements, that his passion for coaching isn't there and dragging someone back into coaching on that basis just leads to trouble (eg. Blight at St Kilda). He'd also be extremely costly and (this is my personal view) he'd have us playing a style of football that I find incredibly dull and uninteresting. He's won a premiership playing that style of football I agree and premierships are the ultimate prize in the end but that's not the only way to a win a premiership. I don't want us to be a Freo where neutrals just don't watch our games.

In terms of who will coach us next year, I think I'd be happy with an experienced assistant coach who's worked at some successful clubs. I don't necessarily follow the view that it has to be an experienced coach. I just think whoever is appointed needs the appropriate support that the club can provide.
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Yep, Looks very unlikely at this stage, would be great if Roos himself would categorically rule out coaching next year - but he has a right not too I suppose, and I'm sure he has his reason for letting the innuendo linger. He has a media brand to uphold and being 'Sought' after helps his worth.

I Still think people should be able to hypothesise and discuss Roos free of ridicule though, Roos, like so many other issues are hot topics ATM and worthy of lengthy at time hypthetical discussions.

On that note, I now firmly believe Mark Williams with a great assistant is the best thing for club.
 

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I was saying Pooburt...

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TheBrownDog said:
I want Blynd Freddie myself.

The press conferences would be amazing and the best way for the opposition to have no idea about our gameplan is for our own players to have no idea what he is talking about either.
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Oh you just made me laugh:)
I vote freddie too,would be such fun:thumbsu:
 
TheBrownDog said:
Top post ZoBlitz. Leaning towards a highly regarded senior assistant too. Still finding the Neil Craig rumours really depressing.
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We needed Roos for both his on field and off field persona, what he represents from the past and the future; a senior assistant being appointed would be completely untried in both and could set us back for a loooong time. Our squad is close to ripening; need a coach to know what to do with our particular team, not be on work experience for two years :thumbsdown:

Godfather offer time; Fitzroy / Brisbane need to stand as one and make him want to take the job - not leave it to the likes of Angus Johnson who would lose a debate to my 4 y/o daughter about whether she can have another Monte Carlo biscuit :cool:

Need the club to step up as a whole, not let some flog who knows nothing when it comes to footy club culture dictate to us. It would be an embaressment if we sacked a club legend in Voss, only to replace him with an unproven assistant coach :mad:
 
Panthera said:
We needed Roos for both his on field and off field persona, what he represents from the past and the future; a senior assistant being appointed would be completely untried in both and could set us back for a loooong time. Our squad is close to ripening; need a coach to know what to do with our particular team, not be on work experience for two years :thumbsdown:

Godfather offer time; Fitzroy / Brisbane need to stand as one and make him want to take the job - not leave it to the likes of Angus Johnson who would lose a debate to my 4 y/o daughter about whether she can have another Monte Carlo biscuit :cool:

Need the club to step up as a whole, not let some flog who knows nothing when it comes to footy club culture dictate to us. It would be an embaressment if we sacked a club legend in Voss, only to replace him with an unproven assistant coach :mad:
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At what point though do we expose ourselves to a Malcolm Blight at St Kilda situation though?

You can pay anyone enough to take a job, but you can't pay them to care.
 

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