Who's the worst coach of all time?

[FreoFaithful]

Pretty self explanatory thread. And I'm not talking solely on win-loss record, in terms of overall performance. Who do you think is the worst in VFL/AFL history?

This obviously has the potential for trolling but try and keep it relevant and backed up with reason.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Tim Watson would be up there, and a perfect demonstration that being a great player doesn't mean you can coach.

 

[Doss]

Norm Dare.

The man also coached in thongs!

 

[Lord Nicholson]

I always default to Damian Drum.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Matthew Knights.

He's already put his hand up to coach again - and everyone, including the supporters of coach-less teams that have once claimed he was a "scapegoat" - have said HELL NO to his services.

Why?

Common sense prevails in the end.

 

[CursoryMercenary]

Gerard Neesham, he set the Dockers back about ten years.

 

[Mop]

Ken Judge?

Jokes aside. First thought was Damien Drum. Then I thought of Neesham. Surely he'd win this thread if half of the rumours about him were indeed true.

 

[CursoryMercenary]

Neesham left Drum with a dud list, Drum's drafting was decent (Pavlich, Haselby, Longmuir etc) however he couldn't resurface a sinking ship.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

Neesham for sure, pretty much picked the whole Claremont footy team to play for the Dockers

 

[jackster83]

Peter Rohde

 

[Burzum]

Tony Shaw.

 

[robertg22]

Matthew Knights.

He's already put his hand up to coach again - and everyone, including the supporters of coach-less teams that have once claimed he was a "scapegoat" - have said HELL NO to his services.

Why?

Common sense prevails in the end.

He took Essendon to finals, hardly the worst ever.

Peter Rohde was pretty bloody bad.... the worst ever though? Not sure.

 

[Defacto]

tim watson
damien drum
tony shaw
gerald neesham

 

[pazza]

Granted circumstances were probably well and truly out of his control, but, Alan McConnell whilst he did the best he could, just couldn't get Fitzroy going - twice.

 

[Bulldog1954]

Peter Rohde

The Dogs found a great way of avoiding any questions of on field tanking, we just hired Peter Rohde.

 

[Teffy]

Gerald Brosnan - University.

54 matches - 52 losses - 2 wins (3.7%)

3 wooden spoons in 3 seasons

 

[muttley45]

its a no brainer.............THE GEISH,failed miserably with richmond and is equally as shite trying to coach umpires

 

[Defacto]

danny frawley
garry buckanara

 

[Knighty]

I really want to say Grant Thomas but his record was pretty good. So I'll say Ken Judge. I'm not familiar with the likes of Rhode and co.

 

[Yabba]

danny frawley
garry buckanara

Danny Frawley got Richmond to a Prelim. Richmond. Guy is a genius.

The worst in my memory would have to be Peter Rhode though. I am sure there are worse around though.

Knights was not a good coach but very good at list management / bring in young players, in time will have a reasonable legacy, so I would exclude him.

 

[The Passenger]

gotta be peter rohde (in recent times).... i just remember pure ectasy on these forums the day he got the boot from doggies fans.

i wasn't all that familiar with the workings of the dogs back then but i do remember a lot of facepalming going on back in those days.

 

[themidlandmaster]

The Ghiesh

 

[Lord Nicholson]

Gerald Brosnan - University.

54 matches - 52 losses - 2 wins (3.7%)

3 wooden spoons in 3 seasons

Bloody University.

Worst tankers ever.

Culture.

 

[Doss]

Granted circumstances were probably well and truly out of his control, but, Alan McConnell whilst he did the best he could, just couldn't get Fitzroy going - twice.

Bit harsh. Poor guy had no players to work with!

 

[The Passenger]

Bloody University.

Worst tankers ever.

Culture.

only had to hold on a few more years and they could've taken gordon coventry with the number one pick too... could've changed the course of vfl/afl history....