We will see great coaches (Hinkley will be one IMO) but I don't think we will ever see another legendary coach. You have to remember back in the day of the legendary coach he didn't have the 55 odd specialist coaches behind him. What he said went.
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Will we ever see another "legendary" coach?
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Are you basing that on recent history or his earlier accomplishments? If its the former you have NFI.
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2015 Worsfold Medalist - Rowen Powell
So nowhere near as good?
Clarko is a legend, no question. Dragged us from mediocrity to an absolute powerhouse, with 2 flags and counting. Changed the face of the game in the process too. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't finish with at LEAST one more flag to his name, probably more, and will retire with his name proudly among the true greats of Hawthorn andVFL/AFL coaching. No two ways about it.
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Why would pissing anybody off preclude these two from being regarded as legendary coaches?
boomer is not fit to wipe Abletts A**
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In fairness, the OP did ask if we'd see anymore legendary ones in the future so we may as well throw names out there.
I'll throw Steve Johnson into the mix.
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Guy McKenna or Leon Cameron (or whoever else might be coaching GWS/GC between 2016-2022)
I've heard that from a few people too.
Legend............wait for it..............dairy.
Yeah......nah....
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Roosy only has one flag.
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Malcolm Blight. Very good record at Geelong. Sublime record at the Crows.
Kevin Sheedy.
Micky Malthouse.
Kevin Sheedy.
Micky Malthouse.
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David Parkin, 4 premierships at 2 of the 3 clubs he coached and very much an innovator in his field at the time.
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Was light hearted mate.LMAO
Coached for 5 minutes.
He's Ablett without a lot of things, really...
Malthouse, if he's not already legendary, should be pretty bloody close.
Out of the rest, I'd say Clarkson might have a chance to be seen in that light, if he can take Hawthorn to another flag or two. You'd make a case for Lyon if he'd actually won any flags. Bomber could be seen as such, depending on where his career goes this year (and in the future), but you'd have to say the whole drug scandal would put a an asterisk above him.
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Nathan Buckley - just ask him.
Hird will be infamous...
Hird will be infamous...
This is the biggest crock of repeated shit ever.
Bomber built that team and taught them to play football. What he ended up with was a team that could effectively coach themselves through gameday. That didn't just happen, that was taught and coached into them. Some of those guys were stars because Bomber enabled them to be stars.
Ablett was a nifty little forward pocket, SJ was a head case who couldn't deliver consistently, Mooney was only ever just an 'ok' footballer and Nathan Ablett...
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Hilarious. Bomba would just walk away from a team that he thought would get him another flag, because...why...?
I don't have any hatred for him whatsoever, but like everyone else, Bomba thought Geelong didn't have another flag in them after 2010. If he did, he wouldn't have left.
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He took over at the end of 1999. His captain had just walked out on the club. Geelong was a basket case. Five 2007 premiership players pre-dated Thompson at Geelong (four in 2009). The combined pre-Bomba games from those five (Milburn, King, Scarlett, Harley, Wojcinski): 129
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Yeah and without Bomber's amazing coaching Ablett has turned into a crock of shit at the Gold Coast, hasn't he? SJ is inconsistent under Scott. Mooney remained an 'ok' footballer regardless of Bomber and Nathan Ablett... WOW! WHAT A GREAT JOB BOMBER DID WITH HIM!! <3<3<#
Seriously shut up. You don't know anything.
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Premiership full forward at age 21 wasn't a bad return, considering. And I'm sure Jock McHale and Norm Smith never had a premiership player walk away from the game in all their time coaching.
Is Allan Jeans any less legendary, because his great Hawthorn teams didn't miss a beat under Alan Joyce? What about John Kennedy and David Parkin? Tom Hafey and Tony Jewell? Parkin and Robert Walls?
You are talking out of your arse. The coach who developed and nurtured the team to become a powerhouse always gets a ton of credit, compared to the guy who inherited the same team and managed to jag one or two more flags. And rightly so.
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