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Should we have hired Sheedy instead of Bailey?

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Sheedy would have been worse IMO.

DB gave us a decent crack at list renewal; Sheed's track record suggests he would have persisted with older players and traded in recycled players.

Though this is purely hypothetical topic there is real evidence that at DB's departure we were as bad as we could ever be with a whole suite of premium draft picks withering on the vine. A team soft as mush with pathetic attitude and Zero leadership. The mind boggles if Sheedy could had been worse.

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Biffen Legend

Biffen   12,842

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RDB? Not for us.

No argument there .
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Though this is purely hypothetical topic there is real evidence that at DB's departure we were as bad as we could ever be with a whole suite of premium draft picks withering on the vine. A team soft as mush with pathetic attitude and Zero leadership. The mind boggles if Sheedy could had been worse.

This is my thoughts exactly...Would Sheeds have demanded the FD was sorted Quicker??

It was what killed Dean Bailey.

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arsene if sheedy and malthouse aren't great coaches then put a list of actual GREAT coaches please..

I don't think Sheedy is great at coaching football now, but he is great at managing a coaching group.

Malthouse, I think, is both.

But then again, maybe being that great manager of people is what makes a great head coach.

Their duties aren't actually about coaching footy, but doing to multi-tasking, delegation and management.

That's probably why a highly regarded development coach like Bailey was a monumental failure as a head coach - the required skillsets are vastly different?

It's hard to know exactly not being in the AFL coaching game myself.

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I've never been one to post about hearing things from the person x's mailmain's nephew's friend's Dad's bartender, but I heard from my brother-in-law that Melbourne had all but settled on Sheedy as the coach but could not agree on his worth. They didn't want to pay him what he was asking and he wouldn't settle for less. No idea how reliable this information is, so take it with a grain of salt. Interesting if it's true though and Bailey was Plan B.

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In Hindsight we could not have hired a worse coach than Bailey. Mad Kev was certainly well considered for the job but we passed. Would the likes of Green, Davey, Moloney and CO been better players with Kev at the helm or would they still be soft mamby pamby types and have forced Kev to resign out of frustration? Could our draft choices been more astute?

No - absolutely not - he is no longer a builder of teams. That said, Db's appountment was a failure by any reasonable measure - can't for the life of me work out how he was preferred to Hardwick. All water under the bridge anyway. Neeld is now our man.
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