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Listening to Peter Jackson today it seems pretty obvious that one of the first things to happen will be a restructure of the FD. Streamlined will mean that one person, the football manager will be the only person reporting to the CEO, this person will also be a key to the restructure of the club not just the playing list.

He wants to bring in people with real football experience, he has identified a lack of hard heads who know the game so who is available or can be poached to do the job?

Will it be a restructure of Neil Craig's role?

Is there another Neil Balme or Daniher out there?

It won't be a matter of poaching someone as I can't imagine anyone moving at this stage of the year but who is out there. It needs to be an experienced person who can handle the media like a Balme type and they need to be available to step up in the next couple of weeks.

If Craig isn't the man then he doesn't have a job unless it's as caretaker coach, Josh Mahoney doesn't have the experience and was appointed way ahead of his time. Thanks CS

Is it Terry Wallace? is it Dennis Pagan? Can you think of someone?????

 

Ahaha - the man who perpetually has a go at others for having no brain for daring to criticise players, coaches or officials at the club thinks Terry Wallet would be a good idea to be out football manager - all credibility shot down in 8 words...hahah.

I mean its not like Wallet has had a 5 year crack at rebuilding another side and ....

 

sorry 3165 - i was a bit harsh but couldnt resist LOL


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Ahaha - the man who perpetually has a go at others for having no brain for daring to criticise players, coaches or officials at the club thinks Terry Wallet would be a good idea to be out football manager - all credibility shot down in 8 words...hahah.

I mean its not like Wallet has had a 5 year crack at rebuilding another side and ....

Wallace does have a strong football and business background, he is very good in the media and although he may not have had a good ending at Richmond the guy offers a lot. We need real football people at the club not work experience boys.

Come up with a name....

Craig - not sure how much of the Neeld failure has been him, tho'.

Balme? Depends when the broom starts - 2014 at the earliest.

(maybe Eade, Voss)

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Keep Neil Craig....Talk to Neil Balme.

We need the Best...The MFC is that bad

We can't have both 'WYL', either Craig takes over the FD now or he is gone. Balme would be good but we need someone in the next few weeks and I don't think he is going anywhere.

I think it is probably Craig, depends on his thinking.

 

Craig - not sure how much of the Neeld failure has been him, tho'.

Balme? Depends when the broom starts - 2014 at the earliest.

(maybe Eade, Voss)

Craig has experience...Neeld had none.

The 2 Captains is a joke btw...what does it tell the list?

Who's side are you on? Split the list...


Ahaha - the man who perpetually has a go at others for having no brain for daring to criticise players, coaches or officials at the club thinks Terry Wallet would be a good idea to be out football manager - all credibility shot down in 8 words...hahah.

I mean its not like Wallet has had a 5 year crack at rebuilding another side and ....

that's ok mate I know your a bit slow, but with some luck you might catch on, only joking or am I, remember Balme turned out to be a great football manager at two clubs, and I don't mind people having a go at players or officials as long as they can debate it not just write crap based on emotion.

Balme would never come back to MFC. Still the only coach Ive ever seen walk out at three quarter time.

Wallace has worked well with clubs with limited resources he wouldn't be the worst option.

We can't have both 'WYL', either Craig takes over the FD now or he is gone. Balme would be good but we need someone in the next few weeks and I don't think he is going anywhere.

I think it is probably Craig, depends on his thinking.

Fair call...we need to keep Craig as a man with experience...We need a lot of experience.


Keep Neil Craig....Talk to Neil Balme.

We need the Best...The MFC is that bad

He's the one in my mind.

these are the only ones I found with manager written beside their names.

Football Department

- Tim Harrington – General Manager - List Management

- Todd Viney - General Manager - Player Development & Strategy

- Josh Mahoney – Football Manager

- Craig Notman – Football Operations Manager

Out of these, I would expect someone to come in & do a couple of these roles... I imagine Tim would be safe. Unsure about the other roles. Maybe some shuffling of personnel to other areas of weakness?

I got the impression that action PJackson, thought the footy dept' was to cumbersome, & inexperienced as well...

Wallace does have a strong football and business background, he is very good in the media and although he may not have had a good ending at Richmond the guy offers a lot. We need real football people at the club not work experience boys.

Come up with a name....

I can't comment on Wallace as a footy manager. I'd have no Idea how he'd go in that area.

but I think its time to get in specialists of their field... > footy manager get the best, from a successful club, Balme.

... anyone worth their salt, would be in a job Now...

they won't shift clubs mid season...

Balme won't, even if he could be tempted, leave mid season.

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... anyone worth their salt, would be in a job Now...

they won't shift clubs mid season...

Balme won't, even if he could be tempted, leave mid season.

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The AFL are involved now...nothing will suprise me.

This club will improve

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Fair call...we need to keep Craig as a man with experience...We need a lot of experience.

It's going to depend on him...but his current position will be gone.

He's the one in my mind.

these are the only ones I found with manager written beside their names.

Football Department

- Tim Harrington – General Manager - List Management

- Todd Viney - General Manager - Player Development & Strategy

- Josh Mahoney – Football Manager

- Craig Notman – Football Operations Manager

Out of these, I would expect someone to come in & do a couple of these roles... I imagine Tim would be safe. Unsure about the other roles. Maybe some shuffling of personnel to other areas of weakness?

I got the impression that action PJackson, thought the footy dept' was to cumbersome, & inexperienced as well...

Of these plus Neil Craig's role I think there will be one Football Manager with maybe an assistant. The other 2 roles will fall under this one Football Managers role. List management, recruiting, player development.

Schwab was building his own little empire, thankfully he is gone.

 

Craig has experience...Neeld had none.

The 2 Captains is a joke btw...what does it tell the list?

Who's side are you on? Split the list...

Not sure if you are talking about me, but if you are:

Option 1:

  • Eade football (and operations - whatever that is) manager
  • Craig to senior coach
  • Neeld to mid-field coach/senior assistant
  • Royal to assistant, or out the door
  • Mahoney to forward coach (gotta say tho' Mahoney has never coached an even remotely successful/functional forward line) or out the door
  • Brown to assistant forward coach

Option 2 (more likely)

  • Craig football manager
  • Neeld out the door
  • Mahoney, Royal out the door

Dunno....too bloody hard...where do you start

Stan Alves, Leigh Mathews, and how about Barrassi

I remember a few years ago at an AGM where Barrass stood up to thunderous applause, and stated that it is a footy club first and business second. This was pretty much echoed by PJ over the weekend when he stated that you must first get the footy department and on-field performance rectified, the off-field results will follow and not the other way around. So Barrassi would seem to be an obvious replacement than the current one. How damning is that!!!


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