Question has to be asked. Would you all welcome back the idea of the Rev being the coach again? made melboirne a good side to watch, good finals record, took us to a grand final wih a young team and hardly no recources and no money. Was a pretty passionate coach i still remember him flying down the stands against the dogs celebrating like he won a granny lol.

Thoughts?

You are on some serious [censored] DD.

Coach no, footy dept manager yea.

Same goes for Balme.

Robbo suggested/hinted this on AFL 360. What would prompt the herald sun chief footy writer to ponder this? Hmm

Don't love it but certainly don't hate the idea either.

Your thoughts?

Looking in the wrong direction.

Romantic notion. Not going to happen. Head of FD, yes.

Coach no, footy dept manager yea.

Same goes for Balme.

Spot on. Not because he's ex-MFC, but because he's done a good job at West Coast and he was always a players coach, which could be a good balance with Neeld.

Who knows, with PJ's new FD structure there might be a perfect role for The Rev as FD manger or similar.

Anyone know his contract status?

First Northey now Daniher. Anyone suggested Balme yet?

Next.

Daniher has been and gone.

I'd rather a experienced coach that has been coaching in the last 2-3 seasons or been a assistant.

By all means maybe head of the footy department.

Several people in the media have thrown it out there. Tim Watson a big fan.

What's Dennis Jones doing these days?

Back to the future - loved Daniher - not my first choice however not out of the question.

Mark Riley's doing a good job at the Suns . . . .

There are murmurings that the Rev has been spoken to. Being Football Manager makes sense to me, but there are whispers that it could be as coach.

Bring back Neale Daniher as coach.

At least he taken us to finals every second year.

The way we are going now, we won't see finals until anytime this century.

We need to look at where Daniher left us when his coaching stint ended and the fact that he's been out of the coaching caper for so long.

Pass.

Would never happen, but by god, I'd love if it did. The Rev is a champ

We need to look at where Daniher left us when his coaching stint ended and the fact that he's been out of the coaching caper for so long.

Pass.

I actually respect your theory that ND hung around too long Jack. Nine years without a premiership is a long time for anyone to be employed as a coach. I think timing was Neale's best friend at Melbourne. Besides 2007, the only time he could have legitimately been fired was back in 2003 but we didn't have the coin to pay him out. In the other 'down' years, it would have been harder to justify letting him go.

I don't think that Neale left us in any more a dire situation than Rocket Eade left the Dogs or Choco Williams left the Power. When coaches mostly leave clubs (there are cases like Mick Malthouse and Bomber Thompson), it's usually with a declining player list. It's not necessarily a case of Neale leaving a god awful playing list, more a case that the rebuild was completely bungled. There was still a semblance of a spine left when Daniher left the club but that was completely discarded in the name of 'list management'. A lot of the older brigade like Yze, Robbo, White, Whelan, Miller, Junior and Wheatley had limited time left, Yet they were discarded at the first possible opportunity and weren't kept on to help mold and teach the list. They could have also given some of the younger blokes 12 months or more of protection before they had to step up to the big time.

I view Neale as a coach who loaded up for one last reach towards the brass ring and fell short. I find that more admirable than gutting a playing list and achieving nothing of substance in the process of doing so.

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No Thanks.

Good bloke though.

Football Manager yes.

The Rev is missed in the West.

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Pagan, Parkin, ..........Norm Smith, Checker Hughes??

Robert Walls?

Roger Merrett?

Wayne Schimmelbusch?

Ffs.

On ABC News tonight they claimed Jackson had 4 targets on his hit list for Football Manager (NOT Coach).

Daniher was one of them. Just trying to remember the others...

No dramas with The Rev coming back in Footy manager capacity but time as coach past him by IMO should have done more between 2002-06 with the list we had