Judging Assistant Coaches.

It's like playing Just Dance on Kinect - you look and sound like an idiot.

Yes not sure how you judge Leigh Brown. The big forewards were injured forever, the mid sized forwards have been moved all over the park, to be on ballers, who knows. And when occasionally the ball gets driven into the forward line we often saw that there is no one there! Oh well that is the game.

How funny would it be if everyone goes except Brian Royal.

I question whether it'd be that funny ...

I hope Roosy signs up a former big forward, would love Jonothan Brown as a forward coach, great influence for guys like Hogan, Clark and Dawes

you realise that players don't just turn into the guy that's coaching them.. right?

The midfield coaching is the real concern. I don't think Brown did a bad job, but the delivery to the forwards was terrible and we never got to see the full strength forward line on display. The midfield we saw plenty of and it's not just the players we are lacking. They are not well-drilled enough and don't have the right running patterns to compete in traffic. This is all directly at the feet of Royal. Our midfield patterns are amateurish and not even close to a match for the other 17 clubs. It often reminded me of The Waterboy where they were running plays from the coaching for dummies manual.

Do we have to pay out this contract as well?

I thought he had a three year deal but not certain of that.

Any ideas out there?

His contract ends this year. Thank God. He should have gone years ago.

why is Brian Royal not gone yet?

We had one of the worst scoring conversion rates for I50's in the league (on top of the lowest number of forward entries).

Nice bloke.

We had one of the worst scoring conversion rates for I50's in the league (on top of the lowest number of forward entries).

Nice bloke.

That fwd 50 conversion really fell away as at one point (i think it was half way through the year) we were in the top 5 for fwd 50 conversions. Would be hard to expect much better without Clark and Dawes for the majority of the season and absolutely no small fwds.

I rate Rawlings as an assistant coach and I was very impressed with Todd Vineys recruiting last year. The rest should all go.

I was under the impression that Rawlings and Royal were both out of contract now but Brown signed a 3 year deal, so he would have one more year left.

Hard to know what the quality of the Assistants are even you've got issues with the Senior Coach. Are the leftover Assistants at Port - Rehn, Hocking - suddenly great Assistant Coaches now that they've made a Semi under a new Coach?

I rate Rawlings as an assistant coach and I was very impressed with Todd Vineys recruiting last year. The rest should all go.

Watching the B&F acceptance speeches, it is very clear the esteem that Rawlings is held. Very important to Garlo and Jones. So was Chocco Royal for that matter......

The midfield coaching is the real concern. I don't think Brown did a bad job, but the delivery to the forwards was terrible and we never got to see the full strength forward line on display. The midfield we saw plenty of and it's not just the players we are lacking. They are not well-drilled enough and don't have the right running patterns to compete in traffic. This is all directly at the feet of Royal. Our midfield patterns are amateurish and not even close to a match for the other 17 clubs. It often reminded me of The Waterboy where they were running plays from the coaching for dummies manual.

Leigh Matthews has said when asked if success was based on a clubs players or the coach, he commented that at least 90% of it is the quality of the cattle. If you dont have the quality of the player then your at square zero. And Blind Freddie can see we don't have the cattle.

But it won't stop the naive and ill informed passing judgment on areas they clearly have no clue about. Makin pretentious statements about "midfield patterns" are really hollow when firstly we don't have the players who can get their hands on the ball and the players execute poorly (some of which can no doubt be put down to the confidence shredding years of Neeld). If people don't like Royal then that fine but when they seek to dress it up with statements about areas they clearly lack the inside knowledge necessary it beggars belief.

They be better off playing darts with a blind fold on.

You said Brain Royal....see what you did there??

Brain is one of the longest serving Assistants in the AFL; mediocrity eventually follows him.

The data would seem to indicate that this is no co-incidence. He was still keen for a Head Job circa 2008 but no longer bothers applying.

Time to go back to Bairnsdale and buy a pub.

you realise that players don't just turn into the guy that's coaching them.. right?

Well aware, but you can't tell me you wouldn't like someone like that taking Jesse under their wing.

Leigh Matthews has said when asked if success was based on a clubs players or the coach, he commented that at least 90% of it is the quality of the cattle. If you dont have the quality of the player then your at square zero. And Blind Freddie can see we don't have the cattle.

But it won't stop the naive and ill informed passing judgment on areas they clearly have no clue about. Makin pretentious statements about "midfield patterns" are really hollow when firstly we don't have the players who can get their hands on the ball and the players execute poorly (some of which can no doubt be put down to the confidence shredding years of Neeld). If people don't like Royal then that fine but when they seek to dress it up with statements about areas they clearly lack the inside knowledge necessary it beggars belief.

They be better off playing darts with a blind fold on.

SNAP