Welcome George Stone

[Arrow 1,257]

Midfield and Strategy Coach for 2014. What Paul wants.. He gets.

Might need him to have a word with my girlfriend. But back on track here's the club link!

http://m.melbournefc.com.au/melbourne/news/2013-10-17/stone-joins-melbourne-coaching-staff

Edited October 17, 2013 by Arrow

[Arrow 1,257]

Just on a further note, I know it was a given but I'm seriously glad the most important part of the ground, the midfield, is now coached by one of the best development assistant coaches in the game. Could not be more stoked and for an October this is going seriously well.

[Adam The God 30,420]

I was thinking about him today and wondering whether they might make him midfield coach. Well, well, well. Good times.

[GrandOld 367]

Great for the club

[Guest]

Midfield and Strategy Coach for 20140. What Paul wants.. He gets.

Might need him to have a word with my girlfriend. But back on track here's the club link!

http://m.melbournefc.com.au/melbourne/news/2013-10-17/stone-joins-melbourne-coaching-staff

Gee 18,000-odd years is a long time to wait

[Arrow 1,257]

Gee 18,000-odd years is a long time to wait

Noted. God, feels like that since finals though.

[deeflog 679]

Welcome George, big job ahead of you

[Vitamin Dee 903]

Get into em' Horhay!

[Spin-it-to-Goodwin-it 579]

I wonder if they'll be appointing a stoppages coach as well?

In any case, Stone sounds like a good appointment.

Good on you Georgie, rip into them.

[FC Melbourne 108]

Seriously good get.

If he can turn an Irishman who has never seen the sport into a champ the mind boggles what he could do with Watts, Blease, Trengove Et al.

[Young Dee 1,303]

Now I am beginning to see why Sydney where so [censored] off with us when we chased Dew

[norwood_demon 196]

Welcome George. This news ranks with getting PR, which ranks with getting PJ because getting PJ begat getting PR which begat getting George. Did our last administration even have these guys telephone numbers? George, premierships have trailled behind you. Well, have I got a challenge for you!?

[Earl Hood 6,101]

Get into em' Horhay!

That would be spelt Jorge, if it is pronounced horhay!

[beelzebub 23,383]

Another Stone added to the foundations )

[Bang Bang Bang 5,839]

He has one heck of a resume (especially given I'd never heard of him until recently).

It looks like success follows him but he will have his work cut out trying to get anything good out of this midfield! "Tap it to Jonesy!"

[dazzledavey36 55,359]

Awsome welcome Geoge!

Working under Allan Jeans. Not bad!

[Disco Demons 92]

Rock solid appointment

[Dr. Gonzo 24,302]

The most pleasing thing over the last couple of months is we have started to get real "football" people involved with the club instead of the usual PR/business types and the old boys club of players from the Northey-era.

[Demon_Tingles 211]

I am very happy with this appointment. Brings a wealth of knowledge and comes from successful cultures. Hoping he can reproduce that with our boys. Getting some top quality individuals to this club now

[McQueen 17,867]

Just on a further note, I know it was a given but I'm seriously glad the most important part of the ground, the midfield, is now coached by one of the best development assistant coaches in the game. Could not be more stoked and for an October this is going seriously well.

Exciting times indeed.

The midfield will be unrecognisable next year. Both in personnel and playing style.

Go Demons.

[Its Time for Another 4,288]

This isn't all it seems. He is one of the absolute top individual development coaches, specifically around skills. He had Kennelly living with him when he first went to the Swans and drilled him non stop for a couple of years and we all know the result. I would say this is his greatest skill. He hasn't done any game day coaching for over 10 yrs and even before that did more analysis work than actual coaching. What's happened here is that the plan was to have Dew doing this coaching role and Stone was going to probably head up development with his peerless skills development. Because Dew has fallen through they have thrust him into a game day role because he worked so closely with Roos in the past but not as a game day coach. Not sure this is as great a result as it sounds. He's been a long, long, time out of this level of the game and the midfield is where most of the strategic changes have been happening. This clearly indicates the succession plan is dead for the first year of Roosy's reign. I assume this means Roosy must already be looking to a 3yr stint not 2 anymore. Maybe with a great year of improvement next year he might get his appetite back and it will turn into 5yrs and another exclamation on top of the Premiership dias. "HERE IT IS!!!!"

Edited October 17, 2013 by It's Time

[monoccular 17,574]

It looks a great cv - really looking forward to seeing what he can do with what has been the worst performing midfield in living memory.

IF he can get it up and running he is a bloody genius (as is whoever recruited him).

Welcome.

[DemonFrog 1,356]

WELCOME

and if you can win us a flag or two we will love you forever

[Machsy 2,858]

If he wasn't great enough, I loved reading that he was an assistant to Ray Biffin.

Bring us a flag, Georgie Boy!

[Bring Back Barassi 552]

Great Result. The Roos era is in full swing