New assistant coach: Craig Jennings

[jnrmac 19,519]

Title of  game analysis and education coordinator. Originally drafted by the Roos but never played a game..

Worked with Sheedy, Hird, and most recently Luke Beveridge. (Happy to pick a few tricks from Beveridge...)

Analysing game plans and strategies. This is a new role for the Dees and reminds me of what Clarkson is doing at the Hawks. Getting educators in with game knowledge. Backing up McCartney and Goodwin. Unless you can get the message across to young men its all a waste of time..

Good that we are adding more and more quality and hopefuly cutting edge education to the coaching staff.....

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-01-19/jennings-rapt-to-join-melbourne-journey

 

[Bluey's Dad 3,419]

Good, the fact that we're getting someone to analyse strategies indicates to me that we're trying to set up a better standard of play 

I imagine most opposition analysts took the week off when they play us.

"What's the Demon's strategy?"
"Kick it to Hogan"
"Thanks, take the week off"

Now maybe they'll have to do some more work when up against us!

(Yes I realise our best win was in Geelong without Hogan, just making some sport of it all)

[dazzledavey36 49,830]

If its going to further the development of our playing list then im all for it. The professionalism and education has gone through the roof in the AFL in the last decade.

[Bluey's Dad 3,419]

6 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

If its going to further the development of our playing list then im all for it. The professionalism and education has gone through the roof in the AFL in the last decade.

Essendon, AFL integrity and upper management departments excepted of course.

[dazzledavey36 49,830]

8 minutes ago, Choke said:

Essendon, AFL integrity and upper management departments excepted of course.

Lol good point

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

I feel better knowing he's traveled to Kuwait.

[DeeSpencer 23,689]

Bit of a worry that he got the lemonade from the bulldogs seemingly as soon as possible once Bevo got there, but he seems to be in a role that will fit his skillset and it's good for McCartney and Goodwin to have a trusted advisor to work with. 

It's a simple idea but a decent cultural change to process that you can't just teach the right things but you have to actually analyse whether that teaching is working. 

[Wrecker45 3,378]

44 minutes ago, Choke said:

Good, the fact that we're getting someone to analyse strategies indicates to me that we're trying to set up a better standard of play 

I imagine most opposition analysts took the week off when they play us.

"What's the Demon's strategy?"
"Kick it to Hogan"
"Thanks, take the week off"

Now maybe they'll have to do some more work when up against us!

(Yes I realise our best win was in Geelong without Hogan, just making some sport of it all)

I love Daniher and wish we could go back to his attacking days but a currently listed player told me the kick out/in strategy in that era was to kick it to a stationary player to combat the opposition zone. Probably less effective than kicking it long to Jamar on the boundary line.

Definitely less effective than just bombing it to Hogan who has Kent and Garlett running by him. 

[Tony Tea 2,792]

Will he work on the most difficult job in the history of sport - getting effective Melbourne kick-outs.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,534]

1 hour ago, Choke said:

Good, the fact that we're getting someone to analyse strategies indicates to me that we're trying to set up a better standard of play 

I imagine most opposition analysts took the week off when they play us.

"What's the Demon's strategy?"
"Kick it to Hogan"
"Thanks, take the week off"

Now maybe they'll have to do some more work when up against us!

(Yes I realise our best win was in Geelong without Hogan, just making some sport of it all)

Proved your point. Hogan missing from the Geelong game meant that the Cats were completely unprepared as they had only planned for that one scenario. With Hogan out, they were completely unprepared and lost.

[Bluey's Dad 3,419]

3 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Proved your point. Hogan missing from the Geelong game meant that the Cats were completely unprepared as they had only planned for that one scenario. With Hogan out, they were completely unprepared and lost.

Ah of course!

[DemonDave 1,078]

Has anyone replaced Brad Miller in the role he was doing? Or is it simply shuffling the chairs around a bit?

As he was the only coach that we lost this offseason I believe. (Stone left the previous year IIRC)

[Seraph 1,730]

2 hours ago, DemonDave said:

Has anyone replaced Brad Miller in the role he was doing? Or is it simply shuffling the chairs around a bit?

As he was the only coach that we lost this offseason I believe. (Stone left the previous year IIRC)

I don't think so, Miller was a development line coach & our runner. 

[monoccular 16,703]

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Proved your point. Hogan missing from the Geelong game meant that the Cats were completely unprepared as they had only planned for that one scenario. With Hogan out, they were completely unprepared and lost.

LOL

[bing181 8,359]

2 hours ago, DemonDave said:

Has anyone replaced Brad Miller in the role he was doing? Or is it simply shuffling the chairs around a bit?

Isn't that more or less what Daniel Cross is doing?

[DemonDave 1,078]

1 hour ago, bing181 said:

Isn't that more or less what Daniel Cross is doing?

Good point there probably is a bit of overlap with his new role...

[Phadraig 760]

7 hours ago, Tony Tea said:

Will he work on the most difficult job in the history of sport - getting effective Melbourne kick-outs.

I thought our kick-outs were far better than they have been for years in 2015, we were actually able to get it out cleanly on a fairly regular basis.

[Slartibartfast 16,139]

This is far more interesting than most realise.  Roos said from day one that he had to teach us how to play and he has said multiple times over the journey that he is really more focused on what we are doing than the opposition.  The appointment of Jennings is recognition that we are now ready to plan to play individual opposition teams rather than just worrying about what we are doing.  It's a significant step.

The clear hand over to Goodwin is also significant.  Roos in his first two years focused on culture and was a buffer between a poorly performing club and the media.  He is one of the few that could buy us that buffer.  He has clearly now handed the football team to Goody while he plays as much a mentoring role to the team as anything else.  He says he will focus this year on other areas of the club, but make no mistake, he is our coach in name only.

Roos has done his job for which I'm extremely grateful.  But he is not without his significant weaknesses and the move to Goodwin will be a welcome one, one which David King alluded to sometime ago as being necessary.  Mahoney and Jackson are no fools.

I think these things in tandem indicate the club thinks it's ready to become a competitive team and the journey to this point, which was Roos' job is now done.

And that Goodwin is the man for the future.  It is however an uncomfortable truth that Goody was "first in line for the good stuff".

 

[monoccular 16,703]

3 hours ago, Baghdad Bob said:

.......

And that Goodwin is the man for the future.  It is however an uncomfortable truth that Goody was "first in line for the good stuff".

 

Uncomfortable perhaps but, it appears, of no interest to ASADA WADA CAS.

[jnrmac 19,519]

Seems the Herald Sun are a bit slow on the uptake but here is a nice story about our new strategy and game plane coach ...

Dees poach footy boffin

[Rod Grinter Riot Squad 5,654]

Does he have a degree in game analysis and education co-ordination?

[Akum 2,660]

10 minutes ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

Does he have a degree in game analysis and education co-ordination?

Massive early bid for POTY.

[ManDee 7,101]

9 hours ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

Does he have a degree in game analysis and education co-ordination?

You wouldn't say that if he was a woman.

[Ethan Tremblay 28,851]

4 minutes ago, ManDee said:

You wouldn't say that if he was a woman.

Only because you wouldn't be allowed to ask it. 

[DemonFrog 1,347]

On 20/01/2016 at 11:33 AM, Choke said:

Essendon, AFL integrity and upper management departments excepted of course.

The words AFL and integrity can never be placed in the same sentence.

As these terms are mutually exclusive to each other.