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Voss and Hird didn't do an apprenticeship, Neeld didn't even play AFL did he? Back to the thread, so you would appoint Jade when if Goodwin get the chop? Don't think so 

 
29 minutes ago, Juicebox said:

Side note - has anyone else really enjoyed seeing north melbourne suck this year?

Yep many of their supporters can be right pains in the [censored] and carry on whenever they happen to be going along alright as if they're the next AFL messiah.  Mind you they aren't alone here.  There's a few other Vic club supporters with similar traits.

The fact they owned us for quite some time with a mediocre side was an even bigger pain!   Great to see them holding up the right end of the ladder instead of balancing it in the middle rungs and out performing their list.

10 minutes ago, Demons1858 said:

Voss and Hird didn't do an apprenticeship, Neeld didn't even play AFL did he? Back to the thread, so you would appoint Jade when if Goodwin get the chop? Don't think so 

No I wouldn't, and nowhere did I say that. You didn't say anything about apprenticeships, you said Rawlings won't make a good senior coach because he doesn't have "mongrel". Just gave you 3 'mongrels' who were failures as senior coaches.

 
32 minutes ago, Demons1858 said:

Take your point, although I'm not sure that a good senior coach at VFL level is going to be a good coach at AFL level. Often the better coaches are types that played with mongrel or extreme levels of competitiveness and can keep players on edge and their teams tend to play a similar style ... 

This is so far from the truth.

53 minutes ago, Juicebox said:

Side note - has anyone else really enjoyed seeing north melbourne suck this year?

One of the few highlights of 2020. 
 


47 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

No I wouldn't, and nowhere did I say that. You didn't say anything about apprenticeships, you said Rawlings won't make a good senior coach because he doesn't have "mongrel". Just gave you 3 'mongrels' who were failures as senior coaches.

As you would appreciate a good coach needs lots of attributes.

Strangely after the back and forth, you actually agree he isn't a senior coach. Why dont you think he would make a good coach?

1 minute ago, Demons1858 said:

As you would appreciate a good coach needs lots of attributes.

Strangely after the back and forth, you actually agree he isn't a senior coach. Why dont you think he would make a good coach?

I never said he wouldn't make a good coach. My opinion is he needs a bit more experience, that's pretty much it.

If you ask the Casey boys, they all loved him as their head coach, and the MFC players all speak highly of him as well.

I think he'll be a senior AFL coach at some stage, just not quite yet.

 
53 minutes ago, Jaded said:

One of the few highlights of 2020. 
 

Maybe he became Jaded Jaded?

 

2 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

I never said he wouldn't make a good coach. My opinion is he needs a bit more experience, that's pretty much it.

If you ask the Casey boys, they all loved him as their head coach, and the MFC players all speak highly of him as well.

I think he'll be a senior AFL coach at some stage, just not quite yet.

He has been in the system long enough and coached this own sides at afl and vfl. His time had passed


1 hour ago, Demons1858 said:

Neeld didn't even play AFL did he?

He played 74 games at Geelong and Richmond.  A footy fan would probably be aware of this.

1 minute ago, Demons1858 said:

He has been in the system long enough and coached this own sides at afl and vfl. His time had passed

Ok, good chat.

1 hour ago, Demons1858 said:

Neeld didn't even play AFL did he? 

Richmond and Geelong will be happy to hear you don't consider them AFL standard!

1 hour ago, Demons1858 said:

Voss and Hird didn't do an apprenticeship, Neeld didn't even play AFL did he? Back to the thread, so you would appoint Jade when if Goodwin get the chop? Don't think so 

Neeld played for the Cats .

 


13 minutes ago, Wobbly Bob said:

He played 74 games at Geelong and Richmond.  A footy fan would probably be aware of this.

Thanks for the useless 2nd sentence

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

This is so far from the truth.

l said often. If l look at the premiership winning senior coaches of recent times over half had mongrel or were ultra competitive types as players. They clearly need to have other attributes but the former helps

Edited by Demons1858

  • 4 weeks later...

Can we have him back to replace some of our current crop?


15 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Jeepers! Would his brother have fired him? 

now that is a level of ruthless we must aspire to aha

39 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Jeepers! Would his brother have fired him? 

Either the bros fell out of love or GM Football (or someone on high) overruled the coach on who is on his team...

 

As an aside, one has to wonder who is pulling the strings at North - plenty of ex-players putting their bib in.  In a world of hurt...

Edited by Lucifer's Hero

On 9/2/2020 at 5:47 PM, Juicebox said:

Side note - has anyone else really enjoyed seeing north melbourne suck this year?

Yep but u watch next season they will go past us. 

 

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