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32 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I feel for David Noble. I also wonder about how John Noble feels? He was part of the Collingwood team that overran North on the weekend. He may well be feeling substantial guilt in his father's demise. I could imagine he might believe that if North had won that game, his father might still be coach of North. It's like an ancient Greek tragedy.

This is after the game.

David Noble, Senior Coach of the Kangaroos and his son John Noble of...  News Photo - Getty Images

Reckon father and son doing fine.

The writing was on the wall so not much to do with the pies loss, really

Noble and McCrae would respectively make sure John knows it has nothing to do with him.

A greek tragedy is a good metaphor for the whole North fiasco.

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What a joke. Don’t even give the bloke 2 seasons. He needs at least 3 to make any impact. They are still hitting bottom FFS. They fielded around 10 afl standard players on the weekend and around 5 good quality players of those 10. 

Norm Smith and Clarko would not have done any better

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7 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

This is after the game.

David Noble, Senior Coach of the Kangaroos and his son John Noble of...  News Photo - Getty Images

Reckon father and son doing fine.

The writing was on the wall so not much to do with the pies loss, really

Noble and McCrae would respectively make sure John knows it has nothing to do with him.

A greek tragedy is a good metaphor for the whole North fiasco.

Yeah that's the shot! I'm sure they both know what a tough caper this footy business is. Sad but reality, David is going to be just fine. 

 

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Norf sacking people like the real problem isn’t their list and culture and irrelevance… shades of Melbourne minus the rich passionate supporter base or historical importance. 

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39 minutes ago, rjay said:

Roos is a great Roos person first and foremost.

Well if you dont have tickets on yourself, dont expect others to.

I thought we had been reliably informed that Roos was not happy with the approach at Norf?


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3 minutes ago, deelusions from afar said:

Though I think Clarkson would be a good fit in turning around their culture, the word is he doesn't want to have to rebuild.

So this surely means that Yze and Williams would be in the running if they decide to go for it.

Yze would be stupid beyond stupid to take this on. I know that senior coaching gigs don't come around often, but going to North is a sure fire way to ruin your career before it's begun. They have to get someone experienced who can buy them time to rebuild, the same way Roos did for us.

Williams could be a better option, but again, does he have the personality to deal with the mess that is North? 

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10 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

man that was a spicy press conference

Do tell...

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Wonder who the interim coach will be. Imagine if they rolled the tigers this weekend.

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2 hours ago, DubDee said:

What a joke. Don’t even give the bloke 2 seasons. He needs at least 3 to make any impact. They are still hitting bottom FFS. They fielded around 10 afl standard players on the weekend and around 5 good quality players of those 10. 

Norm Smith and Clarko would not have done any better

Did you feel the same way about Mark Neeld? 

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Let down by who he had around him. 

Leigh Matthews said it all a couple months back on Sportsday; aside from Noble, you couldn’t trust anyone at that club coz they were new to footy and you (or the players or the club itself) couldn’t say for certain ‘this person can do a great job’.

He needed a Noble above him as footy boss and a CEO that was Jackson-like. 

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21 minutes ago, one_demon said:

if you're an assistant coach you'd be mad to take that job.  It's a career killer.

AFL won’t let them do that - it will be either a Ross Lyon type or a Alan Richardson type with a handover to a young coach after 3 years.

Amarfio should be on thin ice if I know the AFL.

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45 minutes ago, dl4e said:

Wonder who the interim coach will be. Imagine if they rolled the tigers this weekend.

VFL coach Leigh Adams will be interim coach.  Poor bugger.  That'll be two coaching careers Norf have killed in one season 

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8 minutes ago, rpfc said:

AFL won’t let them do that - it will be either a Ross Lyon type or a Alan Richardson type with a handover to a young coach after 3 years.

Amarfio should be on thin ice if I know the AFL.

Ross Lyon. What a way to end your existence as a footy club. Lucky I don’t care about Norf. 

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49 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

How does Brady Eawlings escape all this?

He's been an absolute mess of an appointment. 

Spot on Dazz. It appears from the outside that he's the chief architect of this disaster. North's version of CS.

He seems to be Teflon 

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Just now, Jaded No More said:

Ross Lyon. What a way to end your existence as a footy club. Lucky I don’t care about Norf. 

Oh it would be death watching them play but they wouldn’t lose by 10 goals; there would barely be 10 goals in the match…

And of course, they would go back to beating us all the time.

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3 minutes ago, Go the Biff said:

VFL coach Leigh Adams will be interim coach.  Poor bugger.  That'll be two coaching careers Norf have killed in one season 

The mind boggles… Must really rate their assistant match day coaches 🙄

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Just now, rpfc said:

Oh it would be death watching them play but they wouldn’t lose by 10 goals; there would barely be 10 goals in the match…

And of course, they would go back to beating us all the time.

Ross Lyon is a terrible person. North with a young list need somebody to drive culture and nurture these guys. Lyon is literally an asshat. 

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