From what I can gather, he was football operations manager for a year at Port Adelaide in SANFL, then coached them for a season,

Yeah, ask them what they think of him.

Yep, everyone here on Demonland would know.

I assume you all sat in during the interviews and presentations. You must have, you guys know everything.

The Essendon Board sat around on Monday arvo, and thought to themselves, "lets hire the bloke who presented worst, that would be good for a bit of a laugh".

It's funny, I read Bomberblitz, but don't post there because of the narrow mindedness of alot of the posters there. This seems to be creeping into Demonland.

Anyone dumb enough to write Matty Knights off the day after he is appointed is very narrow minded.

Yep, everyone here on Demonland would know.

I assume you all sat in during the interviews and presentations. You must have, you guys know everything.

The Essendon Board sat around on Monday arvo, and thought to themselves, "lets hire the bloke who presented worst, that would be good for a bit of a laugh".

It's funny, I read Bomberblitz, but don't post there because of the narrow mindedness of alot of the posters there. This seems to be creeping into Demonland.

Anyone dumb enough to write Matty Knights off the day after he is appointed is very narrow minded.

That's fair enough re writing Knights off.

But still, would be interested on your thoughts on the conduct of the Board.

It seems to me that the Board has handled this badly. I think it would clearly have been preferable to appoint Knights before strategising for 2008 and meeting with Judd. It's a hard call for Judd to go to Essendon when he didn't know their direction, coach or philosophies.

I knew about Knights about 2 weeks ago, so that suggests to me that the only reason they held off is because they were hoping for Thompson. Now, although the fact Geelong is in a GF can't be helped, Essendon needed to act like a big and "arrogant" club and say to Bomber's management "Here's how we are doing things. Tell us if you're in or out". Now you have the Geelong coach having held up your process.

So I am not critical of the coaching appointment at all, but certainly I think the board has made some pretty big and potentially very detrimental mistakes.

where did I say i wrote him off ?? I didnt

I just am bemused at the method and descision to pick him. It just flew in the face of their stated agenda.

That plus one of the most surprised people about Matty Knights appointment is............ Matty Knights !!

so they are either chasing an AFL Premiership contender coach or.... something very diferrent !!

we'll just call it inspired for the moment

http://www.bomberblitz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36884

Oops! Looks like I might have upset a few of our friends at Bomberblitz! Still, provided me with a few laughs and proved what morons most of them are - not you, Ash!

Listen to them all..what a bunch of idiots..their argument is that they have more members on bomberblitz than we do here...quality not quantity

Listen to them all..what a bunch of idiots..their argument is that they have more members on bomberblitz than we do here...quality not quantity

What's the point in doing this??????????????????????????????????

Immature children.

where did I say i wrote him off ?? I didnt

I just am bemused at the method and descision to pick him. It just flew in the face of their stated agenda.

I think that was mainly Ray Horsburghs criteria.

And thankfully, he isn't the only one selecting the coach.

Ey, easy on the bombers. Remember, they haven't appointed a coach in 27 years. They are bound to be a bit out of practice.

Not all of them are pathetic.

Poster Dubai wrote -

"We can laugh as much as we like about them but the posters over there are absolutely and 100% about our club's mishandling of the coaching issue. You can keep shooting the messengers and firing cheap shots at them if it makes you feel better but let's get our own house in order first. "

Precisely.

if anyone is a member over there i think they should report the posts that contained racist material to their moderators...