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I was as big of a critic as anyone of his gameplan. There is no coach who is coming into a new club and getting the team to play the exact same way as the last guy. It was just written that way to make it sound harsher than it actually is.

"binning Goodwin's gameplan." Is such an unnecessarily inflamatory way to put it lol. Like any new coach King is going to implement his own style on the team.

Where can we watch?

According to Guerra it was King's pitch.

McClure is a temu Kane Cornes. He is trying to wind you up.

Buckley was pretty keen to change the subject at half time lol.

Hawks ability to get back has destroyed Adelaide. Then running circles around Adelaide's backline when they go forward.

I like that King has a broad range of experience across his resume. Started at the peak of Lyon's St.Kilda Was with the dogs in their rise up to a premiership and reset to a GF. Couple of years at a struggling Gold Coast side. Couple of years at the benchmark of the competition. That range of experience can only be a good thing.

Nice melt

Definitely. But it does show he wasn't 110% eager to get back into the cut and thrust of coaching if he was seriously considering waiting around another two years for Tassie.

If Buckley was umming and ahhing this late in the piece I get why the club moved on from him.

Exciting times for the club.

Was tipped for the West Coast job before McQualter got it I think.

Crazy. Bit to come out in the wash I reckon.

No one but if it's true we'll know in the next few hours.

Essendon copping a lot of heat. Merret handling himself very poorly but weird to see his teammates make public statements about how disappointed in him they are. Easily worse situation than Trac last year.

So to elaborate on Hardwick, he came in off the back of Guy McKenna (first time), Rodney Eade (third time), and Stewart Dew (first time). You also mentioned Roos who didn't win anything for us but was the exact right appointment for us in that moment. I would absolutely say that Lyon was a success at freo. He is the most successful coach in their history to date. Making prelims and Grand Finals is not an easy job. He was also the only coach they've ever had who had coached an AFL team prior. People may laugh when I say Voss but Carlton had been anchored to the bottom of the ladder for a decade when he arrived. The point is, these guys all moved the needle in a positive direction even if they haven't yet got the ultimate. Any coach, whether they are first timers or returning, need to be the right fit for the club and be given the suppport structure to succeed. The first timer vs returning coach debate is too shallow. There are just so many other tangible variables that are more important than a statistical anomaly around recent premiership coaches. It shouldn't be a consideration in our hiring process.

Ross Lyon got Freo to their first GF. Hardwick has finally cracked the finals for the Suns. Voss got Carlton to their first prelim in 20 years.

First time coaches are overwhelmingly the more popular appointment.

No different to any other job ad. They're a wish list, not a requirement.

Hird got way more to answer for haha.

Yeah Since Sheedy Essendon have had as many untried coaches as they have 2nd timers. All have failed. One basically ruined the club for the next 15 years.

It's a bit of a quirk that so few senior coaches have come out of Geelong's assistants. A bunch of former Clarkson and Hardwick protegees but no one seems to get the guys who learned the craft under Scott. Think Hinkley is the only one but he was only at Geelong during the Thompson years.

We've already got the AFLW ladder for that!