Thursday, August 02, 2007

freo coaching

it's been a huge few weeks in the afl with four coaches now out of a job. what i reckon is pretty significant for freo is that there are now three very experienced coaches available. personally i think we'd be foolish to go down the road of an untried assistant yet again when there are coaches with proven track records available. i reckon our best option now is to approach sheedy to take over as senior coach and do a deal with harvs under which he would be sheeds' senior assistant coach with a view to him taking over outright in three or four years. this way we could have the benefit of a coaching legend to guide us during what is likely to be our best chance for a premiership for a while and in the meantime harvs would know that he will be the heir apparent. this would give him the opportunity to work closely with sheeds and they could gradually bring in the support staff that harvs wants so that his structure is firmly in place by the time he takes over as senior coach.

if we don't offer the job to sheedy then i reckon we should ask either daniher or pagan but should do everything possible to get someone with experience and who can instill a fair bit of discipline.

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