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David Teague
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I think Knighter is smart! Goes to WC after geelong, was a coach at bombers, goes his time, when Hardwick retires, he is ready to return.
Dont know if going to work for a coach that will be relatively high up the list of probable sackings next year is a great idea.
If they go tits up and sack Simmo, Knighter would be on tenuous ground also I would expect.
But might just want out of Viktoriastan too like so many others, and ther opportunity presented itself.
Seems to be a very strong theme runs through the success story these days n the old super coach is only one pivotal part of the story.
Coach, assistants, players, admin, recruiting, pinch of luck.
Shuffle them up into any order you like, but without a healthy dose of each success is virtually impossible to achieve.
Last twenty or so years n there's been four very successful clubs n a couple of fairly successful clubs. Brisvegas, Geelold, Hawforn, Tiges, Sydaknee, Wet Coke. 17 flags between them n all have had very strong overlap in pretty much all core aspects during their successful periods.
Even if we go back to the good old days of VFL n half arsed almost professional footy. Clubs with a strong core of Coach, assistants, players, admin, recruiting, pinch of luck, n sometimes the old brown paper bag shoofty were generally the long term contenders when it came to finals n flags.
its all about the head coach in the end , can recall brittain, Mccartney and Wheadon all well credentialed assistants being involved , NEVER helped break the finals drought . realise there are many puzzle pieces to get right but there seems to be an imbalanced emphasis on asst coaches . i LOL when reviewing PA and CATS blogs after their recent demise , 2 guesses where they pinned the blame
Knights is never coming to Richmond as long as Dimma is around. Dimma said to the bombers it will take time to get into the finals. Knights said otherwise. Knights got the job over Dimma and was proven wrong.
Brittain thought he was god almighty, his methods confused the hell out the players
Wheadon was well credentialed but ......
he brought in that the corralling crap instead of tackling ! seemed to hate tackling
We’ll knights did get them into the finals 2009. So Knights was right and the bombers got what they wanted.
Just read on the website that he was Adelaide‘s forward line coach in 2017. They were a very attacking forward line so hopefully he brings some of that. If nothing else, he managed to get something positive out of Josh Jenkins which is no mean feat.
Not Josh’s Grand Final performance though. There is no room for any of that. Ever.
We can tap into Carlton's IP. He could just about get it all down on a post it note
