He's 54 next month and it's a young man's game. Pagan is the oldest to win a first flag at 49. As good as Lyon's footy brain is, the game eventually passes everyone by. Has missed his chance IMO.
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He's 54 next month and it's a young man's game. Pagan is the oldest to win a first flag at 49. As good as Lyon's footy brain is, the game eventually passes everyone by. Has missed his chance IMO.
So David King reckons the Bears should play Lester or Burchell on Dusty tomorrow.
Healy said Zac Bailey
I fell off couch and brad Johnson started laughing
Agree. I cant understand how in the AFL we are quick to discard seasoned experienced coaches. Its the only sport in the world where this happens.
If North had half a clue they would get Ross to sit above Rhyce as his football boss.
My theory is that they lose their physical presence as they get older, for want of a better term. Their charisma. Their ability to inspire.
Coaches 54yo and above have batted at 44%.
Think the clue is, they don't!
By the time they pay both their wages.... ya might as well give one of them the #$@%... imo
Hmmmm .....eeny meeny myney mo?
Take a look at the NBA as the perfect example of this. The same group of coaches just rotate around really going from team to team. Fascinating to watch.
Imho his on the overatted side , been involved in 1 flag in neally 30 years of coaching , Coached a flood type mentality that was horrendous to watch , had genuine superstars but ultimately couldn’t get the job done . Good coach yes, messiah lol no.
Side note Saints playing first finals since he left the club with a burnt out list
Side note Saints playing first finals since he left the club with a burnt out list
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
Still, it was a formidable system in its prime, as is Hardwick's . One day with a young side at Etihad, we didn't score between 13 minutes into the first quarter and 4 minutes into the last. In the third quarter we literally couldn't get out of our own half.
It was, my point is simply he gets spoken of as if he coached his teams to many flags , yet he has never achieved the ultimate goal, so I think his overated LTRTR.
Seperate coach LTRTR ,however do you know the ladder positions the teams that Jade Rawlings has been involved Have finished over his career as both player and coach, I could be wrong but I thin’ it’s only a couple of finals series in his time in the game, I’d put that one down to wrong place wrong time
He has to be obsessed with one of our players now that Rance has retired. He still doesn’t understand how the entire club didn’t spontaneously combust when Alex did his knee.
So Hardwick complains, 7 years ago, that the umps don't pay frees which are there. He gets crap for that. So, many years later, he figures they just aren't going to pay all the frees which are there, but has to face the fact that the umps still manage to interfere too much.
All I am seeing here is gross inconsistency on the part of the umpires. They get criticised in both directions because they are so woeful you can barely work out what they will do next.
DS
All I am seeing here is gross inconsistency on the part of the umpires. They get criticised in both directions because they are so woeful you can barely work out what they will do next.
DS
Bringing up a comment from 2013 says so much more about him than it does Dimma.
Weed. He was the one that asked about the umpiring and Hardwick shut him down.
Not sure what we can do about the umpiring its becoming worse.
The 22 last night might else well had be wearing Brisbane socks.
The deliberate not paid, "There was a Brisbane player there" i was closer.
Robinson gets Big V, fair enough
How about when jack gets Robinson?
Rioli's tackle on Rich, Cameron is allowed to sit on the ball.
Its *smile*
I can't believe Hardwick or Gale haven't unleashed on them.
Quite a few blatant stagings over the weekend. Didn’t hear a peep out of any of the commentators. Has there been anything in the media at all about any one of them?
Nah, media have moved on from that. I think the game is once the media have jumped on the first outrage they don’t really care for subsequent ones. Not sure why.
