Neil Craig

[zippadeee]

Bailey? Totally underwhelming.

Think Eade would have been a really good fit but seems he is going for the Saints job.

Do you think they hire certain type assistants that wont have a chance to get the senior job, if things start to go pear shaped???

 

[wammo]

It's quiet a task trawling through the journals and sorting out what may be relevant to our game, I doubt a full time coach would have the time to devote to this. Perhaps with less on his plate he can get back to it. I still maintain they had this covered with Misson and at least one of his assistants I know can get the job done.

Sure, and I wasn't particularly referring to Bailey, just saying that in a professional environment, like an AFL club, I'd prefer someone with high level experience, maybe not even in Aussie Rules, who is still researching all the latest developments and going to all the relevant seminars, over the latest shining light to emerge from the realms of academia to be managing our sports science program.
Not belittling the researchers, but I'd prefer an element of experience to round it out.

 

[shamekha]

Totally don't understand the fascination with Craig and head of sports science. Sports science is exactly that, a science, which means nothing is accepted until it is researched and published in a peer reviewed journal. There aren't many secrets in the sports science world.

In addition, experience means very little. What they were doing 10 years ago is ancient history, much of Craigs experience is completely irrelevant now. The science has changed and the game has changed. Best thing you can hope for is a head of sports science who can spot good young talent in the crop of PHD and Masters candidates that are lining up to join the sports science departments of AFL clubs these days.

It's these kids who are most on top of all the latest research in the field, not necessarily the crusty old farts who have been doing it for 30 years.

Yep thats why Malthouse is leaving Collingwood.. They know he's not the future >

 

[Scribblar]

hopefully bailey's strengths are as assistant.

Bailey has an analytical, eleoquent footballing brain. But it all lives in theories and he can't find a conduit to impart that to a team, and he is not a leader of men.
As long as Bailey stays assistant or mentor, that would be a second brain for Dimma to bounce things off.
Having said that, I wouldn't want Bailey coaching the 1's or 2's. We'd end up playing an unaccoubtable, confused system of 'bruise free' football.

And that is the antithesis of everything Dimma was as a player, and is as a Coach.

 

[evo]

Totally don't understand the fascination with Craig and head of sports science. Sports science is exactly that, a science, which means nothing is accepted until it is researched and published in a peer reviewed journal. There aren't many secrets in the sports science world.

In addition, experience means very little. What they were doing 10 years ago is ancient history, much of Craigs experience is completely irrelevant now. The science has changed and the game has changed. Best thing you can hope for is a head of sports science who can spot good young talent in the crop of PHD and Masters candidates that are lining up to join the sports science departments of AFL clubs these days.

It's these kids who are most on top of all the latest research in the field, not necessarily the crusty old farts who have been doing it for 30 years.

I suppose what Craig brings to the table is both an understanding of Sports science and experience as an AFL coach at the highest level. In other words he could be one of the few at any club who could rightly claim to be an expert in theory and practice.

Surely being crusty doesn't preclude him from also reading said recent Journals.