Last night on Footy Classified Caro mentioned the possibility that Brad Scott would replace Steve Hocking as the AFL’s football director.
(He is also apparently a strong possibility to become Collingwood’s next coach).
Currently the AFL’s football director in Victoria he can according to Caro, have the AFL’s second most important job if he wishes.
(Other candidates are unknown but Wayne Campbell has been mentioned as a possible choice).
When it comes to the top job there are two candidates who are leading the field to replace Gill, our own Brendon Gale and the AFL’s lawyer Andrew Dillon, who is also now acting as the football director following Hockings rather speedy departure for Geelong. I know nothing about Dillon but he has emerged having been ‘inside’, for a long time.
The man on the mark rule change, perhaps the most significant change introduced in the last 20 years was a Hocking initiative, introduced without consultation and without trial.
It has impacted on our chaos game to a significant degree and has taken out the man on the mark as a defensive mechanism, almost altogether. It has also helped an elderly Geelong outfit whose coach, also a Scott, now wants to shorten the length of the game.
Covid has had and may continue to have an enormous impact on the game and Gill and his mates have so far done an excellent job in dealing with so many variable problems.
The League’s President what’s his name, is no where to be seen, with the result that even greater authority is now (insecurely), in the hands of the Executive.
I can’t help but feel that the game itself is under serious threat and that the choices soon to be made by both Gill and the Commission, threaten to further impede the progress of our great club.
(He is also apparently a strong possibility to become Collingwood’s next coach).
Currently the AFL’s football director in Victoria he can according to Caro, have the AFL’s second most important job if he wishes.
(Other candidates are unknown but Wayne Campbell has been mentioned as a possible choice).
When it comes to the top job there are two candidates who are leading the field to replace Gill, our own Brendon Gale and the AFL’s lawyer Andrew Dillon, who is also now acting as the football director following Hockings rather speedy departure for Geelong. I know nothing about Dillon but he has emerged having been ‘inside’, for a long time.
The man on the mark rule change, perhaps the most significant change introduced in the last 20 years was a Hocking initiative, introduced without consultation and without trial.
It has impacted on our chaos game to a significant degree and has taken out the man on the mark as a defensive mechanism, almost altogether. It has also helped an elderly Geelong outfit whose coach, also a Scott, now wants to shorten the length of the game.
Covid has had and may continue to have an enormous impact on the game and Gill and his mates have so far done an excellent job in dealing with so many variable problems.
The League’s President what’s his name, is no where to be seen, with the result that even greater authority is now (insecurely), in the hands of the Executive.
I can’t help but feel that the game itself is under serious threat and that the choices soon to be made by both Gill and the Commission, threaten to further impede the progress of our great club.
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