Rate the coaches

[Tigerblood]

For anyone who's old enough, how would you rate the Richmond coaches since Tom Hafey? This is the list:

Kevin Bartlett
Francis Bourke
Danny Frawley
Jeff Gieschen
Alan Jeans
Tony Jewell
John Northey
Mike Patterson
Barry Richardson
Paul Sproule
Robert Walls

Did I forget anyone?


My ratings are:

1. Northey
2. Jewell
3. Richardson
4. Frawley
5. Bourke
6. Walls
7. Jeans
8. Bartlett
9. Patterson
10. Gieschen
11. Sproule

I haven't just gone with who got the team to the highest level, remembering that some coaches inherited reasonable or very good teams, whereas others inherited shockers.

 

[Rampaging_Richo]

1. Northey - got the most out of the players
2. Jewell - premiership
3. Bartlett - handed the worst list ever, and asked to perform miracles, and sometimes did.
4. Frawley - in a perfect year, almost got to the GF
6. Bourke - GF in first year
5. Richardson ???
7. Walls - good coach - dreadful results
8. Patterson - one year
10. Sproule - one year
9. Gieschen - clown
11. Jeans - sucked the club in. He really needed money - fast. Set the club back years. Take a bow Cameron Schwab and Neville Crowe..

 

[Rampaging_Richo]

1. Northey - got the most out of the players
2. Jewell - premiership
3. Bartlett - handed the worst list ever, and asked to perform miracles, and sometimes did.
4. Frawley - in a perfect year, almost got to the GF
6. Bourke - GF in first year
5. Richardson ???
7. Walls - good coach - dreadful results
8. Patterson - one year
10. Sproule - one year
9. Gieschen - clown
11. Jeans - sucked the club in. He really needed money - fast. Set the club back years. Take a bow Cameron Schwab and Neville Crowe..

 

[mightytiges]

1. Northey - PF - got the most out of the players with a simple to follow long-kicking inside 50 game plan.
2. Bourke - GF in first year. Harder second year when the club traded away class players.
3. Jewell - premiership but lost plenty of hair over that wooden spoon.
4. Frawley - PF - 2000 good given injuries, 2001 got the most out of the players, 2002 - ???, 2003 - given no injuries has the best 18-22 we've had at the club in 20 years.
5. Richardson - on the too young a side to remember his coaching style. Made a SF in 77.
6. Bartlett - handed the worst list ever - agree. Got good results out of some of the young guys. Perception in my circles at the time he didn't train the players hard enough.
7. Jeans - one year - list was still bad. Ill health during year so hard to judge. No better than KB.
8. Walls - Said Northey's game plan was too predictable and so preceeded to change it to one of high possession and skill. Unfortunately didn't take into account we had at that time a side of hard sloggers not one with plenty of skill and subsequently we never made the finals under him - which ironically was all to predictable for Richmond over the last 20 years.
9. Patterson - one year - internal bickering wihtin the club as we spiralled into the financial abyss.
10. Sproule - one year - internal bickering within the club as we spiralled into the financial abyss.
11. Gieschen - ???

 

[diggler]

3)Kevin Bartlett - ok, but didnt have talent
2)Francis Bourke - shafted big time, but had the last laugh with his son.
11)Danny Frawley - will go down in history as hopeless and incompetant
6)Jeff Gieschen - honest battler, but just didnt have respect. I loved his shiny shoes
5)Alan Jeans - a legend who had to have brain surgery after coaching us. We were a real rabble then.
4)Tony Jewell - hit the jackpot. even frawley could of coached that side to a flag.
1)John Northey - no 1 by far. A tragedy he left as he got 100% out of a mediocre bunch in 95.
9)Mike Patterson - dud
8 )Barry Richardson - no c---t in him
10)Paul Sproule - dud
7)Robert Walls - there is a beating heart under that black and yellow jumper. say no more