2020 trading, drafting and list management: players and personnel
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Really impossible to make a call on who is any good as a coach unless your coached by them / coached with them.
Perception is a wonderful thing but often misleading. For all I know Laidler may be a way better coach than all of them but because we perceive him as a battler of a player we somehow believe he couldnt be as good a coach which quite frankly is rubbish. Kirky is perceived as a spiritual leader of the club and one of architects behind the bloods ethos but then he may not be as good tactically or have real foresight into the game. In any respect hard to say who should go.
Highly likely that in any redundancy situation your first work out who you cannot do without, who you were looking for an excuse to get rid off and then it comes down to things like immediate needs, tenure and even who you genuinely like / dislike .Comment
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Really impossible to make a call on who is any good as a coach unless your coached by them / coached with them.
Perception is a wonderful thing but often misleading. For all I know Laidler may be a way better coach than all of them but because we perceive him as a battler of a player we somehow believe he couldnt be as good a coach which quite frankly is rubbish. Kirky is perceived as a spiritual leader of the club and one of architects behind the bloods ethos but then he may not be as good tactically or have real foresight into the game. In any respect hard to say who should go.
Highly likely that in any redundancy situation your first work out who you cannot do without, who you were looking for an excuse to get rid off and then it comes down to things like immediate needs, tenure and even who you genuinely like / dislike .Comment
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Stewie played an immensely import role in his time with us, but the article doesn't actually say he came up with the phrase "The Bloods".
I recall reading about Kirk questioning what the club had been called in the decades before the move to Sydney, and someone (sorry, I can't recall who responded using the term) said "The Bloods", and Kirky jumped on it and said it was a great phrase and that's what we ought to use.
I apologise if I've got it wrong, but that's what I recall reading.He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)Comment
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How the 'Bloods' culture made Nick Davis a hero and won Sydney a flag - Jude Bolton
Sydney Swans | Leading Teams
We’re for Sydney | Daily Telegraph
“Players came and went but the message was passed on. It started with Stuart Maxfield, who was elected captain in 2003, and lived on in Kirk and Barry Hall, Jude Bolton and Leo Barry, Ben Mathews and their brethren. By the time Kieren Jack and Sam Reid and Lewis Jetta arrived at the club, the message permeated the club. They became Bloods.”
None of this is to say Kirk was any less important than Maxfield but everything you read is Maxfield starting it and Kirk carrying the baton. IMO one is not anymore important than the other. If Maxfield started it but other players like Kirk didn’t continue it going forward it dies there n then.Comment
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JD is free, so why not?Comment
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