Teague to be officially appointed senior coach of Carlton. The 'training wheels' are off!
From caretaker to full-time: Teague to be named Blues coach - AFL.com.au
Teague to be officially appointed senior coach of Carlton. The 'training wheels' are off!
From caretaker to full-time: Teague to be named Blues coach - AFL.com.au
I think Teague and Shaw could be fools gold.
What this Saga has told me is that having a coach fighting for his job ( like Bolton and Scott) is the worst sort of coach, as they are defensive, conservative and it rubs off on the players.
Any coach is better, so the caretakers look good. But are they the best available?
Tend to agree , the pressure that builds within a club when a coach is in the crosshairs must be horrible . Then that pressure release once they are gone, massive relief. . Hard to judge the interim results . Have to wait and see next year when they have all the pressures and expectations of a full time senior coach , not a caretaker . I think in Teagues case at least he has a lot of experience and has done a proper apprenticeship . Shaw is the one who probably has a senior job a fair bit earlier than even he would have expected.
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But it must come to a point where recycling "senior" coaches comes to a tipping point. Examples are Walls and Pagan where they produced nothing in the end. I think Teague has a better chance of success, as I see it North has a fair bit of rebuilding to do. To me Melbourne is the club that is in all sorts of strife. Their expressionless coach doesn't inspire no matter how much of a good bloke he is. Once the Roos factor ebbed away their demise was swift.
Dees drop down has been dramatic. Surely they’ll go better next year. You wonder if our 2017 season could have gone the same way?
Nah. We limped into finals and were blown away in the first week after an abject showing and were widely tipped to fall out of the 8 this year. Melbourne stormed to a prelim before being shown the door and were regarded as being a flag contender this year and coming into their prime. The numbers you've selected don't tell the whole story.
You're not the only one wondering about this: Rightly or wrongly, the Blues were backed into a corner on Teague. Interesting article suggesting that maybe the Blues board was backed into a corner about selecting Teague.
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