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St Kilda Football Club wishes to advise that assistant coach Adam Kingsley will leave the club to seek new opportunities.
Kingsley joined the Saints in 2011 and has spent the past eight years in various coaching roles, including most recently heading up transition.
General Manager of Football Simon Lethlean thanked Kingsley for his contribution to the Saints.
“Adam has played a key role in St Kilda’s coaching team over the past eight years and believes the time is right to take on a new challenge,” Lethlean said.
“We acknowledge that a change in environment is important for assistant coaches to continue to develop, and at the same time it provides an opportunity to add new voices into St Kilda’s football program.
“We wish Adam and his family all the best for the future.”
Foxfooty.com.au can reveal Brett Ratten will be Alan Richardson’s chief offsider in 2019, while Brendon Lade will also join the club from Port Adelaide.
Meanwhile, highly rated assistant Adam Kingsley is certain to link up with 2004 premiership teammate Damien Hardwick at Richmond, replacing Ben Rutten who foxfooty.com.au reported joined Essendon last week.
Last edited by shrodes on Mon 27 Aug 2018 12:09pm, edited 2 times in total.
I can't accept it as coincidence that the year Kingsley takes over the role as 'Transition Coach' which was responsible for ball movement and switching between defence and offence, we totally and utterly sucked arse at ball movement, and switching between defence and offence.
Either he and/or Richardson had to go. It was a total non-brainer.
rodgerfox wrote: ↑Mon 27 Aug 2018 11:57am
I can't accept it as coincidence that the year Kingsley takes over the role as 'Transition Coach' which was responsible for ball movement and switching between defence and offence, we totally and utterly sucked arse at ball movement, and switching between defence and offence.
Either he and/or Richardson had to go. It was a total non-brainer.
agree, hopefully both are out of the club sooner rather than later. Kingsley may be useful, and improve under a new coach and club, but was sinking at ours.
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. "
This is exactly what I wanted to hear from the club this week. I was hoping that we would see sackings and appointments straight away. I may just renew my membership (like as if I would never, but I was seriously thinking about it for the first time)
bigred wrote: ↑Mon 27 Aug 2018 11:51am
Ratten actually has some real coaching chops.
His senior record at Carlton does not tell the real story there. He got chopped by a completely dilusionary board.
Hawks assistant for a while.
Will be our next senior coach if our first month next year is anything like 2018.
Ratten was 3 points from a Prelim in 2011 with a pretty ordinary side. He was four goals from a Prelim in 2013 with a side that had half the talent of Sydney or Hawthorn. Then he got sacked. Malthouse coached the same side to only 7 wins the following year. Desperately unlucky to get the chop.
SaintPav wrote: ↑Mon 27 Aug 2018 12:31pm
Was Kingsley the problem or is Richo?
An excellent question and one that has now been asked by the club. Much like in business - keep taking away the excuses and you'll soon find the root of the problem.
A mate of mine made an excellent comparison earlier this morning which I've since given thought to expanding.
Mate's contention is that Kingsley is our Neeld. My extension of that is that he's either correct ... or Richo is our Neeld.
Either way - I'm happy that we've either just found out the answer or, we're a significant step closer to doing so.
bigred wrote: ↑Mon 27 Aug 2018 11:51am
Ratten actually has some real coaching chops.
His senior record at Carlton does not tell the real story there. He got chopped by a completely dilusionary board.
Hawks assistant for a while.
Will be our next senior coach if our first month next year is anything like 2018.
Malthouse coached in 2013, was the year Carlton beat Richmond in the elimination final after Essendon got dumped out of the finals and Carlton came in.
Ratten was 3 points from a Prelim in 2011 with a pretty ordinary side. He was four goals from a Prelim in 2013 with a side that had half the talent of Sydney or Hawthorn. Then he got sacked. Malthouse coached the same side to only 7 wins the following year. Desperately unlucky to get the chop.
SaintPav wrote: ↑Mon 27 Aug 2018 12:31pm
Was Kingsley the problem or is Richo?
Hmmm lets see if Sexton survives and that will provide the answer.
That's the other excellent question. If none of Kingsley, Sexton and/or Richo had gone - only the assistants - then we'd have been deluding ourselves. One down and hopefully Sexton to come.
I'd dearly love all three to go in order to provide some clear air but it's patently obvious now that unless some extreme outlier event occurs (say, the players roundly sh!tcan Richo in their exit interviews tomorrow and Wednesday) that they can't afford to pay Richo out nor can they afford the bad optics of sacking their 2nd coach in a row after (stupidly) extending him only 10 months ago.
