New assitant coaching staff??

[groupie1]

Assistant coaches have just been shown the door, thank the Lord, and have been replaced with the following:
skills coach: Jayson Daniels
fitness coach: Tony Lockett
Defensive coach: Silvio Foschini
Forward coach: John Barker
midfield coach: Dean Greig
19-23 year old motivational and part-time work placement specialist consultant and mogther-player liason officer and assistant to the general secretary: Jason Mifsud

This is not a joke, folks... at least it's a change

[Armoooo]

This is not a joke, folks... at least it's a change

Well it certainly isn't funny...

[bigred]

Defensive coach: Silvio Foschini

He was a fkn gun.

lern2troll better.

2 out of 10.

[groupie1]

yeah, Foschini was a superstar

[perfectionist]

Clearly posted by someone who hates John Barker.

Let me give people the REALITY, which I suspect everyone already knows, about assistant coaches. It is what they do regarding SKILLS before the game not TACTICS during a game that is important - just like the coach!

Plans are no good if the players are no good. Great plans are more or less unnecessary if you have great players. If you have an ordinary bunch - then plans play a role - but it is limited - unless you spring it on GF day.

The charade of quarter and three quarter time "REV UPS" should be a thing of the past. If the players are so stupid that they can't remember what was said to them thirty minutes before hand then we are doomed.

What I would like to see at the breaks is more attention from training staff and then the players gather and discuss and plan and commit!

[borderbarry]

Anyone happy with the performance of our assistant coaches????
I should think not.

[Zed]

I recently saw an interview with Brett Ebert (Port Adelaide) who said Jason Cripps was the best assistant coach he had every worked with. Went on to praise Crippa's knowledge of the game and his work he does in reviewing games and in particular field positioning

So why was he shown the door from St Kilda ?

Lets get one of our own back.

[Mr Magic]

I recently saw an interview with Brett Ebert (Port Adelaide) who said Jason Cripps was the best assistant coach he had every worked with. Went on to praise Crippa's knowledge of the game and his work he does in reviewing games and in particular field positioning

So why was he shown the door from St Kilda ?

Lets get one of our own back.

Was he shown the door or did he walk?

[plugger66]

I recently saw an interview with Brett Ebert (Port Adelaide) who said Jason Cripps was the best assistant coach he had every worked with. Went on to praise Crippa's knowledge of the game and his work he does in reviewing games and in particular field positioning

So why was he shown the door from St Kilda ?

Lets get one of our own back.

Was he shown the door or did he walk?

Was let go when GT got the arse.

[Mr Magic]

I recently saw an interview with Brett Ebert (Port Adelaide) who said Jason Cripps was the best assistant coach he had every worked with. Went on to praise Crippa's knowledge of the game and his work he does in reviewing games and in particular field positioning

So why was he shown the door from St Kilda ?

Lets get one of our own back.

Was he shown the door or did he walk?

Was let go when GT got the arse.

Thanks.

[Iceman234]

Clearly posted by someone who hates John Barker.

Let me give people the REALITY, which I suspect everyone already knows, about assistant coaches. It is what they do regarding SKILLS before the game not TACTICS during a game that is important - just like the coach!

Plans are no good if the players are no good. Great plans are more or less unnecessary if you have great players. If you have an ordinary bunch - then plans play a role - but it is limited - unless you spring it on GF day.

The charade of quarter and three quarter time "REV UPS" should be a thing of the past. If the players are so stupid that they can't remember what was said to them thirty minutes before hand then we are doomed.

What I would like to see at the breaks is more attention from training staff and then the players gather and discuss and plan and commit!

So are we patiently waiting for John Barker to do something about the skills before the game starts – are we waiting for him to do something during the game when our forward line skills are pathetic – and are we waiting for him to do something after the game once he has witnessed our forward line is performing miserably.

He is being paid big dollars to coach our forwards – find me one person who says he’s doing a good job at the moment. If he is being paid to produce the skills you speak of, then where is his money coming from? Not performance based that's for sure. Our players are good. Maybe Barker isn't?

The argument doesn’t fit – so far the forward coach doesn’t seem to be fitting any of the criteria, so yes if he can come in at the breaks and fire the boys up, terrific. But it hasn’t happened much, obviously.

I entirely think it’s his responsibility to be inspiring those footballers he is responsible for; I refuse to believe quality players lose their skills – confidence yes but not the skills these guys possessed a couple of years ago.

I think the argument regarding players not needing “revving upâ€

[saint-stevos]

barks4ever as ruck coach