R. Harvey joins Carlton

El Wood · Post: # 661683Post **El Wood** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:20pm

Assistant or something

osama milne laden · Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:22pm

Subject: St Kilda Media Release: Robert Harvey

10th October 2008

ROBERT HARVEY ACCEPTS COACHING ROLE AT CARLTON

St Kilda legend Robert Harvey has accepted a coaching role with Carlton for the 2009 AFL season.

The 383 game champion retired this year after a career spanning three decades at the Saints in which he collected a pair of Brownlow Medals, four Best & Fairests and eight All-Australian selections among a plethora of other honours, cementing his place among the gameâ€™s all-time greats.

St Kilda CEO Archie Fraser said, â€œIt is with a heavy heart but excitement and optimism for Robert that he becomes a Development Coach at Carlton from next season.

â€œHarvs will always be a favourite son of the Saints and while we did offer Robert a full time position at the Club next year, he decided to expand his experiences outside the Club after 21 outstanding years at the Saints. We wish him every success in his new role.â€

St.Walker · Post: # 661692Post **St.Walker** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:23pm

shattered

is he looking to be involved with a premiership?

i_luv_nick_riewoldt · Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:23pm

oh ouch this will be so difficult to watch him at carlton!! Of all the places he could have gone too!

ozrulestrace · Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:23pm

Noooooooo.
I can only accept this as long as he comes back in a couple of years time.

Richter · Post: # 661695Post **Richter** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:24pm

Good luck Harves, hope you prove to be as much of a legend as a coach as you were as a player......

GrumpyOne · Post: # 661696Post **GrumpyOne** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:25pm

Breaks my heart..... but for his personal development its a good thing.

Batnoe · Post: # 661697Post **Batnoe** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:26pm

he will be back eventually but i thought that with Spud and Loewe as well

i hope we win the flag next year, not to shove it up Rob for not sticking with us, just cause i blooody want one

SaintWodonga · Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:28pm

Not happy, I'll be changing my avatar soon..

mick13 · Post: # 661704Post **mick13** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:29pm

Crap, one of the best to ever play teaching Carlton's midfield...of Gibbs, Murphy, Judd...

Oh dear. Saints win a flag before these guys really get going...only a matter of time now with Harves on board.

degruch · Post: # 661706Post **degruch** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:29pm

Well...I know it's nasty...but I hope Harvs becomes their Tim Watson.

saintbrat · Post: # 661707Post **saintbrat** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:29pm

PS it's only part time ...........

http://footyheads.com.au/
VETERAN SAINT NOW A BLUE
Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 3:24 pmBY ANDREW LOWTHER

JUST weeks after he retired a St Kilda champion, Robert Harvey has begun his new football life by signing a contract that will see him in the navy blue next season.

Harvey, 37, will join Carlton as the Bluesâ€™ new development coach in 2009.

The appointment means the 383-game, two-time Brownlow medallist has snubbed St Kildaâ€™s offer of a full-time coaching role at their club.

The Saints, however, have been quick to wish Harvey well in his new role.

â€œIt is with a heavy heart but excitement and optimism for Robert that he becomes a development coach at Carlton from next season,â€

HarveysDeciple · Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:30pm

SaintWodonga wrote:Not happy, I'll be changing my avatar soon..

bit extreme.....
It's not as if is blasphemus for him to do it.

I dont mind. It's sad, but he can go off and better his credentials then come back, he will be a St.Kilda boy until the day he dies.

evertonfc · Post: # 661712Post **evertonfc** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:31pm

He's given this club so much, if he opted to become Satan's assistant for Hell FC, I'd have given him my blessing.

All the best Harves. Hopefully you can learn some tricks and grow into a tremendous off-field type...before coming back.

For all of you going to have a crack at him, don't forget, SOS is our defensive coach

howlinwolf · Post: # 661717Post **howlinwolf** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:32pm

While none of us can begrudge the great man a coaching job at another club it's still a bitter pill to swallow.
Of course he's gaining experience to come back home one day but it is difficult to see him in a Carlton shirt.

The same could be said for Carlton fans seeing Silvagni with us I assume.

saintsrus · Post: # 661719Post **saintsrus** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:34pm

Sad news but good luck to him, though im going to hate seeing him in their polo at the game

FortiusQuoFidelius · Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:35pm

mick13 wrote:Crap, one of the best to ever play teaching Carlton's midfield...of Gibbs, Murphy, Judd...

Oh dear. Saints win a flag before these guys really get going...only a matter of time now with Harves on board.

He's going there as DEVELOPMENT coach not midfield coach....

LennyBoy · Post: # 661722Post **LennyBoy** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:36pm

Hopefully this is a stepping stone and learning experience for the great man, and he is back at the club in the near future.

All the best in the new role Banger.

FortiusQuoFidelius · Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:41pm

This of you who reckon that our favourite son should not be going to Carlton just stop and think... We've had Carlton's favourite son at St Kilda for 2 years now!!

Good luck Rob, you've earned the right to do whatever you want to in footy - I hope you enjoy every success at Carlton - just not against us!

clarky449 · Post: # 661734Post **clarky449** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:46pm

All the best it will be hard to see him in navy blue shirts but i think its a good choice:(

degruch · Post: # 661735Post **degruch** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:46pm

FortiusQuoFidelius wrote:This of you who reckon that our favourite son should not be going to Carlton just stop and think... We've had Carlton's favourite son at St Kilda for 2 years now!!

Good luck Rob, you've earned the right to do whatever you want to in footy - I hope you enjoy every success at Carlton - just not against us!

Yeah, but Harvs is going in to the Blues matrix, SOS took the other pill and now fights for good. I'd have preferred he took a job at Collingwood!

clarky449 · Post: # 661745Post **clarky449** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:59pm

Ive just been looking at CSC

JeffDunne · Post: # 661747Post **JeffDunne** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 4:59pm

FortiusQuoFidelius wrote:This of you who reckon that our favourite son should not be going to Carlton just stop and think... We've had Carlton's favourite son at St Kilda for 2 years now!!

Favourite son who wasn't welcomed back at the club?

SOS screwed his club by taking under-the-table payments and then ratting on them.

Please don't compare him to Robert Harvey.

TheBabyBlues · Fri 10 Oct 2008 5:07pm

I know how highly reguarded Sir Robert is held around here (just look at the avatars) and i know how much you guys hate Carlton, so this must be a huge punch in the guts for ya.

Having said that, i think most people have handled it pretty well.

You wont find many Carlton people complaining about the appointment.

Word of advice: Do not turn your back on him. He will forever be known as perhaps the greatest Saints player ever to pull on a cross, so the fact that he has chosen to further his career at Carlton doesn't change that fact.

BTW, whenever you're done with SOS, we'll take him back.

bigcarl · Post: # 661754Post **bigcarl** » Fri 10 Oct 2008 5:11pm

good luck to him. won't hurt him to look outside of st kilda for a while if he wishes to further his football experience.

he'll bring honesty and incorruptability to carlton ... a foreign concept to them.