Go Legs wrote:8)
From what I have been told at Information nights the process of selection will be upheld to the letter.
1. All applications go through MacArthur Sports
2. Best 5 will be submitted to Special committee
3. Best 3 from that interview process will be given a chance to present a plan to the committee
4. Best 2 will asked re-present to the board
5. Final decison will be made by the select committee at the end of October.
6. New coach will be appointed by 1st November, in a full time coaching appointment.
Any talk of anyone being a lay down for the job is rediculous, the best man available, will win this gig
Cheers
All very well to have due process but by 1st November the best coach numbers 1 & 2 in the market may well have been taken by Eagles and Port hence the move by them to signal before season's end that their coaching positions are vacant. This a an open market place ("1st in best dressed") and due process may be at the expense of best available. This is what has happened to Richmond - they have procrastinated and North Melbourne gazumped them.
For example, what if Ron Fuller contacted Norwood and said he wanted to coach them but he needed an answer now because Port had approached him and offered him their job but he was more interested in the Norwood job - would they tell him that he had to wait until 1st November? I think not.