by best on hill » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:00 pm
silicone skyline wrote:best on hill wrote:silicone skyline wrote:From what I've heard, there's been a bit of a rift through the club since the appointment of rival club Roopena life member Harry Marks to coach in 2008.
It divided them quite a bit, the Bays are a club who have had internal coaches for quite a while with limited success and were in need of fresh blood.
what are you on about here SS? russel sawford was not a bay boy he played in a premiership at souths before moving to adelaide and then retured to whyalla and coached weeroona bay!!!!
I would consider Sawford a Weeroona Bay legend over South or West. That's why he's named on the ball in their Choice of Champions team BOH.
The Sawford family is deeply associated with the Tigers. More so than any other club. Explain why his son Ben plays at the Bays also?
Sawford also won 2 mail medals while playing for the Bays so I think it's more than legitimate to say Sawford was very much a Weeroona Bay player than a South player.
Sawford coached them for years before the likes of Peter(?) Mills and Troy Taylor took over. All of them from the Bays ranks.
Marks (life member of Roopena) would be the first coach without a family or playing link at the Bays in a decade.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that would be the case.
You're right, he didn't BEGIN his senior career with the Bays, but s***t he sure played a lot of it with the Tigers.
all that being said he wasnt a tiger before he coached at the bays so he was not an internal coach he came from the out side of the wbfc!!
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