Your Opinion - Worst AFL coach ever

[Magpiespower]

Woodville turned the tables with a six point win at home in round 18.

Quote Kym Dillon in the last quarter of the TV coverage - "You'd pay a hundred dollars to watch football like this". Fast, tough tackling, skilful - a fantastic game of football.

With the exception of perhaps the '87 first-semi, I've never left a game so peed off! Guess you take losses more to heart when you're younger.

But a win over Port was so rare for Woodville, Warrior fans were entitled to celebrate it like a premiership. Reakon I saw at least three of them!

Kym bloody Dillon. Sat behind us at the '84 grand final. Must've been rehearsing for his commentary gig. Eventually my old man snapped.

"If you say champagne football one more time..."

[FlyingHigh]

An AFL thread being hijacked by SANFL history

Round 8 or 9 in 1987 would have made in 3 in a row MP
Can't recall the scores from the return meeting that year

[brod]

Surprised Peter Knights hasnt got a mention

Guess at the Bears (as first coach) he was on a hiding to nothing with that squad
Hawks first season in 1994 finals..second and LAST season 2nd last

[spell_check]

Don Scott. 0-6. Oh, hang on, this is the SANFL history board, right?

[rockstar]

Neil craig is rubbish, if SA wasnt so anti-port and pro adel, he wouldve got the sack a long time ago and we would all be sayin he is a massive choker!!! He has dont nothing with the squad, crows have seldom traded in his reign as coach and he makes excuses even when he wins "oh we won by 20 goal but plenty of work to do" or "yeah we lost by 10 goals but we are re-building and sorting out our lineup and match ups and building to the future"

[Turbo]

In 5 years time we could be adding hird or buckley to this list. Buckley has an advantage of taking over a premier side, we will see how he goes. Hird is taking over a team pushing the other way looking at wooden trophies

[sapaul]

Neil craig is rubbish, if SA wasnt so anti-port and pro adel, he wouldve got the sack a long time ago and we would all be sayin he is a massive choker!!! He has dont nothing with the squad, crows have seldom traded in his reign as coach and he makes excuses even when he wins "oh we won by 20 goal but plenty of work to do" or "yeah we lost by 10 goals but we are re-building and sorting out our lineup and match ups and building to the future"

Second best winning % of all coaches in the AFL.

[The Dark Knight]

Neil craig is rubbish, if SA wasnt so anti-port and pro adel, he wouldve got the sack a long time ago and we would all be sayin he is a massive choker!!! He has dont nothing with the squad, crows have seldom traded in his reign as coach and he makes excuses even when he wins "oh we won by 20 goal but plenty of work to do" or "yeah we lost by 10 goals but we are re-building and sorting out our lineup and match ups and building to the future"

They did ok this year in regeards to trade week. I was quite shocked to read that they only have two draft picks in this years national draft, 14 and 61.

[GWW]

^ Thats also because they upgraded 3 rookies.

[Booney]

Neil craig is rubbish, if SA wasnt so anti-port and pro adel, he wouldve got the sack a long time ago and we would all be sayin he is a massive choker!!! He has dont nothing with the squad, crows have seldom traded in his reign as coach and he makes excuses even when he wins "oh we won by 20 goal but plenty of work to do" or "yeah we lost by 10 goals but we are re-building and sorting out our lineup and match ups and building to the future"

Second best winning % of all coaches in the AFL.

Throw in finals if you like.

[lebron]

Neil craig is rubbish, if SA wasnt so anti-port and pro adel, he wouldve got the sack a long time ago and we would all be sayin he is a massive choker!!! He has dont nothing with the squad, crows have seldom traded in his reign as coach and he makes excuses even when he wins "oh we won by 20 goal but plenty of work to do" or "yeah we lost by 10 goals but we are re-building and sorting out our lineup and match ups and building to the future"

Second best winning % of all coaches in the AFL.

Throw in finals if you like.

I agree totally, I hate the pro-Crows media domination. Craig is a choker and does not have a coaching move in his brain! Tactics mid-week only get you so far. I would like to see Craig's statistics win/loss percentage in relation to games decided by under two goals, that is what seperates a coach from a very good coach! AKA Leigh Matthews and Paul Roos!

[cripple]

Neil craig is rubbish, if SA wasnt so anti-port and pro adel, he wouldve got the sack a long time ago and we would all be sayin he is a massive choker!!! He has dont nothing with the squad, crows have seldom traded in his reign as coach and he makes excuses even when he wins "oh we won by 20 goal but plenty of work to do" or "yeah we lost by 10 goals but we are re-building and sorting out our lineup and match ups and building to the future"

Second best winning % of all coaches in the AFL.

Throw in finals if you like.

I agree totally, I hate the pro-Crows media domination. Craig is a choker and does not have a coaching move in his brain! Tactics mid-week only get you so far. I would like to see Craig's statistics win/loss percentage in relation to games decided by under two goals, that is what seperates a coach from a very good coach! AKA Leigh Matthews and Paul Roos!

To call Neil Craig the worst coach is one thing, but to blame it on the media and some sort of favouritism he receives really holds no credibility IMO.
When will supporters of the 14 non-adelaide teams in the AFL stop whinging and moaning about the favouritism and biased reporting the crows and power get. In case you haven't realised these two teams dominate their respective media outlets market and for those media outlets to make money, they need to provide the info that the majority of the audience cares about.
Now if you don't like that, by the herald sun or inside football to get your more balanced viewpoint or watch foxsports news instead of the local broadcasters and stop acting as if it is some big conspiracy theory.

[sapaul]

I agree totally, I hate the pro-Crows media domination.

What has that got to do with Craig's coaching?

Craig is a choker and does not have a coaching move in his brain! Tactics mid-week only get you so far.

And the Western Bulldogs finals record is wonderful

[Rik E Boy]

Neil craig is rubbish, if SA wasnt so anti-port and pro adel, he wouldve got the sack a long time ago and we would all be sayin he is a massive choker!!! He has dont nothing with the squad, crows have seldom traded in his reign as coach and he makes excuses even when he wins "oh we won by 20 goal but plenty of work to do" or "yeah we lost by 10 goals but we are re-building and sorting out our lineup and match ups and building to the future"

Second best winning % of all coaches in the AFL.

Craig I believe should not be mentioned in this thread but a high winning percentage without being able to bring home the bacon is hardly a selling point.

regards,

REB

[Media Park]

Ben Allan (Freo)
David Parkin (Carl)

[sapaul]

Craig I believe should not be mentioned in this thread but a high winning percentage without being able to bring home the bacon is hardly a selling point.

Yet. Only been coaching AFL for 6 years. Took Malthouse 9 years before winning a flag as a coach. Took Thompson 8 years.

[Media Park]

Craig I believe should not be mentioned in this thread but a high winning percentage without being able to bring home the bacon is hardly a selling point.

Yet. Only been coaching AFL for 6 years. Took Malthouse 9 years before winning a flag as a coach. Took Thompson 8 years.

Only thing is that Craig's side isn't getting any better, in fact it will be worse than last year, and there is no conceivable premiership window opening anytime soon.

[sapaul]

Only thing is that Craig's side isn't getting any better, in fact it will be worse than last year, and there is no conceivable premiership window opening anytime soon.

Geelong 04 & 05 - 06 and then to 07.

[Interceptor]

David Parkin (Carl)

Haha, you can't be serious.
4-time premiership coach (1st one with Hawthorn).
Named coach in Carlton's team of the century.

[The Dark Knight]

When will supporters of the 14 non-adelaide teams in the AFL stop whinging and moaning about the favouritism and biased reporting the crows and power get.

Port don't get nearly as much media coverage here as the Crows do.

During the football season there is always more articles in the Advertiser/Sunday mail about the Crows than the Power, most are written by guys such as Chris McDermott who is the most one-eyed journalist in the whole country. When I go to watch the sports news on channel 7, 9 and 10 the first article is always about the Crows and it's always the longest article for the entire sports news, unless there's a big AFL story brewing eg. Ben Cousins.

To say that the Crows and Power have equal coverage is incorrect. The AFC have more money and a bigger supportor base than the PAFC, so it always has more coverage because more people want to know about the Crows than the Power.