Spargo wrote:More jobs for the boys at West Lakes. Is anyone really surprised?
Odd comment. Not sure many appointments at Adelaide lately would fit that bill. Last 2 senior coaches, a lot of assistant and support staff had their histories outside the Crows.
Trolling mate when his club is on tilt
Names that came to mind immediately that seem to be "in house" appointments were Burton, Noble, Smart, Bode, Van berlo. Anyways, you say we're on the tilt, how and where will the Crows improve in 2017? The main problem in the last 2 years finals beltings hasn't been addressed (again) and I don't need to bring up the trade table farce. You had the greatest run with injuries since day dot in 2016, that won't happen again either. Another year of making up the numbers?
Question or trolling? Why wouldn't you appoint good qualified people already in your club to compliment external people? Most clubs have a number of ex players in assistant or development roles. The obvious improvement will come from the 10 - 50 game, under 25 year old players who are still developing. Crouch x2, McGovern, Milera, Lever, Atkins, Cameron come to mind straight away and then young players we didn't see last year like Hampton, Knight, Wigg, Dodee all looking to press there case for a game.
Still plenty of up side IMO to come from within even though we haven't recruited during the off season.
Booney wrote:In a collision / impact injury sport, Adelaide can put a fair bit of last years injury run down to sheer luck, but, Burton also showed he's been able to keep the blokes on the park so cudos to him and his team there.
Interesting though, High Performance Manager to Football Chief, big promotion.
Boys club! Isn't he good mates with Ricciuto?
Everyone mocked him when he was appointed high performance manager last season and that proved to have been a great appointment. Burton is rated very highly within the football industry with his high performance and football knowledge. Noble was a bit of a no one or 'just a recruiter' when he was made Head of football and look at his reputation now.
I'll back Fages and Roo in with there decision. They haven't done much wrong since taking charge.
You appoint the best person for the job whether that's internal or externally. If Burton was the best candidate then good on him. Just seems like a very quick rise to the top in a short time.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
MW wrote:Wouldn't expect you to understand how proper clubs operate
*cough* Trigg *cough* second longest GF drought *cough* AFC, not only the team for all South Australians (it should be our right to wear the State of Origin Guernsey also), but we're also a "proper club". Talk about delusions of grandeur.
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