Sheedy to coach West Sydney

[one-eyed]

3-year multi-million dollar deal

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/kevin-sheedy-swoops-on-sydney/story-e6frf9jf-1225795572148

[WA Tiger]

Sorry but Sheedy would have been out of it for too long IMO to give WS the chance of much impact when the time arrives...IMO

[torch]

what was Sheedy at Richmond for?

and isn't he still contracted at the club?

he will be 64 turning 65 in 2012?

hmmmmm, the AFL must have A LOT of faith in Mr Sheedy!

 

[mightytiges]

He's going there more to give the new club credibility and a well-known face for the Sydney media and public rather than win premierships so if he's past it it doesn't matter. Just as Barassi did with the Swans. With two years of stacks of early picks and an unlimited supply of cash to make it work, the list building will take care of itself. The Bombers will probably be nervous though now about being raided.

what was Sheedy at Richmond for?

and isn't he still contracted at the club?

He was helping out with membership/marketing but is no longer doing it (left once we turned him down for the senior coaching gig and told him we were going for a younger coach IIRC).

[Penelope]

Sheedy pulled out when he became aware of comments made by March (on the footy show earlier in the year i think) along the lines that Sheedy would not be coaching Richmond.
"At no stage would I really want to be coaching while Gary March is president. I didn't realise he had said on The Footy Show that I would not coach while he is there.

"I feel awkward that I've embarrassed myself and the club. I had not known that was said. I'm putting my hand down so I don't cause a revolution. I actually thought I'd be a revelation."

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25767480-5016212,00.html?from=public_rss

I'd say it's made their working relationship untenable and that's why he left. Another case of someone opening their trap in their desire for the limelight and it coming back to bite them.

More to the point, probably, if that was his attitude, he should have told Sheedy that face to face before sheedy even got to stage he did in the whole episode. Very poorly handled by the President. I wonder if the members will remember that when he is up for re-election?

[Francois Jackson]

what was Sheedy at Richmond for?

and isn't he still contracted at the club?

he will be 64 turning 65 in 2012?

hmmmmm, the AFL must have A LOT of faith in Mr Sheedy!

 

got nothing to do with faith its all about the brand that is AFL.

The league know there is only one man who can make this work in that region and thats KS.

Good get IMO, actually great get

[Smokey]

I'd say it's made their working relationship untenable and that's why he left. Another case of someone opening their trap in their desire for the limelight and it coming back to bite them.

More to the point, probably, if that was his attitude, he should have told Sheedy that face to face before sheedy even got to stage he did in the whole episode. Very poorly handled by the President. I wonder if the members will remember that when he is up for re-election?

In fairness to March, this whole episode was badly misquoted by the media and the topic was debated to death at the time on here.  It wasn't nearly as simple or cut and dried as K. Sheedy esq made out and March was unfairly treated in the media's reporting.  If you run a couple of searches on here and read back through the posts you will see what I mean.  I'm not necessarily a March fan or apologist but he copped a very unfair whack with this one because Sheedy is a darling of the AFL and media.

[Fishfinger]

I wonder if the members will remember that when he is up for re-election?

He has stated more than once that he will step down from the board and will not nominate for re-election at the end of next year.
If so, it will neither matter what the members will remember nor what they choose to remember.

[the_boy_jake]

Sheedy pulled out when he became aware of comments made by March (on the footy show earlier in the year i think) along the lines that Sheedy would not be coaching Richmond.
"At no stage would I really want to be coaching while Gary March is president. I didn't realise he had said on The Footy Show that I would not coach while he is there.

By this point I think it had become clear that KB's push for Sheeds had lost momentum and that he would only be considered through the process. Caro had called it that way. I think Sheeds overreacted to these comments, made no effort to clarfiy with March what he meant and was basically grateful to be able to save a bit of face on not securing the Richmond job without going through a tough selection process.

[one-eyed]

The Daily Telegraph has a pic of Sheeds with a Tigers' scarf on their mainpage with the headline "It's War"  ???



http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/kevin-sheedy-officially-appointed-coach-of-western-sydney-afl-team/story-e6frexnr-1225795726173

[Stripes]

They are scared! Very funny to read league supporters comment's about how much they don't care yet go out of their way to spend the time posting this up. 

i left a post just to stir the pot a bit further. 

Stripes

[Penelope]

I'd say it's made their working relationship untenable and that's why he left. Another case of someone opening their trap in their desire for the limelight and it coming back to bite them.

More to the point, probably, if that was his attitude, he should have told Sheedy that face to face before sheedy even got to stage he did in the whole episode. Very poorly handled by the President. I wonder if the members will remember that when he is up for re-election?

In fairness to March, this whole episode was badly misquoted by the media and the topic was debated to death at the time on here.  It wasn't nearly as simple or cut and dried as K. Sheedy esq made out and March was unfairly treated in the media's reporting.  If you run a couple of searches on here and read back through the posts you will see what I mean.  I'm not necessarily a March fan or apologist but he copped a very unfair whack with this one because Sheedy is a darling of the AFL and media.

I see what you mean smokey, some interesting discussion.. and yeah reading between the lines of some of what came out there is probably more to it than that one article. I suppose that what happens when your only local newspaper, although syndicated, does not publish all relevant stories and often only half of the articles when they do. I think ill let sleeping dogs lie.

I wonder if the members will remember that when he is up for re-election?

He has stated more than once that he will step down from the board and will not nominate for re-election at the end of next year.
If so, it will neither matter what the members will remember nor what they choose to remember.

I am no longer wondering

An interesting thing i dredged up from those old discussions

"Not at Richmond. I think ideally for one of the Western Sydney and Gold Coast (teams)," Lloyd said when asked whether Sheedy was still capable of senior coaching next year.

I wonder if Lloyd had any money on that.

[mightytiges]

They are scared! Very funny to read league supporters comment's about how much they don't care yet go out of their way to spend the time posting this up. 

i left a post just to stir the pot a bit further. 

As KL?

Their many  "who cares" comments are irrelevant anyway. All footy codes targetting the growing population of Western Sydney is more about attracting new migrants who have no allegiance to a particular code rather than converting hardcore NRL fans. The AFL will need to pour $$$ into GWS for decades to make it work and it'll mostly likely only be a niche market even if it does work.

[one-eyed]

Francis Leech on SEN asked if Richmond will end up with egg on their face over this  . Thankfully Schwarz replied no as Sheeds wasn't the right fit for Richmond.

[WilliamPowell]

Francis Leech on SEN asked if Richmond will end up with egg on their face over this  . Thankfully Schwarz replied no as Sheeds wasn't the right fit for Richmond.

Not in a million years will Richmond end up with egg on their faces over this appointment

What this proves though is what most of us always knew and that was Sheeds wanted a coaching gig after he left Essendon. He tried Melb, he tried us... now he's found someone who wants him (The AFL)