Coaches unlikely to survive past this year?

[Ramps]

Knights came out today - I have a contract speech ... looks like the writing is on the wall. Maybe we can off load a player to Essendon for a 1st round pick if Knights survives. Common Knighta ... your gonna get shafted in 12 months anyway so stuff em.

[Penelope]

 

[one-eyed]

Essendon Board meeting tonight. Media on the prowl at Windy Hill.

[jackstar is back again]

Drove past windy hill at 5.15.
Seen Hutchy standing alone outside the front. No other media there, he is on to something this fat slime bag

[WilliamPowell]

Only problem for the Bombers if they sack Knights is that Jimmy Hird probably wouldn't take the job because he wouldn't want to be assocatied with that sort of assassination thing

It seems the Bombers are becoming a bit like the OLD Richmond when it comes to coaches  Jumping at shadows and being dictated to by the media and influential supporters 

[one-eyed]

Well according to Hutchy......

Rumour going around that Hird signed a in principle agreement to coach next year but is backing out given the furore over Knights and him not wanting to be seen as knifing Knights. Essendon denied the rumour. Hutchy saying now Hird has moved away altogether and won't be coaching Essendon in 2011.

Bombers had a Board meeting which they claim is a regular meeting each month with Knights and they claimed his position wasn't even discussed (we've heard all that before in footy). Knights is still coach although both he and Evans refused to say anything to the waiting media scrum and just hopped into their respective cars.

Hutchy claiming Knighter won't survive past the next 2-3 weeks but Hird won't be replacing him. Fun times at Windy Hill  .

[one-eyed]

JAMES Hird says he won't coach in the AFL for at least the next three years and doubts he might ever make the move.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/i-wont-coach-for-now-james-hird/story-e6frf9jf-1225907502351

[mightytiges]

Only problem for the Bombers if they sack Knights is that Jimmy Hird probably wouldn't take the job because he wouldn't want to be assocatied with that sort of assassination thing

It seems the Bombers are becoming a bit like the OLD Richmond when it comes to coaches  Jumping at shadows and being dictated to by the media and influential supporters 

It is very Richmond 80s/90s like isn't it. The Bombers are a shambles both on and off field and Hird has seen the light and decided to stay far away .

[tiger101]

bombers got pumped today again besides for in the last qtr when the game was already over.
knights will go the fans have got to blame someone for thinking there list is way better than what there performing.

[the_boy_jake]

Knights has given it up already in his mind I reckon. Body language today said a lot.

[Chuck17]

But don't forget he has a contract

[cub]

Poor Knighta, gotta keep reminding myself he is one of our favourite sons. BUT! When you don't even remember which way to hold a phone, your in deep 

[jackstar is back again]

Rodney Eade, = Gone
Any furthermore, Pavlich to the Gold Coast

[tiger101]

big call on rodney eade.
i dont think another coach would do any better.

[mightytiges]

Eade going is a big call given they'll finish top 4 again but the media are starting to judge him as a coach who can get sides close to the top but never across the line to ultimate success. Aker isn't helping lobbing his little handgrenades the way of the kennel and airing their dirty laundry.

Knighter has to be gawn! There's all the signs of a dead man walking coach - flogged at home by a bottom interstate side like Brisbane, fans leaning over the race giving it left, right and centre to the coach and players at half-time, and a coach who looks lost for ideas and a bit rattled by it all. I feel sorry for Knighter as this was always going to end in tears given the list he inherited but I must admit it was funny when Knighter was caught on camera in the coaches' box yesterday talking into the phone upside down  . We all remember Spud in a similar situation with the water bottles  .