What's Shaw's great credentials, Blaisee?
Age 53.
Played 51 games between 1974 and 1981 for the Essendon.
Senior coach of Fitzroy 1991-94 (record: 28-58 = 32%)
Senior coach of Adelaide 1995-96. (record: 17-27 = 38%. Crows won back-to-back flags after he left).
Assistant coach at Essendon 1999-2005. (2000 flag under Sheedy)
General Manager of Football Operations at the Fremantle 2006-07.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shaw_(footballer)
Given how Essendon and Freo's lists topped up, aged and fell away dreadfully in those periods it won't give anyone much confidence if Shaw got the job of overseeing our whole footy dept
. Nor is he contemporary. He's of Greg Miller's generation.
I'm hoping Corcoran and Pelchen are still in it.