Coaches unlikely to survive past this year?

[WilliamPowell]

My mail is this.
Voss and Brisbane to part company at end of year.
Fev wants out and wants to come back to Melbourne, watch this space

I think your mail needs to be returned to sender

[jackstar is back again]

can tell you this is on the money.

[mightytiges]

can tell you this is on the money.

Would be huge news if Voss as a favourite son is sacked. He really stuffed up topping up with recycled fringe players from other clubs.

If the Fev rumour is true then he's publicly telling fibs.

[one-eyed]

LIONS spearhead Brendan Fevola has dismissed rumours he is homesick and wants to leave Brisbane.

Fevola's wife Alex and their three children moved back to Melbourne more than two months ago, but the dual Coleman medallist said speculation he wanted to return to Victoria was off the mark.

"My mum rang me today and said on 3AW there was a rumour that I was homesick and I want to go home. It was the first I'd heard of it," Fevola said yesterday.

"She was saying, 'Why do you want to come home?' I said, 'I don't want to come home, Mum. I'm staying in Brisbane'."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/brendan-fevola-kos-homesick-talk/story-e6frf9jf-1225891394372

[jackstar is back again]

Fev told Alex on Monday he wants to come back to Melb

[Rodgerramjet]

1. Knights will not see out his term at Essendon, the reason being is that he is not good enough as a coach, he will not revert this side.
2. Knights will be very very lucky to still be at the club at seasons end, in fact he will only still be there if Essendon haven't come up with a viable alternative solution, they have recognized the errors of there ways.
3. There is a very good chance that Knights will not last to the end of the season.

Certainty = Knights Is Doomed

[tiger101]

i think knights will last the season but his got big question marks over his head. once you lose the supports confidence and the media start asking for your head then your in trouble only way to prove them wrong and show your the right person for the job is good performances on the field and sadly the results arent coming for knights

[mightytiges]

Knighter is paying for what he and the Essendon board promised when he got the job. He said they didn't need to strip back the list and rebuild and the Bombers' board put a timetable of top 4 in 2010. It was the stuff of delusions. Knighter also promised to install an attacking gameplan in his first year which he did and then install more defensive aspects into the gameplan during his second year. Well he's into his third year as coach and they are still as defensively fragile as ever. Bomber fans are mainly turning on Knighter because the gameplan is flawed. Having recently-retired fan-favourites in Lloyd, Lucas and even Hird be publicly critical of the gameplan means the whole supporter base is now turning on Knighter. Their midfield is also one of if not the worst in the AFL. Whereas Carlton, Melbourne and us got hold of Murphy, Gibbs, Scully, Trengove, Cotch and Martin, Essendon missed out because they deludedly believed they were a top side and Knighter didn't use his initial honeymoon period to strip the list back.

Speaking of coaches in trouble it's getting worse for Voss. The topping-up strategy has failed and they're going to have another bad loss today even with Brown and Fev playing. The pressure is mounting up north.

[mightytiges]

Mark Williams seen at Windy Hill. Hmmm looks like they are getting set up to ditch Knighter if not this year but next if the Bombers continue to flop.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/100160/default.aspx

[mightytiges]

The Bombers may be calling Mark Williams back as soon as tomorrow after tonight lol. Knighter is in a "Robert Walls at Richmond" position. An unpopular coach with supporters and with his side getting flogged by 100 points after being flogged the week before plus other pumpings this year. We've already had the public "prez supports the coach" line during the week which usually means a sacking isn't too far away.

[Francois Jackson]

wont happen this yeah but book mark it for end of season.

Choco will coach the Bombers. Their fans want it and it will happen.

Can someone confirm its 2 years they have to pay out. Thats massive!!
We talk about wasting money for Mclovin and Mcguane thats at least $700k down the drain for them.

[mightytiges]

wont happen this yeah but book mark it for end of season.

Choco will coach the Bombers. Their fans want it and it will happen.

Can someone confirm its 2 years they have to pay out. Thats massive!!
We talk about wasting money for Mclovin and Mcguane thats at least $700k down the drain for them.

Yep they extended Knighter's contract by 2 years at the end of last year on the back of finals when he still had a year to run. So yeah daniel Knighter is contracted until the end of 2012.

Chocco was talking to Sheeds today so the Bombers may miss out to GWS. There's always been talk of Sheeds just hanging around to get GWS started and into their first season before handing the reigns over to his younger chief assistant coach (Williams?).

[one-eyed]

This will make the powers that be think at Essendon....


"There's something in me, deep in my heart, that says at some point I want to coach Essendon," Hird told the Herald Sun.

"If I'm not good enough or fail, so be it. But I am also a supporter of Matthew Knights."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/james-hird-torn-over-essendon/story-e6frf9jf-1225906547007

[one-eyed]

3aw rumour just now is Essendon Chairman Evans and Hird have already met to discuss about Hird becoming senior coach but it won't be next year.

[tiger101]

no surprise he said "I am also a supporter of Matthew Knights."
he doesnt wanna look like a bad guy getting a coach sacked cause he wants to coach.