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PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
All this banter about the coach and potential coaches got me thinking. Painful as it is. What makes a good coach.
One thing is certain you don't necessarily have to have been a great player to be a good coach, and in a lot of cases I think that sometimes its the opposite. The classic example of this is a Tiger Legend in Tommy Hafey. Never a great player, infact just a player, but a great coach.
You look at guys like Mathews, Malthouse, Sheedy and you see hard. uncomprosing men with never say die attitudes. Most of these guys were not blessed with natural ability but were hard workers who had one thing you can't teach and that is footy smarts. Even to a leeser extent, and I know its early days, but Matthew knights was one not blessed with a huge amount of natural talent, but he was a thinker and definitely had the footy smarts. These guys all worked hard for what they got and took nothing for granted.
There a probably other examples out there, but there certainly are many good players who haven't made it as coaches, such as Tim Watson and a few others. Good players but not the smartest cookies in the pack.
That is one reason I think Guy McKenna would make an excellent coach, played in a great team during an era of greatness, not blessed with natural ability, but hard, tough and uncompormising. The fact that he has lasted this long under Malthouse says he must be doing something right, as Mick is not a man to tolerate fools.
I think Plough once fitted this category, but Brownies revelation that Terry is no long the fire breathing monster he once was at the dogs really gets me wondering if the fire is still burning in the belly or is this just a pay packet and a means of security for the future. As much as I hate to say it, as I was a big Wallace fan in his days at the dogs, I am starting to worry.
One thing is certain you don't necessarily have to have been a great player to be a good coach, and in a lot of cases I think that sometimes its the opposite. The classic example of this is a Tiger Legend in Tommy Hafey. Never a great player, infact just a player, but a great coach.
You look at guys like Mathews, Malthouse, Sheedy and you see hard. uncomprosing men with never say die attitudes. Most of these guys were not blessed with natural ability but were hard workers who had one thing you can't teach and that is footy smarts. Even to a leeser extent, and I know its early days, but Matthew knights was one not blessed with a huge amount of natural talent, but he was a thinker and definitely had the footy smarts. These guys all worked hard for what they got and took nothing for granted.
There a probably other examples out there, but there certainly are many good players who haven't made it as coaches, such as Tim Watson and a few others. Good players but not the smartest cookies in the pack.
That is one reason I think Guy McKenna would make an excellent coach, played in a great team during an era of greatness, not blessed with natural ability, but hard, tough and uncompormising. The fact that he has lasted this long under Malthouse says he must be doing something right, as Mick is not a man to tolerate fools.
I think Plough once fitted this category, but Brownies revelation that Terry is no long the fire breathing monster he once was at the dogs really gets me wondering if the fire is still burning in the belly or is this just a pay packet and a means of security for the future. As much as I hate to say it, as I was a big Wallace fan in his days at the dogs, I am starting to worry.