Chris Davies - PAFC General Manager of Football

[Enviable Tradition]

We've heard it all before worh Davies though and thus far he has stayed each time.

Given the way Geelong have been looked after with insiders at AFL house I wouldn't mind Davies getting a role there.

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[PowerLil]

Mentioned a couple of times on The Age's podcast that Davies may be out the door at the end of the year, with multiple teams chasing him as head of football, as well as the AFL itself for the vacant position as footy ops boss (Brad Scott's old role).

First domino.......

 

[ibd77]

First domino.......

Not the domino we want to lose. I hope we can pair him up with a more competent coaching panel.

 

[agmsy]

I hope we can pair him up with a more competent coaching panel.

I still think that Davies is a good operator and someone worth retaining, but, if we are looking at a new senior coach for 2024, I can imagine some candidates who might want to replace Davies with their own guy.

 

[PowerLil]

Not the domino we want to lose. I hope we can pair him up with a more competent coaching panel.

CD joined the end of 2014, taking over from Peter Rohde. From 2015, our psyche from a footy dept point of view changed, and not for the better. We need a clean out, starting with Hinkley and CD.

 

[portly]

If Koch and Ken and Richo go, we need someone who is sane and smart to stay.

Ken on the bench, dropping Lycett and Jonas, Josh Carr

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(I think) doing the in-game planning etc was surely organised and pushed through by CD! Who else?

I really don't want to lose Chris Davies, and cannot see why anyone would want to do so, particularly at this time of possible change

 

[TazD]

For all we know CD could be polishing Kens sandles every day or he could be submitting requests to Kochie every day to sack him.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

For all we know CD could be polishing Kens sandles every day or he could be submitting requests to Kochie every day to sack him.

Or he could just be sleeping under his desk when nobody is looking

 

[Brian McGee]

Problem with losing CD is that the best candidate to replace him will be right under our noses and we will end up with someone like lobbe as head of football.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Problem with losing CD is that the best candidate to replace him will be right under our noses and we will end up with someone like lobbe as head of football.

Worse case scenario: Jordy sits in the office next to Davies.

 

[El Zorro]

Problem with losing CD is that the best candidate to replace him will be right under our noses and we will end up with someone like lobbe as head of football.

Even worse: Ken Hinkley as GM football operations

 

[PowerBaz]

I still think that Davies is a good operator and someone worth retaining, but, if we are looking at a new senior coach for 2024, I can imagine some candidates who might want to replace Davies with their own guy.

Maybe the changes will come as it's been quite a while for all of them.

 

[FishingRick04]

Maybe former Port player David Hutton?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I still think that Davies is a good operator and someone worth retaining, but, if we are looking at a new senior coach for 2024, I can imagine some candidates who might want to replace Davies with their own guy.

Coaches don't get to replace GM Footy operations with their own guys. That position is the link between the board and ceo to the footy department.

Coaches bring in their own assistant coaches and fitness / medical staff not administration staff.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

CD either goes at the end of the year, or hangs around to try and take over from Richo.

He effectively is Richo's 2IC, no-one has officially been appointed to the role, and he was CEO of Woodville West Torrens for 3 or 4 years before he went to the SANFL as their Footy Operations Manager for a couple of years, then joined us in August 2014 to learn from Rohde until he officially finished up in December 2014.

 

[agmsy]

Coaches don't get to replace GM Footy operations with their own guys.

Generally, but I think, for example, Clarkson was pretty clear about wanting Todd Viney at North.

Other clubs do it differently, too. As far as I can tell, we have two links between our football department and the board. One goes directly from Koch's rectum to Hinkley's mouth, and the other goes directly from Hinkley's rectum back to Koch's mouth. It's a very stable arrangement.

 

[tribey]

He effectively is Richo's 2IC

From my understanding, it’s the other way round.

It’s Davies’ world, and everyone else is living in it.

 

[VineValerian]

Maybe former Port player David Hutton?

Richo has Hutts running around like a whirling dervish every day.

If work ethic counts for anything, David should be Chairman of the Board!!

 

[portly]

From my understanding, it’s the other way round.

It’s Davies’ world, and everyone else is living in it.

Hope so.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Generally, but I think, for example, Clarkson was pretty clear about wanting Todd Viney at North.

Other clubs do it differently, too. As far as I can tell, we have two links between our football department and the board. One goes directly from Koch's rectum to Hinkley's mouth, and the other goes directly from Hinkley's rectum back to Koch's mouth. It's a very stable arrangement.

The exception that proves the rule.

How many 4 times premiership coaches move to a club that is a basket case with its footy department admin team in disarray, and played 100+ games for the club and is going back to save them???

 

[Ford Fairlane]

The exception that proves the rule.

How many 4 times premiership coaches move to a club that is a basket case with its footy department admin team in disarray, and played 100+ games for the club and is going back to save them???

 

[El_Scorcho]

Davies presents well and i've only heard good things about him as an operator but you can't have spent the last 8 years at this club and not be a co-conspirator. He's been a key decision maker for the entire nightmare. I acknowledge that Koch is the overarching problem, but Davies needed to do some managing up to ensure that Koch's loser attitude wasn't able to permeate the entire club.

He hasn't done or said anything that suggests to me that he's been the lone bastion preventing the club from falling into disarray. I think he's as responsible as any of them.

 

[agmsy]

The exception that proves the rule.

How many 4 times premiership coaches move to a club that is a basket case with its footy department admin team in disarray, and played 100+ games for the club and is going back to save them???

Regarding the point I made dismissively doesn't negate it. A coach brought with him a footy department boss in the offseason just gone. It has happened, and it could happen again.

There's no conceivable universe in which we roll out the red carpet for Clarkson at the end of this year, but I don't think he's the only person who could do it.

Suppose Damien Hardwick was available, and there was significant mutual interest between him and us, and he made it clear that footy dept boss <x> was a non-negotiable. Do you really think our board (our Chairman in particular) would hold firm? Or do you think Koch would say "Yes, sir. Sorry, sir. Right away, Mr. Hardwick, sir."

My money would be on the latter.

 

[bomberclifford]

Regarding the point I made dismissively doesn't negate it. A coach brought with him a footy department boss in the offseason just gone. It has happened, and it could happen again.

There's no conceivable universe in which we roll out the red carpet for Clarkson at the end of this year, but I don't think he's the only person who could do it.

Suppose Damien Hardwick was available, and there was significant mutual interest between him and us, and he made it clear that footy dept boss <x> was a non-negotiable. Do you really think our board (our Chairman in particular) would hold firm? Or do you think Koch would say "Yes, sir. Sorry, sir. Right away, Mr. Hardwick, sir."

My money would be on the latter.

My money would be on Koch not even considering Hardwick in the first place.

 

[Jonts]

Maybe former Port player David Hutton?

He is stakeholder manager currently

He is the exact type of "we found our man at the club" id want to avoid
If Carr is believed to be the next head coach
Head of footy ops needs to be from outside the club imo