Did Hawthorn fans have concerns about Mitchell taking over from Clarkson?
Coach Josh Carr - Midfield Coach and 2026 Senior Coach
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The more this goes on, the more i am concerned about Josh being setup to fail as senior coach. Our midfield has been seriously underperforming under Josh and he is the midfield coach. We always setup attacking and even when Sweet hits to advantage our mids get pushed off the ball. If Josh has any chance to succeed we will need to recruit a few proven forward line and defense coaches along with Choco as senior assistant. I would also try to pry Burgess back from Adelaide and send the boys to Dubai this preseason, those group trips give the team a psychological boost.
Chad Cornes, Tyson Goldsack, Hamish Hartlett, Matthew Lobbe, Trent Henschell all need to go. We new coaches to bring different strengths from other clubs
Chad Cornes, Tyson Goldsack, Hamish Hartlett, Matthew Lobbe, Trent Henschell all need to go. We new coaches to bring different strengths from other clubs
Good chat with Jacob Surjan this morning on SEN. I definitely think he'll be part of Josh's team.
Hawthorn didn’t do an exhaustive search and it’s working alright for them
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****in sick. More guys who have no AFL experience outside of Port. Can't possibly lose.
Surj was a development coach with us prior to taking the North job.
Hope not. Have heard horrible things about him from people at North.
If they did, they don't now.
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What kind of things?
I have no problem with getting some good parts of the band back but Surjan wasn't one of them.
I'm a bit lukewarm on Surj.
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And Schoey?
And?
I was responding to your comment regarding no AFL experience. He has had some exposure to the AFL system coaching wise albeit in a developmental role.
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Hes friends with Carr and Tredrea therefore he will be a great addition to our coaching panel. Thats as deep as it goes.
Yeah, I'd give that a goey.
I'm okay with Surj, won the SANFL premiership as an assistant to Carr.
Would absolutely love Schoey back. Probably the single biggest reason for our 2020 run.
That said, I do want ideas from outside Port too. People that come from clubs that have been successful in the last 20 years.
That said, I do want ideas from outside Port too. People that come from clubs that have been successful in the last 20 years.
You'll take Brad Ebert and be grateful.
Hawthorn brought in Sam Mitchell as an appointed successor to Clarkson on the back of being an assistant for a Premiership winning team.
At the start of July 2021, when they announced the succession plan of Mitchell taking over in 2023, it didn't even last until the end of July that they announced that Mitchell would actually coach in 2022. And they'd pay Clarkson to sit on his arse for a year.
Their succession plan was a miserable failure. Although it only took them 4 weeks to realise and just move on to the new coach. cough
Realistically these sort of plans are doomed to fail, not just for the individuals involved but for the club in general.
Good business doesn’t work this way , you pay them out and move them on.
Dumb arses.
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Remember when Surjan just stopped and laid down on the ground and got stretchered off for absolutely no apparent reason or explanation as to why, then played next week?
**** that was funny and bizarre.
**** that was funny and bizarre.
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Man, that’s a crazy flash back. Wasn’t there some scuttlebutt about it being a way to work around an interchange rule?
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Wasn't going to be on the coaching panel this season if Carr took over last off-season, so I'm not convinced such a move would happen for 2026.
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