Teflon wrote: ↑Fri 05 Aug 2022 12:02am
Bring in a Chocco so the coaching mates club has someone to challenge the “nice family culture “
Time to get professional set standards and stop cuddling
I totally agree with the above excerpt in your post Teflon. While I have the utmost respect and admiration for Robert Harvey, I don't think his genteel nature will do anything to improve the players, so hope he doesn't get a gig back at Moorabbin.
Overall, I've never thought much a "nice guy" coach at any level, and for all the mud that's been slung at Brett Ratten for the severe slump after the bye round, he is anything but "soft and cuddly" with his players. He is, after all, a graduate of the Clarkson Coaching Academy. What the club media department sends out is not in any way indicative of what goes on behind closed doors.
As for another hard nut like Chocco, I can't think of anyone off the top of my head, they must be out there, maybe Luke Hodge. Both Jordan Roughead and Corey Enright have the necessary hard edges in their personalities to instil some mongrel in players, but apart from Long and Jones, I've seen very little mongrel in the current group.
There's no question that the current list badly needs an enforcer type with elite skills, which is a good reason to bring De Goey into the squad. I wouldn't mind betting Simon Lethlean & Co feel the same because it has been confirmed by the club they are looking at him.