McKenna Gone

[saintbrat]

Gerard Whateley‏@GerardWhateley·
Breaking: @GoldCoastSUNS have sacked coach Guy McKenna
@abcnews


yes I know it's for general but....

[SemperFidelis]

Gerard Whateley‏@GerardWhateley·
Breaking: @GoldCoastSUNS have sacked coach Guy McKenna
@abcnews


yes I know it's for general but....

Thanks bratty!

[FQF]

Was always going to be tough holding on to the post with the inevitable first few seasons producing no success. I hope our club sticks fat with Richo through a similar period.

[Spinner]

Jungle Drums always seem to on something.....

[saintbrat]

Jon Ralph‏@RalphyHeraldSun·
Poor old Guy McKenna. Not a bad coach, just not the man for premiership according to club. So @MarkDuffield1 was right yesterday after all

[chook23]

Footy sucks more often than not

[saintbrat]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-01/g ... tion=sport
Gold Coast Suns sack coach Guy McKenna after four years at helm of AFL expansion club

The Gold Coast Suns have sacked coach Guy McKenna after he led the club for the first four years of its history.

Suns chairman John Witheriff told McKenna on Tuesday the club would not honour the final year of his contract.

While a football department review had been completed, it is understood a critical mass of the Suns board did not believe McKenna should continue on regardless of its content.

The Suns are yet to announce the decision officially, but are expected to hold a media conference at 2:00pm AEST on Wednesday.

The Suns finished 12th in 2014 after a finals push was cut short by captain Gary Ablett's shoulder injury, but the club had been showing steady improvement since its introduction to the league in 2011.

[saintspremiers]

Bring on bummer

[st_Trav_ofWA]

didnt really rate him to be honest ... he was always going to be a caretaker coach for gold coast while they built on their early draft picks ... the results he got as a coach were about the same as you would expect any coach to get over that period but looking forward the Suns were realistically the loss of GAbblet away from their first finals this year so now would be the time to move away from the caretaker coach into the challanging coach ... who gets the gig is the big question there isnt really any premiership credential coaches on the market except Bomber Thompson or maybe Choco Williams

[matrix]

a guy at work and myself are two from three, although we are a year out on the timing

we both agreed the top 3 in the firing line were sando, mckenna and hardwick (especially if the tigers flounder again next year)
although we did say they would be gone next year, not this year!

[magnifisaint]

Not the right man for the job. Watch GC fly under Bummer.

[chook23]

Not the right man for the job. Watch GC fly under Bummer.

Helps when someone (McKenna) has done all the hard work/initial work with kids

pretty obvious they are on their way up

[saintbrat]

Not the right man for the job. Watch GC fly under Bummer.

BUT gazza and Bummer don't get on- and Gaz just signed for another 4 didn't he?

[oh when the]

Like Bill Stephen at the Bombers. Did the hard work with the kids, starts to get results, then another takes over for the glory years.

[St Chris]

I really love when we're not the AFL basketcase....

....touch wood

Crows, Gold Coast, and Bulldogs coming soon......we're positively stable.

[saintbrat]

I really love when we're not the AFL basketcase....

....touch wood

Crows, Gold Coast, and Bulldogs coming soon......we're positively stable.

they are saying " worst press conferance ever" does that mean some of ours were better

[SainterK]

Not the right man for the job. Watch GC fly under Bummer.

Helps when someone (McKenna) has done all the hard work/initial work with kids

pretty obvious they are on their way up

This...

[plugger66]

Not the right man for the job. Watch GC fly under Bummer.

Helps when someone (McKenna) has done all the hard work/initial work with kids

pretty obvious they are on their way up

Is does but its like when an apprentice jockey is on a star racehorse. Happy for him to ride the horse through the grades but know there is a better jockey out there when the whips are cracking. Bomber was a great coach and imagine he still is so why not get him if he is available.

[saintbrat]

player rection:

Jared Brennan‏@JJ_Brennan·
feel for the players that didn't get the chance to develop and excel because of his stubbornness and one minded ways. 2/2

[FQF]

Not the right man for the job. Watch GC fly under Bummer.

Helps when someone (McKenna) has done all the hard work/initial work with kids

pretty obvious they are on their way up

Is does but its like when an apprentice jockey is on a star racehorse. Happy for him to ride the horse through the grades but know there is a better jockey out there when the whips are cracking. Bomber was a great coach and imagine he still is so why not get him if he is available.

An attitude like that would have seen Bomber sacked in 2006...

[plugger66]

player rection:

Jared Brennan‏@JJ_Brennan·
feel for the players that didn't get the chance to develop and excel because of his stubbornness and one minded ways. 2/2

Did Jared Brennan play under SW?

[Con Gorozidis]

Well im not real sad for him on two counts:

1. The rumours he got stuck into Harbrow and brought up crap from the Bulldogs a million years ago when Harbrow was a fringe 21yo starting out (the rumour was Mckenna tried to blame him for the Dogs lack of success which is borderline insane if true).
2. The fact he turned up to the meeting with #Tirdy. One of only 3 coaches to rock up. Maybe Guy had some sympathy because he was on the gear back at the Eagles in the 90s under Matty Barber.

[Devilhead]

McKenna can rot in failed coaching wilderness - just desserts for his pathetic performance when he faked being knocked out by Plugger in 1989

[Waltzing St Kilda]

Well im not real sad for him on two counts:

1. The rumours he got stuck into Harbrow and brought up crap from the Bulldogs a million years ago when Harbrow was a fringe 21yo starting out (the rumour was Mckenna tried to blame him for the Dogs lack of success which is borderline insane if true).
2. The fact he turned up to the meeting with #Tirdy. One of only 3 coaches to rock up. Maybe Guy had some sympathy because he was on the gear back at the Eagles in the 90s under Matty Barber.

That makes it only two AFL coaches who turned up to the Tird pow-wow, and one of those (McCartney) owed him for a job reference.

[Toy Saint]

McKenna can rot in failed coaching wilderness - just desserts for his pathetic performance when he faked being knocked out by Plugger in 1989

Exactly, the dirt bag has been on my sh1t list since that very day. Rot in hell you low life scum sucker, the footy gods have finally caught up with you.