Harvey & King quit StKilda Football Club

stkildathunda · Fri 21 Oct 2011 9:48am

http://www.saints.com.au/news/newsartic ... fault.aspx

The St Kilda Football Club has today agreed to grant assistant coaches Robert Harvey and Steven King with an early release from their contracts to allow them to pursue career opportunities elsewhere.

CJC · Post: # 1167429Post **CJC** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 9:50am

Both banger and king seem like good people and have served stkilda well. They're of great character and left respectfully. All the best to them

No let the assistant rumours begin!!!

stkildathunda · Fri 21 Oct 2011 9:53am

CJC wrote:Both banger and king seem like good people and have served stkilda well. They're of great character and left respectfully. All the best to them

No let the assistant rumours begin!!!

Reckon King is the bigger loss out of the 2.

CJC · Post: # 1167433Post **CJC** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 9:55am

stkildathunda wrote:
CJC wrote:Both banger and king seem like good people and have served stkilda well. They're of great character and left respectfully. All the best to them

No let the assistant rumours begin!!!
Reckon King is the bigger loss out of the 2.

Yeah, esp with gardi gone. Mcevoy definitely learnt a lot of them in his first few years at the club.
I heard barnes left the bulldogs. Anyone know if he's any food?

CJC · Post: # 1167434Post **CJC** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 9:56am

stkildathunda wrote:
CJC wrote:Both banger and king seem like good people and have served stkilda well. They're of great character and left respectfully. All the best to them

No let the assistant rumours begin!!!
Reckon King is the bigger loss out of the 2.

Yeah, esp with gardi gone. Mcevoy definitely learnt a lot of them in his first few years at the club.
I heard barnes left the bulldogs. Anyone know if he's any good?

Selhurst Saint · Fri 21 Oct 2011 9:58am

CJC wrote:
stkildathunda wrote:
CJC wrote:Both banger and king seem like good people and have served stkilda well. They're of great character and left respectfully. All the best to them

No let the assistant rumours begin!!!
Reckon King is the bigger loss out of the 2.
Yeah, esp with gardi gone. Mcevoy definitely learnt a lot of them in his first few years at the club.
I heard barnes left the bulldogs. Anyone know if he's any food?

Yes. He is a cabbage.

CJC · Post: # 1167436Post **CJC** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:01am

Yes. He is a cabbage.[/quote]

I'm proud of that typo!!

stkildathunda · Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:11am

From Official Saints Facebook

[quote]Chief Executive Michael Nettlefold said Robert Harveyâ€™s contribution to the St Kilda Football Club over 25 years has been unparalleled, which made granting his release an extremely difficult decision.

â€œRobert is, and will always be, welcome at the St Kilda Football Club. He has developed as an assistant coach during his time at St Kilda and there is no reason why Robert canâ€™t realise his ambition to become a senior coach in the future.â€

Royston · Post: # 1167443Post **Royston** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:14am

I'm surprised to read that Kingy is only 32, seems to have been around forever.
Must have been made the Geelong skipper quite young.

Animal Enclosure · Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:17am

Royston wrote:I'm surprised to read that Kingy is only 32, seems to have been around forever.
Must have been made the Geelong skipper quite young.

I think he was only 22

SainterK · Post: # 1167450Post **SainterK** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:24am

Good luck to them both.

Hopefully Banger hasn't mistimed his move and he doesn't miss out on anything special.

paddy · Post: # 1167451Post **paddy** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:27am

Well Done to the Club for letting them both leave without fuss.

It is a classy move, but also, leaves the door wide open.

Very respectful of a true champion!

SaintPav · Post: # 1167452Post **SaintPav** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:29am

Club released both from their contracts.

I don't have a problem with it but what the hell is the point of having a contract? They are useless form a clubs point of view. They only protect the individual.

The're a total joke.

gurubob101 · Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:40am

King started with Geelong as a 17 year old in 1996 and came to us in 2008 when Geelong lost players due the salary cap. We got a couple of good seasons out of him as a player and he has done a great job as our ruck coach. The improvement in McEvoy's ruck skills last season was remarkable. On top of that he was often able to change the way McEvoy approached opposing ruckmen during games. I reckon the best example of that was against West Coast where McEvoy was slaughtered in the first half but broke even with the Eagles pair after half time by making early body contact with Nic Nat to nullify his leap and staying out of wrestling matches with the stronger Cox. Even Kosi as a second ruckman made a bit more of an impact this season. King was a handy player for us for a couple of seasons and great ruck coach. Not a bad pick up for a sixth round draft pick.

saintspremiers · Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:48am

SainterK wrote:Good luck to them both.

Hopefully Banger hasn't mistimed his move and he doesn't miss out on anything special.

Whilst Banger was a great player, I wasnt too happy with him coming back
To us as an assistant the other year.

Gardy could replace Kingy IMO.

SainterK · Post: # 1167466Post **SainterK** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:51am

saintspremiers wrote:
SainterK wrote:Good luck to them both.

Hopefully Banger hasn't mistimed his move and he doesn't miss out on anything special.
Whilst Banger was a great player, I wasnt too happy with him coming back
To us as an assistant the other year.

Gardy could replace Kingy IMO.

I agree he shouldn't of come back already, but what was he supposed to do?

At that point Ross only managed to secure a player in King, a mate in Berbakov and a Port assistant into his coaching box.

Animal Enclosure · Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:59am

Disappointing to lose Kingy... You'd think that they would be keen to keep Kingsley for some sort of continuity for the players. Gardy would be a fantastic replacement as ruck coach... from all reports he has been a hugely positive influence around the club over the past 4 years (who would have thought that when he was first acquired!)

I'm not fussed about Banger leaving to be honest.

Watters now has the chance to pick his own crew... I like the sounds of Laidley as a senior assistant.

It'll be interesting to see who else is recruited.

perfectionist · Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:59am

SainterK wrote:...Hopefully Banger hasn't mistimed his move and he doesn't miss out on anything special.

I hope he has mistimed his move and misses out on many special things, at least one or two in the next few years.

SainterK · Post: # 1167471Post **SainterK** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 10:59am

perfectionist wrote:
SainterK wrote:...Hopefully Banger hasn't mistimed his move and he doesn't miss out on anything special.
I hope he has mistimed his move and misses out on many special things, at least one or two in the next few years.

Well yeah, you know what I mean

gringo · Post: # 1167475Post **gringo** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 11:14am

SaintPav wrote:Club released both from their contracts.

I don't have a problem with it but what the hell is the point of having a contract? They are useless form a clubs point of view. They only protect the individual.

The're a total joke.

it is to give the players and staff continuity an certainty. Most contracts are fairly open to breaking, not legally but from the point of view that you don't want to retain people that don't want to stay. I think this is stage managed, Harvey needs experience and Watters will want like most new coaches to bring in his people. A clean slate is sometimes a better starting position than painting over the cracks.

Eastern · Post: # 1167476Post **Eastern** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 11:22am

Both Harvs & Kingy have been great/good servants of our club but have have now gone. Good Luck to both of them.

Lets now hope that the club brings in real quality people to replace them !!

SA1NTER · Post: # 1167477Post **SA1NTER** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 11:22am

Thank you to both of them.

And Harves best of luck in your future.

Schillaci · Fri 21 Oct 2011 11:32am

Expected as much.
Harvey is a class act. Time will tell if he has what it takes as an AFL coach.
Disappointed to lose him and Kingy but happy with the club's performance since Lyon's departure.

MCG-Unit · Post: # 1167530Post **MCG-Unit** » Fri 21 Oct 2011 1:31pm

Thanks to both for their service to the club, esp Harvey - all the best to them, wherever they go....

ACTSAINTER · Fri 21 Oct 2011 1:42pm

Smart move on Bangers behalf, how many assistant coaches end up taking the top job when the incumbent coach moves on? ( Buckley and MM being the exception) To football clubs the coaching grass is always greener in another teams coaching box.