Quote Originally Posted by the_anticlough View Post
I hope that now SM is gone we can actually hear from assistant coaches again in interviews. Alves did one on his appointment but that was it.

It's not about the club, because Ross, Doyle and Harley all did them. Having to listen to SM only for 16 months, was, to borrow a word, frustrating.

Btw there's no chance Alves gets this, he will go back to his old role or something under Gagliardi I reckon.
An interesting subtext on assistant coaches being interviewed is what happened with the Saunders brothers that led to the bust up
One of their gripes was that they and the manager had no say in which players were coming in
The club view was that they knew this when they were appointed so they should just get on with it

We recruited well in some cases, Abbott, Bass, Platty and Bedeu for example but poorly in many others. Apart from Jarvis (when he fancies it) who else has done well?
Others have said that Maynard lost some of his best players, Macca, Dan, Nemane plus Robertson & JJ for most of the season through injury
My fear is that whoever is coming in will have to work under the same conditions and see players coming in that he doesn't want or need