Quote Originally Posted by Could'vebeenacontender View Post
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
Saunders tried to take credit for basically every signing we made in that interview he did after leaving, bloke cannot have it both ways. I have some sympathy for Maynard, but it took five minutes of listening to Saunders to be pretty convinced he is an absolute chancer.