Kiwi Coach

[Geordie]

Ged Stokes isn't coaching anyone at the moment!!!!!

 

[Skinner]

Ged Stokes isn't coaching anyone at the moment!!!!!

Gerrard comes with a little too much baggage thanks Geordie :lol: :lol:

 

[mean_maori_mean]

I think the coaching and the selector pool is incestuous, only because not many players have followed through with giving back to the game as coaches, managers, administrators and other personnel. I don't think it's a case of jobs for the boys as such, because there's f all to choose from anyway.

Is Joe Gwynne a selector or is he there as a mentor.

We could compile a list of suitable other candidates to choose as selectors, but someone else will then also suggest that it's jobs for the boys. Everyone in league is intertwined somehow. We could also say that Halligan and Williams had jobs for the boys as well.

yeah but how many opportunities are they actually for players to give back to the game - sure some would have went on to coaching bartercard / fox but then they realise how low standard both in management (at club level) and low standard of football played.

To most of them fox wouldnt of been a high quality competition - with some local clubs beating international and english sides.

No sure about Joe Gwynne - just remember seeing an article with his name in it probably just partakes in 'think tank'.

Totally agree with everything being intertwined - though there are some performing coaches from different parts of the country who dont come from auckland, taranaki, welli or canterbury - These are the guys who are no show of moving up the ladder.

 

[mean]

yeah but how many opportunities are they actually for players to give back to the game - sure some would have went on to coaching bartercard / fox but then they realise how low standard both in management (at club level) and low standard of football played.

The red carpet isn't laid out in coaching. Like everything, you have to make the most of your opportunities, and if they are not there you either create them or make them. I'd prefer a coach who taught me something, whether that be on the field or off the field.