as i said it wasn't a personal attack on Smith, my arguement against him never is directly personal, just at his coaching abilities
and you're right, most of those guys you mentioned who were good coaches didn't have outstanding careers, but most, particularly someone like Gould were still better players or had better careers than Smithy
and some great players don't make great coaches as some you mentioned, although I thought the Crow did a reasonable job at Parra considering some of the lack of talent at the time.....would have been interesting to see how he could have gone over the last 8 years at parra????
but then again you look at good players who have beocme good coaches, especially in the modern era, Stuart, Hagan, Brown, Bellamy and to a lesser extent Elliot and some others
and you are right about the analytical side of Smith, which is part of my arguement, he over complicates a simple game and over analyses everything and everything hinges on statistics and analytical decisions with him, rather than sometimes just letting them play a bit of footy.....past players have said as much....and recently, like Jason Smith among others
