This is like the "95 Grand final reunion just need to sack Denis, Libba, and Gavin. And bring in S.O.S, Dean and Hanna and the boys will all be back together.

Good to see someone down at Princess Park is pulling their finger out.

Braddles and Rats back, Thornton and Russell resigned.

I still think Crosisca can bugger off but lets not dampen the mood.

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Confucius say "Virginity like bubble, one prick all gone"

Welcome back Braddles. It will be great to see you out on the park at training with that Grim look on your face not taking any shit.


And please god give the dreaded herpes to Mr. Dimwitrispew.....

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Ich bein ein Carltonian

The champ is back!

Awesome. How can guys like Murphy and Gibbs(?) not benefit from learning from midfield champions like Braddles and Ratts?

But people think that it is to take over Pagan's job??? It is a part time position. Like Carey the other year. His influence will be strong, but he won't be there all the time.

People complain about wanting change, and then complain when change is made! Amazing how the board can't please all 30,000 members, isn't it? Let's get behind them.

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Long live the Mighty Blues.

Braddles .....the archetypal model on how fit a footballer should be.

I've been pretty negative lately, but my heart just swelled about an inch all round with this announcement. The membership renewal's going in the post on Monday!!

This is exactly what our new young midfield need to move them forward. It has always puzzled me why none of our ex champions ever went on to be assistant coaches as so many of the good coaches come from successful teams and we've had plenty of them. maybe this is politicing, maybe the wounds are closing over, who knows!!

In the meantime I'll just be happy that we will have one of the best ever midfield players mentoring our young draftees. Craig Bradley as your mentor, what's not to love for a young Bryce Gibbs!!!

You want to talk about a winning culture, Bradley and Ratten are 2 of the best preparers ever to pull on a Blue Guernesy. Neither accepted 2nd best from themselves or their team-mates.

Also great to see Braddles highlighting about how we are his club. Somebody, just for a sh1t stir, slip on over to the Port Adelaide board on BF and post a highlighted caption of how their Team of the Century hero has come back to his rightful home.

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"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?" Billy Connolly

It's great to see some of the club legends back at the club in a meaningful way. Hopefully they can instill some of the culture that made the club great when they were playing. ( And no I don't mean the brown paper bags ).

So who will be doing what - Crossisca backline, Dempsey rucks, Daniher forwards - where will the ex-midfielders be focussing (Libba, Ratts & Bradley?), presuming one of them isn't going to the Ants to cover for a possibly departing Mitchell?

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From little things, big things grow - Paul Kelly (The singer, not the Swan)

Seems to me like the club is trying to win back supporters rather than assemble the best possible coaching staff.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Hopefully....we may turn out to have the best possible Coaching Staff !

Libba midfield
Ratts forwards
Crossisca defence

sportal: Bradley a Blue again

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"Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I,
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference."

Robert Frost

I love it. Who says these guys can't coach? Both Ratts and Braddles directed and coached on the field, feed this knowledge of movement and positioning to our young players and we will see rapid improvement. As far as skills go we have two of the most skillfull players to play the game to assist this area.

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Mjonc signing off at 8888

This is off the topic, but if Mitchell is let go, does anyone have any mail on who might be the replacement Bullants coach (and assistant coach at cfc) ?

My guess is Ratts.

I wondered about that-but given Ratts will be specifically working with forwards (and I'm sure throwing in his bit with midfield)-I'm thinking that they may go for someone else not yet appointed?

This is a brilliant decision. Bradley is aknowledged as having one of the best football brains in the business. He has been chased by numerous clubs over the past 4 years, because anyone who knows him, knows he is the 100% package. He is a great communicator, strategist and tactitian. If he had ben on the telly for the past 4 years we would all have been crying out for the club to get him at any cost. But, he has kept a low profile and only those relatively close to him know exactly what the man will bring to the team and to the club. In sheer football terms, this is the best news of the past 2 weeks.

Just because Rod Butters places his beleif in 'The Process', psychometric testing and panel interviews does not necessarily mean that this is or should be the be all and end all of recruiting assistant coaches. It has been my experience in the industries that I have worked in that generally if somebody is well known and respected within an industry, and they become available it is good you need somebody like that, and they come available, it is good practice to go and get them.

Hiring well respected people who are a known quantity or are well recommended by trusted sources is generally better than hiring unknowns who do a good job at the interviw or test. This is especially true in smaller professions where most everyone is known in some capacity by the industry, like the AFL.

I find it amazing that people would prefer to put their trust in a contracted headhunter/psychometric testing/board interviews over the respected judgement of industry professionals.

Just because Rod Butters beleives in 'The Process' doesnt mean we all have to!!!

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"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?" Billy Connolly

2nd effort wrote



Well said 2nd E.

Fluffy process vs pragmatism. I'll take the real person who doesn't perform his well versed responses in a psych test.

I've always employed people that have presented themselves well with me, and not so well in psych tests....and I've been spot on.

In fact, all marketing assistants I've employed, did not have a marketing background...all were great choices, as they had a more roll up the sleeves attitiude and business acumen than all the theory based post grads my counterparts employed. Every time....now that's not luck!

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

yep exactly they did sack Blight after all