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Re: Congratulations North Adelaide Premiers 2018

Postby Sheik Yerbouti » Tue Nov 20, 2018 3:43 pm

No it Wasn't
Hey soccer you owe us 45million.
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Re: Congratulations North Adelaide Premiers 2018

Postby am Bays » Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:18 pm

Wedgie wrote:Randomly heres a pic of Grenville Dietrich! :D
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Looks in better condition than his last game for North in 1986.... ;)
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!
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Re: Congratulations North Adelaide Premiers 2018

Postby Brett » Fri Nov 23, 2018 9:29 pm

That long ago ? Wow time goes so fast . Wont be long if on average and the Tiggers will win a flag again.
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Re: Congratulations North Adelaide Premiers 2018

Postby Spargo » Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:25 pm

Brett wrote:That long ago ? Wow time goes so fast . Wont be long if on average and the Tiggers will win a flag again.


Umm, oooookay...
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Re: Congratulations North Adelaide Premiers 2018

Postby Wedgie » Wed Nov 28, 2018 3:58 pm

Great article by Warren Partland in today's paper.

North Adelaide overcame plenty of adversity to claim the SANFL premiership

Then-North Adelaide chief executive Glenn Elliott called his coaches into his Prospect Oval office for a meeting with pre-season on the doorstep.

It was late in 2003 and Andrew Jarman had just been appointed head coach. Greg Edwards had also been hired to take charge of the under 19 squad.

Elliott was frank. The club was broke and meetings in the following few days would determine the fate of the Roosters, let alone whether the coaches had a job.

In the words of Edwards, now the Roosters’ CEO, the club was “five minutes from not existing”.

The rescue came in the form a deal with the state government offering a stay of execution for 12 months.

“We kept our jobs,” Edwards said.

Edwards coached the under 19s for three seasons, taking the side from bottom to top in 2005. He left the role after the 2006 season when his son Shane was drafted by Richmond and he wanted to spend more time travelling to Melbourne to watch the Tigers.

Three years later, the SANFL altered the under 19s to 18s and the Roosters lured Edwards back to the club as coach. But just for one year.

After being among the final two candidates for the chief commercial officer job at Adelaide, Edwards moved out of the wine industry to take on the CEO position with Port Adelaide Magpies.

Finances were in short supply at the Magpies and Edwards says he learned plenty that year as the club and Power pursued a merger.


North Adelaide is the SANFL champion. Picture: Sarah Reed
“When the SANFL knocked back the first merger proposal the Magpies went from 1800 members to 7000 in six weeks,” Edwards said. “The day after the merger was knocked back we had 100 people come into reception to sign up for membership and give donations.

“It was a real eye opener as to how passionate people are to Port Adelaide and football.”

After a year with the Magpies, a chat with Elliott encouraged Edwards to return to Prospect Oval as the football manager. Twelve months later he was the CEO and his first job was decisive, bringing in Josh Francou as coach.

A huge contingent of key players had retired or left the club and Edwards describes it as a harrowing time.

“Josh was a tough customer setting standards,” Edwards said. “He set hard, new standards and drove a hard bargain.

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“In 2012, we lost the preliminary final to West Adelaide and then lost a heap of key players. The mood was ‘how do we replace that talent?’

“We did not do a lot of recruiting and it was Josh and his standards which got us to the grand final the following year.”

Not only did the Roosters lose Francou to Sydney in 2014, the Crows and Power reserves entered the state league competition. That meant the Roosters lost the likes of Daniel Stewart, Lewis Johnston, Andrew Moore, Aaron Young, Nathan Bree and Matthew Wright, all regular and prominent contributers.

Former Crow Ken McGregor took on the coaching role but his stint was hamstrung by his work as a journalist with The Advertiser.

The club and coach tried desperately to make it work, McGregor even whispering on his phone to Edwards while reporting in court.

Mid-season in 2015, the Roosters and McGregor agreed to an amicable divorce. He just could not commit the necessary time to the ever increasing demands of the job and the flow on effect was a slide in the culture, the control mechanisms to keep the players accountable had diminished.

Edwards wanted a Francou replica and another former Power midfielder Josh Carr was given the reins for three years. Another two years were added to that contract in June.

The list was significantly overhauled, this was a genuine rebuild notes Edwards.

“He has created what we have today, high standards and discipline,” Edwards said. “Josh is very calm in demeanour but he delivers a strong message.”

The Roosters won just four games in Carr’s first year, an effort repeated in 2017 when the Roosters finished bottom. There was a lot to like about last year though, according to Edwards.


Then there was the devastating start to this season. Just minutes after the team coughed up a lack-lustre performance in the loss to Central District at Elizabeth Oval, highly popular trainer Vaughan Taylor collapsed and died in the doorway of the visitors changerooms.

The players were kept on the ground before gathering with the support staff in the Bulldogs’ changerooms where Carr spoke emotionally about the importance of life compared to playing football.

Those outside the club questioned the future of Carr, those inside held their faith.

The response was emphatic. The Roosters demolished West Adelaide by 138 points, won eight of their next nine games and climbed to the top of the ladder.

Then there was the slump with just one win from six games.

“People were saying this is where we are, let’s make the finals and call it a good season,” Edwards said. “Josh and myself did not think that.

“In 2013, we were top and lost the final five minor round games and fell into the finals. This year was almost a mirror image with some lost form, a few injuries and games played in poor weather.

“Josh stuck to his message, there was no deviation. He coached excellently through that final few minor round games and particularly in the finals, just his message and being upbeat.

“Our youth gave us energy, the coaches did a really good, (assistant) Trent Mills is an absolute gun and (Jacob) Surj (Surjan) did a great job.

“Josh came out of himself in the finals.”

After overcoming South Adelaide, Sturt and Woodville-West Torrens in the controversial preliminary final, the Roosters confronted two more hurdles in pursuit of the flag.


North Adelaide Coach Josh Carr sits in a meeting room at Adelaide Oval, waiting on a decision by the SANFL tribunal on whether his team will play in the grand final. Picture: Matt Loxton
The 19-man drama was taken to the SANFL tribunal the night after the season’s penultimate game, and after back-and-forth argument, the result was upheld.

“The players were very good, through that saga they just trained and did not get caught up in it,” Edwards said. “They did not comment on it, talk about it at training.

“Josh was very firm about how they acted and stayed professional. From a players’ point of view, and probably Josh, everyone else thinks we were going to fall over in the grand final, that we have been through this and it had interrupted our week.

“There was lots of media about it, the coach was being put into question. They play for their coach, and one of their mates was being put in the firing line and they did not like it.

“They trained the house down grand final week and there was real vigour about it. Josh would have reminded them, everyone out there was expecting us to lose. Norwood had sat back and was fresh and ready to go.

“The resilience of the group came out in the grand final. We were outplayed early, probably for a quarter and a half.”

The elimination final, first semi-final, preliminary and grand final were all extraordinary, incredibly entertaining encounters which provided stunning advertisements for the state league. There was one common thread, North Adelaide.
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