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Trent Heffernan leaving Port District for the Barossa plus a couple others form Port Districts heading to Clare[/quote]

Which club is he heading to?

barrys antz wrote:Trent Heffernan leaving Port District for the Barossa plus a couple others form Port Districts heading to Clare

Which club is he heading to?[/quote]

Could be wrong but i have heard Nuriootpa

Jimmy_041 wrote:

Pag wrote:Backwell gone too. Hendo on fire.

Backwell not sacked. Time to concentrate on his real life job. You won’t survive on a C9AFL coaches wage

Any idea whether he actually put his hand up for Woodville West-Torrens and/or Centrals or whether that was just scuttlebutt?

The Informer wrote:Heard a bit of mail today about this div, let's see how many of these come to light
Brett Backwell sacked from PAC,
Alex orster leaving Payneham for Pembroke in Div 4
Trent Heffernan leaving Port District for the Barossa plus a couple others form Port Districts heading to Clare

Forster paying $1.01 to win the Div 4 Medal!!

Districts will struggle next year now.

God job for anyone who gets PAC coach, premiership favourites.

Eagles2014 wrote:

The Informer wrote:Heard a bit of mail today about this div, let's see how many of these come to light
Brett Backwell sacked from PAC,
Alex orster leaving Payneham for Pembroke in Div 4
Trent Heffernan leaving Port District for the Barossa plus a couple others form Port Districts heading to Clare

Forster paying $1.01 to win the Div 4 Medal!!

Districts will struggle next year now.

God job for anyone who gets PAC coach, premiership favourites.

Have a feeling Craig Pitt will be playing Coach

The Informer wrote:Heard a bit of mail today about this div, let's see how many of these come to light
Brett Backwell sacked from PAC,

Backwell finds a bus and throws himself under it.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenge ... ec5a4b9251

Jimmy_041 wrote:

Pag wrote:Backwell gone too. Hendo on fire.

Backwell not sacked.

Wonder how many years both grand finalists have gone into the following season with new coaches

Off The Wall wrote:

Jimmy_041 wrote:

Pag wrote:Backwell gone too. Hendo on fire.

Backwell not sacked.

Just saying the official (agreed) line.
He obviously thought it better to tell everyone

So i was correct?

Jimmy_041 wrote:

The Informer wrote:Heard a bit of mail today about this div, let's see how many of these come to light
Brett Backwell sacked from PAC,

Backwell finds a bus and throws himself under it.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenge ... ec5a4b9251

quote the story, it's got a stupid firewall

Footy Chick wrote:

Jimmy_041 wrote:

The Informer wrote:Heard a bit of mail today about this div, let's see how many of these come to light
Brett Backwell sacked from PAC,

Backwell finds a bus and throws himself under it.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenge ... ec5a4b9251

quote the story, it's got a stupid firewall

Adelaide now just wants your money.

Following lengthy discussions between Brett and the club, it was mutually agreed.......blah blah blah. The Informer got it right

Adelaide Footy League club Prince Alfred Old Collegians parts ways with coach Brett Backwell
Patrick Keam, The Messenger
November 5, 2019 12:11pm

Brett Backwell says he still loves the Prince Alfred Old Collegians Football Club, despite the Reds choosing to cut ties with the coach less than two months after the division one grand final.

The Reds announced on Monday that Backwell would not continue as coach of the Adelaide Footy League club in 2020.

PAOC was a dominant force this season with the 2006 Magarey Medallist at the helm, spending much of the minor rounds on top of the ladder before falling to Payneham Norwood Union by four points in a hotly-contested grand final.

Backwell guided the Reds to their first ever division one premiership in 2016 – his first year in charge at the club and its first year in the top flight in three decades.

The 39-year-old former Carlton, Glenelg and North Adelaide player said he had expected to go on as coach next season before the club decided to go in a different direction.

“We had some discussions around which way the club needs to go moving forward, which I was pretty excited about, and we made a commitment,” Backwell said.

“But they changed their mind and wanted to go a different path.

“I don’t exactly know the reasons for that, it’s probably got nothing to with me, so we part ways and move on.


“Even speaking with the club, we were four points away from winning a grand final. If we had have won it they probably still would have come to the same decision.”

He is the second-straight division one coach to not continue in the job following a grand final loss, with Rostrevor Old Collegians cutting ties with Adrian Rocco after the 2018 decider.

Backwell said he did not hold any grudges at the Reds, who last week landed the prized signature of former Melbourne captain and delisted Power midfielder Jack Trengove.

He will now look to further his coaching career elsewhere while undertaking an AFL level three high-performance coaching course.

“I love the footy club, they’ve given me the opportunity to something I love,” Backwell said.

“We’ve had some success, they’re a great bunch of blokes, a great footy club and we part ways on pretty amicable terms and move on.”

Backwell said he had been offered a development role with North Adelaide, was still unsure what his next move would be but said “I’m just super keen to coach”.

He described the 2016 division one flag as the highlight of his footy career.

“I’ve done a fair bit in football but that tops it,” he said.

“To be able to lead a young bunch of guys through that and win the flag and there was some off-field stuff that year as well which we had to deal with as a footy club.

“Even this year I think we we’re the best side all year, then we just hit some speed bumps late and then lose by four points in a grand final to a bloody good side.”

PAOC chairman Michael Siciliano said both parties decided a fresh voice as coach was in the best interests of the club.

“Without a shadow of a doubt he’s comfortably the best coach we’ve had at the footy club in my time, so it was nothing to do with performance whatsoever,” Siciliano said.

“We do have impressive candidates internally who will no doubt put their hand up for the job.

“But we begin that process from today basically, looking within and externally and see what’s out there.”

The Reds, who had a 14-4 win-loss record in the minor rounds this season, will enter 2020 as one of the favourites for the flag after securing Trengove and retaining the majority of their grand final team.

so somebody cut through the rubbish for us...Why was he given the flick if he was such a good coach....

TheBull wrote:so somebody cut through the rubbish for us...Why was he given the flick if he was such a good coach....

Good coaches are expensive and the club is busy buying out a number of property owners adjacent park 9 so they can get their redevelopment approved.

Re: Adelaide Footy League Division 1 - 2020
by Trader » Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:20 am
TheBull wrote:
so somebody cut through the rubbish for us...Why was he given the flick if he was such a good coach....


Good coaches are expensive and the club is busy buying out a number of property owners adjacent park 9 so they can get their redevelopment approved.


That's a joke Right !!!!!!

Barracker1 wrote:That's a joke Right !!!!!!

Nah, it's actually a very astute tactic.

There are roughly 12,400 residential properties within the city of Adelaide, with a combined value of $3.45b.

If you buy enough of them, you can take control of the Council and in turn get the approval you need.

Trader wrote:

Barracker1 wrote:That's a joke Right !!!!!!

Nah, it's actually a very astute tactic.

There are roughly 12,400 residential properties within the city of Adelaide, with a combined value of $3.45b.

If you buy enough of them, you can take control of the Council and in turn get the approval you need.

Just need to buy a few, knock them down and build your own oval and Gin Palace on private land - a much cheaper option

Then let Park 9 evolve into a Lefevre Park type horse paddock and let the good folk of North Adelaide deal with the snakes

Trader wrote:

Barracker1 wrote:That's a joke Right !!!!!!

Nah, it's actually a very astute tactic.

There are roughly 12,400 residential properties within the city of Adelaide, with a combined value of $3.45b.

If you buy enough of them, you can take control of the Council and in turn get the approval you need.

Given LGA election turnouts you could probably save $2.5 billion and only buy 3,000 of them!

I see the Brighton Grandstand is no more, looks weird driving past without it there.