johntheclaret wrote:Big Phil wrote:Bounce of the ball wrote:Both good coaches and probably the best in the comp.
Ben Warren and Michael Godden said to say g'day
I'm not sure you can count Ben Warren in that list just yet Phil. He inherited a pretty strong list with good depth and a pretty good footballing set up. The Redlegs were the reigning premiers afterall.
I think it would be better to judge him over the next couple of seasons starting with how well the Legs finish this year. Given where he started from even a fairly average coach would take two or three years to bugger everything up.
And before all you Redleg fans fire up, I'm not suggesting he is just average, I'm just saying it is too soon to start calling him of of the best
It's a tough one to analyse. Warren certainly inherited a pretty handy list, but he also lost numerous players (not just to Crows and the Power), and took over a club with a recruiting ban in place. That said, the Legs had a charmed run with injury in 2014 which helped a lot. To be honest I think with a lot of coaches you can't compare them until their days are over, or they've been in the system a long time. To that end Roy Laird would be my idea of the best coach in the competition, not that it really matters who's the best. Most of the coaches in place have pro's and cons. From the outside Gotch appears to be doing wonders at Noarlunga.
