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Herald Sun
The Dean Bailey enigma
The Dean Bailey enigma
By Mike Sheahan
MELBOURNE is a difficult team to assess under coach Dean Bailey. After securing two wooden spoons and a swag of choice draft picks in his first two seasons, the club looked set to clamber up the ladder. But 2011 has been the embodiment of inconsistency. And with a tough streak against top-five teams over the next three weeks - followed by a run home against Richmond, Gold Coast and Port Adelaide - the Demons may remain a conundrum. With Bailey coming out of contract, and talk he will be offered an extension, the question remains: Is he the right man to coach the Demons?
Dean Bailey in the box seat
MELBOURNE is a difficult team to assess under coach Dean Bailey. After securing two wooden spoons and a swag of choice draft picks in his first two seasons, the club looked set to clamber up the ladder. But 2011 has been the embodiment of inconsistency. And with a tough streak against top-five teams over the next three weeks - followed by a run home against Richmond, Gold Coast and Port Adelaide - the Demons may remain a conundrum. With Bailey coming out of contract, and talk he will be offered an extension, the question remains: Is he the right man to coach the Demons?
Dean Bailey in the box seat
By Jon Anderson
DEAN Bailey is firming to be reappointed as Melbourne coach for at least next season. It is believed the 44-year-old has the support of the Melbourne Football Club board to carry on into a fifth season, with the sticking point being whether he gets a one or two-year extension. With the large shadow of Collingwood's Mick Malthouse looming, some at Melbourne are in favour of offering Bailey only one year. Malthouse has made it known privately that he considers Melbourne a team ready to explode over the next two seasons. The Demons board does not want to appoint a rookie coach, meaning another wait to find out if that person can succeed. One prominent Demon explained it this way yesterday. "We know Dean Bailey can coach," he said. "Is he a great coach? We don't know that yet, but what would be the point in appointing a first-year person and then waiting to find out if they can coach. "And in Dean Bailey, we have a man of the utmost quality and integrity, not unlike Neil Craig. You know what you are going to get with Dean."
Don’t count out Rocket
By Mike Sheahan
LET'S play Hypothetical. I'll play moderator, you deliver the verdict. A success-starved football club - let's call it Melbourne - is reaching the point where it must decide whether to reinvest its faith in a coach with what you may term a modest record, or look elsewhere for someone to provide the finishing touches. If it looks elsewhere, is the target a ready-made replacement (at a much higher fee), or does the club gamble again on an assistant with a solid reputation, or even a rookie who offers high upside and high risk? The fee is relevant, to say the least, for our club has a history of struggling to make ends meet. Any decision to change coaches will cost plenty. The incumbent probably gets $325,000-$350,000 a year, an experienced, proven replacement would cost as much as double. It is a complicated, even delicate, situation. Dean Bailey doesn't appear to have done much wrong, but has he done enough that's right?
DEAN Bailey is firming to be reappointed as Melbourne coach for at least next season. It is believed the 44-year-old has the support of the Melbourne Football Club board to carry on into a fifth season, with the sticking point being whether he gets a one or two-year extension. With the large shadow of Collingwood's Mick Malthouse looming, some at Melbourne are in favour of offering Bailey only one year. Malthouse has made it known privately that he considers Melbourne a team ready to explode over the next two seasons. The Demons board does not want to appoint a rookie coach, meaning another wait to find out if that person can succeed. One prominent Demon explained it this way yesterday. "We know Dean Bailey can coach," he said. "Is he a great coach? We don't know that yet, but what would be the point in appointing a first-year person and then waiting to find out if they can coach. "And in Dean Bailey, we have a man of the utmost quality and integrity, not unlike Neil Craig. You know what you are going to get with Dean."
Don’t count out Rocket
By Mike Sheahan
LET'S play Hypothetical. I'll play moderator, you deliver the verdict. A success-starved football club - let's call it Melbourne - is reaching the point where it must decide whether to reinvest its faith in a coach with what you may term a modest record, or look elsewhere for someone to provide the finishing touches. If it looks elsewhere, is the target a ready-made replacement (at a much higher fee), or does the club gamble again on an assistant with a solid reputation, or even a rookie who offers high upside and high risk? The fee is relevant, to say the least, for our club has a history of struggling to make ends meet. Any decision to change coaches will cost plenty. The incumbent probably gets $325,000-$350,000 a year, an experienced, proven replacement would cost as much as double. It is a complicated, even delicate, situation. Dean Bailey doesn't appear to have done much wrong, but has he done enough that's right?
