A Coach is not always to blame for success or failure

Today, we have witnessed yet again with the sacking of Dan Marsh coach of the Tasmanian Cricket Team, what tends to go on in the Sport Coaching industry, when a team performs badly, the first person blamed is the Coach. Its funny isn't when a team succeeds we rarely praise the coach for this, its normally the players who are given all the praise, yet as soon as the team fails straight away its all the coaches fault.

You look in AFL, this has been Richmonds problem for years until Damien Hardwick, who that club finally seems to be sticking with. It happens in other sports to particularly if the club that coach is at has been used to long sustained success take Manchester United, David Moyes was always destined to fail, you just cant walk into a club who has been so used to one person so long as Manchester United were with Sir Alex Ferguson, and expect last more than a few years. Essendon have had the same problem here since the departure of Kevin Sheedy, its only now the John Worsfold has gone there that things are starting to look good again.

Mind you success doesn't always me you keep your job either, take what happened to me in 2015, I took on a coaching role with a club in Sydney, we had a very successful season, going through the season undefeated, winning the minor premiership, gaining promotion and going on playing in the finals and winning the Grand Final. I was the first Coach to take a team from this club to the finals for 8 years, and I was the only Coach in this clubs history to take a team through undefeated, but it did not keep me my job, anyway these things happen, and I have no regrets.

So success doesn't always me you stay either, I guess what I am saying is clubs need to learn to have a little faith in the Coach, because its not always the Coach who is the problem, often its because the Coach has a plan and they are working towards it.

Take Geelong under Mark Thompson, they had a plan, the club stuck with him and in the end he delivered them Premierships, yes it took 7 years but it happened, the same for Alistair Clarkson at Hawthorn, he had a plan and in the end they became the best club of the modern era of the AFL.

So what I am saying to Sporting clubs you need to be patient,  and wait because there is a saying change the Coach, change the team, and that may not always be a good thing.