Melbourne with geelongs coach or Geelong with melbournes coach?

Question

If Dean Bailey (Melbourne Coach) spent a month with Geelongfc and Mark Thompson (Geelong Coach) spent a month with Melbournefc and they played each other with a full squad, who would win?

Geelong with Melbournes coach?

Or Melbourne with Geelongs coach?

Answer 1

geelong still smash them

Answer 2

My first thought is that Geelong would still win. They seem to be such a well drilled team that I reckon I could probably coach them to victory!! I don't think that a month would be long enough for Mark Thompson to make that much of an impact - it took him a lot longer than that at Geelong to get his team to where they are today.

Answer 3

Geelong of course, Thompson is always relaxed over everything.

Answer 4

Geelong would win for sure.

Answer 5

I dont think Bomber thompson would be munching away on a sandwhich if he coached melbourne, it would be hard...but he is such a good coach that he could teach them some new  game plans that he could get them to win a game or two.

Geelong would still win the match, easily - but with maybey a little bit of a different gameplan or something like that, but they would still win by a reasonable margin.

Answer 6

Geelong would still win by a mile. That team is so good it doesn't even need a coach! Apparently they are so well drilled that they basically coach themselves!

I don't think that Melbourne's performance will change with a different coach, they have many years of improvement and experience to gain before they can be a real challenger in the competition. The list at Melbourne will never be able to beat the current list at Geelong!  

Answer 7

**I think Geelong would win by a mile purely because they are such a great side, at the moment I don't think it would really matter who was coaching them - the experienced players would be able to take hold of the situation and coach themselves.

I don't want to take anything away from Bomber Thompson though because he is a great coach, but Melbourne don't have the players that Geelong do and while Bomber could tell all the Melbourne players what they needed to do, they don't have the skill and experience that the Geelong players have got over the years from Bomber to win in one month.

If Bomber went to Melbourne and maybe had a couple of seasons to develop the players, maybe then they'd take it up to Geelong.**

Answer 8

Geelong.

Any team playing Melbourne would not need a coach .....

Answer 9

Geelong would still manage to win because they play so well as a team and work off each other.

But in Melbourne's case, they don't completely understand the meaning of the word team and have, unfortunately, had another terrible season.

And it's also one of those cases in which 'a shepard (the coaches) is only as good as his sheep (the team) ...'

Good question. xx

Answer 10

It is a good question because so much of the success of the club, both on the field and off, depends upon the leadership.

Geelong and Melbourne are both proud clubs, with long established traditions: indeed they are our two oldest clubs (1859 and 1858 respectively) and were both powerhouses in the VFA and founders of the VFL in 1897.

The answer is however pretty obvious, the current Geelong side under one month of anyone's coaching would beat Melbourne, simply because Bomber has invested so much into them already: and they also have the pride of Geelong (the town) behind them.  In some ways the Cats are an "interstate side" like that, their town loves them alone, but unlike the non-Victorian teams they have the heritage of that going way back.  

(Okay so South Melbourne and Fitzroy were both like this, but is there that same passion for the Bloods and the Gorillas that there was from the respective suburbs; and in those respective suburbs today?  To be fair I think there is some of it at Sydney, but Brisbane hasn't ever been "FFC" even if their collars say they were, BBFFC?  Sheesh man!)

A footy team is so much more than the eighteen blokes on the grass, and whilst Geelong is not the only team that knows that, Geelong is the team which is carrying that the best.  Bomber has connected the team with the town, and with the passion of the Cats of old.  Dean Bailey hasn't done that, and even Jimmy Stynes has failed to make the heritage of the old Redlegs stick...although he has tried.

Geelong would win by lots.

I hope Melbourne get sorted out soon and aren't sent off to become the "Launceston Tasmanian Devils" or something equally as ridiculous.  They may not be The Greatest Team of All, but it is a Grand Old Flag...

:-)