Comments on: Duncan Fletcher: hero or culprit? http://www.theroar.com.au/2007/04/20/duncan-fletcher-hero-or-culprit/ Your Sports Opinion Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:23:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: sheek http://www.theroar.com.au/2007/04/20/duncan-fletcher-hero-or-culprit/comment-page-1/#comment-3787 sheek Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:21:47 +0000 http://theroar.com.au/2007/04/20/duncan-fletcher-hero-or-culprit/#comment-3787 Mitch, I'm a huge fan of Ian Chappell's, & if he says cricket doesn't need coaches, then I agree with him. It's a case of "horses for courses". Chappelli isn't being elitist, he's just being his blunt, direct self. Football codes require coaches because the interaction of players is constant, & needs to be replicated on the training paddock. A cricket team is together only half the time, that is, when bowling & fielding. A manager is perhaps better required for cricket, whereby his primary function is to co-ordinate training practise & drills. Coaching is still available via specialists, for example, ex-players. BTW, Chappell & Simpson didn't get on. I read once when he first came into the Australian team under Simpson's captaincy, Chappell blamed Simmo for giving him some wrong advice on batting. They don't forgive easily, those Chappells! Mitch,

I’m a huge fan of Ian Chappell’s, & if he says cricket doesn’t need coaches, then I agree with him. It’s a case of “horses for courses”.

Chappelli isn’t being elitist, he’s just being his blunt, direct self. Football codes require coaches because the interaction of players is constant, & needs to be replicated on the training paddock.

A cricket team is together only half the time, that is, when bowling & fielding. A manager is perhaps better required for cricket, whereby his primary function is to co-ordinate training practise & drills.

Coaching is still available via specialists, for example, ex-players. BTW, Chappell & Simpson didn’t get on. I read once when he first came into the Australian team under Simpson’s captaincy, Chappell blamed Simmo for giving him some wrong advice on batting.

They don’t forgive easily, those Chappells!

]]> By: Mitch http://www.theroar.com.au/2007/04/20/duncan-fletcher-hero-or-culprit/comment-page-1/#comment-3777 Mitch Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:42:22 +0000 http://theroar.com.au/2007/04/20/duncan-fletcher-hero-or-culprit/#comment-3777 I'd just like to say that it is extremely elitest to think that the there is no need of a coach at the senior level of cricket. It is big headed and cocky to think that senior Australian players cant learn something and receive advise from someone older than them with more experience. Who do some of them think they are? It is a fact of life, not just sport, that we learn, learn and keep on learning until our last breath. Keep coaches I say! I’d just like to say that it is extremely elitest to think that the there is no need of a coach at the senior level of cricket. It is big headed and cocky to think that senior Australian players cant learn something and receive advise from someone older than them with more experience. Who do some of them think they are? It is a fact of life, not just sport, that we learn, learn and keep on learning until our last breath. Keep coaches I say!

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