You simply don’t get an AFL gig if you don’t have the ability. He is very highly regarded in all football circles.

Tony Micale is a very good coach make no mistake about it. Even with the WCE alignment you still have to get them to gel and play to a plan.

I would be happy to have him at West Perth any day of the week.

Stupid Thread really, his record speaks for itself.

swan42 - 04 September 2009 11:11 AM

grassy - 02 September 2009 07:25 PM

What was that and When was That,Swan?

Early 80s. As an example we kicked something in the order of 2.1 and he dropped the played who kicked the 2 goals for the following game.

wtf has early 80’s got to do now

hellraiserrrrrrr - 04 September 2009 02:46 PM

swan42 - 04 September 2009 11:11 AM

grassy - 02 September 2009 07:25 PM

What was that and When was That,Swan?

Early 80s. As an example we kicked something in the order of 2.1 and he dropped the played who kicked the 2 goals for the following game.

wtf has early 80’s got to do now

Voted AFL Assistant coach of the year by his peers in 2007, plus look at his WAFL record. I think enough said on the matter.

Micale has taken a basket case playing group and after a slow start has got them within a bees dick of the finals. I reserved my judgement at the beginning of the season but he has proved his ability to get his charges playing for himand the jumper. Reasonable to expect they will improve next season. No other team in this years comp has shown anywhere near the same improvement.

If my team had AFL blokes - Cowell MErrington Webster Clarke Shepard and a heap of imports and could only finish 5th -I’d be wrapped NOT!
Top coach only took him ten weeks to get the team UP!

Considering Monaghan had ex AFL guys in Chambers, Longmuir, Lecras on board plus a season from Seabyand Campbell plus the services of Bradley from time to time......future AFL players in Darling and Strijk......experienced WAFL players in Salecic, Fleay etc at his disposal, I’d be more concerned that it took WP to the last game of the season to end EP finals chances.

.....whilst I don’t reckon EP will finished as high in 10 as they did in 09, Micale’s EP team were the surprise packets of 2009.....perhaps the greater expectation for success in 10 will truly test how good a coach Micale still is. Though as an EF fan, I’m more than happy with Micales contribution to the EFFC.

I’ve taken the mickey out of McCale before, but in all honesty and in my humble opinion I think he’s a very good coach at the WAFL level.

58shark - 05 February 2010 07:18 PM

I’ve taken the mickey out of McCale before, but in all honesty and in my humble opinion I think he’s a very good coach at the WAFL level.

Just curious, why do you go out of your way to spell is name so deliberately wrong?

ooollllrrrrrry II - 06 February 2010 06:16 PM

58shark - 05 February 2010 07:18 PM

I’ve taken the mickey out of McCale before, but in all honesty and in my humble opinion I think he’s a very good coach at the WAFL level.

Just curious, why do you go out of your way to spell is name so deliberately wrong?

MICALE, MICALE, MICALE - ok ooolll??  You just don’t dare to make an honest mistake on this site .

Micale won 3 consecutive flags - all by big margins - with an excellent game plan. The wins were 37, 82 and about 60 points. You don’t win G-F’s by those sorts of big margins, with different players each year, without a very effective game plan.

He inherited a wooden spoon team for 2009, had only 1 recruit to add, and still managed to miss the finals by half a game . . (in fact, by 2 points . .  the losing margin in that infamous game against WP)

If players Oliver, Cowell and the 3 young guns drafted to the AFL were still at the club I’d be predicting a G-F appearance. But with the new blood recruited and developing youngsters its too early to know whether they’ll be well enough grounded in Micale’s game plan to make it that far.

It may take half a season for the team to gel. Time will tell. But you can be assured that Micale will have them firing at some stage during the season.

Whats micales record without the 3 flags from host club arrangement??

I cant coach for s$%^ but I could win flags with the eagles ressies side. Good WAFL coaches get the goods from whatever side they take on and he simply hasnt got the best out of the EP side. EP has a good solid side on paper if he’s such a good coach why is the side not playing finals?

Sometimes Leek you are too much for a bloke with a hangover on a Sunday morning. He got EF into two grand finals , one which was lost in the last few minutes and the other where he engineered a win with virtually no interchange bench after quarter time. The host arrangement obviously provided advantages but as SF will tell you it by no means made grand finals unloseable. Last year he took Ep from spooners to 2 points out of the finals. Didn’t get the best out of them? What drugs do they sell where you come from? If EP flop in 2010 then you can say his WAAFL legacy is more in doubt but at the moment even with the losses of cowell and oliver there are few saying that.

Leek; 2, not 3 flags were won with the ‘alignment’, and we were never a ‘host club. Big difference there. Claremont and Souths were host clubs. In 2002 we weren’t even aligned.

And name me 2 aligned ‘Eagle’ players over the 2 years (2000, 2001) who actually made a difference to the Premiership wins or to the margins ? Just 2. I can, just. Fact is, EP had 8 or 9 state players during that time (none, of course, were AFL listed). With that talent and Micale in charge, EP coasted to 3 comprehensive wins - with an accumulated 179 points margin over 3 years - against the best the WAFL could offer.

Micale is good. If you want to underrate him, so be it . . but the record speaks for itself.