Sacked Carlton coach Daniel Harford says the membership has been far too centered on the boys’s program, to the detriment of the ladies.
Harford, talking on his breakfast radio present on RSN, referred to as for the Blues to “get serious with the program and catch up to the rest of the competition.”
An impartial assessment into Carlton’s AFLW program, discovered that the AFLW senior coach place wanted to be full-time, and that there was “at times confusion with the game plan and lack of alignment and consistency with its implementation.”
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The assessment additionally criticised professionalism on the a part of the gamers, saying “opportunity exists in the current AFLW environment for players to improve professional standards and elite behaviours, to build and maintain an effective, high-performance culture.”
Harford led the Blues to a grand ultimate in 2019, and a semi-final victory in 2020, however had missed the finals within the final three tears, successful solely two video games in season 7.
The same assessment of the boys’s program noticed the departure of David Teague in 2021.
Carlton president Luke Sayers mentioned Harford, who performed 153 video games for Hawthorn, wasn’t in a position to “service the role in a full-time capacity”, and subsequently had parted methods with the membership.
Harford was contracted within the position for an extra 15 months, however when requested on air whether or not the parting of how was mutual, he was lower than diplomatic.
“Well, when you’re contracted for another year then it’s a sacking, isn’t it,” he mentioned.
He mentioned judging a part-time program on full-time requirements was a skewed place and that gamers likewise couldn’t be judged on part-time schedules.
“I’m still not 100 per cent convinced of what high performance in a part time program actually is,” he mentioned.
“If you’ve got part time people, trying to develop and initiate this high performance program, after working their other jobs for the day, that’s a real challenge, I reckon.
“The club needs to invest and the game needs to have people in the different silos (like development, fitness, coaching)…they almost all need to be full time employees of the footy club.”
He mentioned having “part-time athletes who have other lives who are trying to squeeze” AFLW into their schedules was a consider professionalism, recognized within the assessment as an needed space of enchancment.
“If you can pay them so it’s more of a full-time situation, then those things will rise along with it,” he mentioned.
Being concerned in an athletic restoration business in addition to with media commitments, Harford says he received’t be teaching in 2023, and says he’s wanting ahead to “(having) weekends in footy season for the first time in 30 years.
“It’s going to be incredible.
“I’ve been very blessed…(AFLW has been truly a life changing experience for me in footy and in life.”
Source: www.news.com.au
