What is the difference between a good coach and a great head coach?

Frankel said:
Where is the evidence Dodds is a good coach?
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Last season, and the first 21 games of this season, which left us in a playoff place. Wasn't all down to Dodds obviously. But he was doing his part in the backroom staff.

But head coach/manager there is no evidence that he's any good. And a new manager should have the option of his own man.
 


SAFC11 said:
Leadership and tactical nous. Coaching will often be routine and can be planned for and that is. Being a a head coach puts real-time decisions on you and need to be able to adapt and read things quickly. Also being a coach you can be friendly and build relationships that help. Being head coach means making difficult decisions amd conversations
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This!
 
daveyspants said:
Mike Dodds is by all accounts a good coach. What he lacks is the tactics and bravery to send a team out with confidence and a game plan. The team yesterday looked stifled and afraid to express themselves. I guess the difference between the two, is that some can inspire, while others can't. If we stick with Dodds, we will continue going backwards. It coud well end in disaster.
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Totally different job, you coach through the week on the style you set up depending on who your playing.
You will research the opposition, work out what roles individual players will have.
How you will set up for different scenarios, like out of possession, if they play the ball out from the back, what to do in possession, what passage of play you want the players to take.
When to press, when to sit back, loads of things which are extremely important for a match day.
How you get this information across to the players so they are all on the same wave length is what good coaches do, they do however have a few weeks before hand to watch the other team and plan things around that, they also normally have a full week to put it in to practice.
Now a good head coach or manager has to be a different person altogether.
They will spot after 10-15 if things aren't working, then they have to decide quickly what to change. It can also go the other way and it works too perfect and your 3-0 after half an hour, what do you do keep going the same way. Most people would say yes but a top head coach would change it slightly. Sit back a bit, not too much but still control the game.
The top managers in the past have had nothing to do on the training pitch, they did however know how to set a team up but they came into their own when things needed to change.
I think that's why Steve Bruce would never be a top manager, he was very good at setting a team up to play the opposition, problem was if they had changed things slightly or it didn't go to plan he really had no idea on what to change and would carry on with the same game plan
 
Quillips said:
Last season, and the first 21 games of this season, which left us in a playoff place. Wasn't all down to Dodds obviously. But he was doing his part in the backroom staff.

But head coach/manager there is no evidence that he's any good. And a new manager should have the option of his own man.
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Dodds is a great coach but that it, the new head coach has to have his own assistant, someone he trusts completely.
There a reason most managers stick with the same assistant, they are a team in themselves
 
Well considering none of our board have ever worked with a 'great' coach before they won't know the difference. By great I mean someone who has won elite leagues and trophies as a manager/coach. In reality we've only had one of those (Advocaat) in recent memory. Who had us playing amazing football but struggled to build a quality team with the funds provided.

The difference is in results- but there is a significant problem in our model that results are a combination of recruitment and coaching. Fundamentally you are limited by the raw resources, financial and human, available.
Our first team with a quality (for this level at least) coach demonstrated that it was probably capable of reaching the playoffs- our second 11 however (which is the true measure of recruitment) are poor at this level as is our coach now.
Even an elite coach would be limited by a dof/SD who is performing poorly at recruiting players who are able to fulfil immediate needs (as well as the medium term since this includes players who were recruited over the previous year and a half).
 

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