
Could Jan Stirling coach the 36ers?
"She is too system oriented and did not utilise Jacksons and Taylors individual abliity in her Olympic campaigns."
wtf? Clearly you have no idea and are just taking bollocks to push an agenda. She used them better than any other Opals coach! Penny Taylor was MVP of the whole freakin world championships under Jan.
"She got a gold at the worlds but a lot of teams did not send their best players."
A lot of teams? Please. The top 3 other teams in the world at that time - USA, Russia & Brazil - all had extrememly strong teams in that tournament.
I was never a big fan of Jan but I have to admit that she did a superb job as coach of the Opals.
Contrast her to Carrie "run the starters into the ground" Graf and I would take her back as Opals head coach in a hummingbird's heartbeat. For me with Jan it's more a case of you don't know what you've got until it's gone.
I think that the main obstacle for her coaching a men's team would be whether they would respect her. That's something she has only limited control over, and I couldn't really speculate on with any confidence.

While Phil Smyth did win three Championships in 5 seasons, don't overlook his coaching record in his years after the 01/02 Championship. In the 6 seasons following the 01/02 Championship, the record was 5th, 8th, 5th, 4th, 11th, 9th. The last two seasons were why the coaching position was thrown open to applicants.
To be fair to Phil, there was not the money available during the Championship years, and you can only do so much with the players that a team can afford.
During these years Sydney, Brisbane and Dragons won/bought premierships and then their pribvate owners vanished and the teams folded.
At least we still have a team!!

Hell yes she could. And they'd respect her too.

My bad Isaac and EC didnt mean to assume, however i did when it was suggested EC was Phil!
and +1 for Jacks reply to Raytri. Dunlap didnt win 3 championships Phil did. doesnt matter who put the team together (even though Phil put it together) you still need to be a good coach to win championships.

^ why does he have to be related to Phil? if your about to sit there and say Phil sucked as coach while winning a back to back followed by a third championship then you are sadly mistaken!
