The same one who will be coaching in 2012/13. How can anyone forget about the "sack the coach" now demands.

Shane heal needs some cash

Shane Heal would be alright. Wasn't he the player-coach of the Dragons. Try and get some assistants around him- whether it be from US colleges or people in Australia and it could be feasible. Either way 36ers got to look beyond the box because they ain't going nowhere atm.

In fairness to him his team was too white!

Jamie O'Loughlin

I am thinking you could get about 8 potentials, put them through a series of gruelling challenges covering cooking, garden makeover, weight loss and house renovations. At the end of it, "you're hired"

The coach will be one lean, green thumb, handyman cooking machine.

Jack, don't forget catwalk modeling.

Problem with lists of prospective coaches is finding one that doesn't sit within "has no NBL coaching experience either" or "got dumped from his last role for underperforming." Realistically, I imagine it'll be a combination of both if two came in.

I agree with previous poster that if dont replace Clarke now or at least season end then I cant see with a further loss of revenue how SOS will be able to continue against this of course the Clarke payout will hurt also.
It is a terrible position SOS are in now.
Who would have thought

Learn from it - no 3 year deals til coach can actually coach! Not rocket science & SOS can't blame anyone else!

orbit, well, they can probably ascribe some blame to the coaches for not making much progress. On getting themselves in that position, that's fine but they'd either end up having to pay a premium for a shorter deal or would struggle to attract anyone decent from out of town which limits the pool immediately.

To answer the original poster:

1) Not as is.


2) How long has Palmer been out of NBL coaching? Stacker likely to be happy at the AIS. Joyce has been moved on from his last two clubs. Smyth tied up with his new venture perhaps and game might have moved past him. Wouldn't Brown be happy wherever he is?

3) Gordie is not going to leave the Hawks. Gleeson shifted on from the Crocs and now hardly impressing with Melbourne? Not convincing.

4) Didn't think Cooks showed much when he took over after Joyce? Don't know enough about Radliff. Vickerman, maybe. We got one year's championship assistant, still didn't elevate him to HC and that hasn't really worked.

5) Gambling with someone who has little knowledge of AU basketball. Club is already copping it for gambling with Ninnis (played NBL, ABA coaching experience, NBL AC experience) and Clarke (played NBL, ABA coaching experience, international juniors).

6) At least Tab Baldwin is interested in an NBL job, but who'd think that was a rock solid choice?

7) Gaze at least has some coaching experience but would he leave behind his Tigers?

As previously stated, I've wondered about testing the water for the rest of the season with Clarke backing up Maher and Radford out. Have heard a suggestion of Maher with Ninnis helping him. Not really sure what to think of that but would support them giving it a shot.

This topic becomes pointless if Clarke has a successful season 12/13.

If there was to be a change though I'd like to see Baldwin if he wanted the job.

Maybe bring Liam Flynn back to assist him?

"Leon" what has Jamie O'Loughlin got to do with this? Are you him?

What is Brian Gorgian doing these days? Couldn't be worse than what we have now.

Thanks for the serious reply Issac - ... The names I put in were just the "EG's" that I could think of under each category - I'm certain that others could throw in some ones I would not even know of.

cheers

'626, if money is an issue, do you think they could afford to bring on three guys like that? Would also be a huge gamble doing that for more than them coaching out this season as an experiment. I do like all three of those guys personally though - great people.

Spinner, in China. People keep saying he's on $1m/yr. Of course he'd be no worse. He'd be the best option in terms of NBL-experienced coaches if money were no issue.

very old, if we can't think of more, chances are that they are not NBL-experienced, right? You did miss Westover and Goorjian, but I think they're contracted. Goorjian should stay where the money is as long as basketball in China stays strong. Westover, maybe he'd want to come back, but not sure if he'd be a great choice. There might be some NZ NBL coaches, but doubt it.

Shawn Dennis.....I'll keep saying it.

Europa, I can probably write in some code that detects threads with "Sixers" and "coach" in them, and auto-posts about Shawn Dennis for you... ;)

Palmer is coaching in Japan.

all l can say is that the 2 clowns who are coaching sorry l mean screwing up this club now should never coach again . All anyone can ask for is some one who CAN coach who CAN relate to fans who CAN bring out the best from his team and most of all CAN say l am only human and l do make mistakes but will try to unite and not divide the club from FANS

Not Deano, nooooo!

I don't think there will be any real significant changes to the coaching staff next season. Contracts will be honoured.