Kevin Sheedy and Mark Williams a Giant double act

DOUBLE barrel coaching is the way to go. And by that I mean the scenario of having a senior coach and a senior assistant coach.

Kevin Sheedy

DOUBLE barrel coaching is the way to go.

And by that I mean the scenario of having a senior coach and a senior assistant coach.

I've never believed the head coach should run the whole show.

You can't always do everything the club, the board and management want.

Are you worried about the Giants signing one of your club's stars?

The game is changing in front of our eyes and we've moved past that.

I went and got Mark Williams to Greater Western Sydney because you need that secondary experience.

Ideally, all your assistant coaches have experience, but to have that one person who complements you and the structure is what all clubs should employ.

Gold Coast has Guy McKenna at the helm and he went and got Ken Hinkley, who no doubt could become a senior coach in his own right.

West Coast, wooden spooner last year, has Neale Daniher in the box with John Worsfold and now a significant push up the ladder is developing.

Just having Daniher's experience and knowledge around a team when it goes through its peaks and troughs would be making a difference.

Paul Roos handed over the reins at Sydney to John Longmire and Roos is still there running the Swans' academy.

Mick Malthouse has Nathan Buckley, the coach in waiting, right under his nose at Collingwood.

Chris Scott has Neil Balme as a football manager and years and years of experience at his disposal.

And we all saw Essendon's James Hird pull off a coup by poaching Mark Thompson from Geelong.

Their combination was being hailed from all corners at the start of the season. Even through the tough times it's important that Hird has "Bomber" for support.

The one I worry about is Michael Voss, who hasn't sought to invest experience around him in Brisbane.

At GWS it was important to have Mark Williams.

Right now he is doing 100 per cent of the coaching. Absolutely. I get to every match and coach in every match with him and I'm probably there 65 per cent of the time.

That's because we are building a club and given there are five million people in our zone I'm travelling to all parts to recruit, market and spread the word.

I am even heading to Europe soon to meet our major sponsor Skoda so that we can become one of the best partnerships in the game.

We are building a membership base from nothing and we've got 10,000 at the moment. We are remodelling two stadiums, Manuka in Canberra and Skoda Stadium at Homebush.

There are times when you can move into areas of Sydney and you feel like you're from another country. They definitely don't have a full understanding of AFL and that takes time.

But I'll be head coach in our first year and I've got no doubt that Mark Williams will want to coach a team and when the opportunity comes for him, he will.

The most important thing is to get this up and running.

At the moment we basically have an under-20 side. We train three times a week and "Choco" takes every night and I do them, too, as often as possible. You don't need too many chefs in the kitchen and the best place for my knowledge is where the club and AFL need me.

But come next year I'll be doing 100 per cent of the coaching. I won't do a lot of outside stuff I'm doing now.

At our games now I'm on the boundary line, but I'll be up in the box most likely.

We work on a very skinny budget, nothing like an established AFL club would have, so it is fortunate we have two experienced coaches in the front seats.

We're hoping for a flyer

WHEN the Giants take to the field next season I would like to have recruited nine or 10 uncontracted players.

That's more than Gold Coast and it would give us a flying start.

When players who are out of contract don't re-sign with their club, it gives us hope.

Managers are always trying to get the best deals for their players and they would be useless if they didn't talk to everyone.

They are the go-between for bartering and challenging. There is no rule that we can't talk to them or players' wives, girlfriends and parents.

But it's not the coach's job to do that.

And I thought our head of football Graeme "Gubby" Allan handled himself well on The Footy Show on Thursday night.

He said in his opinion we could win a premiership by 2015 or 2016.

I learnt from Ron Barassi when he said he had a five-year plan. He wasn't successful, so I'm wary of naming years and dates and times.

We are building a great club and we will talk to anyone who is not signed.

Even a 28-year-old who may think he has only two years left may be better off coming to us.

We're not here to be pushed around by clubs and we will go after all the top players we can get.

When I was at Essendon I never asked Gavin Wanganeen one question before he left and joined Port Adelaide.

Players make their choices.

Shane O'Bree made a similar decision and so did Nathan Buckley and they both had wonderful careers at Collingwood.

History tells you that clubs sell players at times to keep their club alive.

It won't be different this time around.