Spithill 2020

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EliteDangerous

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Now that Oracle is Kaput. What is Spithills next gig?

Is it ...

1. Skipper and helm of Team Australia?

2. Skipper and helm of Team Alinghi with Butterballs calling tactics?

3. Helm of BAR with Ainslie calling tactics?

4. Commentator?

5. The Bachelor 2020?

6. Other?

Thoughts please!

 
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Indio

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Why would anyone want to touch him? He had the full financial muscle of Ellison behind him in AC35 and he was still humiliated by a team they tried to disadvantage with all their self-dealing rules changes.

 
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3. Helm of BAR with Ainslie calling tactics?

Not a fucking chance. If BAR is back and if BA gives up the wheel, it would be to a British young gun helm. Not to an ageing failed Australian/American has-been.

 
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Forourselves

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If there's an Aussie team, I'm picking Slingsby will helm. Especially given Slingsby has won an Olympic Gold Medal, been part of an AC win, helmed Investec Loyal to a Hobart win as well as his current gig calling tactics on Black Jack 100 with one of the previously mentioned names looking to throw his hat in the ring - Peter Harburg.

I'm picking Jimmy Spithill and Dean Barker will join forces somehow.

 
jaysper

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sclarke said:
If there's an Aussie team, I'm picking Slingsby will helm. Especially given Slingsby has won an Olympic Gold Medal, been part of an AC win, helmed Investec Loyal to a Hobart win as well as his current gig calling tactics on Black Jack 100 with one of the previously mentioned names looking to throw his hat in the ring - Peter Harburg.

I'm picking Jimmy Spithill and Dean Barker will join forces somehow.
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I think Spithill and Barker will both need to take substantial pay cuts to stay in the game. Both of their "brands" are damaged - particularly Barkers. 

With regards to Barker, I don't think a helm position is achievable whereas it probably still is for Spithill.

 
Forourselves

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jaysper said:
That's not fair.

Yes, he was and always has been overrated.

But as with Barker, he is still an excellent tier 1 sailor.
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Dean has to be regretting his decision to leave ETNZ. Maybe not the decision itself, but the way it happened. He crossed Dalton, and once you cross him, there's no coming back. Even Coutts has left both Spithill and Barker out in the cold. Coutts seemingly set Barker up with a good deal with Japan, then when things fell through in Bermuda, Coutts quit the AC, and retired back to NZ taking up a cushy commodore job, leaving Barker and Spithill to fend for themselves.

 
jaysper

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sclarke said:
Dean has to be regretting his decision to leave ETNZ. Maybe not the decision itself, but the way it happened. He crossed Dalton, and once you cross him, there's no coming back. Even Coutts has left both Spithill and Barker out in the cold. Coutts seemingly set Barker up with a good deal with Japan, then when things fell through in Bermuda, Coutts quit the AC, and retired back to NZ taking up a cushy commodore job, leaving Barker and Spithill to fend for themselves.
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Yeah. I think it is going to be pretty fucking difficult for Barker to secure a decent gig and practically no chance of getting helm.

 
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There are several top guys who because of their age may actually benefit from this move back to mono's.

 
MoMP

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I can see Jimmy getting a director role in a Australian challenge.  I can see Barker getting a role within the AC management.

 
Indio

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MoMP said:
I can see Jimmy getting a director role in a Australian challenge.  I can see Barker getting a role within the AC management.
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Jimmy is not director material - he was in charge of the AC35 defence and with the might of Ellison's $$$ couldn't manage to make it even close. His attitude is better suited to training the sailing team.

Barker has nothing to offer any AC team - driving miss daisy for some billionaire would be his lot now. Even as a trial-boat driver, he was badly exposed in AC35 - Slingsby would have been a much more competitive trial-boat driver.

 
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