It's funny that everyone thought Suma was a plonker of a coach at West Coast, and that he was a plonker at Freo, then he left Freo and now people dislike Lyon enough to consider his leaving a loss.
Kirk returned to his home city for a better job after getting what he needed out of Freo. As far as I can tell his biggest contribution was teaching Fyfe how to meditate, which if anything probably accelerated turning him into a flog.
I'm not sure how good our assistant coaches are, but I think to be a good assistant coach you need more than name recognition. Clarkson is considered the best coach going around, and his assistants are Cameron Bruce, Brett Ratten, Adem Yze, Damien Monkhorst and Max Bailey. Not many of those guys strike me as the sharpest tools in the shed.