Alastair Clarkson

And you feel that you feel that release.

Oh, it's just, you got your, you channeling the energy towards the things that, um, you need to, to, to coach a footy club.

You got, um, yeah, over, over 40 young men that are chasing their dream.

And, um,

The reason I'm involved is I've got a great passion for the game and I'm trying to help these kids live their dream too.

And that has never become diluted for me.

Right from the get-go, it's what attracted me to coaching in the first instance and that hasn't wavered one little bit.

But when something else happens in your life that takes you away from that,

Um, you can't do your job anywhere near as well as what you'd like.

So, um, it's good that, um, yeah, we can just focus on the things that will help us climb the ladder.

No, no.

It's always been the same.

You've got a good relationship with your players and it's all about getting the very, very best out of them and buying into team and buying into what we expect.

And when the standards are there, we give them a pat on the back.

And when the standards aren't, we give them a kick up the bum.

um so it's it's pretty simple and um i've always um worked on um on the theory if you develop a really really strong relationship with anyone whether it's your partner whether it's your children whether it's your friends or or whether it's the players that you coach you've got a really really strong relationship then um you can cuddle when it needs to be cuddled which um which is which is necessary and and when you when you need to give a shot especially when

You're going down to Google and you're four times, four goals down at the three quarter time and mistakes have been made in that previous five minutes that has turned a two goal deficit into a four goal deficit.

Then some things need to be pretty stern.

It hasn't.

We've got a set of standards that we expect, and Kirch was the first one that knew that he'd fallen below the standards.