Alistair Nicholson

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Whateley · Alistair Nicholson in the studio | AFL Coaches Association CEO (22.07.26) · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

I know Chris Scott and Craig McRae took extended breaks over Christmas.

There was a bit of criticism of that, but I think they're both going really well now and they're well positioned.

So I think we just need to start looking at that senior coach role as not being totally having to be across everything.

And some of the senior coaches admit that part of that they need to work on as well.

But for it to continue to have our best coaches in the game, I think that's something we need to look at.

Yeah, that's something we're talking to them about.

And then we've talked about it, you know, at the end of the season, whether we can sort of get the senior coach group and some of the key people in the IFL executive together and just actually talk about what we think could work here and how we do it.

So it's just how do we just continually get it better for, you know, the good of the game, really?

Look, I think, again, it's an interesting one because, as you say, it's the whole group, so development and assistant and senior coaches.

So we have seen a little bit of a thawing of how the coach group see themselves viewed by the AFL.

So that was quite low.

That was sort of 14 or 15% think they're well regarded.

That's moved up to sort of over 20%.

So I think that's just some evidence of some change and evolution in how that's working, but sort of work to do there.

I think from a sort of contracting point of view, the big things is obviously remuneration.

So there's still a sort of high level sort of 70% plus who feel that they should be remunerated more for their role.

And we'll continue to work on that with clubs and obviously soft cap and where that sits.

But one of the big things is obviously termination clauses as well.

And so I focus on that and I've gone out to all the club CEOs recently just around assistant development coaches.

And so these sort of short one or three month contracts actually make it pretty vulnerable for coaches and the ability to sort of have more security then allows coaches to potentially move around more to other clubs, get more experience.

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