Alistair Nicholson

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

Um, there's not a huge necessarily desire to add lots of more games, but I think some coaches are sort of resigned as we are bringing new team in.

And so it's, it's hard to sort of not sort of to potentially do that.

Yeah, there's a question on the ARC.

And I think the overall feedback on the ARC, and we are sort of, you know, give some comments and things.

The overall feedback is there's probably a decent group that, you know, think, okay, technology in the ARC as a concept is good, but it's not working as well as it should.

And the comments around that are...

Are we using the highest technology available and does it impact the flow of the game for very minor, minor things?

So when I was, you know, this is some preliminary research we've done.

When I was reading those, I was going, okay, the coaches are quite similar to some of the commentary around.

It's like, yes, there's a role for it, but is it working as well as it can?

And so that's something we'll sit down with the AFL and go through and there's obviously ongoing work on that.

I think this, yeah, look, I think this year was the elite coaching program, which was the former sort of level four sort of finishing school, if you like, for the group that hadn't been a senior coach.

And some of the names in that, you know, Josh Fraser's doing it, Murray Davis, Hayden Skipworth, Jamie Graham, Sean Grieg, Mark McVeigh.

So there's...

There's a really good group of sort of next up coaches in that.

And so I'm feeling a lot more confident that that world is being better prepared.

They do an 18-month course.

It covers understanding self, you know, the environment, the art of coaching, club structures and a lot of other things in that.

So work being done there.

I think in regard to Carlton, they've got, you know, a really experienced football manager, a football backgrounded CEO and a pretty stable coaching group.

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