Brenton Sanderson

Yeah, the coach has to take most responsibility for a performance like that.

And I know people will say, how much is the players and how much is the coaches?

And I think, I mean, the rough percentage is probably 50-50.

And I always watch the big losses.

And we are lucky we get the press conferences from the AFL coaches.

I always watch the big losses with interest because I think coaches often make mistakes is when teams win, they say we won and when teams lose badly, they say they lost.

So I think you must accept responsibilities for the outcome and I think a coach should assume about 50% and then I guess you handle over the ownership to the players for the other 50%.

Yeah, so to be really open, what I talked about on Tuesday night was the part that I don't think on reflection that I organized enough practice games for our boys in the preseason.

I thought we missed the opportunity there.

I've probably accepted that the intensity of training has been below standards.

And I've probably accepted some behaviors and a bit of a cultural shift within the club.

And sometimes these are just little small changes which end up being quite big.

I also train as one club.

So we train every Tuesday and Thursday night with the seniors and the reserves and the under-19s all together, where potentially maybe we should have been focusing on just the – I'll just take the senior group, the reserves coach takes the reserves, and so on.

And I've got a very relaxed attitude.

How I coach is – not that I'm one of the boys, but I –

I like to have fun.

I like to have the enjoyment factor, and I'm not one of those authoritative type coaches that yells and screams.

But I also do think I haven't been giving feedback to the players as consistently as what I should be, and there would be some players that would say my relationship with them is not a strong one, as in there's just so many players, and you try to get to all of them, and there's probably been –

six weeks where I haven't spoken, you know, face to face with a lot of individuals.