Shannon Gill

Ken Gannon.

So Ron Hovey liked what he did on TV.

Yeah.

I spoke to Ken Gannon during the week and he said, Ron, Ron Hovey was the president of Geelong.

He was very keen on Blight.

And one of the reasons is because we loved what he was doing on TV.

So Blight steps up from special comments to coach with great success.

And like Kevin Bartlett had stepped from expert to coach the year prior, but that was more based on Richmond legend and he was always going to coach Richmond.

But the Blight, the fact that Blight gets it from this role marks a shift in how we analyze and how we value that and its connection to coaching.

Yeah.

And the companion piece from radio is Stan Elves.

Stan Elves is another great example.

So he is hired in 1989 to do special comments on ABC radio.

And there's the play-by-play commentators.

There's Crackers Keenan doing color commentary and Stan doing analysis.

And he gets rave reviews.

And pretty much from the moment he's doing it, he becomes sought after as he is the next coach.

And-

And this is, he ends up getting the job at St Kilda and it is seen as the reason why he got the job because he was able to explain clearly on radio what was going on in a football match.

And this is where I look at Talking Footy when it arrived in 1995 and