Tom Morris

Essendon and Carlton sack coaches.

That's what they do.

They cycle through them.

And we saw it with Michael Voss two weeks ago, and we're seeing it with Brad Scott now at Essendon.

So my understanding is the writing was on the wall three or four weeks ago when Andrew Welsh did a host of media interviews.

And those media interviews, he said, we want Brad Scott to be our next premiership coach.

But it was missed until we brought it up on the agenda setters that he had to hit particular metrics for...

for him to get the chance to be the next premiership coach.

Now, those metrics, as we reported, included team defence and play development.

And it became abundantly clear to people at Essendon that he was hitting neither of these metrics.

Players were not developing, and if they were not quick enough or not enough...

and team defense was terrible that no team has conceded more points in 2026 than essendon and in the end it came down to a bit like michael voss how many losses and we discussed this last night kane can brad scott absorb before his number is called out and brad scott's language changed across the journey as well uh he started to talk in a way that i think was reputation preservation mode which was understandable from his perspective

And then across the weekend, the Essendon board met after they lost to Richmond.

They then met off-site on Monday when it was confirmed late last night internally that Brad Scott would be sacked.

And then he was told the news very early this morning by Andrew Welsh.

And then the players had a meeting at 8am.

That was pushed back to 9am.

And they were told then as well.

And then they trained without Brad Scott out there.

No, Brad Scott had a very clear line of sight on the overall strategy of the club, but he didn't have a line of sight on his own position within that strategy.