Tom Morris

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.

And that is, I think, quite normal for someone to be sacked without knowing that they're about to be sacked, isn't it?

I think leaders of a football club, in particular the two leaders at the moment, Tim Roberts did an interview with Mitch Cleary last week.

They are entitled to assure Brad Scott that he is the man until he is not the man.

I'm not sure they need to give him a heads up.

and say that we're thinking about sacking you, like let's just see how next week goes.

Just lie about it.

Well, you're the man until you're not.

I think that's often how these things go.