Chapter 1: What led to the sacking of Brad Scott?
Emergency pod, a second coach has been sacked. Esther Vans, wake up, Christmas. Oh, you've been begging. You're asking for it. You're begging for it. You got it. You got what you wanted. Woke up to another Mitch Cleary bomb at 7.30 this morning. Eston have just done it again. Found the big red button and said, you know what, Brad Scott, you are out of here. That's the one.
Also, is 7.30 on a weekday now the new time slot to get sacked?
Yeah, I think if you survive 7.30 on a Tuesday morning, you're sweet. But after that, you're out of here.
Yeah, I think, well, I think what would happen is this would have come out yesterday, but rest in peace, Neil Danaher, which we'll talk about in the pod a lot more, I thought to his family, that would have happened yesterday, I think, and then been delayed to today to get it out and then get ready for the round of football that's coming. I mean, it's pretty big. It's massive news.
The fans have definitely, as I said at the start, got what they wanted to hear after the weekend. It felt like that was definitely the end of the road. They were all out. They were throwing the scarves. And as we know, they lost to Richmond's VFL team. I mean, the team they lost to was literally one injury away from asking some of the crowd, hey, lace them up. Let's go here.
Do you think that the Essendon board sort of circled this game on the calendar and went, you know what, if you don't win this, if you don't win against a VFL team, you're out?
That massive part to do with it? I think after losing to a VFL team, after a weird move of selection, like Elijah Sardis all year, the team that he's put together, player-players in different places, that definitely contributes to it. Players' wives also going to games, then leaving at halftime to go to Gimlet. That contributes fans losing their mind.
We've got launching their scarves into the race, onto the field last season they were doing that, then having to buy new scarves the week after if they calmed down. The Essendon scarf economy was booming. Yeah, well, they're profiting big time, so they're kind of happy. Big time. In the big pot of things that led to this, we had people going to Tullamarine and trying to burn it down.
Yeah, some arson attacks, which is trending right now, that came to fruition at Essendon.
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Chapter 2: How did fans react to Brad Scott's dismissal?
Yeah. So I think from what I've heard, and I broke this Sacramento news about two months ago, that, yeah, the boys are out on Brad Scott. They were. And it looked like it came to fruition when, you know, Andy McGrath, the captain, is literally breaking his jaw intentionally to get him out. I saw him punch himself in the far wing to break his jaw.
I saw Guelfi didn't even do a hammy, just that he did one. Yeah, I think it was tricking. Just to get them all. I have heard that also on a serious note that the boys, or the players, the men,
found it really hard to connect with him he wasn't a guy that would connect with players and try and grow the personal relationship he was just a old school old school i'm the coach you're the players we're all gonna die at some point kind of guy he's laughing all the way to the bank now because he gets paid out for this year and next year is he ever yeah so that's the thing so they extend him through to 2027 absolute dummies how do you extend him
The board has a lot to answer for, which we'll go through. So they really now, they have to pay him a million dollars for next season. So they'd rather pay him a million dollars to be outside the club, a million dollars to be nowhere near the football club. Hey, not a bad life for Brad Scott. Great life. He might take Carlton's job. I don't know.
Maybe Michael Voss coaches Essendon and he coaches Carlton. They should do a big swap. Could you imagine? That'd be crazy. But that's a big path for him. So he's going to go just have some cocktails in ā Mexico. And watch this dumpster fire from afar. Catching Bermuda. Getting paid. He's going all the way on a hot boy summer in Europe. This is going to be living up.
His coaching record, 29 wins, one draw, 50 losses.
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Chapter 3: What factors contributed to Essendon's poor performance this season?
Never took the club to a final. Won one in his last 25, won one game in the last calendar year. And now the final things are getting close to, I think, 8,000 days without a finals win.
Jeez. I saw something this morning that Brad Scott broke Ken Hinckley's record for most games coached without a grand final appearance. And it was just on Friday night, which is the record-breaking game. That's the game that brought it back. So they must have hated him.
To let him do that. Pretty tough. And then obviously we had some great moments with Brad. So let's not forget the great moments we've had with him as some fans. Even you can admit that some of the press conference stuff was just hilarious. When he told us that we're all going to die at some point, I think that's when I knew this guy is out on being the coach here.
So let's play the full quote in just, you know, reference again to what he said.
It's not about me. And post-game, I'm trying to preach a culture of investing in the team at all costs. Don't be selfish. So it's not about me. Like, what will be, will be. I mean, when you coach, when you're a head coach, it ends at some point. It's just a matter of how and when. Like, we're all going to die at some point too. You don't spend your whole time thinking about it.
I mean, that's why I knew this guy doesn't give a rat's ass about this coaching job. And at least, look, Brad, we know how and when now for you. Yeah, no. Tuesday morning. 26th of May, 7.32, 2026. Yep. That's when it ended for you. And funny that he mentioned, you know, you go your whole life and you're going to die at some point. You don't spend your whole time thinking about it.
I actually have. Ever since he brought it up, I've spent more time thinking about it than I have. And I'm not even a player.
Yeah, that's all I think about.
That's all I think about constantly every day is like, okay, great. That was a fun day in the car. I'm going to die. And that's me for the 20-minute car ride home ever since Brad did that. So imagine a player going to the training club, you know, got to hit the skills, got the skills, hits a target, lays out, misses one, goes, oh, going to die. Just going to die one day.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Brad Scott's coaching record?
Come back. And then they're going to make a storm in the finals. That could be a plan. I did call for Voss to come back.
Essendon fans, you're in the great boat here. It's a great day because you walk around with just a ā sense of relief, a new look on life, a new optimism on the football season. Even though the football season is too far gone, you won't do anything this season, but just a new kind of sense of belief and fresh air will come into your life.
Not on weekends when you play the games football, just in your life in general, you'll feel more optimistic about stuff. You might be having some arguments with your partner. Guess what?
I feel very optimistic now. I want them to win eight games. They're seven off. That's what you need them to do. And I think they're going to run the table. They have a good lineup here. They've got West Coast, Carlton, St Kilda, North.
They could. They won't, but they could.
If they beat Carlton, that'd be the funniest thing ever. You have to eat 30 cheeseburgers at South Melbourne Maccas.
That's null and void. So he handcuffed them. That's not null and void. Null and void. He handcuffed them to this plan and they said, yeah, plan, plan, plan. This is happening. It's happening. We're going to do it. So what we now know is that I don't think there was a plan. I think what happened here is that he very much like Zach Merritt is being held hostage. He was holding the board hostage.
with like a plan to their head and a SWAT team on the outside saying, I dare you to come in here. Let's see what happens. There's always a SWAT team. Yeah, there's always a SWAT team involved. So he held the board hostage with his plan saying, no, no, we have this thing. They're out on it completely. It's all done.
He said at the end of 2023 that they want to go to draft and turn the list over, bringing these young kids. Said also when he was talking about that, that it takes a special kind of lunatic to leave this thing. So he was crazy from the start, from the start. And then also said, yeah, we could have gone and got experienced players in through the door, but we went to the draft again, again, again.
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