First Thoughts - Round 22 (10.08.26)
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What made Josh Fraser’s “flawless” campaign at Carlton stand out?
Uh welcome to those of you who are waking up to us for the first time this morning. The 701ers as we call them. We l like you. We don't love you as much as the 601ers. We still love the 901ers as much as well. Um you can uh catch up on the podcast for anything that you missed. Uh right, we will speak about this uh concussion issue at Geelong with Tom Morris, who is gonna join us with all the news uh just after eight o'clock. I think he's got some further developments on that. And I've also got my top ten most outraged over this concussion story. And it's a it's the list is growing, let me tell you. Thoughts for Signet. Last never flat when you power every moment with a Signet Powerbank Signet.com. And it was Sunday night footy where Carlton get it done pretty convincingly over a wounded St Kilda.
Let's have a listen to perhaps the next coach of the Blues, Josh Fraser. He spoke after the game.
M my preference tonight is to not make it about me if possible. Um and the reason I say that is that it's a terrific night for our footy club. Um our AFLW girls got a win tonight and uh you see the work that they put in consistently and On field it was another step forward for our playing group. Um I do appreciate the questions around me, but I right now I feel um a lot of gratitude for the people that surround me and um incredible coaching staff and and people internally and I think a lot of the credit um around tonight's performance should be should be shared.
Flawless, flawless response. So what has been a flawless campaign?
Perfect, isn't it? Perfection.
It's actually perfect. Look look. It's look, I don't think he I don't think they can give him the job considering he hasn't thought he's ready. Is this shift?
Is this ang on? No
No, no, but uh what I'm gonna say here is but it's gonna be a very courageous committee if they don't select him. Oh, hang on. Is what I'm saying. You can't have it both ways. No, because a view shifted the job done. No no no, my opinion is you just give it to the best candidate who thinks they're ready. And I think it's very difficult to give it to a coaching candidate who has said right throughout the process for the best part of ten weeks that I'm not ready. So that's No, uh.
hasn't said I'm not ready.
I can go and find you 15 times. I asked him, Kingy, I asked him to his face the Sunday night game at the MCG earlier on in the year. I asked him. He said, Look, I'm not putting my hand up. I'm not ready. I'm not sure I'm not ready.
I've heard it. You never know whether you're ready is is is the discussion.
It's just my view, and I get the I get the counterview and
I think this has been this this is absolutely first class what he's done. So I agree with that. He's he's developed e it uh a game plan now that has more punish than Carlton's ever had. So they don't necessarily have to dominate clearance, they don't even have to dominate for intercept because when they do win the ball back, they get it on the scoreboard. And that that's I think uh the feature of the new age coaches. I look at Stephen King. They're very similar. The w the way that they um excite and explode. Explode. And it works for everyone.
So you so you I know you said it last week but you'd give him
the job. I'd give him the job. This week. Uh well I still think it's wise to go through the process and make sure that he's got all um points of the compass covered and and work out what he where he's short and say, okay, we think you're short here. Maybe we need to f fatten the edges, get this this type of person into support, that type of person into support. And if he's happy with that then you roll if he's not happy with that then you say, well hang on. Now we've got I'm sure it'll be fine. You just gotta get your hands on the wheel. I mean, there's only eighteen avail uh jobs available in the country. He's How could you say no to it? How could you knock it back?
James Brayshaw brought up a good point to me uh last night off there. If if he didn't get the Carlton job, should Essennan be asking the question? Josh Fraser.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What made Josh Fraser’s “flawless” campaign at Carlton stand out?
0:00–10:09
2
Why do some say St Kilda’s 2022 season was a failure?
10:09–20:55
3
How has Stephen King’s coaching style changed Melbourne’s game plan?
20:55–30:04
4
Are there growing concerns about the Dockers’ list and performance?
30:04–35:57