Chapter 1: Why did Adam Simpson rule himself out of the Carlton coaching position?
Adam Simpson will be part of the AFL commentary team, AFL Nation here on SEN, and he will be for another year because he had this to say last night when we talked about the Carlton coaching job. This is him on AFL 360.
Yeah, I'm not going to put my hand up for any type of role with Carlton from a coaching point of view. No, I think I said it last week, really. It's difficult when you're working at the club, you're mentoring someone and It doesn't feel right. So people can stop asking me questions on it and take myself out of contention.
Did they ask you about it?
Very, very brief conversation and it was a polite decline in terms of where I'm at at the moment.
So there, he's strapped one off.
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Chapter 2: What does John Longmire's situation imply for Carlton's coaching search?
He's out? Yep. He's out. What about the other bloke that sat alongside him last night or was there last night on the show? Neither out nor in. He hasn't ruled himself in or out?
It's not a yes or no answer, Tim. And he had that look upon his face. I will not be countenancing this every week on AFL 360, so don't ask me. That won't stop a brave person like you, though, surely.
Chapter 3: How does the coaching process work for teams like Carlton?
Well, no, it will. No, I said to him, there's two more times that I will be asking that question. So right now he said he can't say whether it's yes or no, and we didn't ask him last night because he doesn't want to be pestered on it.
Right. I can ask you questions about it, though. Yes, of course. Yes, that's okay. He hasn't shut you down? Who? Horse hasn't said to you that you can't answer questions about him on our radio show?
Chapter 4: What are the implications of casting a wide net in coaching searches?
No, he hasn't said it directly, has he? I want to ask you this question then. Would it be reasonable, though ā It would be unreasonable to think that he would have to put himself through the process, would it not? If I rang John today and I said, John, we are interested in you coaching Carlton, but this is the way we want to lay it out.
We want to gather as many young coaches as we can out there. We want to interview them, and then we're going to have a final list. If you say to me right now you're interested, you will be on our final list, and that will be a list of five. Are you prepared to put yourself through that process? What would you think John Longmire might say in that instance?
Chapter 5: How might John Longmire fit into Carlton's coaching plans?
Yeah, if it's a five-stage process, then he comes in at stage five.
Yes. Yeah. And that's not unreasonable, is it?
I don't think so. No. You're not putting him into the stage one, two, and three where you're just casting the net as wide as you possibly can. If that's in fact what they're doing, I'm only guessing. But Graeme Wright did that when he went after Craig and ended up with Craig McRae, rather. Cast the widest net.
Chapter 6: What are the next steps for Carlton in their coaching search?
Melbourne did it, you know. Narrow that down, find out who's out there, narrow it down, narrow it down, have some conversations, narrow it down, then you'll get to a real pointy end. And that's when someone like, if John Longmire's interested, that's when someone like he or Ken Inkley would enter the process, I would imagine.