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Chapter 1: What were the highlights of the Sydney Swans' recent win against Richmond?
This is Fireball, and our next guest is having a huge year as the Swans got it done by 114 points over Richmond on Saturday. Five goals to Isaac Heaney. Goals everywhere. Eight to Kernow, four to McLean, as it was a very good day at the office. Dean Cox is his name. Coxie, thanks for your time again on Fireball. Thank you. Thanks for having me.
Just one of those days in the box where it was pretty relaxed from go to woe.
Chapter 2: How does Dean Cox address the team's recent defensive struggles?
Coxie, they don't happen often.
No, they don't. Although early we just got scored against too easily when the ball went inside our defensive 50 at ground level. So, yeah, to clean that up after quarter time was really pleasing and I suppose to play our way and work on some of the phases that we've been speaking about for a couple of weeks was important to get done right.
How do you review a performance like that?
Chapter 3: What is Dean Cox's approach to reviewing game performances?
You probably answer like we review any game, but I mean... Is it more challenging to sort of find some areas that were poor or ones that were good? What's your review look like?
Yeah, I think we try and be as balanced as we possibly can each week, whether it's a win or a loss and the margin in that. So one thing we want to do is we'll look at all the three phases of the game and what we went in with and focused on. So yeah, a lot of it might be positive, but there'll still be some areas where we can try and tweak it and make it a little bit better as well.
Just having a look, Coxie, you've had a great start to the season or first half of the season. Last six weeks, number one scoring team in the league at 116 points. But there's been a bit of a defensive slip a little bit. You've lost a couple of goals as opposed to the start of the season when you were almost bulletproof down back. Is the thirst to score...
overtaking your your desire to defend is this what we're getting used to across the comp this year or is this just something you've got your eye on uh yeah king you're exactly right something i've got my eye on um you know one thing we want to make sure is that we're we're good in all phases and you are right our defense has been a little bit sloppy at times throughout the last probably five or six weeks and areas we need to work on and that's not just
You know, certainly our defensive 50, it's all over the ground. Where we're creating turnovers, how we're doing that, the numbers have dropped a little bit in that sense. So, yeah, it's about trying to get the players back with a really strong appetite to get the ball back as quickly as we possibly can.
You can be honest with us now. I think you were disingenuous last week when you were saying that, oh, look, Brodie will train with us and we'll see how he pulls up and all that. I know you didn't want to give the opposition a leg up, but he was probably never going to play last week. When did you make the decision for him to spell?
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Chapter 4: Why did the Swans decide to rest Brodie Grundy?
And is that something we're going to get used to seeing from a Sydney point of view over the next couple of months?
I spoke to Brodie at the start of the week and it was,
just about i'm thinking about doing this and we've been speaking for probably a month about an opportunity to rest in whether it was through training or for a game and he said he felt felt good um some of the vision against geelong i sort of look at and go oh it wasn't at his best and you know with his um intensity around the scramble so it was yeah there's a discussion from there he said let's train tuesday and thursday and then have a discussion after thursday and
We did that and decided to, with Pete being in great form, to give him an opportunity and to fully rest over the weekend in no longer break versus St Kilda.
So you're looking at it as a health check rather than risk mitigation?
Yeah, I think all that comes into count as well, Kenny, is that you want to make sure that your best players are are there when they're needed, and I think at that stage, we've done it with Isaac a couple of times where he might have got to the game, but the forced rest is probably a position that we'll look at throughout the back part of the year.
It doesn't mean we're just going to rest players willy-nilly. For the sake of it, we want to make sure that we get our game right for as long as we possibly can, and if they are a bit injured like Callum Mills was, he'll hopefully train all week this week and be back this weekend, but you probably at times have to take your medicine when it comes up.
How do you assess Charlie Curnow's game? The goals are great and we'll all talk about him hitting the scoreboard. Is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing against a team like Richmond who are battling a bit at the moment? How did you assess his performance?
It's more assess his performance on how he gets the ball or how he creates opportunities to give himself shots on goal. It's the way that
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Chapter 5: How does Dean Cox evaluate Charlie Curnow's performance?
For us, it's about trying to create an environment in the club that he wants to stay at for a long period of time, and we'll work our way through that with his management and Joel, hopefully over the coming weeks.
If you're out of footy for 10 years, how long would it take you as a senior coach to upskill and gather and be across what the game's doing?
It depends how involved you are in it whilst you're out. how much you watch of it, what you're a part of throughout that, and then also if you've done the job before.
So I know what you're alluding to with James and the option of that, but I just know him as a quality person and I'm unsure what the S&M process is about, but he's quite clever and will understand to get it as quickly as he possibly can.
Nice. Which of your assistants is the most ready to take up an opportunity such as that?
I think I'm fortunate to have some great assistants around me and also some aspirational ones as well about wanting to be a senior coach. I'm unsure about what Simon wants to do, how quickly he wants to do it or whether he wants to do it again, but he's been unbelievable for our football club.
Ben Matthews is doing a lot of work behind the scenes to give himself an opportunity at some stage when he's ready. He's had a obviously spent some time at Gold Coast and Melbourne and a lot of time with us. So, yeah, he's a really well-balanced individual that at some stage should deserve an opportunity.
And whether, you know, Mark Bay or Jeremy Laidlaw want to have a crack at it as well, they've been, you know, Glades has been great in the year that he's been here. But, you know, being able to work with Spike for a long period of time is, you know, he's obviously attention to detail. He's done it before at Giants and, you know,
I wouldn't stand in the way of anyone that if they wanted to pursue a senior coaching role and go through the interview process,
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Chapter 6: What does Dean Cox think about the four talls in the forward line?
Yeah. There was a text message.
You'll be right to mention his name.
Yes. Don't worry. Yeah, I know. Shoulders back, all that stuff. But Cain sent us both a text message which had a personalised emoji. Now, you're a new age guy. Do you, one, have an emoji of your own for yourself that you've doctored up? And what is your stance on people who do this wankerish type behaviour?
I sort of delete their numbers straight away.
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Perfect. That's all I needed. I wanted Tom Chodwick to do the same and then the beautiful, he's gone. Thank you, Coxie. Appreciate your honesty. The Swans are second on the ladder. It's the Saints on Sunday this week. Good luck and congratulations on your year so far.
No problem. Thanks for having me, guys.
So that's not on. Can you personalise the moment? You think that's wankerish behaviour?
100% it is. And Coxie's all over it, mate.
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Chapter 7: What are the future prospects for Joel Amartey?
He'll just delete your number straight away. Gone.
Out.
That's a win for the good guys. I don't mind. Any bowlers out there with personalised emojis, let us know. In fact, you might give us your feedback on the Mimosa Homes open line. You can do that next.