"We have a real gap between best and worst of our competition" (22.09.26)
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Why does Tim Watson say the AFL should focus on developing skilled, coached athletes instead of just expansion?
This game on Saturday night, it just it just moved me to say this about the game, right? Now the the AFL's objective should not just be to expand the competition. It should be to provide the best, most skilled, equipped, coached athletes to play the game. Perhaps that's impossible, but but we should be endeavouring, as the charter of this game, Gary, having watched that game on Saturday night, that to develop more talent Australia wide, improve and maintain and resource football clubs for the coaches. That's a problem across the competition now, the lack of coaches and the availability of coaches. Theoretically the inclusion of Tasmania is going to weaken the competition because We're going to lose established players to limits the talent pool that's going to be spread across the competition.
It's not just about expansion though. When you watch a game like that, you think, how come every game can't be of a quality? Now that's impossible maybe to have it at that same quality, but that should be our objective, should it not be? I mean, let's hope that that that game on Saturday night, let's hope that's not a not a unicorn.
No. That's
what we should be that's what we should be hoping that we can get right across the competition to get all teams up there competing at that level.
How does the inclusion of new teams like Tasmania affect the talent pool and competition quality?
We won't, but
uh it's a
But that's gonna be our objective in this game. It should be. And every time we bring another expansion team in, and I'm all for, you know, expanding the game and and the like, but it does on statistics of the past, it does weaken the talent pool or spread the talent pool thinner and weaken the competition as a result of that.
Yeah. Yeah, that is obvious too. So when you do spread it thinner and you got more teams but That is just the reality. We're gonna that's the best game ever. So hey, we're in a twenty four game season, Tim. You're not gonna get blockbusters every single game. You're gonna have stinking games through that. Yes, I know,
but we have got we have got a real gap between the best and the worst in our competition. And our objective in all the things that we do around our game, and this is where I'm going to the heart of coaching, right?
What does Watson identify as the biggest gap between the best and worst AFL clubs and why does it matter?
Coaching is so important and we've got this soft cap at the moment, which is restricting clubs from being able to actually access, you know, former players and other talent out there to be assistant coaches across the competition. That in the drive to us to have this great game continue on the way that it is, we have to maintain that part of the game as well. Because coaching matters, like that part of the game matters enormously.
Yeah, well that's right, but it goes deeper than just the playing personnel. It goes to how well you're administered as a footy club. You know the difference between a club that is well run, well managed. Yep. It goes to how well you develop your players. No good giving your team early access to draft picks to try and easing up the competition if you get all the talent in and you can't develop the talent.
That's true too. And that goes to And that goes
to the heart of what I'm saying. Yeah, and then you go then it goes to coaching.
Why is coaching considered a ‘soft cap’ issue and how does it limit club access to former players and assistants?
I mean I sat down last night on three sixty with Craig McCray and Chris Scott. I could listen to them for three hours talk about footy and how they you know I was I said to Craig McCray at one stage, do you you're gonna have to change I said to both of them, you know, given there was thirty nine goals kicked in that game, can you see that, you know, this this cycle of footy which has been so defence first Defend, defend, defend. You know, I said to them both, you know, I watch games of footy where it's seven goals to eight at quarter time and we all go as commentators, you watch the y the coaches aren't gonna like this and we go in at half time and it's nine goals to ten. They both they both railed at that, by the way.
But yeah. Well of course they did. But that's the footy that I've seen. Then so I said to Chris Scott, You're gonna have to change what happens over summer now in in terms of that and this is
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why does Tim Watson say the AFL should focus on developing skilled, coached athletes instead of just expansion?
0:00–1:09
2
How does the inclusion of new teams like Tasmania affect the talent pool and competition quality?
1:09–1:58
3
What does Watson identify as the biggest gap between the best and worst AFL clubs and why does it matter?
1:58–2:49
4
Why is coaching considered a ‘soft cap’ issue and how does it limit club access to former players and assistants?
2:49–3:55
5
How do club administration and player development influence on‑field performance beyond just draft picks?
3:55–4:48
6
What rule changes and coaching philosophies are shifting the game from defence‑first to a more offensive style?
4:48–5:40
7
How might teams like Brisbane and Adelaide need to adapt their lists and strategies for the evolving AFL landscape?
5:40–6:55
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