Chris Fagan's journey - The Best Bits | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (28.09.26)
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Who is Chris Fagan and why is his coaching journey compared to legends like Norm Smith?
best bits for Tobin Brothers funerals, a family owned business since nineteen thirty four. So j that the Fagin journey. Yeah. So I remember Peter Bluecher told us a little while ago that At the age of fifty four, Norm Smith had achieved all of his great deeds in coaching. Fag starts at fifty five and achieves his great feats. Yeah. In his mid sixties.
What factors are influencing Chris Fagan’s decision to stay with or leave the Brisbane Lions?
Yeah. He'd do whatever he wants. Uh the the some of the conversations around oh, you gotta go again or take a long break and think about it. He did Do whatever you want. We don't want him um hang the boots up uh in January. What happens to the what happens to the team and everything you work on in in preseason? So I I think um he's been thinking about this if he decides to leave.
How does the salary‑cap situation affect player retention and the Lions’ list strategy?
He's been thinking about this not for weeks but for months, Jared. So um it's easy to be a fair mic drop. Um, so whatever he wants to do, he does. And um I I think it'd be great if he went around again and chased the four, but if he if he drops the mic then How good's that? Really? So and it feels like the club's set up as well. This is not they're not just they might be just chugging to the line this year after the last three years, but this this list is not going anywhere, is it?
Why does Adam Simpson argue that rebuilding from the bottom leads to more sustainable success?
So the only thing that'll squeeze it is the is the soft cap. Um not the soft cap, the salary cap. And at the moment some players are staying for a little bit less than what they could be. Um so obviously uh Morrison Bailey have both stayed with it's good pay packets, but they could have got more on other clubs as well, couldn't they? So geez b if they had a pact of some description to say, Let's try and keep the band together and Lockie Neil leaving, that's that's that's evolution. That's not that's not a massive loss. So
What evidence shows the Lions’ progress from low win totals to becoming a competitive side?
Yeah. So everything they've done from um and we speak about the rebuilds and how what would you rather be? You start at the bottom and build your list, or would you rather just always be relevant? I'm a believer of going back and and building up 'cause I think the success is more sustained. And I look at Brisbane and where they were in two thousand and sixteen, seventeen, fifteen, fourteen, um, you know, his first two or three years, four wins, five wins, eight wins and then now we're seeing the fruits of that labor and I I just think that's it's getting harder to do that. But the clubs can get through From the bottom, they got longer up the top, is my philosophy. It's probably a bit flawed, but that's just what I think.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Chris Fagan and why is his coaching journey compared to legends like Norm Smith?
0:00–0:21
2
What factors are influencing Chris Fagan’s decision to stay with or leave the Brisbane Lions?
0:21–0:42
3
How does the salary‑cap situation affect player retention and the Lions’ list strategy?
0:42–1:12
4
Why does Adam Simpson argue that rebuilding from the bottom leads to more sustainable success?
1:12–1:41
5
What evidence shows the Lions’ progress from low win totals to becoming a competitive side?
1:41–2:19
Speakers
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