Justin Longmuir's key focuses for Saturday | The Art of Coaching with Ken Hinkley! (23.09.26)
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What is the biggest challenge Brisbane faces going into Saturday’s Grand Final?
W what do you reckon his challenges are for Saturday? So they haven't played a lot of their best footy in September. For the journey of the season, they were absolutely the best team. They haven't played much of their best footy in September. What's what's his challenge this week?
Well that that that's exactly the challenge, just to play their best this week, regardless of um, you know, outcome. This is a grand finals, massive outcome for 'em. So I think that is the the challenge. But I don't think that um yeah, I think Fages is has a pretty good view on these sorts of things when when you haven't done something before or you've you've you know, you're holding a great record against an opposition, these things are always there for you to undo or break. or to upset. Now that's that's the Fremantle opportunity. Yeah, we haven't played our our best football.
How does Ken Hinkley assess Fremantle’s midfield strengths and weaknesses?
We've played patches. I thought the Geelong Fremantle game was an outstanding game. I think we've had like three unbelievable our last three finals have been unbelievably good football. So yeah, I think he'd be pretty confident that his last quarter against Sydney, you know, not no one could get Brisbane couldn't get near Sydney, North Melbourne couldn't get near Sydney. They went up there and had to hang in against Sydney, but then they were really powerful. So I think that would send them into this week's game pretty confident too. So um yeah there's a there's always something to overcome in football and um they he gets his
If we got you to turn your mind to what happens within the matchup, where areas of an opponent that you could attack or pull down a strength is for Fremantle as they look to Brisbane, where where would your mind be drawn?
Oh, Freeman will be thinking about Harris. You know, I think that'd be uh clearly their midfield and their their ability to score, but most of this stuff for Brisbane is we've seen them be, you know, a bit vulnerable around opposition scoring, clearly. And if Harris is, you know
Which key player match‑ups could decide the outcome of the Brisbane vs Fremantle game?
If Harris is down a little bit it g it goes a long way to winning. They would be looking at um, you know, no doubt about that matchup as much and you know obviously it looks like a a is it a Voss matchup? Is does Tracy take him? I think I think Harris will take Tracy. I think that would be th their preference, I think, and no doubt about that. But it's a matter of then then can Freo get Harris out of the way, you know, that roadblock that gets in the way a fair bit. You know, um both both really good at scoring teams and Harris does most of the work at stopping it at one end. Whereas uh And then around around the ball, Frey will be I we'll be okay around the ball. We've got Luke Jackson, we've got Sarong, you know, we've got Brayshaw, we've got Young, we've got Bolton, we can bring Murphy Reed in there.
So they've got plenty of ammunition around the ball to match up against Brisbane.
What tactical adjustments does Hinkley suggest to limit Harris Andrews’ impact?
So I think their one one real big win would be to limit what Harris Andrews could do.
And what's what's the art of coaching for Fags as he looks into the Fremantle matchup?
He's gonna just get well, the other coaching I I would have thought for Fates is to get that powerful offense going against a a pretty stingy defensive team over the the history of the li this year. So, you know, he's he's gotta Look, Dunkley's matchup is really important. 'Cause the last two weeks we've seen him just take out the best player or the most important player for the opposition. It was um Will Day last week, was Isaac Rankin the week before. So this week, you know, his first matchup will be who does Dunkley go to now that Neil if Neil's not he gets one of these matchup challenges, if Neil's not there, who does Dunkley go to and and does that, you know, take away some of the attacking stuff that that
That Dunks can actually offer as well. So I would have been I'd be sitting there going, he's probably thinking about Bolton. He's thinking about Sarong as he's and he's thinking about Young. He's got three really good choices that he can actually go to.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the biggest challenge Brisbane faces going into Saturday’s Grand Final?
0:00–0:41
2
How does Ken Hinkley assess Fremantle’s midfield strengths and weaknesses?
0:41–1:41
3
Which key player match‑ups could decide the outcome of the Brisbane vs Fremantle game?
1:41–2:27
4
What tactical adjustments does Hinkley suggest to limit Harris Andrews’ impact?
2:27–3:31
5
How will the coaching staff decide which defender (Young, Bolton or Sarong) tackles Fremantle’s forwards?
3:31–3:59
6
Why does Hinkley believe a strong offensive strategy is essential on Grand Final day?
3:59–4:07
Speakers
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