Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
10 o'clock on Thursday is our strategy session for the round ahead. Round 12 comes into sight. Carlton and Geelong, Friday night. Saturday, Twilight, Brisbane and Fremantle. Saturday night, the Western Bulldogs and Collingwood. Salma Cafe, coffee, ketchup, 10 delicious new drinks just landed at my cafe. Brenton Sanderson is here. Hello to you, Sando. G'day, Gerard.
I'll just put you and your guys as the president of the Coaches Association before we start, if you don't mind. It's been a pretty remarkable week, starting with the passing of Neil Danaher and what he's meant to the profession.
Yeah, it was really sad. And I think, you know, like a lot of people... found a little quiet spot and just let the tears run down my cheeks for a couple of minutes. Incredible person. His coaching legacy, first of all, I think he was one of the first really relationship coaches. When you think back to a
a time when there was coaches that were almost seen as, you know, that sort of emotional toughness and, you know, maintain a safe distance from players from sort of a relationship point of view. And there was that intimidation factor with all of our senior coaches, it felt like in that generation. But yeah,
Yeah, he showed that a coach could be emotionally intelligent, could be vulnerable, could be compassionate without losing authority. I thought that was his strength as a coach. And I thought his ability with that Melbourne group, you know, to have that connection emotionally with his playing group. He had their trust. He was empathetic. He was authentic as a coach and incredibly caring.
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Chapter 2: What impact did Neale Daniher have on the coaching profession?
and it felt like he was just rational all the time and really calm under pressure as well. But I think, obviously, the bigger legacy of what we saw was his fight with MND and how that became one of the most, I guess, influential movements in Australian sport, really. The campaign really did unite the industry. You know, the big freeze is...
is now one of the AFL calendar's most emotionally powerful events. It's going to be incredible in two weeks' time when we all get together on Monday at the MCG. But, yeah, I think what Neil did, he changed the masculinity part of the AFL, I think, completely. Traditionally, we've celebrated aggression and emotional restraint and all that stuff.
But as I said, he was compassionate, he was vulnerable, and he was emotionally open, I think, to everyone. And we watched him suffer for too long. And what he did for the industry...
is is incredible so i know there's so many people emotional this week and there's so many people really struggling but um yeah his his legacy is is is right up there and the lifetime achievement award of the coaches association is named in neil's honor he won that himself in 2014 and by the time it was presented to chris fagan last year it's so full of meaning that it carried neil's name yeah without question and i know the
And I was lucky enough because I was at Collingwood for five years as an assistant coach. And Neil used to come down prior to the game, the big freeze game, and speak to the Collingwood boys and Melbourne, obviously, as well. You know, and we got to meet a lot of Nils supporters and people that were alongside him in the fight.
And, you know, and those people lost their lives and it was heartbreaking. And it's a great part of the industry now how we all celebrate. It unifies us all that weekend. Yeah. As I said, the legacy now is there and the beanies, you know, it's a must watch event every year now on the King's birthday Monday.
Yep. It'll be really something when it comes along in a couple of weeks time. And then on the coaching front, as it is now, we've had two sackings before the halfway mark of the season. How do you feel about that as a leader within the profession?
Yeah, it's difficult. And I know our industry is not alone when it comes to, unfortunately, senior coaches losing their role. And I guess the role of the Coats Association is to provide support when it's needed. And I know the team down there, you know, led by... Alistair and his team, they are fantastic. They'll provide support, obviously, for Vice City and now for Brad Scott.
But yeah, it's such a delicate time for those individuals, their families, people close to them. It really does... Remind you the human element of our sport. And like I said before, we are so results driven and that's how it is, that sport, and we love it. But yeah, spare a thought for those this week that obviously, you know, Brad Scott and his family who are...
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Chapter 3: How have recent coach sackings affected the AFL landscape?
And it's just not correct to say the hunger is lost. It's just I think this time of year, and Brisbane went through this a bit last year as well, you're just waiting for September. You just want September to come. And that's when that emotional freshness returns, it feels like.
So, yeah, I just think the capacity to be able to continue to play at that high same level constantly, just over and over and over. Yeah, I think the motivation is different for Brisbane. I think before success... It was like, can we win? Like, can we win a premiership? That's really cool because that's the unknown. But then when you win and then you win again, it's like, can we maintain this?
And that's actually a very different pressure to like, can we win it to can we sustain it? Yeah. I mean, I think the very best dynasties we've seen in the AFL over the last sort of 25 years, they've been three, four, five years because it's just so hard. I mean, it's so hard to remain with that emotional freshness for so long and everything changes and there is stumbling blocks along the way.
But yeah, I wouldn't be riding off Brisbane at all yet. And I do know that hunger in that group would still be at 100%. All right, so what's happened in the past two weeks when you analyse it?
Well, when you look at what they've been doing well, but also too where they've been struggling, I mean, in the last two weeks, they've still won clearances and contested ball, but Geelong dominated the game when they beat them in inside 50 differential, turnovers, front half territory, and they scored against Brisbane from the back half, which is not like Brisbane.
So that highlights a couple of major issues, but then the Geelong loss was, sorry, the GWS loss, That was even more alarming for them. They really exposed Brisbane's uncontested marking and that sort of back half ball movement that they've been so good at. They outscored the Lions by 70 points from turnover alone. So that's not they didn't score 70 points from turnover.
They outscored them by 70 points, which is crazy. So what the Giants and the Cats have done really well is Brisbane typically average 121 marks in their wins. The Cats kept them to 69 and the Giants kept them to 68. That's their two lowest markers for the season. So you've just got to break down that offensive system, that sort of control transition, the short kicker mark that they use so well.
And you've got to stop them getting that overlap run and carry through the corridor. And that's where the Giants and also the Cats were able to disconnect that. Uh, their pressure was great. Um, we saw a Brisbane side, which we haven't seen for the last three to four seasons, as I said, where they were just dismantled in offense.
So, um, so yeah, um, for two weeks in a row, the lines just gave up repeat inside fifties and corridor turnovers. It was just so unlike them in that two week block. So you think there's a very clear focus in the review this week? Yeah. So it's everything post clearance really. So contrasting clearance is fine, but their defensive structure and system and probably add a bit of that intensity.
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