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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of the Brisbane whiteboard debate?
All right, let's debate the whiteboard. I'm vaguely tempted not to do this, but you're the coach. So here's Chris Fagan on what the concept is.
That idea of having you doing an analysis of opposition players has been something that we've been doing for nine years. I learned it off Eddie Jones.
I went to London and I spent a couple of days with him when he was coaching the English Rugby Union team and in their lunchroom they had a whiteboard with all the opposition players' names up there and players would go and write comments about strengths and weaknesses. And I thought, gee, that's a good idea.
I've got a young group of players who don't know enough yet about the opposition that they're playing against. That's a good way to educate them.
Chapter 2: How does Chris Fagan utilize whiteboards for player analysis?
And we've been doing it ever since.
Collective pool of knowledge. Some of the takes on this have been honestly the worst I've ever heard in a football environment, to be frank. But you're the coach. So tell me what you see here.
They handled both press conferences pretty well. I don't know when they found out about it. Probably the night before they would have. So when you're a coach and you've got to go through, okay, this has happened. Not ideal. How do I handle this? Do I put a hand up and apologize? Do we... We're angry at the guy that took the photo. Do I justify it?
So I think Chris Foggs has landed on the right, sort of the right line. He didn't really regret what was said though, did he? He said, that's what we do.
Yeah. They should be unapologetic for it.
Yeah. So there's that. Then you're Brad. And unfortunately, Brad doesn't got the team to respond. Because I would have taken that as, what are you going to do about it, Lankford? What are you going to do about it, Merritt? I'm hearing right here, they think you're selfish. What are you going to do about it? I don't think you are. There'd be that type of, I would use that every day of the week.
So- And maybe we're all different as coaches, but anyone out there, if you're thinking how to motivate your team, give me that. I'll take that any day. Don't worry about the prior stuff and the girlfriend. That's just a, you know, I've got my suspicions on who was writing that stuff on the whiteboard as well. Might've been someone who might've been. at the club at some stage in recent times.
So, um, yeah, the, the, the stuff that you'd use as motivation or whatever it is, and that last doesn't last too long, but it's a great little segue to, to trying to fire the boys up. So yeah, that, that was out of all of it, the indictment on some of those players who would have been thinking, geez, that's what they think about me. If it's not already known, it is now.
And you know, you've got a chance to do something about it. And the fact that their first quarter was their worst quarter? Well, that was an interesting game. I was worried before the game. They're averaging 115 marks against Essendon. And Brisbane averaging 107 marks, four. So you combine the two, I thought, and I thought the way that Faggs coached was let's play this fourth gear game.
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Chapter 3: What challenges do coaches face with unexpected leaks?
Their clearance work was good. Um, they looked dangerous in the front half when they got it in there. Caddy was doing his thing and he'll learn how to maybe get the ball in better spots. He's a wide leader at the moment and part of his craft is going to be, how do I cut back and get something through the corridor? Uh, cause he's having a lot of shots.
It's like an early buddy and not quite the same, um, explosiveness on the scene, but he's having six or seven shots a game. So that's all good. But the ability not to get the ball back from an offense like Brisbane was clearly there for Faggs, who just went into this fourth game. They had 50 marks in the first quarter, Gerard.
Chapter 4: How do coaches handle media scrutiny after a leak?
50. So they ended up with 140. The record's 170, by the way. Uncontested marks. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. And you're defending a lot when you're conceding 140 marks in a game. You are defending a lot. And unfortunately, they do it to a lot of teams, by the way, Brisbane. But Essendon just couldn't handle it.