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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Let's see if we can make sense of all that happened in round 15, the Monday means test with Adam Simpson.
Chapter 2: What insights does Adam Simpson share about coaching strategies?
Hello, Simmo. Morning, Gerard.
Can you win coach of the year? What was Joss Froese paying before the season started for coach of the year? Infinity. What would he have to do to get coach of the year? Well, if he's coaching with his hoodie in a semi-final.
Chapter 3: How does Adam Simpson evaluate his chances for Coach of the Year?
Yes. Wow. Oh, no, that was paying. What about if they win a wild card? Probably not enough. Oh, okay. Win the next one as well. That's a fast judge. Yeah. Anyway, it's a good start, isn't it? A good start. It is a good start.
He'll be our big issue in a tick.
Just give us Simo who says to start. Well, with the buy rounds being so extended over the last five weeks, I've just ā the coaches are making a bit of a comeback here. This is ā This is the period where you do get to work on your deficiencies and when you get a buy to look at, okay, what do we need to chase in the back half of the year?
I'm just seeing so many strategic moves every week for the last four or five weeks over these. And because it's staggered, you can sort of see... Hawthorne getting their centre bounces right or centre ball ups right on the weekend. Carlton look like they're a lot more connected with the defence. The Fremantle handball metres gains improved.
Adelaide look different after their buy from a motivational and probably taking the game on point of view. The Pies look a bit like, I heard it called before, they do look like... They're back to being brave and taking the game on through the corridor. So there's so much going on from a strategy point of view.
You've got Liam Ryan as a disconnected forward, and then you've got the Bulldogs taking that away. And a lot of coaches are trying things, and they're all, for the most part, coming off. There's a couple of clubs there who haven't got it right, and the Suns are one of them. They've lost their three in a row now, so they haven't improved their deficiencies.
So it looks like that's become a real problem.
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Chapter 4: What strategic moves have teams made during the extended bye rounds?
And then the Giants are the other one that ā You know, the tsunami, that's it. There's no other, I can't even think of an analogy. It's like the, it's a tidal wave or it's a pond at the moment. So what happens to them? And then the final one is probably, oh, there's the Tigers. They haven't really, I haven't seen much from their bye. And then the Bulldogs, they had a break.
So they didn't have a bye. They had a 10 day break, which is actually the same length as Brisbane's bye. Yeah. And Bevos came in, that press conference went for 15 minutes, and he went through the bont in the ruck, taller forward line, how to deal with the disconnected forward, no tag versus Melira. We tagged last week with Dawson. We tagged a little bit with Newcomb.
So what Bevos' luxury is, he's got an extra ā he's got to buy now to double down on some of the things they want to work on. So the coaches are making a bit of a comeback.
He was so interesting in giving us the picture of how ā the suite of changes he's trying to make is?
I mean, there were some things we did differently. And as you notice, when you look at the fours and against, we aren't scoring too well. And we're getting scored against. So as much as we've been winning some games, our template needs to alter. So we really took on some risks tonight with what we did. And we changed different things that... Sometimes worked, but sometimes didn't.
And it's just a great credit to our players to be willing to come in and out of their responsibilities in the modes. But we need to do things differently to beat the teams in the back end of the year. So we go on a break now. And, you know, we've been in worse positions.
But there's a great opportunity up ahead if we can double down on certain things but definitely improve our skill level on the back of our defensive and pressure application, which I thought was pretty good tonight.
Yeah. So there's a lot going on. If you listen to the press conferences, and it was an expansive press conference, there's a lot they're trying. And I suppose if you don't change the way you train or attack something and focus on something, you'll get the same result. So there's enough evidence to suggest on every side now that if we keep doing this, we'll get the same numbers.
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Chapter 5: How do recent performances affect team strategies moving forward?
So if we want to score more, we're going to play differently. So we're going to and play, you know, Bontepelli in the ruck maybe. And that might give us an extra tall, might get English tall in that forward line a little bit longer. Or if we do this certain manoeuvre with the ball and all these type of things.
So I've got my eye out for the coaches at the moment, Gerard, and they're all having a crack, except for a couple who think they maybe have already worked it out and will just turn it around with consistency and continuity.
All right, the big issue is the fresh coach on the scene, the interim coach at Carlton, Josh Fraser, what he's done, how far it might go. But it does look ā it's so fascinating, I think.
What are you seeing? Well, let's just talk about what's happened, I suppose. And it's funny, when Vossi was ā and obviously there's a conflict of conversation here, which ā You know, I'm not sure of the process of the coaching at the moment. That's not part of me. I'm not part of the, let's select the group. I'm part of the groups being selected and we get it.
So I'm not privy to those conversations. But just from a Carlton coaching point of view, it clearly looked like Vossi was trying to coach to win. Like we had to win games and he was doing a lot of things right with how he gave the freedom to the other coaches to help grow their players and Worked really hard on ball movement and really tried to connect the group as best he could.
And then the stranglehold around the wins got to everyone, I thought, just looking from afar. And I'm sure he'd admit that as well. We have to win this week for the season and ultimately for my job. So when you don't have that pressure, when you're just trying to improve and play to grow and connect and try some kids. And I don't think the style of play has changed a lot, Gerard. I think the...
the freedom within a discipline's changed a little bit. So they're not playing with freedom. I think you're right on that. But the discipline around, here's what we're trying to do. Let's focus on these two or three things and let's just see what happens. And then suddenly you get a bit of confidence. No one's talking about the fadeaways or the mental block of handling a close game.
And you can't blame Vossie for that. The players have got a lot of responsibility to take. And once you get over the line once, you sort of start moving on. So Yeah, I think the numbers suggest that they're a little bit better with, you know, the ball winning. You know, they're plus 62 disposal since round nine. They can game play in the front half a little bit better.
The defense has gone from 15th to third. So maybe they defend with the ball because they use the corridor less. I just don't think these things are KPIs from the coaching point of view. I think that's a bit broader than that. So doing a great job. I think he's handling the meter really well. Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What challenges do the Giants face in their current season?
He keeps getting asked about the role, obviously. So we'll see where that all goes, where his conversation takes things. But yeah, some of the players are brought in as well have really added value.
So instead of throwing out their core strength, which they were being told to do by everyone, they've just reasserted their core strength and then put some integrity around it. And the connection has given them the elusive piece that they were, I feel certain they were chasing the wrong stuff.
Yeah, well, I think what eluded them when they struggled was the things they were great at. So the contested possessions, the contestant pressure, all those things, when you match Carlton in that area, they become quite vulnerable. So it looks like they've doubled down on, let's be really good at these three or four things and don't forget our DNA.
And our DNA is clearance, contest pressure, and that's still relevant in the modern game. It still matters. You can't be... not good in that area to have success.
So I think when, when the chips are down, when the backs against the wall and they've had moments in the last four or five weeks where they've had to really dig deep, it's just falling back on that DNA piece, which was set up three or four years ago. Um, and that's still there. So, and they've just complimented things around it without being too specific. So it's, it's working, it's working.
And then there's the day to day, the week to week coaching and how you plan for an opponent.
Clearly we've got plans going into each week, the way we want to play. And tonight was a lot about taking away the Giants' ability to run and use their forward handball. And so the system had to stack up.
Yeah, so this is not a hard... What do I call it? It's not a hard scout, the Giants. Everyone knows. Just take away that back half ball movement and you can leave them vulnerable. So their DNA from a Giants point of view is the tsunami. And that's clearly an obvious coaching. Out of all the teams when you play, the Giants are the easiest to scout. You know, if you take away those ā
the two lockies from the half-back line, and deny that forward handball. There's not a lot of depth underneath them, and that would be the frustrating thing for the Giants. But the Carlton strategy around doing that, there's one thing to say it. The second thing is to do it, and they did it pretty well on the weekend. They took away most of it. It was there a little bit.
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Chapter 7: How is Carlton's coaching strategy evolving under Josh Fraser?
Yeah.
And the coach is interesting at the moment because he's controlling his emotions. It looks like it's a challenge because he's so calm and collected in a press conference. But then they say a quarter time, you know, where's the stress ball? I need to calm down a little bit. And then what you do in the box, Gerard, is different than when you talk to the players. You're in the box.
You are berating all of your players. They're all hopeless. And, well, I was anyway back in the day. And then you calm down. And then even the message you send, you're like, go tell ā you know, whoever it is, to pull his head in and, you know, whatever. And then they go, do you want me to send that message? No, don't do it. Don't send the message.
And then you get to quarter time and you're quite calm in front of the players. Guys, this is what we're doing well. This is what we need to improve. We need you to lift. Well done for you. That's a trademark. And then you sort of direct them on their way. Yeah, I feel like sometimes it's to control those emotions when your expectations aren't being met is a real challenge for Adam sometimes.
And most of the times he gets it right.
It's hard from the outside to... tell, but if three quarter time was a spray, it was a weird time is they just played their best 10 minutes of footy in the game. It felt like that was a bit of problem solving and how are we going to win it rather than the failure of effort or anything like, which would typically prompt a spray. Um, so I, that's.
Part of his, so he feels as overt on that front as any coach we've seen in quite some time.
Yep.
And you say six bullets or, he's, he's deep into the third round.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of player injuries on team performance?
If you're coaching for 10 years at one club, you can't keep firing players. 10 bullets every year. So you have some work to do there from getting the best out of your players. And then there's a style of play. It's an interesting, I really like the fact there's different in the AFL. I like handball meters going. Sydney, 600 meters. Adelaide, 100 meters. They're terrible at it.
They're good at everything, Adelaide. They just can't handball the ball forward. But they're both competitive teams. I like the control. I like the chaos. And I like the fact that the Giants play one way, and that is we are a back half turnover scoring side, and the rest of the game is a distant second.
So on the weekend, they kick four goals from the back half, from the turnover game, which is pretty good, but not great for a team that relies on it. But the front half, they kick one goal off a turnover. in the front half. And I'm a front half football guy. Get it in there, supply, overload, you know, hungry jacks. We're just going to give you, shove as much food down your throat as we can.
And we're quantity over quality. And obviously teams are different than that. And the Giants, they rely more on efficiency and overlap and score and the fun stuff. So it's not working just now, but it's worked before. So yeah, interesting where they're at right now. Pretty big game this week. They've got the Hawks and it's almost a line in the sand type of game for them.
Can they agitate the Hawks and get in their face and really make it a bit of a bit of a war or are they just looking for this back half springboard stuff? So I know how to scout them. I know, I know how Mitch is going to scout the Giants. It's just, what can the Giants do?
All right. They met in opening round of the Giants one there. So Friday night is a key fixture for them. Preliminary final integrity. PFI is our highest measure. This is Adelaide. So here's Matthew Nix around the work the Crows are doing.
We probably didn't feel like we were as far away as maybe some others did pre-buy. I think we were six and five when we went into the buy. And with the way the game's Where the league's at at the moment, it's so tight, it's so even. And we had a, in our opinion, we had a pretty tough draw. We had a number of games. We played Brisbane in Brisbane, Geelong in Geelong. So we go back and look at it.
We had Collingwood at the MCG. So we've come into that bye with some belief there, but definitely since the bye. to find a way to get the outcome where we need it, it just continues to grow, which is really pleasing.
So they're up to fifth, they're nine and five, and the wins have been Geelong, the Bulldogs and Melbourne.
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