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The Worst Bits - Gold Coast's loss | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (27.04.26)
27 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What were the main issues with Gold Coast's performance?
I think the worst bit was Gold Coast's overall performance. He was Damien Hardwick.
You know, I thought their ability to be clean in and around the contest and then when we had the ball, their ability to pressure. You know, we had 20 missed tackles, which is, I think it was the worst in the season thus far. So you're generally not going to win when you lose contested ball and have minus 20 missed tackles. So in and around the contest, we've got to improve.
There's no question about that.
They're not the big boys yet, are they?
No, no. And there's a few things that we can dive into.
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Chapter 2: How did missed tackles impact Gold Coast's game?
I mean, they conceded 13 goals, 10 off turnover on the weekend to six goals, five. And that was their strength. So the clearances sort of broke even and that's where they've been down. The contest and clearance stuff has just been non-existent. They don't have that hard edge that they had at stages last year. They've also proven nothing at the moment. There's been a lot of talk.
And then we saw that first few weeks where we thought, geez, this team's got everything in particular talent. And no, there's some work to do there. And I do question whether, how long it takes to connect to your team as a coach. You know, it's not instant. I know we're seeing some good stuff with Melbourne at the moment and every now and then there's one out of the box, but
Chapter 3: What factors contributed to Gold Coast's lack of contested ball success?
To build the hand in glove relationship with your playing group and you can lean on them in an aggressive way or friendly way, whatever button, the Chris Fagan effect. I don't know. I'm sure Dim is still working on that. What buttons do I need to push to get the best out of this group? That takes longer than just a couple of years of... getting the talent together.
So, um, and that's probably why the coach's tenure is a lot longer than other industries, because we do it differently. We do it through relationships, connection, partners, girlfriends, wives, ups, downs, grief. Um, so there's, yeah, it's, I'm sure that's not fully developed just yet up there.
Would it be, so they, they expected to be better than this, frankly, early, would we say?
Yeah. And I'm, I don't think any of us are riding off Gold Coast and what they can do, but some of the things they're not doing are real strengths that we perceived would be there. So that's probably the question, like the toughness part. I don't think we'd be asking that about Gold Coast for a, Brownlow medalists, you know, the toughest in the competition.
Um, Tuk Miller's the one who can get it done in transition and, um. Wits is the toughest. The argument last year, I heard Dima talk about it. We think we've got the best ruck in the competition. Is he in the top 10 at the moment? So new ruck rules come into play. Maybe that's made a little bit of difference. They haven't played together. Some new players, Petrak is still new.
Anderson come back from his appendix or whatever. So there's all these excuses, but the intangibles, the last 10% of what makes you good to great, we haven't seen that with this particular list this year.
All right. So the worst bit, almost the anti-PFI, what we're seeing from the Suns at the moment, the high-end examination that they haven't yet met. And as you say, yes, there's still time. They're four and three.
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