Whateley in a Snapshot | Thursday (14.05.26)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gerard Waitley. Here's a snapshot of Thursday, May 14. The Eye of the Coach with Adam Simpson towards Geelong's adjustable game styles.
What insights does Adam Simpson share about Geelong's game styles?
Well, Geelong, they're going to turn up tonight for the interstate games. I mean, they won Gather Round against West Coast, but the other two games they played away, it's been non-existent Geelong. You know, halfway through the second quarter, and it's like, well, let's just pack up. So that was the opening round against the Suns, and then it was the Port game a few weeks ago. So... I don't think that's going to happen tonight. I think there's a bit more... It's funny with Geelong. They're hard to read. They're doing things either well in advance of other clubs or they're going to get caught out. So, for example...
How does Geelong's performance in interstate games impact their strategy?
Clearly, their style of play is tweaked a lot more than most teams on who they play. So Collingwood last week, they take them on. We're going through the corridor. We think we can get out the back pretty quickly. We must have seen some evidence throughout the season from other sides. Let's do that. They're not doing that against Brisbane. It's a different strategy. So... I heard, yeah, that we've spoke a few weeks ago about they've got three styles. It's the home style, there's MCG style and there's away style. And we haven't seen anything with the away style yet. So I wonder what Chris is going to bring tonight. Because I know what Brisbane are going to bring. I don't think they change too much, do they?
And Simmo on the possibilities for Carlton's caretaker coach, Josh Fraser.
What do you want? What do you want from me? Do you want me to expose some younger talent? Do you want me? um i'm thinking this um and so there's a negotiation i would have thought about how you want to play because you can't give the reins to someone and go over to you you got 14 weeks see how you go there's going to be a little bit of to and fro and that's the restrictions that it's hard to judge and you this interim coach on can he coach and i think he can but there's going to be some things there where you want to play this player but you know the the direction is to do this so there's there's conversations around that um that they've got to deal with. So that's the challenges and the opportunities.
Just getting the feet under the desk for 14 weeks and experiencing what it's like to handle the media, handle your strength and conditioning team, handle the reserves, handle a player who thinks he should be in the seniors, but he's not. The biggest thing, the biggest change in elevation from assistant coaches to senior coaches is decisions. You have to make 20 to 30 a day. And it's a phone call after a phone call after a phone call about, When do you want training next Thursday? We're traveling. Do you want to go early? Do you want to go late? All those things, the dietary requirements. You go, I don't care. Just make a decision. And then when that decision's made and two weeks later, you go, what did we do that for?
And they go, you said just make a decision. So there's sort of, you can micromanage your way out of it or you can be too, I don't care, do what you want. So there's lots of things you have to do, but the biggest one is making decisions. That's the biggest head scratcher.
Brenton Sanderson thinks the grand final rematch is too late to be strategically relevant.
I think it's lost its impact now at round 10. I would have loved to have this to open the season or early in the year. I love your idea about Friday night grand final rematch at Gather Round. That would be cool. But yeah, I mean, this is, I mean, the clubs will publicly downplay the emotional angle, but I mean, internally, this matters. This does matter. I bet there's still, you know, regardless of if it is round one early in the season or mid-season, I mean, this rivalry has quickly become one of the AFL's, you know, most important teams. But I think both coaches did really well in their press conferences to downplay any sort of external noise. And I think, you know, Scotty's comments around what wins now is very different to what happened then.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:09
2
What insights does Adam Simpson share about Geelong's game styles?
0:09–0:43
3
How does Geelong's performance in interstate games impact their strategy?
0:43–3:44
4
What are the different styles of play discussed by Adam Simpson?
3:44–5:17
5
What challenges does Josh Fraser face as Carlton's caretaker coach?
5:17–6:49
Speakers
5 identifiedMore from Whateley
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