Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gerard Waitley. Here's a snapshot of Thursday, May 28th. Adam Simpson turned his coach's eye to Essendon.
How did it go from Brad to Hurd?
Chapter 2: What insights does Adam Simpson share about coaching Essendon?
It's remarkable how big this has got on Essendon. Now, whether that's deliberate or not, I don't know. So I can't say that I'm aware of it. But in terms of the race for the next coach of Essendon, it's interesting when coaches come out, and this is why they don't come out and go, I want to coach this club.
Because then it feels like it's a campaign and it's going, okay, well, who's coming with me? And the other people who have less of a profile go, well, hang on, if he's going for it, how big is the handicap going to be? And that's what I think when you go to every ā I went for four jobs and it's a handicap race, Stuart. You're not starting all on the same line. Someone's in front.
So whether it's a ā a past player or a past coach or a club legend or whatever it is, you're sort of starting where you start. If you're a young coach, if you're a young assistant coach, every job you go for, you're not on the, you're handicapped. And it's just how far back you are.
And you keep learning and growing and then eventually you're probably going to be maybe one of the ones that's in front in terms of that.
And we asked our respective AIs, who should coach Essendon next?
It is suggested that Ken Hinckley is the best option with a bunch of reasons around his relationships.
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Chapter 3: What factors influence the race for the next Essendon coach?
He can absorb the heat. A reset coach, not a nostalgia coach. And then it's ranked Ken Hinckley, Skip Worth, Kelly and Gia as the top five or top four. And then it did say the one I wouldn't do is James Hurd.
And it said, Essendon doesn't need a saviour, it needs an adult in the room. I didn't say that.
That's what your AI said. I know, but I feel like I'm connected to it and I don't think that. But that's what it's come back with. What did yours say?
My AI came back with Daniel John Syracuse, Adam Uze. So she loves Adam Uze. Yeah, you need to. She had him as the number one candidate for Carlton and the number two candidate for Essendon, James Kelly and Ken Hinckley.
Everyone should ask their own AI.
Yeah, ask your own AI. Who the next coach is. But this was the kicker at the end. She says, my answer then, best long-term appointment, Daniel John Syracuse. Most likely emotional appointment, James Hurd. Best outcome for Essendon, resisting the second one.
She's pretty harsh, my AI. I wonder where she gets that from.
Brenton Sanderson on the questions sitting over the Brisbane Lions.
When you're contending for premierships every year, there has to be an emotional fatigue. There has to be, you know, eventual physical wear and tear because you go so deep in September each year. Sides watch you closer than any other side. So is that sort of... almost tactical predictability about how you play.
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Chapter 4: Who does AI suggest should coach Essendon next?
Collingwood did it so well. The industry wrapped their arms around Pendles for the week. It was great. And I just think McRae also too. He's generally... sort of handled these big emotional games extremely well. And he'll just focus on process, I think, this week against the Western Bulldogs. But I think Pendlebury probably helps here a little bit too.
You know, his personality is calm, grounded, team first, routine focused. So I think probably he's got a role to play in driving the energy this week and just realigning the club's focus that ā that, you know, the celebration is over. Now comes the challenge for Collingwood. It feels like this is now the challenge, this second half of the season.
They've just got to get back to their best footy. They beat the West Coast Eagles, but they weren't at their best. So, yeah, now that great moment for Scott Penderbury has passed. That's the next challenge, I think, for Craig McRae, Scott Penderbury and the Collingwood players is let's now get to that challenge of making sure we're ready for contending for finals later in the year.
Plus, Shannon Gill, let our know your history of Neil Danaher's coaching career.
The coach, as we've heard a bit about this week, the hard-ass coach that drove Melbourne. Now, his coaching apprenticeship starts, as we mentioned before, at Essendon. He goes back to Essendon. He's seen as the... The brains behind the 1993 premiership triumph at Essendon. And he goes in as assistant coach at Fremantle when they start up too. So he gets appointed by Melbourne at the end of 1997.
Melbourne had won the wooden spoon that year. Neil Balm had been sacked mid-season. This was a club that was... broken and heartbroken. It had been through the merger situation in 1996 with Hawthorne, which didn't end up happening, but split the club in two. And that had just endured probably three years of the worst injury crisis you could ever have at a footy club.
All of these guys get cruel by injury. Danaher comes in, he comes in with not, I feel sorry for you guys. I'm going to drive you guys to something very different. So takes them back to school, makes them full time for six weeks, which is unheard of at the time. They go to Caulfield Grammar into the classroom and he teaches them footy again.
And this is all quite new and quite different from what happened before. But he rehabilitates the whole club in the course of a season.
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