Whateley in a Snapshot | Thursday (30.07.26)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gerard Waitley. Here's a snapshot of Thursday, July 30.
Adam Simpson on the coaching battle as Collingwood and Geelong meet.
How will Collingwood and Geelong's systems clash in tonight's coaching battle?
The system versus the strategy. The Collingwood system, and we saw a bit of vision last night on 360, went through a bit of what they do when their back's against the wall, and sometimes if you're four goals down... We'll say, well, let's kick the next four and let's go even harder. Now, I've seen that more than ever. Saw it with Geelong a few weeks ago against Brisbane. They just said, well, let's just keep going. And four goals turned into eight the wrong way. So, yeah, I think there's going to be four games within a game and not necessarily quarter time, half time, three quarter time, end of the game. I think there's going to be moments where... Someone will push a button. And we saw Geelong last week against Melbourne at quarter time say, listen, we can't keep retreating.
We can't fold back. We're going to have to press this Melbourne offense and risk getting beaten out the back. And they turned the whole game around. So there was one significant move there and Melbourne couldn't handle it. And then we saw Collingwood in the second quarter go, okay, we're We need to change this whole game. Let's just park the bus for a while and defend with the ball and strategically put people in different positions. And then Penelope on field leadership takes over. And then after halftime, there wasn't a lot of response from Adelaide. I just don't think these two sides are going to just cop one move and we're done. That's how I feel. So I can't tell you what the moves are going to be.
I know they're both ready for it though. So that's what makes it so interesting tonight. And Simmo pondered how a young aspirant wins a coaching job. What would your plan be?
When do teams switch strategies mid-game and why does it matter?
You're an assistant coach. You've been an assistant for, I don't know, eight or nine years. And how would you go about it? Would you get your manager to really push you out there? Would you declare your hand in every interview? Yeah. Do you go about it quietly and just, you know, undersell, overdeliver? But you've got to have a strategy, and quite often it's with your management group or with your mentors. So it doesn't have to be the senior coach, but if it is a senior coach you get some advice from, well, how should I go about this? Am I ready? Where are my gaps? That's hopefully what you've already asked.
What coaching adjustments turned Geelong's game around against Melbourne?
So when you do perhaps get the opportunity through reputation, you're ready to go. But, yeah, there's – I don't know the right campaign. Mine was pretty swift. I was in my second or third year at Hawthorne and I got asked without really promoting myself too much. But if you've been in the system for 10 years and you go, hang on, I'm ready. What's happening here? You know, And you've got to start the campaign. You've got to get the right manager and you've got to start pushing yourself out. You've just got to. So until you find out if you're ready or not is probably not going to happen until the process you go through. And you go through one and you go, oh, geez, there's a few gaps with my presentation.
There are some questions I actually hadn't thought about.
Brenton Sanderson assessed Richmond and West Coast. I just looked at both of their squads. There's some great young talent in both of these teams. So, you know, West Coast, Reid, Waterman, McCarthy, Dersmer, Marich, Williams, Young. I mean, Duff Tyler, there's plenty of great young kids there. And you combine that with Baker and Kelly and Graham, you know, Yeo's coming towards the end, but Duggan, Starcevich. So it feels like the wins will come a bit more consistently for West Coast soon. And same with Richmond. They just can't get their great young kids on the park. They've had some injury setbacks. But, you know, we know about Green and Laylor and Grill, LeFoe, Banks, Fall, Trainer, Cumming. Like, they're there.
They're there on the list. It's just... It's just getting them all out on the park together and getting that shared experience. But we've also seen Nankervis, Torrento, Hopper, Lynch, Short, Vlosten, Prestia, Broad.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:08
2
How will Collingwood and Geelong's systems clash in tonight's coaching battle?
0:08–1:34
3
When do teams switch strategies mid-game and why does it matter?
1:34–2:07
4
What coaching adjustments turned Geelong's game around against Melbourne?
2:07–5:14
5
How should an assistant coach plan a campaign to win a senior job?
5:14–6:56
Speakers
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