Whateley - Wednesday | Full Show (22.07.26)
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It's Gerard Waitley. Thanks for listening to the podcast. In this episode, the art of coaching with Ken Hinckley, the eminently sensible Phil Davis, CEO of the Coaches Association, Alistair Nicholson in the studio, Brad Blanks in the aftermath of the US World Cup, and nerdy stats with Peter Blucher. You can get in touch at any time. Waitley at sen.com.au. Thanks for listening. Enjoy. Enjoy. Wednesday morning. This is your town. This is your station. This is Waitley. Good morning. Bobby Hill and Tyson Stengel are lost to football. These matters are complex and despite what we think we know, deeply challenging. But the reality is sad. Two highly gifted forwards who across consecutive grand finals thrilled with their brilliance.
From a troubled backdrop, Stengel produced an all-Australian season culminating in a four-goal turn on the biggest day. Those that know the full story find it wondrous what he was able to achieve. Bobby's place in Collingwood law is obvious the moment you recount the list of Magpie Norm Smith medalists. Tony Shaw, Nathan Buckley, Scott Pendlebury, Bobby Hill. Even this weekend when you watch the Cats and Magpies, it's easy to see the player, they are each missing in attack. But over a lengthy period of time, it has been clear that neither is fit to fulfil their duties as professional footballers. Craig McRae took... footy off the table long ago. Chris Scott changed course last month when he pointedly noted clubs aren't charities.
These conversations are multifaceted, empathy and care for the person balanced with the demands of high performance. There must be a mechanism within the AFL system to allow clubs the right to claw back when an individual isn't meeting the basic requirements of the profession and the capacity to dissolve contracts that can't be met. The Hill and Stengel scenarios are case studies of that necessity and key planks in a larger industry discussion of what is lost to the game.
There is an emotion attached to it. There is. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, there's the playing part and the high performance of what he's capable of doing for our team and for our supporter base. And then there's the other, the personal part of, you know, he's a father.
What are the controversial Bobby Hill and Tyson Stengle situations and why do they matter to the AFL?
Oh, I'm getting emotional thinking about it. Young man with three kids. You know, you want the best for all our players to have, you know, to come into our environment and be good humans and be a good father and a good husband. Those things that we're trying to install, but
environments change and shift and so um lots of love and care for bobby as captain and as a player not across those discussions like we have people in our building that are in the right places handling um tyson and supporting him as best we can but in terms of return to training, return to playing. There's obviously been a few hiccups over the last couple of weeks and throughout the season. So what the future holds there, I'm certainly uncertain of. But as a friend of his and as captain, I look at it more of have we got the right support in place, which I have no doubt we do. And for me, footy isn't really the ultimate priority there. And in fact, footy is over in these cases. So care and support, there are dual conversations running here.
So in the art of coaching, where you have to be a little bit of everything to everyone, I'm sure these are challenging moments and not unique to these two instances, but two that are running in parallel at the moment. Our Wednesday is the eminently sensible Phil Davis, who's going to be our Professor of Expansion today. What he saw, what he learnt, and how that might relate to Ken Hinckley's next portfolio. But we're back in the art of coaching, which has never been more relevant now with Kenny. Hello to you, Ken.
Good morning, Gerard. Yes, it's back and real and it's exciting and lots of things to get my head around and get into right straight away. But look, we've got to get a good little runway into it now. So I get to finish off with our little segment every Wednesday. And it's a fascinating introduction today with the two boys.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:28
2
What are the controversial Bobby Hill and Tyson Stengle situations and why do they matter to the AFL?
2:28–16:36
3
How does Ken Hinkley define 'the art of coaching' and handling players' off-field challenges?
16:36–32:51
4
What did Ken Hinkley observe from the Adelaide vs Sydney high-end test and its finals implications?
32:51–59:23
5
How might Collingwood’s recent form and fan army impact Thursday night's Adelaide clash?
59:23–1:52:45
Speakers
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