Coach Men's Senior Coach: Brad Scott

[fairbump_playon]

it was just chris and mal michael

Brad was in the sheds at the time making a lovely cup of warm cocoa for Nick and popping a few iced vovos on a nice little plate

 

[Schnitzengruben]

My vitals are running low, please feed me more Based God Brad content!

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

First Scott facial expression in Essendon colours.
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He's seen what he's working with now
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[Howard Moon]

First Scott facial expression in Essendon colours.
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He's seen what he's working with now
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lets not focus on the finger nails tho.. euugh

nail biter - delist?

 

[yodellinhank]

lets not focus on the finger nails tho.. euugh

nail biter - delist?

He never used to be a nail biter

 

[Howard Moon]

He never used to be a nail biter

Reckon Sheedy might have been slamming his fingers in the doors old school style to get his message across? ..your in my world now princess slam

 

[Squeaky]

Realising how hard this job is going to be

"Did that f@*kwit just shank it over the fence?"

"What have I done!"

 

[yodellinhank]

"Did that f@*kwit just shank it over the fence?"

"What have I done!"

It's out of focus, but if you look closely Knackers is laughing "Classic ****up. Oh we have some fun out here."

 

[FlyingV]

"Did that f@*kwit just shank it over the fence?"

"What have I done!"

Kyle, Kyle! You’re running the wrong f@cking way Kyle!

 

[BrunoV]

It sounds like Brad Scott has fallen in love with Essendon midfielders playing against each other. He wouldn't be the first and it's somewhat understandable.

If no one plays on anyone all you're going to see is an Essendon player breaking from a stoppage.

Did anyone check the land at the hanger for an ancient burial ground or a curse, the place where people perished because they couldn't see the gigantic bush fire coming their way?

Sersiouly, he's talking about playing a brand to beat the best and getting opened up doing it. Apparently he favoured another flashy runner from a stoppage.

Where are the competitors?

Brad sounds very Essendon, nothing like I hoped we'd be hearing.

 

[Lore]

https://www.essendonfc.com.au/video/1252205/icymi-brad-scott-on-nab-afl-draft-countdown?videoId=1252205&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1669591110001

This is more interesting than I thought it would be.

• Works with the recruiters but ultimately they choose who we bring in.
• When he pitched for the job he talked to the panel about the list and where he saw the gaps, but even now that he's seen more of the players up close he can see they have more potential than he thought and his opinion about where the gaps are has changed a little bit.
• That then led to a comment about not taking needs early because your needs now aren't necessarily going to be the same needs next year (with the existing players developing into those gaps), so his preference is to go for the best talent first.
• Players are straight into full training, normally at the start of pre-season the medical and fitness standards need to be improved before they can go into full drills but our medical department says they're ready to go straight into it. Whether that's good or bad idk.
• Talking about what position McGrath might play. He said when they were selecting the AA team, there's a tendency to look at the best players and if they're tall they have to be KPP, and if they're smaller then they have to go into the midfield. It's like a default opinion everyone falls back to. Whereas you can have really good players where their best position is HBF – he gave the example of Heath Shaw
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  , many years ago when he was at Collingwood.
• Walla – he hit the post once and that was his only miss, but he has work to do. He's up for it though. He approached Essendon rather than the other way around, he had options but Essendon was where he wanted to be. "Essendon fans will remember 7 goals at the MCG" (yes we do... haha)
• McKenna chose to go to Brisbane because he's chasing a premiership as soon as possible, and Brisbane are closer than we are. But he was really close to coming to us and that was really important for Essendon that we were in the mix.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

• McKenna chose to go to Brisbane because he's chasing a premiership as soon as possible, and Brisbane are closer than we are. But he was really close to coming to us and that was really important for Essendon that we were in the mix.

typical Essadun, accepting mediocrity

 

[justlookingaround]

McKenna chose to go to Brisbane because he's chasing a premiership as soon as possible, and Brisbane are closer than we are. But he was really close to coming to us and that was really important for Essendon that we were in the mix.

mfing Connor McKenna, jetting round the world talking gibberish and winning flags

 

[Lance Uppercut]

mfing Connor McKenna, jetting round the world talking gibberish and winning flags

 

[citizen-erased]

https://www.essendonfc.com.au/video/1252205/icymi-brad-scott-on-nab-afl-draft-countdown?videoId=1252205&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1669591110001

This is more interesting than I thought it would be.

• Works with the recruiters but ultimately they choose who we bring in.
• When he pitched for the job he talked to the panel about the list and where he saw the gaps, but even now that he's seen more of the players up close he can see they have more potential than he thought and his opinion about where the gaps are has changed a little bit.
• That then led to a comment about not taking needs early because your needs now aren't necessarily going to be the same needs next year (with the existing players developing into those gaps), so his preference is to go for the best talent first.
• Players are straight into full training, normally at the start of pre-season the medical and fitness standards need to be improved before they can go into full drills but our medical department says they're ready to go straight into it. Whether that's good or bad idk.
• Talking about what position McGrath might play. He said when they were selecting the AA team, there's a tendency to look at the best players and if they're tall they have to be KPP, and if they're smaller then they have to go into the midfield. It's like a default opinion everyone falls back to. Whereas you can have really good players where their best position is HBF – he gave the example of Heath Shaw, many years ago when he was at Collingwood.
• Walla – he hit the post once and that was his only miss, but he has work to do. He's up for it though. He approached Essendon rather than the other way around, he had options but Essendon was where he wanted to be. "Essendon fans will remember 7 goals at the MCG" (yes we do... haha)
• McKenna chose to go to Brisbane because he's chasing a premiership as soon as possible, and Brisbane are closer than we are. But he was really close to coming to us and that was really important for Essendon that we were in the mix.

read into the needs comment a little differently too
He hasn't had a pre-season with the players, or a season.
Come years end in '23, he'll know who fits and works in his system.

expecting next period we get a little more active on cleaning house, targeting role players, and the like.

Bit meh on the McKenna comment. Mercenary time comes later for us. we are polar opposite of the lions (top 4 v bottom 4 candidate).
not shattered in the least bit with that outcome.

 

[Lore]

https://www.essendonfc.com.au/video/1253213/draft-brad-scott-interview?videoId=1253213&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1669723619001

hah. Not his forte I think.

 

[yodellinhank]

We want to play a style that will beat the best teams, so we're going to get opened up at times by those teams.

How many years did we give him, is there one of those 6 month Ratten joke clauses in there?

 

[windyhill]

**** mckenna.

 

[Lore]

We want to play a style that will beat the best teams, so we're going to get opened up at times by those teams.

How many years did we give him, is there one of those 6 month Ratten joke clauses in there?

Thought someone suggested 6 years in the press conference, might've been 4 with options for six or something like that (his options)? Not that Barham would discuss the details.

And we're not obliged to put in a joker clause so probably we didn't. The coaches' managers don't like them, the AFLCA doesn't like them, and you're much more likely to get a good coach without the joker clause than with one, so all roads lead in the same direction

 

[andleanback]

We want to play a style that will beat the best teams, so we're going to get opened up at times by those teams.

How many years did we give him, is there one of those 6 month Ratten joke clauses in there?

It was 4 years. The 6 months clauses are only for clubs that get a significant chunk of afl funding. Don’t think it’s available to clubs like essendon, collingwood, west coast etc.

 

[Lore]

It was 4 years. The 6 months clauses are only for clubs that get a significant chunk of afl funding. Don’t think it’s available to clubs like essendon, collingwood, west coast etc.

It's available to anyone who agrees to write it into the contract, and I think the AFL wanted it for everyone as clubs are tying up a lot of their finances and therefore a lot of risk on coaches (such as North did, changing coaches every 6-12 months), which is ultimately a threat to the competition, and the equality of the competition when that is coming out of a relatively smaller footy department budget with the soft cap being brought down with covid. Like you could be spending 15-20% of it paying out a coach who doesn't even work there, possibly multiple years in a row, which would really kill your program if you can't afford luxury tax.

But the AFL can only mandate it for clubs who want help with keeping afloat with the pandemic, where the AFL has the final rubber stamp on any coach contract offer, but that puts those clubs at a disadvantage according to the coaches' managers.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

"I think there's a tendency in our industry … if you look at the All-Australian side, which I was part of selecting this year, you tend to gravitate to the key-position players and then the superstars who are midfielders," Scott told AFL.com.au's Draft Night Countdown last week.

"I think we tend to push the really good players, who are Andy's size, into the midfield. If they're really good players, that's where they should play. But an analogy I'd use from where I'd been previously at Collingwood a long time ago, Heath Shaw

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Heath Shaw

Age

38

Ht

183cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.0

5star

K

15.8

5star

HB

5.2

4star

M

6.3

5star

T

2.4

4star

MG

472.4

5star

D

14.5

3star

K

11.0

4star

HB

3.5

2star

M

5.0

5star

T

1.6

3star

MG

244.0

4star

D

13.4

4star

K

9.6

4star

HB

3.8

3star

M

5.8

5star

T

1.4

4star

was an All-Australian half-back and every year there would be this push from fans and the club to get him into the midfield. The best thing for Heath was us realising he's an All-Australian half-back and that's his best position.

"I'm big on trying to get players into the role that suits them best, not trying to push them into a role that the team needs.

"There are some players that I can't fit into a category. You look at your key forwards, your key backs, your midfield types. There are some players who, quite frankly, I just don't know where they're going to play at the moment. That's a positive," Scott said.

"There are a lot of players where their greatest strength is their versatility. There's risk in that, because we don't want to throw them around all over the place, but where I thought there might have been some gaps there are certainly some players that can fill those gaps if they continue to work and continue to develop.
"Some of the young talent still needs time. Some of the guys that are really impressive, they still look like young boys. That's been pretty stark, coming back in (to coaching). You meet some of these players in the flesh for the first time and you realise they're 19 or 20 years of age and have got a bit of development to do."

Dons gun set for positional switch as Scott assesses options

Former No.1 draft pick Andrew McGrath looks set to return to a former role at the Bombers in 2023

www.afl.com.au

I wonder if this means we’ll stop throwing players around the ground for their entire careers.

Find their position and ****ing play them there ffs.

 

[The Devils Advocate]

lets not focus on the finger nails tho.. euugh

nail biter - delist?

Nail biters have better immune systems than non-nail biters.
It's science.

 

[madrigal]

Nail biters have better immune systems than non-nail biters.
It's science.

According to fact checking website, claim is mostly false.

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[carloss]

"I think there's a tendency in our industry … if you look at the All-Australian side, which I was part of selecting this year, you tend to gravitate to the key-position players and then the superstars who are midfielders," Scott told AFL.com.au's Draft Night Countdown last week.

"I think we tend to push the really good players, who are Andy's size, into the midfield. If they're really good players, that's where they should play. But an analogy I'd use from where I'd been previously at Collingwood a long time ago, Heath Shaw was an All-Australian half-back and every year there would be this push from fans and the club to get him into the midfield. The best thing for Heath was us realising he's an All-Australian half-back and that's his best position.

"I'm big on trying to get players into the role that suits them best, not trying to push them into a role that the team needs.

"There are some players that I can't fit into a category. You look at your key forwards, your key backs, your midfield types. There are some players who, quite frankly, I just don't know where they're going to play at the moment. That's a positive," Scott said.

"There are a lot of players where their greatest strength is their versatility. There's risk in that, because we don't want to throw them around all over the place, but where I thought there might have been some gaps there are certainly some players that can fill those gaps if they continue to work and continue to develop.
"Some of the young talent still needs time. Some of the guys that are really impressive, they still look like young boys. That's been pretty stark, coming back in (to coaching). You meet some of these players in the flesh for the first time and you realise they're 19 or 20 years of age and have got a bit of development to do."

Dons gun set for positional switch as Scott assesses options

Former No.1 draft pick Andrew McGrath looks set to return to a former role at the Bombers in 2023

www.afl.com.au

I wonder if this means we’ll stop throwing players around the ground for their entire careers.

Find their position and ******* play them there ffs.

"I'm big on trying to get players into the role that suits them best, not trying to push them into a role that the team needs."

Hopefully the people bringing players into the club are on the same page as the coach............