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Coach Fages and the coaching group
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A random backpacker passing by asked to take a few snaps.
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What is more impressive is that the random backpacker also had multiple sets of Lion's gear conveniently available to share with the families - what a guy!
edit - my wife like to watch those border/customs shows where people have to explain where they are going and why they have x in their luggage ... thinking a die hard bitter Geelong supporter might have fun pretending to be hard to convince that Fages was an AFL coach (too old, too short) and that heading off to meet new draftees and their families was a specious reason for travel (corporate entities make their supplicants come to them not the other way around) and as for why you have soooo many bits of Lions gear (do you have a licence to sell these products sir etc)
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From today's Australian:
Chris Fagan - Senior Coach
Dale Morris - Assistant Coach (Defence)
Cameron Bruce - Assistant Coach (Midfield)
Daniel Lloyd - Assistant Coach (Forwards)
Scott Borlace - Head of Development
Ben Hudson - VFL Coach
Liam Jones - Development Coach
Scott Thompson - Development Coach
OFF-SEASON CHANGES
Stuart Dew has left the Lions after back-to-back premierships, moving to Port Adelaide to work under Josh Carr. Daniel Lloyd was promoted from a development coaching position to replace Dew as the forwards coach, with Brisbane then bringing in Liam Jones and Scott Thompson. The club is expected to finalise its full coaching team in the coming weeks.
Chris Fagan - Senior Coach
Dale Morris - Assistant Coach (Defence)
Cameron Bruce - Assistant Coach (Midfield)
Daniel Lloyd - Assistant Coach (Forwards)
Scott Borlace - Head of Development
Ben Hudson - VFL Coach
Liam Jones - Development Coach
Scott Thompson - Development Coach
OFF-SEASON CHANGES
Stuart Dew has left the Lions after back-to-back premierships, moving to Port Adelaide to work under Josh Carr. Daniel Lloyd was promoted from a development coaching position to replace Dew as the forwards coach, with Brisbane then bringing in Liam Jones and Scott Thompson. The club is expected to finalise its full coaching team in the coming weeks.
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Looks a bit light on but it hadn't hurt us recently
I wonder what is meant by "the club is expected to finalise its full coaching team in coming weeks"...another appointment pending perhaps?
Pretty big step for Daniel Lloyd, taking over from Stuart Dew. Scotty Thompson was my favourite Adelaide player, so pretty excited to see how he goes!! I have a good feeling about these changes!!
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When I first saw the Scott Thompson appointment, I had to double check it wasn't Scotty Thompson, the Norf piss-ant. Was glad it was the Crom player.
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No need for a XXXL club polo among the coaching staff next season.
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I'm not sure that it such a bad thing to have a smaller coaching panel. Sometimes less voices can work in your favour.
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A small group of high quality leaders to go with our fantastic on field leaders is plenty.
I think some clubs fall in the "we have the money let's get as many coaches in as possible" trap and end up with too many cooks in the kitchen.
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Probably just the club finalising the coaching lineup and formally announcing it. Any major changes would've been reported on by now.
Collingwood has just announced another coaching appointment - Dyson Heppel as their Development Coach. I would be curious to see a list of their coaching team versus ours and see the difference in soft cap spend. I'm only guessing that just by numbers alone the Collingwood number would far outweigh ours.
I don't know but is it made public if they do?
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Scott Selwood departing Collingwood would have opened up a vacancy at the Pies.
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Controversial opinion I know, and easy to say in hindsight (although I did also say it in foresight, just not here). But I reckon we used the Qualifying Final as a bit of a dry run, to see how we went against Geelong with just our standard "plan A", knowing that Chris Scott had to put all his chips in that night given we had beaten them the last 3 times. He couldn't leave it till Grand Final day to know whether all his great ideas were going to work.
But we had that luxury. As a result, we did absolutely bugger all about the Mullin tag on McCluggage, even less about Dempsey's influence on the wing, we kept up our incredibly risky ball movement all night, and we let their spare behind the ball dominate. About the only move we made was Rayner to the goal square, which was hardly a new development, when he was being shut down by O'Connor.
Then in the Grand Final, we sent Ah Chee to Dempsey, McCluggage went to another Geelong player at times, and we made the key move of using our spare on the front side of stoppages to allow us to chain out of congestion by hand, reducing the impact of Geelong's spare, so much so that by the 2nd half they had been forced to go one on one in their back half, which is when the game really opened up and Charlie capitalised.
Of course the implication of using our spare in that way (rather than going like for like and putting ours behind the ball also, as we often do), was that we had to win clearances, or at least stop Geelong winning them, and we got well on top in that area after half time.
But it was brilliant coaching to use that Qualifying Final as a learning tool for the Grand Final. Geelong had to fire all their shots in that game, they did so, we knew it, they knew it, and we made the most of it 3 weeks later.
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I've really loved all the focus on Cam Bruce, Stewie Dew and even Murray Davis last year. Dale Morris has been a relative unknown by comparison... The impact he has had on our defensive setup was immediate and has been remarkable; I remember noticing key differences right back to our first praccy game against Gold Coast at Springfield in 2024. The amount of times we have been outnumbered 2 or 3 vs 5 or 6 in our back 50 and been able to either (a) force shots at goal to be taken from out wide/from distance or (b) deny a shot at goal altogether, in the last 2 seasons has been phenomenal.
The Starce spoil on Elliott was a key example of this. I remember watching this from the front row of the top tier at the Punt Road end. When Collingwood broke from that free kick advantage at half back, they had basically 5 blokes loose in their front half to our 0. There was no way known they couldn't end up with a walk-in goal. The fact that play ended with the ball out of bounds in the pocket spoke volumes of not just the desire of our blokes to get back and help out (not just Starce but also Andrews, Fletcher, Wilmot etc), but also their decision making in terms of knowing where to be and when.
Dale Morris is the unsung hero of our success and quite frankly I'm very very happy for him to keep flying under the radar.
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It's a little-talked about facet of the importance of the northern academies. Even after winning two premierships we've still been hit big time in the off season by the go-home factor, when you look at all of Starcevich, Ah Chee as well as Swann and Dew.
Of course our academy is set up to increase the pool of playing talent from Queensland. But fast forward 20-30 years, those players will have the opportunity to move into coaching or administration ranks.
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Fox Footy showed a half hour highlights package of Fages' first game in charge, the round 1 Q-Clash in 2017. He was 55 when he began his coaching career and would have felt 85 after the guys hung on to win that game.
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I was very surprised Chris Scott didn't go for one more move in the Grand Final. Disrupting Harris Andrews. He played Neale on him again which was really weird considering Neale has been consistently beaten by Chief and still hasn't figured out how to play him.
Melksham showed a template of how to annoy Harris and make him lose focus. Taking Harris out by playing say Jack Martin or someone who has the leap to jump on him and sit on his head would've brought a different challenge to our defense. I was so paranoid of another coaching group replicating this Melksham move that I religiously didn't even bring it up in a single bigfooty post up until now.
