Coaching Staff Chris Fagan - Coach

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jjami15 said:
Let's see if he thinks the same if it meant we had picks one and two?
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Doubt we'll get support for that from any quarter.
 
Cheeky Clarko interrupts mate’s radio interview
THEY might be at different clubs now, but the friendship between Alastair Clarkson and Chris Fagan is still very strong. To the point where the Hawthorn coach is more than prepared to have a cheeky dig at his Brisbane counterpart while the latter is live on air.

Fagan was being interviewed on Sportsday while he and Clarkson were in a taxi. They were making their way to AFL boss Gillon McLachlan’s Prahan abode for the now-annual coaches dinner on Tuesday night. Just as the interview was concluding, Fox Footy and 3AW presenter Dwayne Russell asked Fagan whether Brisbane’s hopes of earning a priority pick were on the dinner agenda.

“I’m not sure that it’s the forum to raise it,” Fagan laughed. “The other clubs mightn't like it too much, but ...” But just as soon as Fagan was about to finish his answer, Clarkson is heard calling out in the background, drawing another laugh from the Lions coach. “Clarko said ‘no priorities, no academies’, so there you go,” Fagan laughed.A surprised Russell replied: “We’ll let you two argue about that in the cab.”

The priority pick wasn’t the only topic raised during the interview Fagan, who threw his support behind ball magnet Tom Rockliff. After losing the captaincy at the start of the year, Rockliff has bounced back to average 28.2 disposals and a career-high 8.6 clearances per game. However the 27-year-old remains out of contract.

“I want Tom to play (on with us). He’s in negotiations and I’m pretty sure he wants to as well,” Fagan said. “He has been great, I must say.”
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Ryan Bastinac on Coach Fagan:
Black has now departed the club to focus on his academy, with Bastinac working closely with Chris Fagan, who is in his maiden season as Lions coach. Bastinac can’t speak highly enough of the Brisbane senior coach and praised his honest approach especially when Bastinac was spending time in the NEAFL recently. Having now worked with Fagan for more than half of the year, Bastinac said there’s one key factor about him that appeals to him most.

“It’s his open-door policy. You see guys in his office every day just having a chat with him,” Bastinac explained. “It’s just a real open feel at the club, it’s all the coaches in general.”
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Lions repay Fagan’s faith
JEFF Horn would have struggled to wipe the smile off Chris Fagan’s face on Sunday. The Brisbane Lions coach has said all year he saw huge potential in his young side and stressed he could identify improvements when he conducted his review every week.

Sunday the proof was in the pudding as the Lions mounted a stunning fightback from 27 points down early in the final quarter to claim a first win in Melbourne for the year, by eight points over Essendon. “I’ve always believed in footy that wins on the road – particularly against the odds like it was today – build great character and great belief,” Fagan said. “So we will milk it for all it is worth this week. It is a great day for our footy club.” It was party time in the Lions’ Etihad Stadium changerooms after the 13.12 (90) to 11.16 (82) victory in front of 41,246 fans.

And when chief executive Greg Swann spread the word that Horn was the new boxing world champion, a fresh round of cheering broke out. “He won the fight, he’s a Lions supporter, so it’s a great day for Queensland sport,’’ Fagan said. Fagan said his constant search for positivity wasn’t designed to sugar-coat the losses, but to emphasise to his players they were on the right track.

The win was significant for the club as it demonstrated the players’ growing self-belief. “One of the toughest things to get with a young group is to get them to believe,” he said. “And to the credit of our group they have stuck at it, they have embraced the way we have coached them. “In a way today, I wouldn’t say the culmination because the culmination of hard work is that at some point in time you might win a premiership. “But in our history, in the last six months, today is a very important day.”

Fagan paid special tribute to Alex Witherden, who played a starring role by collecting 29 touches in just his second game, despite enduring a tough week due to the death of his grandmother. “His first two games have been outstanding really, he’s 18 years of age,” he said. “He had to come from a funeral in Melbourne this week, then get back to Brisbane to train and fly back down for the weekend, and to play like he did shows he has got a lot of mental strength.”
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The standout attribute that Coach Fagan possesses more than most coaches, inlcuding our last couple, is respect of the entire playing group. That is purely a perception from afar based on footage and the manner in which the players speak of him.
 
Dylan12 said:
Lions repay Fagan’s faith

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The standout attribute that Coach Fagan possesses more than most coaches, inlcuding our last couple, is respect of the entire playing group. That is purely a perception from afar based on footage and the manner in which the players speak of him.
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Perception maybe, more likely a fact
 

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