Matthew Knights

And then it all exploded on that famous edition of Talking Footy.

What's kind of lost a little bit is that it actually stemmed from a column he wrote about Tony Liberatore, of all people, where he criticized heavily Tony Liberatore for that incident back in the day when he belted Matthew Knights behind play.

And then that got Amen.

um, connected with something he had said at a coaching conference that Caroline Wilson had reported where he had been, he had made some comments at the coaching conference, which insinuated that to prospective coaches, that if you want a real coaching experience, go to a different club and go to different clubs.

It's been a tough.

Who was coach when you started? Was it Matty Knights? No.

I'd been, was it Walsford? Walsford.

That's crazy, yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, Matty Knights came out of the Neil Craig.

He was a big fan of Neil Craig, and they'd spoken a lot, and Neil Craig had a belief that the older that you get, the more you should be training-

You're right

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Matthew Knights, 17 disposals, three Brownlow votes.

Rob.

Who got the two, got the one, do you know?

Two years later.

The bottom line is, Kevin, that y- you provided football that no one wanted to watch.

Matthew Knights, three votes.

Brad Hardie, three goals.

And at the end of 2021, all the assistants left.

Enright, Scarlett, and Matty Knights left, uh, and new assistants came in, and, and, and the club as a whole, the coaching group as a whole, decided, "Why don't we...

Jeremy Cameron comes in alongside Tom Hawkins.

Let's give two of the better key forwards in the competition an opportunity to win the game for us, not give them limited chances and let's try and win the game behind our defense." So they immediately went and won a premiership in 2022 as the highest-scoring team in the game.

Um, look, it, it'll be a little bit of...

Like, I'll be there for, um, in November to the, to start up with the 17-year-olds, but it'll be a little bit more, um, being in the community as well as being a part of the, um, you know, the training program with Nigel and, and Matty Knights.

I mean, I'm so lucky that I've got Nigel Lappen and Matty Knights on the ground all the time down there with the boys, and, and I'll be a part of that.

But clearly, a lot of my work at different stages is gonna be in different states and in different places to, to have those conversations that need to go on through next year to help build the list.

But it'll be pretty consistent when I'm down there and, um, you know, in and out quite a bit.