Mike Wells

but he goes to Adelaide with him.

And Mike Wells after getting them to the championship, he's gone.

Why did Mike Wells leave Adelaide, Damon?

Okay.

Now Mike Wells had a offer on the...

He already had a year on his contract to go.

Right.

... whichever the case, Trevor shows up.

And, and Matt Weston backed it up, and, and I'm actually a big believer in this.

I- if you know who you want, why would you have an interview process? So if Adelaide had basically said, "We've lost Mike Wells, Trevor Gleeson's our guy," they, they haven't hid from that.

And M- and Matt said that, so maybe Trev just feels that way and he thought, "You know what? Week one, let's voice it."

How are you feeling if you're Melbourne United and you're hearing that? You definitely wanna win this game.

That's all they did.

Now, again, it's a team that got to Game 5 of the Championship Series under Mike Wells.

Is our sense that that's their trajectory again? Or do we think a team that functionally had no injuries last season may go through some teething and...

there could be some sort of stumbles across the way.

I think now we saw, at least in the second game of the Blitz, Isaac White was the point guard, Flynn Cameron was the point guard, Bryce is running off all these screens off the ball.

Is...

How much do you think this team should lean into the flex and do their thing? And how much do we think Bryce and Zylan are just going to break away, come off on balls, the dribble handoff stuff that was huge under Mike Wells last season? Well,

Bryce, again, was love playing the point last year.

So I think the big change here is the coach.

So obviously Mike Wells stepped away and Trevor Gleeson comes in.

So here in Perth, we all kinda know Trevor Gleeson is-- Well, he's the GOAT.

He coached in Perth-

And I'm gonna add, uh, my own as far as the first one off the top, because I've been waiting to ask you about this for quite some time, being the, the Adelaide voice that you are for so many years.

What is your take on Mike Wells' departure and Trevor Gleeson coming into the fold?

Best thing that could've happened.

Yeah.

Absolutely the best thing that could've happened.

I think he was among our most unpopular coaches, no matter how the club wants to spin it.

And, um, I couldn't believe that after the grand final when they, I guess they th- they must have thought that Trevor wasn't gonna come back from Japan, and so they've, uh, offered Mike Wells an extension, which he's taken, and then almost immediately he's gone back to the States and, um, reneged on it and said, "Look, I, I don't wanna do it.

I, you know, um, I've got, got family issues here," or whatever it was.

Mm.

So Mike Wells ran a more casual shop, so to speak.

Mike Wells...

And he did a great job.

I would not stand for any Mike Wells bashing-

Yeah

... 'cause he got them within one shot-

Yeah