Host of Dwayne's World and AFL Nation Expert, Dwayne Russell, joined Scott Cummings and Tim Gossage to catch up following the parting of ways between the West Coast and Adam Simpson. They further discuss the polarising reporting of Adam Simpson's departure and the Dockers' Premiership hopes.
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How much does it cost to be a member of the Australian football media guild over there as I'd like to know if I should enter the awards. I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't be restricting myself to this country a lot and Josh there'd be networks around the around the world that would be trying to tap into your resource right now that's our world your calendar there's there's lottery contestants around the world that want to tap into your prom notifications you're on a roll. He's getting messages from CNN and VBC he thinks they're the scam messages he just keeps deleting. Sad part is all my contacts have now dried up at West Coast. He's got nothing coming. I feel we now know who they are then. I feel we now know who they are. You've like over there have been doing all you've got all it breeders that press conferences tell them what little side swipe comments have been made. It's it's been a nice like I've been at like a almost a person in the stalls at the circus just watching this whole thing unfold from afar trying to work out what now's going on. Mate I've been a weird one to what? One of the most disappointing things coming from the East is that they keep saying WA media. They're putting us all in. I just named the mobs it's really upsetting if they're WA media bits just being hard with the same brush here. Even even the excuses like I heard the the COVID you guys found it really tough. You should have lived in Victoria. You know we had COVID here too. The other 17 things had COVID too. You know that though. You weren't the only one that had COVID. It kills me. It kills me because I came back in post and it kills me when they talk about COVID. You had a tough COVID. Oh well. Had a tough 11 weeks to own. Oh I lose that. Gosh gets cranky. Everyone gets cranky when I say you don't know what you're talking about. That really happened like COVID thing. Now it's been interesting. Now the code search begins and now there's a whole heap of other clubs under pressure. So the ripple effect is going to be huge. So yeah it's going to be an interesting landscape to watch from here. How quickly do you think Adam Simpson will return to the coaching range? It won't be this year. We understand all that but you're just hearing him speak his love of the game. You know he's got to tie up ends here and as you know Dwayne I'm in real estate. I am keen to sort of get that listing. You're going to get a marketing campaign going. There's a time. But of course there's a history of selling houses within three days here. It can be quick. It can be orchestrated quickly. So how long do you reckon before we see him again and what sort of role do you think Adam Simpson could play out of football club? Well I think there's not that many premiership coaches that are up for grabs in a year's time and let's face it over your up for grabs say after a year off as you say. There'll be a number of clubs that have a chat though. He's got a pretty good resume and the beauty is both ends. He's seen it when it's terrible. He's seen it when it's great. So he's been able to build that listing of a premiership winner. So he did that from day down when he walked in there. So he's able to grab a club in that regard. I think there's been a lot of question marks about the development side of things but I don't think that you don't necessarily need to have every string to your bow. You got other people you can bring into the club to help you in those aspects. So no there'll be plenty of clubs knocking on his door. Has he might knock on his door? Who knows. There might be that many offers that he might have to choose between two or three coming years time. Yeah he could be a very big senior assistant but he'd pick his club wisely I would imagine. I look at Adam and go does he really want to go back into the fire again and be a major leading senior coach at another club. But one would say he probably wants to do it and he would love to do it probably in Victoria which is his natural home. Well you've got guys like Michael Vos who's gone back in you've got Nathan Buckley who sounds like he wants to get back in. I think you've seen your blood it's in your blood. So that's just the way you're born. If that's you that's you and Adam Simpson looks like that team to me talking to the people that know him well and know him better than I do it seems like it's in his blood. So if it's in his blood and he wants to coach your senior team again it'll be a whole new well to take a turn from Damian Harbuck if a whole new set of toys to play with somewhere. You know coaches are very protective and some can be a little precious to Dwayne. So if it would have taken a pretty secure coach to say to Simmo hey I want you to come on board as assistant here because wherever he goes we're all going to look and go we obviously sees a little weakness there somewhere because if he wants to be a senior coach again which we assume he does. Well why would he have to be an assistant coach? Ross Lyne went into the media for a little while and went straight back into coaching. So there's that option as well. He doesn't have to go and be an assistant somewhere. I did some study leave last year so he can go and do that again. You know had to do his weaponry and come back and he doesn't even have to do a year in the media. He can just go and watch putty for a year and then decide to go straight into senior coaching rather than be an assistant somewhere. I don't think you should do media. There is talk already on our text line about Simmo and Goss for breakfast in 2025. I don't think that's a good idea. I think he should stay straight into coaching. He won't be pending a column for the West Australian willing. That probably won't happen. No no no. Well he's not a journalist so he probably applies anyway. But I think Simmo and Goss for breakfast sucks. We have avoided talking a little bit about the West Australian and the fallout from it and their treatment of Adam and through over a long period of time. Just for me it's just there. That's their prerogative to how they want to style their newspaper and how they want to go about it. But Beck has texted in. Could you please ask Dwayne why he defended the West Australian and thought that it was nothing wrong with the treatment of Simmo? I didn't hear it Dwayne. Did you defend this? Well I don't know if I said nothing wrong. What I said is that if you're a journalist and you're going to the football every week to rot or pour on the West Coast Eagles and they are losing as often as they have done and they every now and then play a game where there is a lack of evidence. You've got to write that story. That's just if you're a journalist you have to tell the truth. If you're a broadcast you have to tell the truth and if they ever stop there and you're continually writing that story it would be tough. So I'm not defending the front page. I mean the front page is what it was yesterday and I'm not defending whether the editor that decided that was a good idea. He knows his craft better than I. I'm not a newspaper guy. But what I am saying is that if you're a journalist and you've been writing those stories and going to the press conference it would have been tough for you I think the last couple of years to continually write the story of what wasn't good enough here, what wasn't good enough there. So that's where I'm defending some of the journals as opposed to defending yesterday's front page. It would be interesting to see where media attention goes now over at the West Coast Eagles because there was a campaign for Trevor Nisbitt and Adam Simpson. They've now both departed the system. It would be interesting to see where the focus goes on West Coast and whether the players start to take some of the heat. Do you think it's now time to turn the attention to some of the players or do you think that attention has already been on them? Yeah I think that's where someone from afar can't really cast that kind of judgement on a team that you're on so far from the circus. You guys are believing in the middle of it. I think you're a better judges of that than I. There have been times where I've wondered about whether the excuses have been valid. We had plenty of people tell them that their fitness regime, where they fit enough they didn't look like they had done the work and they told the world, "No, no, we've been doing the work. You guys don't know what you're talking about." And then a year down the track they said, "Ah yeah, well maybe we weren't fit enough." It's been talking about whether their recruiting's been good enough and they've told us for a year, "Oh don't know how recruiting was fine. We've got the number of players that we need. We're going to write in a year down the track. The hard year maybe our recruiting could have been better." So there's all those situations that have played out that I've watched from afar and I've wondered why they haven't necessarily seen what people from the outside have probably seen as early as some of them have seen it. They've denied a lot of that stuff. Now internally they probably thought it was true but they kept coming out and saying, "No, no, you're wrong." So the way that whole thing unfolded for me the last couple of years has been a little bizarre. I think there was a genuine, we want to batten down the hatches and basically stick our head up and fire some shots back because I think they felt like they were under siege and I think you're right. I think there was a lack of admission that there were problems going forward and the cliff was there and now we can see that they've gone over the cliff. Just want to say, do any of you ever been at a footy club which has been where they've been and they're not the worst team in the comp? There's no doubt, they're simply just not the worst team in the comp. When all things have been said and done, when can you see a bounce back? What sort of coach from your perspective is needed right now? Scotty and I have had this conversation. Scotty's betwixting between where I am, I'm sure. Do we go the assistant coach role as you mentioned or do we go the senior role? Well, you don't know until you know, that's the hard part with them. First time coach, you look at some of the first time coaches that we thought were going to be good that haven't quite been good. You know, Scott Watters at Sincueta, Mark Neuert of Melbourne. So you've got those examples, then you've got the Crave McCrae example of Collingwood. You don't know until you know, you don't know until these guys get into the role. We thought that Rosalind going back to Sincueta was probably a good idea but, you know, hasn't quite panned out this year but it might actually prove the right idea in another year down the track. So who knows about getting a proven coach or a coach that's been there and done that before? There might be one of those out there, you might be able to steer one from another club that all of a sudden, you know, if they have a brick wall hit them in the next 12 months. So I don't think you know until you know, we can all guess and speculate as to who would be great. What I know is that a guy like Dean Cox has got a pretty good resume now. So he's got a pretty good back catalog of being at the right club with the right guy, under the right guy, placing the heat in the kitchen a few times at least as an assistant. So you've got a few of those guys who I think if you give them a chance, you're always going to have the back catalog to say, well, it was fair enough to give that guy a go. It's going to be a tough run and it will be interesting to see, well, we might talk about that later too, Goss, whether they go the independent coaching panel selection committee or they backed themselves in to make the right decision. But we'll talk about that later. I reckon Fremantle of possibly not enjoying it because of what's happening to Simo but enjoying it because they just have been allowed to go under the radar a little bit. They've been getting a lot of attention and they're sitting third on the ladder right now. No doubt at all. The focus will turn on Fremantle. Now what's your thoughts on the dockers Dwayne and how they're travelling? Your spot on Scott, this is their moment. I mean, they can actually, they could win this flag as ridiculous as that might sound to some. It's there to be one. So Sydney has lost the last couple. If Fremantle can finish second, which is within them, then they can get the home prelim to home finals and get to the grand final. And they might actually face a situation on grand final day where they're playing a team that's not with a home ground advantage. I mean, if they've played Brisbane in a grand final or played Sydney in a grand final, it would be different for them than playing a Collingwood or a Carlton in a grand final. So now at the time, I think Port Adelaide's in the same kind of boat right now with Adelaide down. I mean, if you can win a flag, are you always going to be a little brother? If you win a flag right now, be free, Madeline. If you win a flag right now for Port Adelaide, fifth at the moment, then it changes. I think the trajectory of your club and your rivalry. And I know how big it is in the two team town. So you're right about this being a huge opportunity for Fremantle. So yeah, can they actually take it now? Can they grab it by the Struffle the Neck? All right, let's get through our tips for you, Dwayne. We're going to get a breakaway and come back with our seven after seven. Collingwood Jelong starts tomorrow night at the MCG. Cats go and I can't at the moment back in town. Yeah, he did. Well, he did. He's too much to start at the end, as he does. Hawthorne Fremantle, Tazzy. I reckon Fremantle get him in Tazzy, even though it's a tough trip for him. Sydney North Melbourne, SCG. Yeah, Sydney. Bulldogs Carlton, Marvel, Saturday. Carlton, but it's too good for the dogs at the moment. Adelaide Hosts and Kilda. Adelaide. Melbourne host Essendon, MCG, Saturday night. Yeah, massive game. Bombers are going OK. Yeah, huge. Gold Coast Port Adelaide up there in on the Goldie. Port. Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. The fortress. Wow. Wow. Richmond GWS. Well, the dogs go so until they actually change history, they haven't changed history. That's the issue with the Gold Coast. Richmond GWS MCG. Ah, Giants. And West Coast. Yeah, you're a subscriber to the sack coach win the next week rule. Well, it's got to be a factor. I mean, the players just spent, has there been a tough training week for them? Or will this give them the opportunity to do it one last time to kind of sense him off and style, even though he's not coaching? Yeah, I'll go for the West Coast at home. Thanks for your time. Dwayne always like our chats. We'll hear you at 10 o'clock today. Always good to have some fun with you guys. Talk to him. He's a good man. Dwayne Russell, the pipe AFL nation's best in the business. And congratulations to Dwayne and Jared for absolutely the number one Friday night commentary in the country. Yeah, brilliant. Are they brilliant combo, aren't they? Why are they brilliant listening to common training footy?
