2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane

[malo]

Brisbane in the late nineties drafted en mass a swag  of gun kids,  who developed together.  Lappin, Voss, Chris Scott,  Aker, Black, Power,  Bradshaw, Headland, etc...plus Lynch,  Johnson,  Molloy and Brown via the Fitzroy connection.  Astute pick ups e. G.  Pike, White.  All very strongly self motivated, driven types.  Potential  plus effort = success.

And Matthews was probably the last of the successful old school type of coaches.....by that I mean, you bloody well did it his way & measured up or you buggered off.  Can you imagine any of this "oh he's lost the players" cr@p going around with a bloke like him at the helm.

Nope.  Even Aker knew his role & was allowed some degree of licence to do it, but still within the coaches boundaries........very much like the relationship Crosswell had under Barassi.  Two more opposite personalities you couldn't find....but it just worked.  Had to have a pretty accountable team around them both though.