VOLUME 25, No 1 March 2011 SCOTT LUCAS The art of centre half-forward +LOST TO Know THE CRAFT One coaching your stint and they’re gone players Analysing the keys to premiership + coach Mick KEVIN SHEEHAN Malthouse’s success A lifetime in football COACHING EDGE CoachingEdge CONTENTS Coaching cast-offs 05 – what a waste Coaching is a 06 balancing act The psychosocial 08 reactions to injury Scott Lucas: The role 12 of centre half-forward Developing your 15 coaching career Kevin Sheehan – shifting 16 into another gear Coaching and developing 22 young players Elite Talent Pathways – 24 walking a tightrope Are AFL trends killing 31 the local game? COVER: Mick Malthouse is entering his 28th consecutive season as a senior coach. RIGHT: Brisbane Lions star Jonathan Brown is one of the AFL’s pre-eminent centre half-forwards. Coaching Edge Observations from a lifetime in football CREDITS Publisher This edition of Coaching Edge has been a long understand one needs to learn about the complexities Australian Football League GPO Box 1449 time coming but, with floods and cyclones of the role? Doesn’t it make sense most would Melbourne Vic 3001 abounding across our country, having to wait for be better for the experience and should be given Correspondence to inspiration for one’s coaching pales into more opportunities? Such a waste of resources. Andrew Hughes insignificance. At any rate, I think you should enjoy Lachlan Buszard looks at the influence of AFL
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