EMERGENCY POD: Brad Scott Gets Sacked

Emergency pod, a second coach has been sacked.Esther Vans, wake up, Christmas.Oh, you've been begging.You're asking for it.You're begging for it.You got it.

You got what you wanted.Woke up to another Mitch Cleary bomb at 7 .30 this morning.Esther have just done it again.Found the big red button and said, you know what, Brad Scott, you are out of here.That's the one.Also is 7 .30 on a weekday now the new time slot to get sacked?

Yeah, I think if you survive 7 .30 on a Tuesday morning, you're sweet.But after that, you're out of here.

Yeah, I think what would happen is this would have come out yesterday, but rest in peace, Neil Danaher, which we'll talk about in the pod a lot more, I thought to his family that would have happened yesterday, I think, and then been delayed to today to get it out and then get ready for the round of football that's coming.But I mean, it's pretty big.It's massive news.The fans have definitely, as I said at the start, got what they wanted here.After the weekend, it felt like that was definitely the end of the road.They were all out.

They were throwing the scarves.And then as we know, they lost to Richmond's VFL team.I mean, the team they lost to was literally one injury away from asking some of the crowd, hey, lace them up.Let's go here.

Do you think that the Essendon board sort of circled this game on the calendar and went, you know what, if you don't win this, If you don't win against a VFL team, you're out.

That massive part has to do with it.I think after losing to a VFL team, after weird moves, selection, like Elijah Sardis all year, the team that he's put together, players in different places, that definitely contributes to it.Players' wives also going to games, then leaving at halftime to go to Gimlet.that contributes fans losing their mind.We've got launching their scarves into the race onto the field last season.They were doing that then having to buy new scarves a week after, if they calm down, like the Essendon scarf

was booming.

Yeah, well, they're profiting big time, so they're kind of happy.

Big time.And then, you know, in the big pot of things that led to this, we had people going to Tullamarine and trying to burn it down.

Yeah, that was some arson attacks, which is trending right now, that came to fruition at Essendon.

So they got field bombed?Yep.For sure.And then you put, in the same pot, them being 1 -10, the board decided over the weekend that he's not the guy for next year, so let's rip the bandit off.

I'm seeing a lot of Essendon fans saying that they think Andy McGrath, Sam Durham, and all the other players that got injured on Friday night did it intentionally, so they could, like, lose the game and then sack Brad Scott.Yeah.So I think, from what I've heard, And I broke this Sacramento news about two months ago that, yeah, the boys are out on Brad Scott.They were.And it looked like it came to fruition when, you know, Andy McGrath, the captain, is literally breaking his jaw intentionally to get him out.

I saw him punch himself in the far wing to break his jaw.I saw Guelphy didn't even do a hammy, just did one.Yeah, I think he was tricking.Just to get them all.I have heard that also on a serious note that the boys, or the players, the men, found it really hard to connect with him.He wasn't a guy that would connect with players and try and grow the personal relationship.

He was just an old school, I'm the coach, you're the players.We're all going to die at some point kind of guy.

He's laughing all the way to the bank now because he gets paid out for this year and next year.Is he ever?Yeah.

So that's the thing.So they extend him through to 2027.Absolute dummies.How do you extend him?And the board has a lot to answer for, which we'll go through.So they really now, they have to pay him a million dollars for next season.

So they'd rather pay him a million dollars to be outside the club, a million dollars to be nowhere near the football club.Hey, not a bad life for Brad Scott.Great life.He might take Carlton's job.Maybe Michael Voss coaches Essendon and he coaches Carlton.

They should do a big swap.

Could you imagine?That'd be crazy.But that's a big path for him.So he's going to go just have some cocktails,in Mexico and watch this dumpster fire from afar.He's getting paid.

He's going all the way on a hot boy summer in Europe.This is going to be living up his coaching record.29 wins, one draw, 50 losses, never took the club to a final.Won one in his last 25, won one game in the last calendar year.And now the final things are getting close to, I think 8 ,000 days that a finals win.

Jeez.I saw something this morning that Brad Scott, broke Ken Hinckley's record for most games coach without a grand final appearance.And it was just on Friday night, which is the record -breaking game.That's the game that broke it back.So they must have hated him for letting him do that.

Pretty tough.And then obviously we had some great moments with Brad.So let's not forget the great moments we've had with him, Eston fans.Even you can admit that some of the press conference stuff was just hilarious.When he told us that we're all going to die at some point, I think that's when I knew this guy is out on being the coach here.So let's play the full quote in just, you know, reference again to what he said.

It's not, it's, it's, it's not about me.Like, post game, I'm trying to preach a culture of investing in the team at all costs.Don't be selfish.So it's not about me.Like, what will be will be.I mean, when you coach, when you're a head coach, it ends at some point.

It's just a matter of how and when.Like, we're all going to die at some point too.You don't spend your whole time thinking about it.

I mean, that's why I knew this guy doesn't give a rat's arse about this coaching job.

And Elyse, look, Brad, we know how and when now for you.Tuesday morning.

26th of May, 7 .32, 2026.

Yep.

That's when it ended for you.And funny that he mentioned, you know, you go your whole life and you're going to die at some point, you know, spend your whole time thinking about it.I actually have, ever since he brought it up, I've spent more time thinking about it than I have.So, and I'm not even a player.

Yeah, it's all I think about.

It's all I think about constantly every day is like, okay, great.That was a fun day in the car.I'm going to die.And that's me.for the 20 minute car ride home ever since Brad did that.So imagine a player going to the training club, you know, got to hit the skills, get the skills, hits a target, lays out, misses one, goes, oh, going to die.

Just going to die one day.I'm going to miss a kick eventually as well.It's a negative, it's a negative rabbit hole to be down of death and losing games.Death and despair.And just a horrible, and the pockets on fire because someone lit on fire.Yep.

Bad times, bad times for him.I know, you know, It's just, and then you look, you know, took a swipe at Zach Merritt's wife as well in one of the press conferences.That was bizarre.When he tried to take, he said, yeah, we'll get her some gimlet vouchers for next game.

Hey, I'll write that.He just didn't give a shit.Yeah, he had some aura.

He built lots of aura in the last few press conferences that he had.So, and then he told, this weird thing has all come to fruition now.Yep.He's done.He's gone.But all season, even from the last season, we were told they're rebuilding.

And that came as a massive surprise to us and to Essendon fans.They went, are we?I didn't realize we were doing that, but sure, we're rebuilding.He told us that there's a plan.We have a plan, the board's on board with this, the CEO, the president, they're all on board with what we're doing here.Then Andrew Welsh, I swear a few weeks ago, says Brad Scott is the next Essendon Premiership coach.

I love when people just say stuff they don't mean.And then, because I know he didn't mean that at the time, but he got caught into saying something just to end the conference or the interview and said, you know what, Brad Scott's our next premiership coach.

Well, maybe he meant it.Maybe he's going to, maybe they're going to get a little sugar hit and then realise and go, Hey Brad, we miss you.Come back.And then they're going to make a storm in the finals.That could be a plan.I did call for Foster to come back.

You're in the great boat here.It's, it's, it's a great day because you walk around with just a, sense of relief, a new look on life, a new optimism on the football season.Even though the football season is too far gone, you won't do anything this season, but just a new kind of sense of belief and fresh air away.into your life.Not on weekends when you play the games football, just in your life in general, you'll feel more optimistic about stuff.You might be having some arguments with your partner.

Guess what?

I feel very optimistic now.I want them to win eight games.There's seven off.That's what you need them.And I think they're going to run the table.They have a good lineup here.

They've got West Coast, Carlton, St Kilda, North.

They could.They won't, but they could.

If they beat Carlton, that'd be the funniest thing ever.You have to eat 30 cheeseburgers at South Melbourne Maccas.

That's null and void.So he handcuffed them - That's not null and void!Null and void.He handcuffed them to this plan and they said, yeah, plan, plan, plan.This is happening.It's happening.

We're going to do it.So what we now know is that I don't think there was a plan.I think what happened here is that he very much like Zach Merritt is being held hostage.He was holding the board hostage with like a plan to the head and a SWAT team on the outside saying, I dare you to come in here.Let's see what happens.It's always a SWAT team.

Yeah, it's always a SWAT team involved.So he held the board hostage with his plan saying, no, no, we have this thing.They're out, no, completely.It's all done.He said at the end of 2023 that they want to go to draft and turn the list over, bringing these young kids.Said also, when he was talking about that, that it takes a special kind of lunatic to lead this thing.

So he was crazy from the start, from the start.And then also said, yeah, we could have gone and got experienced players in through the door, but we went to the draft again, again, again.And then as they do it, Eston, the past always comes back to haunt them.Put on the drug saga, try to pin Hurdy for this stuff.He said, you're out here running an illegal drug ring.I've got to deal with this now.

Allegedly, not alleged, because it happened.But you know, you're out here overseeing this thing.And now I'm dealing with fallout because, could it go to the draft in those important years?Have had to rebuild now.We're miles behind everyone.The club's on fire.

We can't train in the forward pocket.It's on fire.There's that as well.So, and then you put on top of this, he was handcuffed to a list where they only had 25 players to pick from.But they got so injured last season.

They used every single player on their list last year.

Yeah.I think Moffs had like 14 or 15 debutantes, which is a record.

Yeah.

So he had nothing to work with last season and this season.Not the same, but when you don't play a whole season, like you miss a whole season.of just trying to get your team or your best team on the field to have chemistry and connect and trying to build this thing and lead the club and the fans towards premiership glory, but when you don't have any cattle to work with and they're all so injured and they're all so young, makes it tough.

Yeah, I don't think even like the best coaches in the league were going to do anything with that list and injury, like the injury list last year.It's too difficult.

It's such a tough list.

You're playing literally like VFL players against AFL quality.

There's such a big step off between AFL and VFL.Just trying to compete and make something of what you've got.

Yeah.

I know one guy who just woke up after, you know, probably went for a morning walk and a coffee and just fist pump when it came through.Boomer Harvey.Had a horrible weekend last weekend.SP433.Had to see that unfold.We heard him go on the radio and said, yeah, he's dragging this thing out now.

How much money is this guy making?And then was forced to flip the coin.And no, he just woke up and said, yap.Revenge sacking, got ya.Finally got ya.End his career early.

He'd be so stoked today.Get rid of Brad.Get rid of him.He might be behind it, Boomer.Somehow.He might go in and coach.

Imagine if Boomer takes over the coaching job.So Brad, it's all done.At some point it had to end.It's just, you know, and also I think a little bit when Carlton sacked Vossi and then they started their search immediately.I think that would put some pressure on Essendon to say, okay, well this guy, when they got together and said he's not you know, the guy that's going to lead us into 2027 and beyond, they had to then make that move quickly.

Well, you did call this, you said now Vossie, the Vossie Dominoes have fallen, Brad Scott's up next.And Voss first up.You can't let Carlton have free reign for the rest of the season to go looking for the next best coach.I mean, John Longmuir's there, Ken Hinckley's over there, like they're all like well touted in...

Yeah, in the like hunt for who's to take over the role.That's who they're going after.And you can't let Carlton, as well,have half a season to just wine and dine these guys.Hang out, have beers.It's like Tasmania taking the day courses to Tassie.

It is.Yeah.You know, Carlton out there sleeping with all the coaches that are available.And then you come in late and say, actually, we want to sleep with you as well.Guess what?I had too much sex.

So now I'm exhausted.Don't want to go to you guys.Is your pocket on fucking fire?Don't look at that.It's all good.So Carlton's been rooting around and Essendon want a piece.

100%.

Well, now you have to sleep around with prospective coaches.Like you just have to go and like do the things and try and get yourself out there and make yourself very available to everyone.

It's like Ash trying to find a girlfriend.Yeah, a little bit.In Melbourne.

A little bit.That's what you got to do.Ash is there as well.You all right, Ash?How do you feel about - What the fuck was that?How do you feel, Ash?

About him getting sacked?Yeah.We're going to get sacked at some point.Really sad.

Yeah, it is.

Yeah.It's tough.That's okay.

Who do we think takes over in the interim?Is it Dean Solomon, who's another former son, like Josh Fraser?

That's, yeah, Dean Solomon takes over.So that's the question.Who is going to take over this thing right now?I mean, they were begging for this day, but now this day equal, you need an answer now, now that you're here.On everything you wanted, it's like, where do we go from here?Because firearms are gone, you're playing trips to Bali.

You loved Dean Solomon as well at the Gold Coast, didn't you?Good people person.Yeah.

Good people person.They're dead, from what we've heard, they're dying out for a people person.Because Stewie Jew was the one that got rid of Dean Solomon from the Suns.Do you remember that?Vaguely.He was the assistant coach and then Stewie Dew didn't want him around so he got rid of him.

Yeah.So was it like, was that due to like a...

Dean Solomon's a very strong personality.I think he can't be an assistant coach.

Ah, okay, yep.

As in like he does so well being assistant coach and connects with players so well that maybe that's threatening for people.Yeah, okay.So that could be maybe something happened.

It's like in the NFL where the backup quarterbacks are a little bit too good and it puts the pressure on the number one and the franchise has to try and take him out.

Well, I think so.I think so.But I feel like, so Dean Solomon's going to take over.I just have thegrowing feeling they're going to bring back James Heard.Unfinished business.

Well, that's what they all want.That's what the Essendon fans.All want it.It's literally a thing where they say, we have unfinished business here.We need to see what this thing's like.It's not going to go away until they say, or until they make a decision to listen to the fans and maybe whoever else has some pull on this thing, where everyone's saying, James Hurd, James Hurd, James Hurd.

Then they'll hire the next coach.And if it's not James Hurd, it's going to be, bring back Hurdy, bring back Hurdy.So they may as well just go, fuck it.Let's bring back Hurdy.Get Hurdy in straight away.Just bring him back.

It's just like, sure.Did the player start accidentally taking drugs?Yes.It was a minor slip up, but they want him back.

They want to see what he can do.I actually think you raised a good point yesterday where you said just get him in, juice him up, and then get him some morale wins.We know it worked.Yeah.It worked.Literally, like, Joe Watson won a Brown though from it.

Yeah.Had to give it back.Oh, Archie Roberts just licking his lips here.Just going, yeah, fine.

Let's get this thing going.

Give him some redder as well.Yeah, just get him going on anything.No one will have to do skinfold tests.

But could you, like, It'd be great news.It'd be great story if Herd does return.

I thought you meant if they start taking drugs.

I'm still big on them taking performance enhancing.Like the Enhanced Games.

Compound V. You know how the Enhanced, what did you call them before, Obsessed?

The Compound V Bombers.

The Compound Bombers.You know how the Enhanced Games have started?

And how it's like, play it, I'll let him go.Let him do it.Turn a blind eye to it.Let's make him competitive again.

Yeah.I mean, just test him in the off season and then we'll go back and we'll rejig the results.And if anyone's the guy to know where to find a guy, I heard he's that guy.

Allegedly.Allegedly.But just put that aside.Could you imagine that day when that news breaks that Hurdy takes over and he's back in Essendon.So he's been coaching at Port Melbourne.So he's ready to go.

How's Port Melbourne be going?I don't know.I don't know.I don't know.But I think it feels like they're going to run a whole process for sure and find someone, Horst is in there, Ken Hinckley's around as well.So maybe they find one of those two they can potentially take over.

But I think the front -runner, if there was a marker for it right now, the favourite by an absolute country mile would be James Hurd.I mean, Brad Scott's free now.It's just, yeah, he's so free.What is he going to do this time?

What does he do?Do you reckon he goes to Carlton?Nah, God no.No, no, we're good.Well, he was in the, um, he was in the lining to take over as the AFL boss.

He was going to be, yeah, he was going to be, uh, sorry, Andrew Dillon.

Yeah.So, and look, there's a lot of, uh, a lot of drama circulating with the AFL at the moment.Is that something that people start putting the pressure on?

See, that's the thing with Brad now.He's, he absolutely butchered Essendon.Could he butcher the AFL if he takes over?

And also I don't want to, we're not hanging shit on the AFL in this regard when we're saying that, but there's a lot of people that like on Twitter are saying Brad Scott should go take over right now.Everybody's calm down.

What Brad's going to let Brad just do Brad for a little bit.What does Zack Merritt do now?

Well, I don't know.Maybe he, maybe Brad Scott was the issue there and he forced him to stay.

And then you don't feel as well.Also when Zack was trying to get out, Brad, who forced him to stay, it was actually before forcing him to stay, I was trying to be his friend because he invited Zack over for a nice steak, cooked him a beautiful steak.Zack eats a steak, then sits back and go, I want to trade.I appreciate the steak, but I'm outta here.And that kind of fractured their relationship.Because you never, you go bad news, then steak.

You never go steak, bad news.And you never eat a man's steak and then deliver bad news.At Noddy's house.

Yeah, yeah, that's disrespectful.

Because you never go, oh, thank you so much for inviting me over.Thank you so much for the steak, medium rare, beautiful.The Diane sauce was great.Ran over your dog on the way in.

Dog ran over it.It's like Gary Lyne and Billy Brown.So he's not eating a steak and then saying, hey, act it up, you know?

You don't eat a man's steak.yeah, you'd never eat another man's steak, that's for sure.That's for sure.Elijah Sardis is also having steak and champagne.He's popping champagne for sure.Elijah Sardis.

Surely he gets a game.He's so happy.He's about to start on ball this week.

He's not coming off the ground for a month.

He's going to have 100 % game time.

100 % game time for the rest of the season.He's not running defensively.

He's like, listen, that guy gave me no game time.I'm getting mines.I'm getting as much game time as I want.Don't you dare take me off, Sully.He might break the disposal record.He's going to go crazy.

There's always one player after an interim coach comes in that goes, takes a bounce, goes up massively.It could be him.You got something else?

Who was the blues one so far?

Kripper.Always does it.Jack Ison's looking really good.Whole team.Whole team.Yeah, they'll find something.

Yeah.

They'll find some players like that.Find some guys to step up, get the shackles off.Now the players are...I really hope...Who'd they've got?Oh, they've got West Coast.

Archie Perkins would be a gun now.Watch it.

West Coast is going to get messed up.We know what happens.Interim coaches.Sugar hit.Hits hard.And then I know also by...

You always see who has the interim coach next up.I know Dogs fans have never run to the fixture quicker.Just make sure they're not the wrong side of it.

They're three and the biggest side were left going, thank God we don't get that.

So okay, West Coast are going to lose.

That's fine.West Coast, then Carlton at the G. And then they have Melbourne, North, Saints, Brisbane, Giants, Hawthorne.So they got a couple of winnable games in there if they have that sugar hit.

Wow.I know it's bad when you go on to Eston's Instagram page and they posted a, thank you, Brad Scott.And the most liked comment is actually me.You're going to bring back Hurd, aren't you?Pushmark.Bring back James Hurd.

Uh, let's get everyone who can effectively develop the existing young.That's another thing.They didn't really, he couldn't develop the young players.Scythe's gonna get a game now.Petition for Matt Lloyd.Oh my, they're gonna, they're gonna absolutely destroy this.

Thank you, Welsh.Bring back Hurd.Bring back Hurd.Bring back Hurd.Wow.Someone goes, what a shock.

Hope he's doing all right.Not a shock at all.So that's, that's crazy.But a new era.At Essendon now.It's exciting for them.

And then in a couple of weeks, when they play the Blues, we have the Caretaker Cup.Big game.

I think those are null and void.No, no, they're not at all.They're just definitely not null and void.

They should be null and void.No, no, no.Listen to me. I'm now, we're doing a bet, but with different coaches.It's the same list.It's like saying, oh, I'm at number four at Flemington.Oh, what's that?

It's now a rabbit.

No, it's not like that at all.

It is.Oh, I'm on that thoroughbred over there.

That's great.You've taken the coach out.Oh, the thoroughbred just turned into a donkey.You've taken the coach out.It's still the same 44 players there.You weren't betting on the coach.

You bet on the team.

I bet on the whole part or some of all parts of what I had.

So what if the physio, okay, you know what?Then my cheeseburger thing is null and void.I thought Brad Scott was going to do it.No, no, no.If you're in, I'm in.If you're out, I'm out.

No, no.Yours is way before.I bet on Brad Scott taking this team to eight weeks.No, he didn't.

You bet on cheeseburgers.

So if the physio goes down, you're going to go, I'm out.How good's the physio?

That's a good question, don't you?normally what happens here when we do an emergency pod and then you know last one i mean the only one we've done really but was when bossy got sacked someone's like you can't dance in their grave you can't pop champagne you can't have a cigar oh it's so nice to dance in their grave so i've thought all right i won't dance but i'll sing a song for brad scott to take us out sing along if you know the words probably won't sorry i've got a soft sword here uh got the guitar out and everything yeah come on you know the words really impressive yep come on

I don't know the words.Come on, here we go!So take the memberships and scarf those in your mind No final memories and sardis left behind This place is a fucking Prisons Act Marathon Trial For what it's worth, he was leaving all the time It's something unpredictable, but in the end the fans were right James Heard's gonna have the time of his life Thank you.Thank you.I'm Dave Goren.You're Brad Scott.

You've been amazing.We'll see you never.