James Kelly questioned on North Melbourne coaching job

0:00Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later. At 2 a.m., you wake up with the fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care, clothes, ER, slam, telehealth, maybe, but the pharmacy's clothes. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions. Sinus and ear infection, UTI, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea, and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling, or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com-slashblue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com-slashblue. The assistant coach of the

1:02Jolong Football Club has been kind enough to join us in James Kelly. James, welcome to 3 out of you. Great to chat. Thanks for having me guys. We're told no like changes going into tonight's game. That means Jolong goes in with an unchanged line up after last week's elimination final. Yeah, well, obviously pretty happy with the squad and the performance last week. Can we still felt like the team we picked still the best team to beat for a man or tonight? So, I mean, Scottie's talked about it a fair bit about the way we view our squad. There's a couple of guys who are out of the team who we'd be really comfortable if they were in the team, but for tonight we felt like this was the best selection decision to give us the best chance to win. Pop's Jimmy here, all the best tonight. Last time we had you on. You said, yeah, you're keeping things up your sleeve. So now that it is the next time, what are you taking out of your sleeve? You can just tell us. No one was saying that this show is not good. No, it's just you. It's just you would have told me here. Yeah, just a two of us. Yeah. No, I think what we took out of the game

2:07last time and I think it sort of it becomes more true as you sort of get closer to finals and into the finals is our ability to sort of control the position of the ball on the ground. So being able to keep freemaning out of the corridor is something we didn't get perfectly right last time. I think in terms of there's a few selection decisions we made last time. Obviously, Stuart and play. Bows was cool. Kid income. We had a couple of guys that were a little bit under done for that game. So those things sort of take care of themselves. But I think just generally the way we controlled the ground probably wasn't good enough last time we played them and you know, they're the best team in the competition. They're really good at what they do. So it presents another challenge for us. But in terms of what we want to restrict, it's definitely their movement through the corridor and those explosive plays from stoppage. And a bit of a template shown to you by the Hawks last week. Little bit. Yeah. I mean, I think you know, you sort of say Hawthorn really pressure them. But if you watch all the finals, all the teams that maintain the ability to pressure

3:10the ball and stay in the contest for longer, you know, it's sort of almost a bit of a different sport finals footy that we know that as well as anyone about the pressure and the contest in your ability to just keep showing up in that part of the game. So if we were playing anyone except freemanal tonight, we'd be saying the same thing. But certainly the pressure on the ball and keeping the matter corridor was really important. And you've got no concerns at all. I thought the Coney might have been a chance. No concerns at all about height behind the footy. Yeah, it's a good one, Lordy. I mean, it's one of those. It was a bit of a line ball decision with DK. We've used him in the Raka fair bit as well. He hasn't played as much as the defender. So I think in the end, we were pretty comfortable with the tools that we had behind the ball. It's some extra height. You know, you could argue, there's always helpful, but in terms of what they look for the other defenders, how that worked in the Raka, we sort of couldn't quite place that in the best spot for tonight. So the call was to keeping that at the air, but you know, there's a few mechanisms and a few

4:11levers we can pull if we feel like we're getting out marker behind the ball. Love that first final last year when you just went after I think with the clubgage and you went off the Cameron Reiner with Oshin Mullen and also Mark O'Connor. I could sort of see something for that with Bolton and also Murphy Reed. I know you can't go into that, but you okay with that two shutdowns. I know O'Connor plays back anyway, but two real shutdowns in one team. Yeah, it doesn't bother us too much. I think in terms of, it's not old school, but the kind of the taggo is, our sort of philosophy is it's good to do if you've got a good one who can do it. So Oshin and Mers certainly fall into that category. I think for us it's sort of a little bit game dependent, so if Merrick sort of takes the most dangerous behind the ball and Oshin takes the most dangerous in the middle, that can flip if we feel like the matchups different behind the ball or inside and we're really comfortable having them both inside because they're really smart guys and they know they're actually the right time to get off their opponents and go and

5:14get the ball and join in team defense and all that sort of stuff. So those two boys in particular, like that as you mentioned, they've worked really hard on that part of their game of not just standing in the back pocket of their opponent, actually trying to join in the game, contribute to the offense and also helping the team defense. So if at any stage two guys and those two guys end up in the center-bounds, we don't see them as sitting in the back pocket players and just following them around. We see them as just defensively biased midfielders who can still join in the game. So I think that helps us. James, what did you learn from being part of the Carlton process? I think you get cold cold from a few journalists that you've never met before. That was the first time that happened to me. Now I mean you learn a bit about yourself. I think I think always with these things, I've spoken about this once before but you learn a little bit about yourself and your willingness to sort of put yourself out there, I think. I've talked about how you're taking emotional risk for these sort of things and I sort of felt like that was the

6:14case with me. In terms of any feedback or anything from Carlton, I haven't actually sat down with him just yet. It's in the plans in the future once the season finishes but so I probably have a more intelligent answer for you in a few weeks. James, do you take another emotional risk in the same year if you get the phone call from North Melbourne? I won't see. I'm not really sure. To be really honest about, I haven't had given it too much thought. We're all sort of a little bit surprised by the Clark O news and we've sort of had a hands full with the finals. I can on heart genuinely haven't given it too much thought of I'm sure that'll come in time and I'll make the decision when it comes. If it comes. Bayley Smith plays game 150 tonight, Kale. Obviously when you see him playing at the dogs, you probably got one impression of him and now that you've been up to work with him for the couple of years, what is surprised you the most about Bayley? I think always when you see players up close and you're sort of seeming the four walls, you know,

7:17you sort of watch Bayley play and almost knew he was really athletic and strong for his size and all those sort of things and you know you seem just covering the ground so much as when you're sort of scouting your position but seeing him up close in the building, you do get a real appreciation for how much FD puts into that side of the game and how much FD puts into keeping his body right, making sure he's available for training, trains really hard, he's really diligent with his preparation, meticulous about reviewing his performance, you know, it's sort of no surprise that he ends up playing the footy that he does. Like some of those guys you think I'm maybe he's just a bit of a freak athlete and you know he was just born good at footy but I've been really surprised with how hard he works at it and the energy he's brought to our playing group like we have a a bit of an older group and some guys who are a little bit conservative the wrong way but they just go about their business every day and he's brought a really a healthy amount of positive energy into our group which has been brilliant as well but certainly certainly just a really good person I really enjoy spending time with Bayley.

8:19In terms of selection this week and Jeremy Cameron did you discuss like how can we settle him down a little bit more like in terms of starting back and next Monday's on the wing and just trying it now for little tricks which you're good at as a club but to try and find a way to get him into the game a bit more. Yeah I think the starting the starting back last week was just trying not to let them have a bit of a look at here just being straight on the wing and if they had it if they had a match up ready for him that's just handing it to him for free right at the first bounce so he wasn't behind the ball for very long even though he has played some good footy there we don't mind him behind the ball but I think the bigger issue for us is we really wanted to get the ball off the line and get it out to him in a bit of space but we just couldn't do that for the game last week and the conditions played a role in that so beautiful night here tonight so hopefully we can get the ball out to a bit of space in an inter-Germis hands but we have talked about to what you're saying like we still have to do we do have to have an appreciation for

9:20how good he is inside 50 even if there's no one else inside that 50 meter line we'd love to see that as well and you know I haven't played much forward but when I was playing but I assume that's every forwards dream is having the whole 52 himself so but there's a lot of things that have to happen for that we have to be getting the ball down there enough for that to be beneficial so and part of the thing of having Jeremy up the ground is you know I'd argue he's the best ball user in the competition between the arc so you know sort of moving him where we think he can influences the main thing and and Jeremy sort of on board with that as well he wants to hold an involvement between the arcs but also inside 50 so we'll yeah a long way to answer your question yes we'll try to just finish up a little bit not fluff around too much just finish on a real light one kill we know our man Shannon Burns your runner he gets the extra tight running kit on for finals he's it's skin tight for tonight the the the boss hips bulging yeah it's painted on a record he's been down at the bar they're getting a haircut as well so he's he's got the old the old school Friday night cut and no he's good to go change really appreciate your time pregame it's a massive

10:25game all the very best you on the club tonight no I was guys thanks for your time hey see sacks here your health journey is personal and your Medicare advantage plan should be two alignment health plan provides a broad network of doctors and specialists along with a care team that's available 24 hours a day seven days a week you'll also receive a monthly spending allowance for over-the-counter items and a fitness membership to support your overall health and well-being discover a plan that supports you at every stage of life visit alignment health plan dot com today alignment health plan dot com Dave Roberts here there you are surrounded by fans sharing wings sharing drinks high-fiving random strangers everybody remembers the game nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later at 2 a.m. you wake up with the fever and your throats on fire now what urgent care close ER slam telehealth maybe but the pharmacies close you needed a medical emergency kit these aren't first aid kits they contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions sinus and ear

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