‘You can never be a stress carrier’: Leigh Matthews on the psychology of coaching

The way coaches are presenting themselves on the interchange bench or in the coaches box has been a major topic of conversation in the AFL world.

Leigh Matthews made it clear on 3AW that coaches can never be a “stress carrier”.

“If you choose to go down to the interchange bench, you don’t want to be a madman down there,” Matthews said on 3AW Wide World of Sports.

Click play to listen to Leigh’s thoughts on the psychological side of coaching on 3AW

“99 per cent of a coaches function is invisible, outsiders don’t see it.”

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