Coaching is a tough job and in this week’s column AFL Sunraysia area manager DON HARLEY looks at the role of coaches in developing young players.

WOULD it surprise people to know that the last playing coach in the AFL/VFL system was Malcolm Blight?

Well, it was a shared honour between Blight, at North Melbourne, and Alex Jesaulenko at St Kilda. 

Jesaulenko had intended only to play, but ...