Football: Hamilton Kangaroos coach Brad Thomas

Watch: New Hamilton Kangaroos coach Brad Thomas speaks about the upcoming 2024 Hampden league season.

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00:00 Thanks for joining us Brad, preparing for your first season in charge of Hamilton's

00:04 Tinkerers, how are you finding it so far?

00:06 Good, very excited and just really really pleased the local club have really got behind

00:11 us and the support around Hamilton has been fantastic.

00:14 And you're going to be starting pre-season too, can you tell me what the focus is?

00:17 Yes, so November 1 we start in training, so no doubt fitness is everyone's key at the

00:22 start of the year but we'll be really honing on just to one on one basic skills which we

00:25 want to develop leading into our game next year.

00:28 And you've got a pretty young list, what excites you most about that?

00:32 I just want to learn, they're jumping a bit to learn, they just want to involve their

00:36 game and involve the club and they're at it the whole time, they just want to learn.

00:41 And there's a big focus on community and local connections at the club, can you tell me why

00:45 that's so important to you?

00:47 I think all little small towns like Hamilton and that, footy clubs revolve around it, so

00:52 I think the main thing is we really want to try and make the community be a part of Hamilton

00:55 and Kangaroos.

00:56 And you've retired yourself, just going to focus on coaching, how are you feeling about

01:00 hanging up the move?

01:02 Yeah, no very excited, it's well overdue.

01:04 No worries, thank you.

01:06 No worries, thank you.

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