LUKE BEVERIDGE (Western Bulldogs coach)


Is it the greatest single coaching performance of all time? It's pretty hard to argue otherwise. In his first two years as a senior AFL coach, Beveridge has taken the Bulldogs from 14th at the end of 2014, to eighth to arguably the most romantic premiership the AFL has seen.

His man management skills may also have helped change the face of coaching, Beveridge eliciting new heights from a score of players not many would have believed possible, names like Liam Picken, Jason Johannisen and Lachie Hunter.


He's fostered a level of depth and flexibility across his list superior to all his rivals. And he's cajoled a side which finished only seventh on the ladder to four successive against-the-odds finals wins to land the ultimate. All whilst retaining a humble and self-effacing persona.

see the rest of the 10 - per Rohan Connolly here