The Score: Fox Footy’s ‘Uncovered: The Coaches’ series is answering plenty of interesting questions

Fox Footy has delivered the goods with its ‘Uncovered: The Coaches’ series. However, we didn’t think it would throw up terms like ‘hot dog handballs’. Plus, why was Trent Cotchin wearing a milk crate on his head?

Ross Lyon is not a fan of flashy handballs. Picture: AAP Images

Once again Fox Footy has delivered the goods with its ‘Uncovered: The Coaches’ series which is screening each night this week.

There are plenty of gold nuggets throughout with Fox being very clever about the choice of interviewers as each has a link to the specific coach.

St Kilda greats Nick Riewoldt and Nick Dal Santo joined forces to interview former mentor Ross Lyon and grill him about his many quirky sayings.

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One was “hot dog handballs” which Lyon said were the “fancy stuff” such as look-away handballs which he accused Dal Santo of doing too much.

Another favourite line was: “You don’t kick it like Bobby Skilton”. The Dockers coach explained this was aimed at players who “bit off more than they could chew” with their field kicking.

Geelong coach Chris Scott declared full-forward Tom Hawkins the club’s best golfer and midfielder Mitch Duncan as the one who struggled the most.

Ross Lyon is not a fan of flashy handballs. Picture: Getty Images

“I have played with Mitch Duncan and for a guy who is technically very good at most sports, he could do with a few hours on the range,” Scott said.

Paul Roos interviewed two of his former lieutenants, John Longmire and Simon Goodwin.

Longmire explained how he’d been deliberately kept out of a social basketball team made up of the Swans assistants who’d recently won the competition.

“They’d been recommended not to pick me by someone,” Longmire said clearly in reference to Roos.

Goodwin explained how he’d become fascinated with the stock market and it had become his escape away from football.

WHY IS THERE A MILK CRATE ON COTCH’S HEAD?

Trent Cotchin might have started something.

The Richmond skipper was spotted by the cameras before Saturday’s JLT clash against Hawthorn with a milk crate on his head.

Cotchin had a Sherrin in his hand and the crate on his head as he was chatting to Jack Riewoldt who was sitting on a bike.

His teammates are clearly used to these types of antics from the captain as they didn’t even blink an eye about the unusual head gear.

When quizzed later about the milk crate, Cotchin said it was “just fun”.

Given he turned out to be the match winner for the Tigers with two goals in the last quarter, maybe it’s not the last we see of the crate.

Pls explain @tcotchin9 #JLTSeries pic.twitter.com/Jj6KFV9Yu8

— AFL (@AFL) March 9, 2019

SHOWDOWN HAS THE WORLD TALKING

The debate over whether The Autumn Sun should clash with Winx is even capturing the attention of racing folk over the other side of the world.

Newmarket trainer Charlie Fellowes weighed into the debate after seeing what the three-year-old did in Sydney on Saturday.

Fellowes fell in love with Australian racing after his horse A Prince of Arran finished third in last year’s Melbourne Cup.

He used Twitter to make a plea to Chris Waller to let the match-race happen between his two stable stars.

Fellowes wrote:

Dear Mr Waller, please please give the world the race it wants and run Winx against The Autumn Sun. I might even send Prince Of Arran down to make it a proper race......

— Charlie Fellowes (@FellowesRacing) March 9, 2019

THE WHISPER

Which intrepid cricket reporter won his club the premiership with a man-of-the-match performance highlighted by scoring the winning runs with a six?