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\u201cYeah, look, if I was to be totally honest, Gerard, there were times when I\u2019ve, even up until last year when we won the flag, I felt like maybe there was a little bit of imposter syndrome,\u201d he candidly revealed on Monday night. <\/p>\n
\u201cWas I good enough to help this team win a premiership? All of those things, all those thoughts go through your head \u2014 I think they\u2019re natural enough. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, winning one gave me a fair bit of confidence, and I guess now that we\u2019ve been able to do it again, I feel like maybe I do belong in the coaching ranks. So, hopefully I\u2019ve got a few more years left in me; we\u2019ll see how we go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Petracca spotted at Adelaide airport | 01:09<\/p>\n
After his side blitzed Sydney in last year\u2019s decider, Fagan became the game\u2019s oldest premiership coach and the first one in more than half a century to have done it without playing at the elite level. <\/p>\n
The 64-year-old reflected on what those feats meant to him, as well as the impact he hoped to have on other coaches looking to do it the unconventional way. <\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, I think I\u2019ve been pretty fortunate in my football background to have some great coaches, both in Tassie and working with Neale (Daniher) and \u2018Clarko\u2019 (Alastair Clarkson), so I learned a lot from those guys, so I was probably no rookie when I came to the opportunity to coach the Brisbane Lions,\u201d he said on AFL 360. <\/p>\n
“There’s a dent in that Cup!” | 03:33<\/p>\n
\u201cAll my past experiences had helped me enormously, so I\u2019m very grateful for that. But I think in terms of I hope that it gives others that have walked in my shoes the idea that maybe it is possible to coach an AFL team if you do a good enough apprenticeship. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt took me a long time; I worked at AFL level for 19 years before I did get the opportunity and was very fortunate to get it. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I do hope that it does give other people who are working in the industry the idea that if they work hard enough and take their opportunities when they come along that they may well be able to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Brisbane premiership coach Chris Fagan has admitted he used to be a victim of \u201ca bit imposter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[80719,9126,638,64,63,689,55,639,3237,3244,19120,30901,10145,13659,61,114735,114738,114736,114737,3231,647,677,28885,85,85776,660,114734],"class_list":{"0":"post-177284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-adelaide-airport","9":"tag-adelaide-crows","10":"tag-afl","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","14":"tag-australian-football-league","15":"tag-australianfootballleague","16":"tag-brisbane-lions","17":"tag-chris-fagan","18":"tag-christian-petracca","19":"tag-coaching-ranks","20":"tag-garry-lyon","21":"tag-geelong-cats","22":"tag-gerard-whateley","23":"tag-heartfelt-call","24":"tag-imposter-sydnrome","25":"tag-imposter-syndrome","26":"tag-imposter-syndrome-reveal","27":"tag-jack-jovanovski","28":"tag-melbourne","29":"tag-oceania","30":"tag-premiership-coach","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-two-time-premiership-coach","33":"tag-victoria","34":"tag-winning-coach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}