This Sporting Wife

Former rugby league player and coach Matthew Elliott sat down with Shannon and Fiona to discuss his life in football and what he has learnt as a person since finishing coaching in 2014. After 61 first grade games with St George and coaching stints at Bradford, Canberra, Penrith and the Warriors, he’s picked up a thing or two about people, how to manage them and how to get the best out of them. He went through some soul-searching after being sacked by the Warriors and applies those realisations today to his high performance work in sports and the corporate world. He reflects on life growing up in Townsville and the skills he picked up playing park footy there as a kid, plus he talks family, travel and the mental health issues in sport and Australia in general, especially among men.