Coaching is one of the most stressful occupations in sport, and there is no exception to the rule when it comes to footy.
Over the years there have been some moments that have shocked the sport and others which have sent fans into laughter, with the job sometimes getting the better of coaches.
With footy over for another year what better time than now to count down the best coaching incidents of all time, whether it be brawls, sprays or frosty confrontations with the media.
Yes, we are aware that there are thousands of coaching incidents that were lucky enough not to be caught on film and were probably 100 times harsher than the entries on this list, but we'll just have to work with what we have on record.
A disclaimer before we get stuck into it - most of these entries contain coarse language or violence, so proceed at your own caution.
Without any more delay, let's get into it.
We start off with an absolute pearler from Suns coach Stuart Dew.
Dew, being filmed by Amazon Prime Video for the 'Making their Mark' documentary, enters the Suns changing room at half-time during their clash against Carlton in Darwin.
Down by 25 points and seemingly playing below par, Stewie unloads on his players in an X-rated rant.
Does this happen every weekend in changing rooms around the country? No doubt, yes.
However, do those sprays get filmed and immortalised in a documentary beamed across the globe to millions? No.
The fact that this was also "meme'd" in many forms (such as the attached video) makes the whole thing so much hilarious.
The idea of putting a camera on the coaches box very well could be one of the greatest inventions ever conceived, with the practice giving birth to sprays such as this.
When North were down during the third quarter against Essendon in Round 18 of the 2017 season, coach Brad Scott put a big red circle around big man Majak Daw's performance and summoned him to the bench phone.
The title of the video undersells Scott's sentiments a tad, with "unhappy" definitely the kindest phrasing in which to sum up the current AFL GM of Football's rage.
How Daw didn't have an eardrum burst is beggar's belief.
It was quarter time when renowned windup merchant Stephen Milne was riling up the Collingwood squad with his usual tricks.
If you skip to 1:25 in the attached video, you'll see footage - albeit quite granulated - depicting Mick Malthouse exchanging some choice words with the Saints small forward.
Following the incident, details were revealed that Malthouse made snide comments towards Milne regarding his sexual assault allegations, eventually being fined $3000 and having to apologise for the incident despite denying his words.
To round off the saga, Milne revealed on a podcast in 2020 that Malthouse did try to bury the hatchet with him, however the Saints forward declined due to the odd nature of Malthouse trying to reach out after years had passed.
A lot of controversy for a small spat.
Sometimes the best sprays don't have to be heated and vulgar, just simple and concise.
That's exactly what Dockers coach Ross Lyon did to journalist Shane McInnes following his side's historic qualifying finals win at Kardinia Park in 2013.
After McInnes infers (see 2:55) that Lyon set his side out to deliberately play dirty, the Fremantle coach takes a bat to the journalist's ego.
After asking McInnes if his question is entirely suitable, Lyon asks his name and sarcastically calls him "brilliant" and "terrific" to truly impart his ashamed sentiment.
No swearing, no yelling, just pure disappointment from 'Ross the Boss'.
This one is a classic - a coach who had been with his team for only a matter of games naming and shaming one of his players on national television.
Malcolm Blight had just joined the Crows as head coach when his side encountered the Tigers on the second weekend of the 1997 season.
Pittman, who revealed he had done his calf in the first quarter, was by Blight's account "not going for it" throughout the game and let the big man know at almost every change.
Labelling Pittman's showing as "the most disgraceful display [he'd] ever seen from a big fella" was harsh, but true in Blight's mind.
Whatever the effect on Pittman, it must've had some sort of positive repercussion considering his Adelaide side were the ones standing atop the podium on Grand Final Day lifting the premiership cup.
Terry Wallace at his classic best.
The Dogs narrowly lost to the Pies in a big clash during the 1996 season, where the Doggies were looking to finally claim an elusive premiership flag.
It's the final remark however that really puts this spray apart from the rest, with Wallace claiming he'll "spew up" should anyone tell his players that their performance was a "good effort".
No wonder that Wallace was nicknamed 'Plough', with this zinger exemplifying exactly why.
In a qualifying final showdown between the two arch-enemies, both coaches came to blows in a heated display.
On-field incidents boiled over off-field with Blues coach Peter 'Percy' Jones verbally abusing Richmond team motivator Rudi Webster during the quarter-time break.
After riling up Tigers coach Tony Jewell, Jones and Jewell started towards each other with fists swinging.
The two were broken up and are now good friends however, as Jewell recounts in the attached interview, he did not appreciate the obscenities that Percy was hurling his way.
Thankfully the two are friends now and have put the incident behind them, but the incident is now one of the most infamous 80s footy stoushes.
It wouldn't be a coaches incident list without the great Ron Barassi.
The then-North Melbourne boss was livid with his players during their clash with the Blues at Arden Street in 1979, and let his men know at quarter-time.
Starting off with "Darryl, you're a ****** and I'll tell you why" could be one of the most hilarious opening roasts ever put on film.
The fact that Barassi patted his forward-line on the back whilst simultaneously destroying his defenders exemplified the hard, tough nature of not just the great man himself's coaching but the overall nature of coaches in the 70s.
A legendary roast from a legendary coach.
Clarkson. Fist. Wall.
Despite his side being 16 points up against the previous year's grand finalists, Alastair Clarkson couldn't help himself when he decided to test out the strength of the MCG coaches box plaster walls.
To be fair, it was more a palm to the wall - impressive all things considered - however it still left a rather extensive job for whichever plasterer had to patch that one up.
Better the wall than an assistant coach, however.
You would be hard-pressed to find a spray more heated than this from an AFL coach.
Rodney Eade's tirade against former Doggies big man Will Minson in a 2009 match was unbelievably profane, with the renowned hot-head calling him almost everything under the sun.
However, as it was revealed by Eade, the audio was edited with snippets from the entire game being merged into a ninety-second rant.
According to Eade, the swearing was actually directed at the runner and not at Minson, however, it still makes for some shocking listening.
Bizarrely, Eade initially claimed it was an impersonator initially before the former Suns coach admitted on SEN that the rant was in fact him, apologising for the profane language used.
It's probably best not to watch the snippet around kids, or your boss for that matter, however it's hard not to laugh at 'Rocket' and his intense anger.