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Last weekend at UFC Fight Night 32 my #TeamLynch got the best of #TeamJC by a score of 9-6. Let us know which side youre on for UFC 167 use the hashtag #TeamLynch or #TeamJC on Twitter. There was a moment during the Western Bulldogs unhorsing of the emperor Hawthorn at the MCG last weekend that seemed beautifully symbolic. Luke Hodge, Hawthorns ageing warrior was caught out of position but intent on taking his ground back as he confronted Marcus Bontempelli of the Bulldogs, the best young player in the competition, near goal.Bontempelli was not cowed by the moment. He stuck his chest out, held the Hawks skipper off, and took the mark, and it was a night for passing of batons, so it seemed. Of course Hawthorn will be back, on the evidence of recent history, and Hodge will fire a few more shots. But not this year.Meanwhile the Bulldogs continue their improbable run from seventh on the ladder, picking up all the neutrals on their considerable bandwagon, not to mention the unswerving support of their fans, most of whom cannot even remember their last premiership in 1954.Luke Beveridge is at the heart of it as the coach, because the all-too-common organisational charts do not work in footy clubs. The coach should be right at the top, with the president and the chief executive, although at times, we try to pretend otherwise. We like to think that the coach is just about the footy, but we have to remember that the footy is the core business.Beveridge is the best new coach footy has seen in years, possibly since Alastair Clarkson took over at Hawthorn at the end of 2004, and their journeys were not dissimilar. Clarkson had coached a lot, won a premiership in the SANFL, coached in the VFL and worked as an assistant under smart people like Mark Choco Williams at Port Adelaide by the time Ian Dicker and the Hawthorn board appointed him. He had done an MBA and worked as a phys-edder, but he liked coaching. He was a revelation at Hawthorn, as four flags in a decade shows.A good rather than great player, Beveridge retired and went into tthe corporate world, too, but kept coming back to footy.dddddddddddd He coached St Bedes in the amateur competition to three straight flags, he coached in the background at Collingwood, and then at Hawthorn from 2012-2014 under Clarkson, ironically alongside Leon Cameron, now coach of Greater Western Sydney and his direct opponent on Saturday at the Sydney showgrounds. He worked out how to manage groups of people, how to draw them along with him and nurture them.At a footy club, you find a good coach and everything seems to follow. The Bulldogs were scarcely in a great spot when he arrived; the board had reached a mutual agreement with Brendan McCartney to leave after the players turned against him. The reluctant captain and superstar player, Ryan Griffen, had walked. A year on, they are close to a grand final, with only the burgeoning GWS in front of their goal.What is so good about Beveridge? It is the organic improvement of those within, like Liam Picken, who looks like he could play lead guitar for AC/DC and plays just as hard. It is the role players, like Joel Hamling, holding down a key defensive post when hardly anyone knew him a few months ago. It is the enthusiasm and the spirit that has been engendered through a footy club, an infectious vibe.What a wonderful irony that Hawthorn could be brought down in their quest to match the four consecutive flags of Collingwood from 1927-1930 by a team coached by Beveridge, whose grandfather Jack played in the centre for the Magpies in the side that came to be known as The Machine.At the Bulldogs, the coach sets no limits. He is not about honorable defeat; in fact, the motto the players have adopted is: Why not us?No wonder they are everybodys second team right now. ' ' '