Each year AFL coaches are either put under scrutiny or praised for what they have done with the club's list and where their side has finished at the end of the year.
Whether it's a club going through a rebuild, a premiership contender, or a side failing to fulfil expectations, here is every coach ranked as safe, pressure-building, or under the pump heading into the 2027 season.
Adam Yze (Richmond)
Pressure Building
Yze took over the young and inexperienced Richmond side in 2024, and it has been a pretty hard road so far for him in what has been a full-blown rebuild. He is still contracted until 2028, but holds the unwanted milestone of leading the Tigers to 11 wins from 68 games since taking over.
Three wins so far this year, albeit against West Coast twice and bottom-of-the-ladder Essendon, have given reason for Yze to be under scrutiny. However, Richmond president John O'Rourke is adamant Yze will coach at least 100 games.
“He will coach to 100 games, I can assure you of that,” O'Rourke said on ABC radio.
We're less than two years into a significant rebuild. If you go back, it was really at the end of 2024 that we made the big decision to go deep in the draft and trade out some players."
Ten wins in three years cannot be overlooked, and if they can't find a win, or honestly lose honourably, against Geelong this week, they'll finish the season still with more questions than answers surrounding Yze's future.
