coach killer

English

Noun

coach killer (plural coach killers)

  1. (sports, Australia) A particularly frustrating, usually simple mistake made by a player.
    • 2020 October 17, Jonathan Howcroft, “AFL finals 2020, preliminary final: Geelong Cats beat Brisbane Lions – as it happened”, in Guardian‎[1], retrieved 25 July 2025:
      The counterattack is swift and should result in a goal but Miers drops a chest mark uncontested! […] That was a coach killer.
  2. (sports, US) A player who apparently causes coaches to be sacked.
    • 2024 October 10, Jessica Kleinschmidt, “Mike Lupica: Aaron Rodgers got Robert Saleh fired — because of his play”, in Awful Announcing‎[2], retrieved 24 July 2025:
      "I think Pat McAfee made a good choice; this guy's hardly a coach killer; he's only played for three in 20 years," Lupica said.
  3. (sports) A performance that results in a coach's sacking.
    • 2025 June 21, “Coach killer: Voss cannot survive after North mess”, in SEN‎[3], retrieved 25 July 2025:
      The future of Michael Voss is under intense questioning yet again after another horror result for Carlton against North Melbourne with Campbell Brown labelling the 11-point defeat a "coach killer".
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