They say a week is a long time in football, but Phil Walsh's death eight years ago feels like yesterday at South Australia's AFL clubs.
Walsh's legacy at both Adelaide and Port Adelaide still looms large.
On July 3, 2015, he was murdered by his son. Cy Walsh was found mentally incompetent, with undiagnosed schizophrenia, after stabbing his father to death.
An assistant coach at Port Adelaide from 1999 to 2008, Walsh joined West Coast in a similar role before returning to Alberton in 2014.
At the end of that season, he was appointed Adelaide's head coach.
Nathan van Berlo had just stood down as Crows captain when Walsh arrived.
A renowned fitness fanatic, van Berlo was shocked by pre-season training.
"That was probably the hardest preseason I think I have ever done," van Berlo, now assistant coach at Adelaide, told reporters on Monday.
"The way he made us train and the intensity that we trained at (was) probably different to every training I had ever done before.
"He really tested us as a group to train with intensity and to train at a level we hadn't seen before.
"And what that did was elevate our mindset for that year in particular.
"That mindset to really push yourself and extend yourself is what sticks around from Walshy's time here."
Van Berlo said Walsh's care stood out the most.
"As a coach and as a man, he was a very intense human being but had a great deal of care for everyone," he said.
Port stalwart Chad Cornes used the same word - care - to describe his lasting impression of Walsh.
Cornes played under Walsh at the Power, where he is now an assistant coach.
"There wouldn't be a week that goes by where I don't think about him - and probably most days as well," Cornes told reporters on Monday.
"I often ask myself: would Walshy be proud of what I'm doing coaching-wise, would he agree with this strategy or whatnot.
"So he's always in the back of my head.
"He just gave me so much care and so much love and put so much time into me as a football player."
Cornes said he now strived to show the same trait.
"That's the main thing I have learned from him, is to try and do that and pass that down to the guys I work with now, to show them that you really care and you're invested in them," he said.
"Because he did that to me and a lot of others at this footy cub better than anyone."
Cornes described Walsh as the "the biggest influence on my career".
"If it wasn't for him, I definitely wouldn't be standing here now," he said.
"He was before his time. Footy back then was a bit basic, there wasn't a lot of game style or tactics put in to it.
"But he was revolutionary with the way he thought about the game, how much he studied the game, how much he studied the oppo (opposition)."
