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17-09-2011, 12:43 AM
By Kim Hagdorn (http://www.sportsnewsfirst.com.au/articles/2011/09/16/eade-and-craig-are-in-demand/)
DUMPED AFL coaches Rodney Eade and Neil Craig are in high demand for radical football department appointments of new coaching director positions.
Eade remains in contention for Adelaide’s senior coacing position as well as Melbourne after interviews with both clubs early this month.
He is also certain to become a leading contender to be head coach at St Kilda after Ross Lyon stunned the Saints and AFL circles with his shock resignation late on Thursday.
But Eade, as a former Sydney and Dogs coach and four-times Hawthorn premiership player, is being hotly sought as leading AFL clubs adopt Collingwood’s controversial appointment of football director.
Eade and recently departed experienced Adelaide coach Craig are both being heavily courted to take a position that high powered Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has earmarked for his coaching guru Mick Malthouse.
Malthouse, 58, will not take any appointment with the Pies after he finishes this season’s finals late this month or on grand final day, win or lose, on October 1.
Eade, 53, is believed to have held preliminary discussions with the Magpies on the prospect of taking the famous black and white club’s new football department position.
The Pies have flagged for the past two years that Malthouse would be offered a director of coaching role to assist smooth transition in the controversial succession scheme that ascends playing great Nathan Buckley into Collingwood senior coach for next season.
Brisbane, Richmond, Adelaide, Melbourne and the Pies, as well as even Fremantle in the west, are all considering the innovative appointments of general managers to oversee emerging football departments under raw coaches.
Craig, 55, is renowned for his deep sports science background as well as his vast SANFL and AFL coaching port folio.
He has already held discussions with Brisbane and Richmond on a potential appointment as director of coaching along with Lions coach Michael Voss or the Tigers Damien Hardwick.
Craig is also now being touted as a possible appointment in a package coaching deal at Melbourne alongside former Collingwood playing star and current West Coast assistant Scott Burns.
The new strategic positions are designed to significantly increase football intellectual property by winning the services of highly regarded astute former coaches.
The appointments will be responsible for rapid advancement to developing coaches and their support staff as well even list management, recruitment and player development.
Designations of the comprehensive job descriptions range from director of football, to a more sophisticated tag of general manager of development and strategy.
A high priority ingredient is that the new appointment offers a senior coach a wide insight into modern playing and training techniques.
Eade and Craig have been considered among the finest in modern-day tactics and playing innovations.
DUMPED AFL coaches Rodney Eade and Neil Craig are in high demand for radical football department appointments of new coaching director positions.
Eade remains in contention for Adelaide’s senior coacing position as well as Melbourne after interviews with both clubs early this month.
He is also certain to become a leading contender to be head coach at St Kilda after Ross Lyon stunned the Saints and AFL circles with his shock resignation late on Thursday.
But Eade, as a former Sydney and Dogs coach and four-times Hawthorn premiership player, is being hotly sought as leading AFL clubs adopt Collingwood’s controversial appointment of football director.
Eade and recently departed experienced Adelaide coach Craig are both being heavily courted to take a position that high powered Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has earmarked for his coaching guru Mick Malthouse.
Malthouse, 58, will not take any appointment with the Pies after he finishes this season’s finals late this month or on grand final day, win or lose, on October 1.
Eade, 53, is believed to have held preliminary discussions with the Magpies on the prospect of taking the famous black and white club’s new football department position.
The Pies have flagged for the past two years that Malthouse would be offered a director of coaching role to assist smooth transition in the controversial succession scheme that ascends playing great Nathan Buckley into Collingwood senior coach for next season.
Brisbane, Richmond, Adelaide, Melbourne and the Pies, as well as even Fremantle in the west, are all considering the innovative appointments of general managers to oversee emerging football departments under raw coaches.
Craig, 55, is renowned for his deep sports science background as well as his vast SANFL and AFL coaching port folio.
He has already held discussions with Brisbane and Richmond on a potential appointment as director of coaching along with Lions coach Michael Voss or the Tigers Damien Hardwick.
Craig is also now being touted as a possible appointment in a package coaching deal at Melbourne alongside former Collingwood playing star and current West Coast assistant Scott Burns.
The new strategic positions are designed to significantly increase football intellectual property by winning the services of highly regarded astute former coaches.
The appointments will be responsible for rapid advancement to developing coaches and their support staff as well even list management, recruitment and player development.
Designations of the comprehensive job descriptions range from director of football, to a more sophisticated tag of general manager of development and strategy.
A high priority ingredient is that the new appointment offers a senior coach a wide insight into modern playing and training techniques.
Eade and Craig have been considered among the finest in modern-day tactics and playing innovations.