Prediction Next senior coach.

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I like Trent Cooper. Great in the media, very calm but seems firm. I think he's a good coach, he just didn't have the players through injury, expansion etc.
Probably would have won premiership the year of the Covid cancellation. Second time around he will be better as well.
Possibly he could bring some good WA players that are still loyal to him.
 
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Jane Lange​

A highly regarded coach from the Darebin Falcons pathway, Lange was an integral part of Melbourne's success from 2018 to season seven. She was appointed senior assistant in 2020, and has coached an AFLW game herself when Mick Stinear was unavailable. Lange stepped away from the AFLW this year, returning to teaching, and it's understood the job would have to be the right fit for both Lange and her family to come back.

Trent Cooper​

The former Fremantle coach held the reins at the Dockers from 2019 to season seven. He had a highly successful period, but injuries hit Fremantle hard in his final season and the Dockers slid right down the ladder. Currently head of female talent and the coaching specialist for talent pathways (boys and girls) with the West Australian Football Commission. It's understood Cooper is open to a move to the east coast, but he also has a young family.

Daniel Harford​

Harford ran the show at Carlton from 2019 to season seven, taking the Blues to a Grand Final in his first season (albeit under the short-lived conference system). He was let go with a year remaining on his contract as Carlton looked to apply a full-time coach, with Harford also juggling breakfast radio. He is now refreshed after a year without coaching commitments and previously played for Hawthorn.

Melissa Hickey​

Spent both 2022 seasons as a line coach at the Western Bulldogs, taking on a full-time role at Geelong Falcons this year, coaching her own team. The former Demon and inaugural Cats skipper also has extensive experience leading Vic Country, bringing together a team from disparate areas around the state.

Chloe McMillan​

A long-time development and assistant coach, McMillan has been at Collingwood since 2018. She has coached the club's VFLW side for four years and has also been a development coach with the AFL men's side as part of the AFL women's coaching acceleration program. McMillan played herself, prior to the introduction of AFLW.


Lauren Morecroft​

Has won rave reviews for her job with the Eastern Ranges under-18 boys this year, leading the team to a Grand Final. Morecroft was an assistant coach at North Melbourne for two years, switching to Carlton for the 2021 season. Is a former AFLW player, lining up for the Western Bulldogs in the inaugural season, and a teacher by trade.

Martine Pearman​

The West Australian was in the running for the Fremantle job, which ultimately went to Lisa Webb. Currently an assistant coach with West Coast's AFLW team, she spent the early years of AFLW working under Michelle Cowan at Fremantle and had extensive experience in the WAFLW prior to AFLW.

Jess Burger​

The Collingwood head of footy's name was raised in media reports earlier this week as a possible candidate for her own club, having coached Kew Bears at community level. Burger is on the selection committee for the role, and it would take an extraordinary move from the club to appoint her as coach.

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Jen2310 said:
Final. Morecroft was an assistant coach at North Melbourne for two years, switching to Carlton for the 2021 season. Is a former AFLW player, lining up for the Western Bulldogs in the inaugural season, and a teacher by trade.
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Do we know why Cooper was axed from the dockers?
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Dunno? ... but this in wiki.


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In his five seasons in charge, Cooper took Fremantle to the finals on four occasions. He was axed by the club in November 2022 after the conclusion of the AFLW's seventh season.[4] In the days following, Cooper described his departure as an "unpopular decision" and reiterated that he disagreed with the call.[5]

Less than a month after leaving Fremantle, Cooper was hired by the West Australian Football Commission in a youth development coaching role.[6]

Outside of football, Cooper is a high school maths teacher, having taught at Wesley College and Chisholm Catholic College.[7]
 
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Dunno? ... but this in wiki.


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In his five seasons in charge, Cooper took Fremantle to the finals on four occasions. He was axed by the club in November 2022 after the conclusion of the AFLW's seventh season.[4] In the days following, Cooper described his departure as an "unpopular decision" and reiterated that he disagreed with the call.[5]

Less than a month after leaving Fremantle, Cooper was hired by the West Australian Football Commission in a youth development coaching role.[6]

Outside of football, Cooper is a high school maths teacher, having taught at Wesley College and Chisholm Catholic College.[7]
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Yeah, I did read that.
I remember in 2020, freo were quite unlucky not to win the flag that year; they went undefeated, then got to the GF and covid shut it down and no flag was awarded.

So he took freo to finals on 4/5 times he was coach, yet they sacked him. Bit similar to Steve in that aspect.
 
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Dead Eye Didak said:
What's happening about a new coach?

Surely we should've appointed one by now, particularly with trades currently happening and a draft coming up.
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Yeah, surely can't be long.
They were forming a panel and looking for one last we heard, but that was just after it happened. No word so far.
 

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Thinking outside the box.

More than two decades after leaving the club for Sydney, Nick Davis is eyeing a homecoming to Collingwood with the Swans premiership hero among the candidates for the vacant Magpies AFLW coaching position.
The Pies are hunting a new coaching for their women’s side after the club parted ways by mutual agreement with South Australian Steve Symonds in November.

Symonds was at the helm for five seasons, taking the club from the bottom of the ladder to four consecutive finals series before missing out this year.

“After careful consideration and discussions with Steve, we came to a mutual agreement not to renew his contract. This decision aligns with the club’s strategic direction and our commitment to developing our elite women’s football programs,” said Collingwood head of football Graham Wright in November.

Davis has experience in both the AFL and AFLW coaching systems. Photo by Phil Hillyard

Davis has experience in both the AFL and AFLW coaching systems. Photo by Phil Hillyard
Davis, 43, is currently Sydney’s AFLW senior assistant, sitting beneath Scott Gowans, who coincidentally held that role under Symonds at the Pies.

Having also held a range of different positions within the club’s men’s and academy programs over the past decade, Davis is understood to be keen to advance his career by taking a senior position and has entered Collingwood’s coaching process.

Should he secure the position, Davis’ career would have gone full circle given his involvement in the professional ranks started a quarter of a century ago when he was drafted by the Pies under the father-son rule, his dad Craig having played for the club in the late 1970s and early ‘80s.

Collingwood was one of four clubs on the hunt for a new AFLW coach this off-season. West Coast has already replaced Michael Prior with Daisy Pearce, while the Western Bulldogs and Hawthorn are looking to fill the spots left by Nathan Burke and Bec Goddard respectively.
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Dead Eye Didak said:
That's a bolt out of the blue. Would be good to see Davis back at the Pies. I wouldn't mind that appointment, at all.
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I loved his old man, Boof. It cut deep when he left.

I'm not sure I'm ready to forgive yet.
 
Obese Arachnid said:
I loved his old man, Boof. It cut deep when he left.

I'm not sure I'm ready to forgive yet.
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Loved his old man.

I’m ready for a Davis to return to the club. I’m still in post-flag La La Land and the forgiveness is flowing. For some.😳
 
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A friend of mine was at the event fly did tonight and he mentioned the new coach could be announced as early as tomorrow.
Fly was involved in the process to find the new AFLW coach, said it was funny being on the other side of it.

Also said there were 3 really good candidates. Now we see who is the one that gets it.
 
Jen2310 said:
A friend of mine was at the event fly did tonight and he mentioned the new coach could be announced as early as tomorrow.
Fly was involved in the process to find the new AFLW coach, said it was funny being on the other side of it.

Also said there were 3 really good candidates. Now we see who is the one that gets it.
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I have a feeling it will be Nick Davis....
 
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Dead Eye Didak said:
I have a feeling it will be Nick Davis....
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As long as he can coach and is the right person for the job; thats all that matters to me. I don't care what he did a couple decades ago. Time to let the past stay in the past.
 
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