News Offseason Staffing Changes - 2025 Edition

[Keys]

FYI - This is/was the 2025 coaching panel

• Senior Coach- Andrew McQualter

Andrew Mcqualter

Age

39

Ht

179cm

Wt

74kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.9

3star

K

5.6

2star

HB

7.2

4star

M

3.4

3star

T

3.6

5star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.6

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

6.0

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.4

4star

G

0.2

3star

• Midfield Coach - Jarrad Schofield

Jarrad Schofield

Age

50

Ht

178cm

Wt

80kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.0

4star

K

10.5

4star

HB

5.5

4star

M

3.4

3star

T

1.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

6.0

2star

K

3.4

2star

HB

2.6

3star

M

1.6

2star

T

0.8

3star

• Backline Coach - Luke Webster

Luke Webster

Age

43

Ht

186cm

Wt

91kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.2

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

4.2

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.1

4star

No current season stats available

D

9.8

3star

K

6.6

3star

HB

3.2

3star

M

3.4

4star

T

2.0

4star

• Forwards Coach - Marco Bello
• Stoppage Coach - Luke Shuey

13

Luke Shuey

Age

35

Ht

184cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.7

5star

K

13.0

5star

HB

10.7

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

4.9

5star

CL

5.6

5star

D

18.7

4star

K

10.8

4star

HB

7.8

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.7

4star

CL

4.3

5star

D

17.0

5star

K

9.2

4star

HB

7.8

5star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.8

5star

CL

1.4

4star

• Ruck Coach - Ryan Turnbull

• Head of Development - Jamie Maddocks
• Development Manager - Steve Trewhella
• WAFL Coach - Kyal Horsley

Kyal Horsley

Age

38

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

9.0

3star

HB

7.6

5star

M

3.2

3star

T

4.5

5star

CL

2.6

4star

No current season stats available

D

19.6

5star

K

11.6

4star

HB

8.0

5star

M

4.2

4star

T

7.2

5star

CL

3.0

5star

• Development Coach (Forwards) - Jacob Brennan

Jacob Brennan

Age

35

Ht

188cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.2

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

2.8

2star

M

3.1

3star

T

2.6

4star

No current season stats available

D

9.2

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

2.0

2star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.6

4star

• Development Coach (Game Fundamentals) - Shannon Hurn

25

Shannon Hurn

Age

38

Ht

187cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

20.9

5star

K

15.7

5star

HB

5.2

4star

M

7.0

5star

T

1.6

4star

MG

389.5

5star

D

16.1

4star

K

12.1

5star

HB

4.0

3star

M

5.3

5star

T

1.0

2star

MG

271.6

4star

D

19.0

5star

K

11.6

4star

HB

7.4

5star

M

6.8

5star

T

1.6

4star

• Indigenous Player Development Manager - Chance Bateman

Chance Bateman

Age

44

Ht

175cm

Wt

75kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.1

4star

K

8.8

3star

HB

6.3

4star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.1

4star

CL

1.1

3star

No current season stats available

D

18.6

5star

K

11.0

4star

HB

7.6

5star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.8

5star

CL

1.2

4star

• High Performance Manager - Mat Inness

New appointments for 2026:

• Sam Radford - Midfield Coach
• Mitch Duncan - Backline Coach
• Phil Merriman - High Performance Manager

 

[Mr Q]

Hell I'd let Scotty come back as #1 ruckman for next year.

I think we considered offering him that (as a rookie) at the end of 2023, but he'd decided to retire.

 

[Altum Volantes]

I think we considered offering him that (as a rookie) at the end of 2023, but he'd decided to retire.

I do recall.

Should have kept him and let Gaff go to North Melbourne.

Sigh.

 

[TOA.]

Duncan is here to impart the Cat's IP around defence. We've got plenty of coaching experience around with Woosha overseeing things.

I think the idea for most coaches during a rebuild is to build a coaching team that grows with the players. Mini has his philosophy and has spent this year figuring who he needs to get in to make it happen. He's made big strides in that regard after exposing the whole list to AFL, identifying targets to bring in (so far two experienced defenders and hopefully Dev for midfield) and moved on those that don't want to be in for the journey (Allen, Ryan and Chesser chose to leave).

The aim is to win a flag (hopefully in 5 years in 2030) and the start is building the foundation and then growing together.

Agree 100% with all of that but think we could also do it with more experienced assistants eg. Melb/King got Matty Scarlett who has experience and is really highly regarded.

 

[Keys]

McQualter was an assistant coach for nearly a decade or thereabouts so he’s got a reasonable degree of experience in his own right

Whilst they’re not high profile names, Radford and Bello have been in and around AFL coaching for several years. Bello was coach of the Box Hill Hawks into 2014-15 for example

Shuey is still a novice and Duncan will be in his first year but has 300 games at the best run club in the competition

We also have Pyke and Worsfold at the club to give advice if/when needed as well as Harry Taylor

There is a decent amount of experience in the building

 

[cookiesncream]

Matthew Clarke the ex Adelaide AFLW coach and former Adelaide ruck coach might be someone worth pursuing in some sort of dual ruck and development role. He would have done fair bit of development coaching AFLW, and they won two premierships under his tenure. Stated he wanted to be connected to the game still, seems he might not want the responsibility of being head coach.

Dual AFLW premiership-winning coach Clarke to step away from Crows

Matthew Clarke makes the decision to step down as Adelaide's coach ahead of this year's AFLW season after leading the Crows to two premierships.

www.abc.net.au

 

[WCE777]

Matthew Clarke the ex Adelaide AFLW coach and former Adelaide ruck coach might be someone worth pursuing in some sort of dual ruck and development role. He would have done fair bit of development coaching AFLW, and they won two premierships under his tenure. Stated he wanted to be connected to the game still, seems he might not want the responsibility of being head coach.

Dual AFLW premiership-winning coach Clarke to step away from Crows

Matthew Clarke makes the decision to step down as Adelaide's coach ahead of this year's AFLW season after leading the Crows to two premierships.

www.abc.net.au

Good find.
He could do a dual role across the AFL & AFLW side, very well credentialed and would be a massive boost for Daisy's team as well as some type of development role across both programs.

 

[BSD]

Hell I'd let Scotty come back as #1 ruckman for next year.

I think he would need someone to coach. If Williams and Flynn can't ruck at this stage of their careers they never will no matter who coaches them.

 

[THE A5]

I’ve been taking the piss with Goldy but with Nic Nat turning down the ruck coach role, we should actually have a look at goldy as player/coach for a year. More than happy to **** Barnett off and pay him out so we don’t lose a list spot

 

[Mattman93]

Dan Hannebery spotted driving into MRP

 

[Keys]

Dan Hannebery spotted driving into MRP

Mates with Kieran Jack from their Sydney days

What’s he even doing now?

Edit - works in real estate so nothing to do with football

 

[Mattman93]

Mates with Kieran Jack from their Sydney days

Good point yeah; assumed it was nothing regardless.

 

[RookiePick]

Kilgallon off to the Western Force. Hopefully not a backwards step as we actually looked like we were making progress in sizing up the yoof to AFL standards since he got here.

 

[bzparkes]

Kilgallon off to the Western Force. Hopefully not a backwards step as we actually looked like we were making progress in sizing up the yoof to AFL standards since he got here.

Maybe we're giving Grego's dad a gig instead?

 

[Farmer Lister]

Kilgallon off to the Western Force. Hopefully not a backwards step as we actually looked like we were making progress in sizing up the yoof to AFL standards since he got here.

I hope we have a replacement sorted, the 1-4 year players are due back to training in three weeks

 

[Bender_]

What does Killgallon do again?

 

[Convocation]

What does Killgallon do again?

Strength & Conditioning Coach

https://archive.md/wI5AP

 

[bzparkes]

What does Killgallon do again?

Beer chugging champion at WCE.

Because nobody 'kills a gallon' like Kilgallon!

 

[DanWCE]

Ginbeys taking over the role

 

[Keys]

Shame to see Kilgallon moving

Hard to know from the outside but he was the first part of improving our strength and conditioning and was popular with the players based on the little comments from them over time

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Ginbeys taking over the role

 

[eagleskickass]

Ginbeast's taking over the role

Fixed

 

[TheBudgies]

Strength & Conditioning Coach

https://archive.md/wI5AP

How's that for some BF favourites.

 

[TheBudgies]

Shame to see Kilgallon moving

Hard to know from the outside but he was the first part of improving our strength and conditioning and was popular with the players based on the little comments from them over time

Could be why the force poached him?

Wonder if this is a sign of moving money in the soft cap to other areas of development. Do we put more money into skills training somehow and move it away from more general S&C?

 

[Bender_]

Could be why the force poached him?

Wonder if this is a sign of moving money in the soft cap to other areas of development. Do we put more money into skills training somehow and move it away from more general S&C?

Or he may have looked elsewhere due to he and our new high-performance guy not being on the same page?

 

[TheBudgies]

Or he may have looked elsewhere due to he and our new high-performance guy not being on the same page?

Possible, but I'm pretty sure this isnt the case. Merriman and Innes were quite close and have very similar philosophy to high performance. I guess he might be jilted at being passed over for the HP gig or something.