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

 

[Goroyals22]

Listening to Cotchin on KB’s podcast and he is more interested in the football manager or Gm of football role than as an assistant coach

 

[catman2006]

I would be giving Mitch Duncan a call to see if he wanted to coach.

 

[Chris_6678]

Listening to Cotchin on KB’s podcast and he is more interested in the football manager or Gm of football role than as an assistant coach

So... maybe a replacement to Bell?

 

[Broken_Chairs]

I would be giving Mitch Duncan a call to see if he wanted to coach.

Pretty sure we have - might be a 1yr player then coach transition, similar to what we did with Sam Mitchell.

What's your view on Mitch's footy brain? Does he have the chops for coaching?

 

[Keys]

Would be over the moon if Duncan became our midfield development coach whilst playing for the WAFL side as a onfield mentor

Steve Trewhella and his role is the most obvious double up that BSD has raised.

Was appointed as our development manager in late 2022 ahead of the 2023 season but his role changed to solely focus on the WAFL side as we sought to bring in a Head of Development. Jamie Maddocks was eventually hired for that role

Always hard to judge how individual people perform their roles from the outside but the fact he was effectively demoted at the end of last year isn’t a good sign. Maybe that money could be better spent elsewhere

Unless, Schofield looks elsewhere I suspect Webster might be the only line coach to depart

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Schofield has a better record than McQualter

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Not one of the experts on this forum has answered the question i posed about duplication of roles
in the club. Getting rid of the duplication of roles in the club would put money in the bank straight away.

And you haven’t answered the question multiple people have posed - how does “putting money in the bank” help pay Harley when there’s a hard salary cap for players?

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

Not one of the experts on this forum has answered the question i posed about duplication of roles
in the club. Getting rid of the duplication of roles in the club would put money in the bank straight away.

How do you know they're duplication of roles purely based on the job title?

 

[Mr Q]

And you haven’t answered the question multiple people have posed - how does “putting money in the bank” help pay Harley when there’s a hard salary cap for players?

Bring back the Captain-Coach!

 

[HoneyBadger35]

How do you know they're duplication of roles purely based on the job title?

Yeah it’s this for me. As long as they’re across responsibilities internally, which they’d have to be far more so than we can be from outside, I’d actually like far more development staff rather than cutting.

Given our list profile, that should be where we’re spending our coin. Depth isn’t inherently duplication of roles.

 

[UseR2006]

 

[Keys]

Good luck to him - I hope he finds a role at another club

 

[Bender_]

Correspondence? Were they penpals?

 

[bombard]

Correspondence? Were they penpals?

Right? What an odd way of saying "they've had some whatsapps"

Or maybe they're using carrier pigeon? **** me.

 

[plays tall 1]

I think it’s time to review Turnbull’s ruck coach role as well given the lack of development in our rucks. It may be that we haven’t drafted the right cattle but the sample size is becoming significant.

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Correspondence? Were they penpals?

"To the Most Esteemed Brotherhood of Coaching and Worthy Peers,

It is with great lamentation, and yet with hopeful entreaty, that I lay quill to parchment this very hour.

The cruel hand of Fortune, ever fickle and unrelenting, hath seen fit to deprive me of that most necessary and soul-sustaining occupation whereby a man doth earn both his bread and the dignity of his station. Bereft of employ and stripped of all professional mooring, I now find myself as a ship upon tempestuous seas—adrift, uncertain, yet steadfastly desirous of safe harbour.

Therefore, in the spirit of brotherhood, and with the utmost humility befitting one cast low by circumstance, I do most urgently beseech thee: if within thine honourable ranks there should be some vacant post, some station or appointment however humble, wherein my talents might find exercise and my service prove of benefit, I entreat thee most fervently to make it known unto me with haste most expedient.

Delay not, for the sands in the hourglass run swiftly, and each passing day brings with it fresh apprehensions to my troubled soul.

Thy most humble and faithful petitioner,

Luke Webster"

 

[BSD]

Listening to Cotchin on KB’s podcast and he is more interested in the football manager or Gm of football role than as an assistant coach

He would make a perfect replacement for Bell.

 

[BSD]

And you haven’t answered the question multiple people have posed - how does “putting money in the bank” help pay Harley when there’s a hard salary cap for players?

And you haven’t answered the question multiple people have posed - how does “putting money in the bank” help pay Harley when there’s a hard salary cap for players?

We pay Harley $2.2m with in the salary cap and get rid of the duplicated roles in the club and pay the soft penalty to attract better staff. The Saints are spending 20% of their salary cap on just 2 players. We could also use the $900k marketing allowance that comes from the AFL and pay it all to Harley. There are creative ways to structure player payments and contracts without resorting to cheap real estate deals or players with no business skills being appointed company directors. Money sitting in the bank isn't helping our rebuild, why not pend it, the more interest we earn from our investments we pay more tax to the Feds and get nothing back for it.

 

[Boohemian]

Correspondence? Were they penpals?

Right? What an odd way of saying "they've had some whatsapps"

Or maybe they're using carrier pigeon? **** me.

Do we struggle with four syllable words?

 

[FKASC]

the optimistic nuff in me is hoping Woosha is just there absorbing everything this year, seeing how everyone operates, but will start punching campaigners in the face for not performing over the off season.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

But you suggested sacking football department staff, and using the savings to pay Harley.

Oh thats easy

Free kicks against coach - Harley Reids dad

 

[bombard]

Do we struggle with four syllable words?

I just have a preference for four letter ones

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

We pay Harley $2.2m with in the salary cap and get rid of the duplicated roles in the club and pay the soft penalty to attract better staff. The Saints are spending 20% of their salary cap on just 2 players. We could also use the $900k marketing allowance that comes from the AFL and pay it all to Harley. There are creative ways to structure player payments and contracts without resorting to cheap real estate deals or players with no business skills being appointed company directors. Money sitting in the bank isn't helping our rebuild, why not pend it, the more interest we earn from our investments we pay more tax to the Feds and get nothing back for it.

You’ve had four goes now and you don’t understand the point that the players salary cap is a finite amount of money, and what the club spends elsewhere has no bearing on it. Let’s forget it.

 

[BSD]

I think it’s time to review Turnbull’s ruck coach role as well given the lack of development in our rucks. It may be that we haven’t drafted the right cattle but the sample size is becoming significant.

Turnbull isn't a magician he can't polish turds. He can only work with what the club has drafted/recruited.
How many good ruckmen have we missed out on in the draft.

 

[BSD]

You’ve had four goes now and you don’t understand the point that the players salary cap is a finite amount of money, and what the club spends elsewhere has no bearing on it. Let’s forget it

Schofield has a better record than McQualter

That is an unfair comparison, Schofield and Simmo still had Barass, Gov and Yeo available where as McQualter is trying to develop inexperienced young talent which is what they didn't do.
Mini had 7 wins from 13 games when he took over from Hardwick in 2023. That's a lot better than Schofields 2 out of 7.
Of the coaches that were available Mini was the best pick. We should support and not criticize him.