{"id":109741,"date":"2025-09-01T00:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109741\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T00:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:58:15","slug":"adam-simpson-former-west-coast-eagles-coach-to-present-jock-mchale-medal-to-winning-coach-at-2025-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109741\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Simpson: Former West Coast Eagles coach to present Jock McHale Medal to winning coach at 2025 grand final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In the moments after West Coast\u2019s 2018 grand final win, Adam Simpson received his Jock McHale Medal as the winning coach from former mentor Denis Pagan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Seven years later, if we see another WA club taste premiership success, it\u2019ll be Simpson handing out the medal to one of his proteges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Simpson was on Monday announced as the AFL\u2019s presenter for the Jock McHale Medal, meaning he\u2019ll be the man who meets Justin Longmuir on stage should Fremantle snare a history-making flag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Longmuir was an assistant under Simpson for four seasons from 2014 to 2017, before tasting defeat to the Eagles in 2018 as a member of Collingwood\u2019s coach staff ahead of taking the reins at the Dockers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/c0d38e1cac8f3be24944a5381ab9d982cabe8169.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Simpson and Justin Longmuir in 2017.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconAdam Simpson and Justin Longmuir in 2017. Credit: Matt King\/Getty Images\/AFL Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Hawthorn great Luke Hodge will hand out this year\u2019s Norm Smith Medal, having snared the prize himself in 2008 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">And former Richmond spearhead Jack Riewoldt has been announced as the AFL\u2019s premiership cup ambassador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the moments after West Coast\u2019s 2018 grand final win, Adam Simpson received his Jock McHale Medal as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,10124,588,85,7067],"class_list":{"0":"post-109741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-fremantle-dockers","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-west-coast-eagles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}