\n Richmond has confirmed its VFL coach for the 2026 season.\n <\/p>\n
Richmond has appointed former Collingwood defender Jack Madgen as the Club\u2019s new VFL coach, taking over from Jake Batchelor.<\/p>\n
Madgen played 49 AFL games for Collingwood between 2018 and 2022 after being recruited as a Category B Rookie from the Cairns Taipans (NBL).<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old has since been captain of Adelaide\u2019s SANFL team, playing 53 games across the past three years.<\/p>\n
Madgen has also been the Head Coach of the Crows Boys Academies and a line coach for their successful AFLW team.<\/p>\n
Richmond Executive General Manager, Football Performance, Tim Livingstone, said that Madgen had well-rounded coaching credentials and was an excellent fit for the role.<\/p>\n
\u201cJack has great experience both as an AFL and State League player and coaching at the elite level with the Crows AFLW,” Livingstone said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe also has strong history in the development space, working with young teammates at the SANFL Crows and talented young players through the Adelaide Academy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough both basketball and football, he has been around high-performance environments for an extended period, and we are excited about the impact he will be able to have on our VFL program.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe welcome Jack and his family, wife Heidi, and children Izzy and Spencer to Richmond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richmond has confirmed its VFL coach for the 2026 season. Richmond has appointed former Collingwood defender Jack Madgen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-165189","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-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165189","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=165189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}