{"id":305174,"date":"2025-11-24T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305174\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:02:19","slug":"reid-elevated-to-forwards-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305174\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid elevated to forwards coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Club has updated its coaching panel for the 2026 season.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By Western Bulldogs Media\n                            <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Western Bulldogs have updated their AFL coaching panel for 2026, elevating Ben Reid to assistant coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It comes after Matt Spangher departed for Hawthorn earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reid will take charge of the forward line, alongside Brendon Lade (stoppage), Jarryn Geary (transition) and Daniel Pratt (backline).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reid spent this past year as a development coach, working closely with the team\u2019s young forwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to joining Mission Whitten Oval, Reid gained coaching experience with Wangaratta in the Ovens &amp; Murray competition as a Head Coach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He played 152 games for Collingwood, including the 2010 premiership, before retiring in 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His father Bruce has a strong affiliation to the Bulldogs, having played 86 games for Footscray between 1977 and 1982.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bulldogs club games-record holder Brad Johnson will continue his part-time role into 2026, supporting Reid and the forwards in their goal-kicking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Club has updated its coaching panel for the 2026 season. By Western Bulldogs Media The Western Bulldogs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305175,"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-305174","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\/305174","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=305174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}