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\u201cWe could not ignore our on-field results in 2025. Ultimately this is about building a program that gives our female athletes the best chance of success,\u201d Richmond chief executive Shane Dunne said in a statement on Thursday. <\/p>\n
The review, which undertook \u201cwide-ranging consultation\u201d including the playing group, delved into \u201cprogram structure and governance, culture and leadership, coaching and player development, high performance and medical support, recruitment and list strategy\u201d. <\/p>\n
Dunne, who thanked Ferguson for his six years of service as women\u2019s coach, said the Tigers were in need of \u201ca different voice\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cRyan is a good football person and has been a valued part of the Richmond Football Club for more than a decade across our AFL, AFLW and VFL programs,\u201d Dunne said.<\/p>\n
\u201cRyan was at the helm for our first-ever AFLW win and our first finals\u2019 appearance \u2013 historic moments and sources of great pride for the Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe thank him for his significant contribution and wish he and his family all the very best for the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately the decision was made that we needed a different voice, and we will now commence the search to find the best possible senior coach for our AFLW team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferguson said in a statement released by the club: \u201cI\u2019ve loved my time at Richmond, worked with so many amazing people and I\u2019m proud to have given everything I possibly could to every program I\u2019ve been involved in. I believe in this group and wish them great success in coming seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richmond also announced it was restructuring its football department, with executive head of women\u2019s football Kate Sheehan made redundant. <\/p>\n
Correspondingly, the club will appoint a general manager of women\u2019s football, who will report directly to Dunne. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs Executive Head of Women\u2019s Football, Kate Sheahan has done a huge amount of work building our AFLW program from the ground up and we thank her for her dedication and commitment,\u201d Dunne said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has taken an enormous amount of energy and passion, and Kate has brought that from the moment she walked in the door. We wish her and her family the best for whatever comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richmond has dismissed AFLW coach Ryan Ferguson following a \u201ccomprehensive external review\u201d of its women\u2019s program. It surprisingly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[9126,638,64,63,689,55,639,11387,11241,3499,183432,83619,15915,2105,3231,183433,123144,647,677,46093,672,71041,183431,85,660],"class_list":["post-326673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adelaide-crows","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-chief-executive","tag-contract-extension","tag-daniel-pockett","tag-executive-head","tag-female-athletes","tag-football-department","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-kate-sheehan","tag-list-strategy","tag-melbourne","tag-oceania","tag-player-development","tag-richmond-tigers","tag-ryan-ferguson","tag-shane-dunne","tag-sports","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326673","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=326673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}