{"id":326837,"date":"2025-12-04T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326837\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:01:09","slug":"richmond-tigers-sack-aflw-coach-ryan-ferguson-just-months-after-re-signing-him-kate-sheahan-daughter-of-former-herald-sun-football-writer-mike-sheahan-also-let-go-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326837\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Tigers sack AFLW coach Ryan Ferguson just months after re-signing him; Kate Sheahan, daughter of former Herald Sun football writer Mike Sheahan, also let go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p56ce0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan was at the helm for our first-ever AFLW win<\/a> and our first finals appearance \u2013 historic moments and sources of great pride for the club.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>Ferguson said he was proud of his time and involvement at Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in this group and wish them great success in coming seasons,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd\u2019s review looked at program structure and governance, culture and leadership, coaching and player development, high performance and medical support, recruitment and list strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Sheahan will be replaced by someone in the new role of general manager of women\u2019s football, who will report to Dunne.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>Sheahan said she was proud of what had been built at Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful for the opportunity Richmond Football Club gave me to lead the establishment of its AFLW program. I will cherish my time at the club and the relationships I built with the staff and players. I wish the club and the AFLW program every success in the future,\u201d Sheahan said.<\/p>\n<p>The club said it would now aim to \u201cdevelop a new AFLW performance strategy that defines how we will close the gap and consistently compete in finals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dunne said the Tigers \u201cabsolutely committed to delivering a successful AFLW program and this review was an important part of that\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have now established a clear direction, and we look forward to the work ahead as we prepare for next season and beyond,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>News, results and expert analysis from the weekend of sport are sent every Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p56jal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Sport newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRyan was at the helm for our first-ever AFLW win and our first finals appearance \u2013 historic moments&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-326837","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326837","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=326837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}