{"id":417079,"date":"2026-01-16T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417079\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:33:32","slug":"shiel-joins-saints-in-development-coaching-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417079\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiel joins Saints in development coaching role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Former Bomber and Giant Dylan Shiel has joined St Kilda in a development coach role\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Dylan Shiel in action during Essendon&#8217;s clash against Carlton in round 24, 2025. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>SIX YEARS on from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/59686\/shiel-deal-how-2018s-biggest-trade-got-done\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">turning down St Kilda for Essendon<\/a>, Dylan Shiel has finally joined the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it&#8217;s as a development coach, rather than as a prized trade acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>Shiel, who retired at the end of the 2025 season after 234 games with Greater Western Sydney and the Bombers, will work alongside the Saints&#8217; VFL coach Brendon Goddard, as well as with AFL midfield coach Robert Harvey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1460894\/st-kilda-saints-legend-lenny-hayes-takes-on-key-role-as-expectations-grow-at-moorabbin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St Kilda footy boss Lenny Hayes <\/a>said he was excited for Shiel to begin his coaching career at the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re really pleased to have a person of Dylan&#8217;s character and experience joining our program,&#8221; Hayes said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dylan&#8217;s relentless pursuit of excellence &#8211; as a player and now a coach &#8211; sets a standard we want across our entire club and one which will help our driven group of young midfielders get better every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re looking forward to welcoming Dylan, his wife Georgie and daughters Sloane and Blaire to the Saints family.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Bomber and Giant Dylan Shiel has joined St Kilda in a development coach role Dylan Shiel in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-417079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417079","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=417079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}