{"id":44138,"date":"2025-08-05T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44138\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:14:09","slug":"melbourne-afl-club-part-ways-with-demons-coach-with-three-games-left-in-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44138\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne AFL club part ways with Demons coach with three games left in 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the coach of the Melbourne footy club,\u201d Goodwin said after his side\u2019s 83-point thumping of West Coast Eagles. \u201cI\u2019m proud to be able to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, I\u2019ve got a clear plan. I\u2019m well-supported by the board in terms of where we\u2019re heading and what we\u2019re trying to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also understand that sometimes, when you\u2019re building something, that challenge will occur, and what happens is, you ride the challenge, you have clarity, and you keep building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin said he had never considered his own future as they navigated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5mi67\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the devastating fallout of the St Kilda loss in round 20.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said all along, it\u2019s not about me, it\u2019s about the footy team and the footy club,\u201d Goodwin said.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think we\u2019ve been building something throughout the year, you know, with our outcome, and sometimes that can be really tough for our supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be tough for people internally, but I\u2019m really clear about what we\u2019re building, what we\u2019re trying to build, and what we\u2019re trying to transition into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Adelaide champion player led the Demons to a premiership four years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5ljk6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking a 57-year-drought,<\/a> one of the longest in the AFL at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Massive call\u2019: Demons great in shock<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne great and Australian football hall of famer Garry Lyon responded to the news during his radio show on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his deep connections to the club Lyon said he had no inkling that the board would move on Goodwin before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garry Lyon (right) was shocked by Goodwin\u2019s departure.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0cbd126c097c78439d87b55afda6523ab1198639.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Garry Lyon (right) was shocked by Goodwin\u2019s departure.Credit: AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m stunned, shocked, totally shocked. Absolutely, just shocked, I can\u2019t get my head around it,\u201d Lyon said on SEN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought there would be a long review at the end of this year and then determine whether he could coach out the final year of his contract,\u201d Lyon added.<\/p>\n<p>He said Goodwin would always hold a special place in Demon hearts for coaching Melbourne to the 2021 flag, which was played at Optus Stadium in Perth while Victoria was in lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPremiership coaches are rare at Melbourne, he\u2019s one of four, he will be a hero of this football club forever and a day, but that obviously doesn\u2019t guarantee tenure,\u201d Lyon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a massive call &#8230; He won\u2019t be coaching a farewell game, that\u2019s something I can promise you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no heads up on this whatsoever. Absolutely just shocked, I can\u2019t get my head around it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loading \u201cI\u2019m the coach of the Melbourne footy club,\u201d Goodwin said after his side\u2019s 83-point thumping of West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-44138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44138","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=44138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}