{"id":54558,"date":"2025-08-09T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54558\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:16:07","slug":"afl-premiership-mentor-out-of-demons-coaching-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54558\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL: Premiership mentor out of Demons’ coaching race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Sydney premiership coach John Longmire has ruled himself out of the vacant Melbourne AFL<\/a> head coach role.<\/p>\n

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Longmire had appeared among the top candidates, along with Adam Simpson and Nathan Buckley, to replace 2021 premiership coach Simon Goodwin, who was sacked this week.<\/p>\n

But the Swans confirmed to AAP on Saturday Longmire would not be pursuing the role at Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Longmire stepped down last November following last year’s thumping grand final loss to Brisbane, his fifth decider in 14 years at the helm, with Dean Cox replacing him.<\/p>\n

Former Sydney premiership coach John Longmire has ruled himself out of the vacant Melbourne AFL head coach role.\u00a0Michael Willson\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He remained at the Swans, taking up the role of executive director of club performance.<\/p>\n

It is understood Longmire is not yet ready to return to the coaching fray.<\/p>\n

The Melbourne job is the only vacancy currently up for grabs after Carlton committed to coach Michael Voss for next season.<\/p>\n

Buckley and Simpson now appear the clear frontrunners to replace Goodwin, with Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley, who finishes up at season’s end, indicating he won’t coach next year.<\/p>\n

Former Essendon coach James Hird is also understood to have ruled himself out of contention.<\/p>\n

Collingwood assistant Hayden Skipworth appears the best of the untested options, while interim Melbourne coach Troy Chaplin has confirmed he won’t pursue the full-time role.<\/p>\n

Chaplin will lead the Demons for their final three games of 2025, against the Western Bulldogs, Hawthorn and Collingwood.<\/p>\n

While the Demons are out of the finals hunt, they can strike a savage blow to the Bulldogs’ September chances if they win Sunday’s game at the MCG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Sydney premiership coach John Longmire has ruled himself out of the vacant Melbourne AFL head coach role.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-54558","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54558","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=54558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}