Curnow reality Swans may have to accept; historic Clarry resurgence<\/a><\/p>\nThe Eagles 2018 premiership coach said talks with Carlton didn\u2019t go far.<\/p>\n
\u201cA very, very brief conversation and it was a polite decline with where I\u2019m at, at the moment,\u201d Simpson added.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can ask questions of others.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me at the moment, it just didn\u2019t feel right.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re working with someone and the coaching staff. To come in and try and, yeah, that\u2019s not quite right for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m sure whoever takes that job will have a good career.\u201d <\/p>\n
Thilthorpe set to return to Adelaide | 02:07<\/p>\n
Sydney premiership coach John Longmire last week refused to rule himself out for the Blues gig.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a simple yes or no answer. It\u2019s not about that,\u201d Longmire said om AFL 360 last Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, these things tend to become clear over a period of time. I\u2019m happy to let that time play out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand the questioning and I understand there\u2019s a bit of interest in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m not in the position at the moment in my own head to ascertain whether it\u2019s a yes or no. I really don\u2019t think it\u2019s appropriate for me to say that if I don\u2019t feel I\u2019m ready to answer that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Longmire and Simpson are seen as two of the best candidates on the market, if the Blues went down the route of picking an experienced coach.<\/p>\n
A conversation with Simpson at least shows an openness from Carlton to assess all contenders, as opposed to just untried coaches.<\/p>\n
Simpson coached West Coast in 242 AFL games from 2014 to 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Simpson has officially ruled himself out of the Carlton coaching search. Simpson, who\u2019s been working as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[1146,638,64,63,55,639,684,309991,20538,30903,63402,19061,40820,81408,3257,85],"class_list":["post-682874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adam-simpson","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-coaching-consultant","tag-coaching-contender","tag-coaching-point","tag-coaching-search","tag-coaching-staff","tag-coaching-vacancy","tag-head-coaching-role","tag-michael-voss","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682874","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=682874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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