Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nBut the 55-year old, arguably the best candidate on the market, admitted he was \u201camong many people in the industry\u201d to have spoken with Tassie CEO Brendon Gale a couple of weeks ago as the Devils begin the interview process. <\/p>\n
\u201cI among many people in the industry have being speaking to Tasmania,\u201d Longmire told Fox Footy\u2019s AFL 360 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that has been quite open, as far as Tassie are concerned, as well. They\u2019ve spoken to everyone in the industry, I was one of them.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Gale has) spoken to a number of people. Whether they\u2019re past coaches, current coaches, he\u2019s spoken to plenty of people in the industry. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think everyone knows that, so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a great surprise I was one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Longmire said there were plans to resume talks with Gale and Devils, but played down the idea that he was the favourite for the vacancy.<\/p>\n
And Longmire refused to weigh in on whether he or the club were at the stage of being ready to make a call.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think anyone he\u2019ll be talking to, there may be some questions to follow up. But that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean one thing or the other,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no point in speculating on what may happen down the track.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not at that point, as far as I\u2019m concerned or Tassie are concerned. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit too early to be going with headlines like \u2018all in\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The likes of Ken Hinkley and Nathan Buckley have also been linked to the Tassie role. <\/p>\n
Lynch remains tight-lipped on Longmire | 01:08<\/p>\n
Devils board remember Alastair Lynch was tight-lipped on the club\u2019s recent link to Longmire.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo I can\u2019t (confirm that). But it does seem like a very popular topic at the moment. There\u2019s a new favourite that pops up every couple of months,\u201d he said on Fox Footy\u2019s AFL Tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you\u2019d expect, I won\u2019t be giving a running commentary on how the process is going. But things are proceeding quite well and we hope to have an announcement by the end of the season on who will coach the Tasmania Devils for the first time. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a number of outstanding candidates around the country with an enormous amount of experience that would be well suited to taking the team into the 2028 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny one of them could do a fantastic job for Tassie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Longmire has one of the best winning percentages of all time (64) and guided Sydney to seven top four finishes and 12 of a possible 14 finals campaigns, including four grand finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney premiership coach John Longmire has confirmed he\u2019s held talks with the Tasmania Devils but denied he\u2019s \u201call-in\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-742174","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\/742174","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=742174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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