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He appears to have won the race ahead of former Essendon captain and coach James Hird, Fremantle assistant Jaymie Graham and Adelaide\u2019s Murray Davis, with an announcement expected on Monday or Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Ken Hinkley presented to the Tasmania board just before he was confirmed as their inaugural coach making McVeigh\u2019s appointment appear imminent.<\/p>\n
McVeigh, 45, played 232 games at the Bombers and was one of the \u2018Essendon 34\u2019 suspended for using illegal supplements during the 2012 season.<\/p>\n
He then became an assistant coach working at the Giants, including a period as their interim senior coach working with James Hird and Dean Solomon, before moving to the Swans where he currently serves as defensive assistant coach.<\/p>\n
\\Mark McVeigh, Assistant Coach of the Swans looks on during the round 23 AFL match between Essendon Bombers and Sydney Swans at Melbourne Cricket Ground, on August 16, 2026, in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
While Hird had enormous support from a section of the Essendon fanbase, his role in the supplements saga and lengthy period out of the game meant McVeigh has been viewed as the favourite to replace Brad Scott for several weeks.<\/p>\n
It was reported last week McVeigh could leave the Swans immediately to play a role in end-of-season list management decisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s one thing this football club\u2019s done well for a long period of time (which) is be ready for the unexpected or if something does arise,\u201d Sydney coach Dean Cox said last week about the potential of losing McVeigh.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019ve had those meetings; discussions. We\u2019re really clear on what will happen if he was or wasn\u2019t to get the position.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark McVeigh is in the box seat to be Essendon\u2019s next coach. The former Bombers star will reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-865415","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\/865415","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=865415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}