{"id":96010,"date":"2025-08-26T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96010\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:32:09","slug":"revamp-blues-continue-football-department-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96010\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Revamp&#8217;: Blues continue football department overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant coach Aaron Hamill is among three more departures as Carlton continue their AFL football department &#8220;revamp&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Greaves, their head of coaching performance and innovation, is another football department casualty in the wake of their disastrous season, when they finished five wins out of finals contention.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues decided to stick with senior coach Michael Voss, but football department boss Brad Lloyd also left at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Blues assistant Aaron Hamill.\u00a0Photo by Morgan Hancock\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Carlton rarely looked in finals contention this year, after reaching a preliminary final in 2023 and making the top eight last season. Changes to the football department were inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Hamill and Greaves, the Blues announced on Tuesday morning that development and talent manager Tom Lonergan is also leaving for another job.<\/p>\n<p>Hamill had been the Blues&#8217; backline coach for the last four seasons. The tall utility played 190 games for Carlton and St Kilda from 1996-2006.<\/p>\n<p>Greaves also joined Carlton in 2021, in a support role for their coaches and football program.<\/p>\n<p>Lonergan, a premiership player in his 209 games at Geelong, had worked in player development at the Blues since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following today&#8217;s announcement, the Blues will now look to revamp their coaching structure,&#8221; Carlton said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assistant coach Aaron Hamill is among three more departures as Carlton continue their AFL football department &#8220;revamp&#8221;. Aaron&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-96010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96010","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=96010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}