Coaching Panel Announced
Gives me great pleasure to announce the finalisation of our coaching panel for season 2010.
Jack McDonald has been appointed reserves coach for next season.
Jack was a former senior coach of the Gryphons from 2000-2004 and took the senior side to 2 finals appearances during that time. Notably the Grand Final in 2004. He was instrumental in bringing the Rutherfords and Adrian Flowerday to the Gryphons. Jack stepped away from coaching to spend more time with his young family and is now keen to return to the club and help develop young players and be a part of our clubs future success.
Jack is very excited to be working with our new senior coach Richard Osborne and is passionate about developing reserve players into senior footballers. And to also strive for reserves finals success in 2010.
Please join me in welcoming Jack back to the club. And also to thank Jim Gonis for his work with the reserves over the last 3 years. Jim will continue to be involved in the club in some capacity for many years to come. In fact i’ve heard rumours he might have started pre-season training!
I’m sure you’ll all agree we’ve managed to appoint 2 excellent candidates with loads of experience. Including a very talented assistant… Phil Warren!
Again I encourage all of you to actively start recruiting players. Lets leverage off the momentum we have with signing ‘Ossie’. The festive season is always a good time to start to get blokes keen.
This finalises our coaching panel for 2010.
Senior Coach Richard Osborne
Senior assistant coach Phil Warren
Reserves Coach Jack McDonald
Our first session to meet the coaches will be on Wednesday 25th November. 2 weeks away. Please make sure you are all available to come down to the club 6.30pm and hear from Richard and Jack. We’ll also have a light run to kick off our fitness training!
Ill send an email out before then as a reminder.