READ MORE:<\/strong> Ponting rips England as dodgy tactics fail in decider<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> AFL veteran floored by 'amazing' Fagan act<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Geelong great Steven King was also considered a leading contender and was all but declared the new Eagles coach by a radio station in the past few days, but missed out.<\/p>\n "We believe Andrew has the professional and personal qualities and experience required to guide our team," Eagles boss Don Pyke said.<\/p>\n "We are excited to have someone of his calibre leading our football program forward.<\/p>\n "We were in a fortunate position where we had three exceptional candidates short-listed with Andrew possessing the credentials and vision needed to help us make strong progress.<\/p>\n "Andrew has a firm vision of what needs to be done and is ready to embrace the opportunity of being an AFL senior coach."<\/p>\n \ufeffMcQualter, 38, played 89 games for St Kilda and a handful for Gold coast between 2005 and 2012.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestCoastEagles\/status\/1840533810842370553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n He's enjoyed a successful career as an assistant coach at both Richmond and Melbourne.<\/p>\n He was the interim Tigers head coach during 2023 \ufeffwhen Damien Hardwick resigned.<\/p>\n McQualter was an assistant to Simon Goodwin at the Demons this year.<\/p>\n "I have been working towards this moment for the last 10 years and I'm thrilled to be appointed as coach of the West Coast Eagles," McQualter said.<\/p>\n "I am aware that there is much work to do and I am definitely up for that.<\/p>\n "There is some exciting young talent at the club with a mix of outstanding players and I couldn't be more excited to get over there and get to work with them."<\/p>\n The Eagles sacked Adam Simpson as coach in July after a decade in the top job.<\/p>\n \ufeffWest Coast has been one of the worst teams in the AFL in recent seasons, winning just 10 games in the last three campaigns.<\/p>\n They do, though, have the game's undisputed best rookie in teenage sensation Harley Reid, who will be a key to McQualter's success next year.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" W\ufeffest Coast has announced Andrew McQualter as its new AFL head coach. The Eagles confirmed the news in a statement Monday morning.\ufeff \ufeffMcQualter reportedly beat […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424087,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424076\/revisions\/424087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/424084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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