{"id":424268,"date":"2024-09-30T21:36:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=424268"},"modified":"2024-10-01T01:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T01:09:55","slug":"swans-urged-to-fast-track-longmire-succession-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=424268","title":{"rendered":"Swans urged to fast-track Longmire succession plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie McGuire<\/a> suggested now should be the time the Swans<\/a> set up a succession plan between coach John Longmire<\/a> and Dean Cox.<\/p>\n

Cox \ufeffre-signed as an assistant coach with the Swans in July, turning down the vacant West Coast Eagles<\/a> job, that was on Monday filled by Andrew McQualter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Collingwood chief McGuire implemented one between Mick Malthouse and Nathan Buckley, and there is also a handshake agreement in place at Port Adelaide between \ufeffincumbent Ken Hinkley and his assistant Josh Carr.<\/p>\n

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Longmire will begin his 15th campaign at the helm of the Swans after he, too, took over in 2011 from Paul Roos in a succession plan.<\/p>\n

As the dust settles on the Swans' 60-point grand final flogging on Saturday, McGuire said there are "questions to be answered" by the Swans hierarchy.<\/p>\n

\"John<\/p>\n

There is some suggestion \ufeffLongmire is considering his future. He has one year remaining on his contract, and will more than likely make a decision before the start of the season.<\/p>\n

Although the Malthouse-Buckley succession plan worked out publicly, there was animosity between the two behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI wanted to make the move before we started to dip down, while we still had some – pardon the pun – horsepower," McGuire said on Nine's Eddie and Jimmy<\/em> podcast.<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/eddie-and-jimmy\/brilliant-brisbane-and-a-horse-with-no-game-plus-2\/embed<\/a><\/p>\n

"As it turned out, their personalities didn't line up to do that despite all the best plans.<\/p>\n

"So do you look at that (a succession plan)? Or do you go: 'No, (Longmire) is the best coach we've got, in you go again'."<\/p>\n

McGuire said Longmire is a "tremendous manager of players", and suggested he disagreed with criticism of his grand final decisions.<\/p>\n

The Swans have played five premiership deciders under Longmire but won just one.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"At five to two (1.55pm on Saturday) he's regarded as one of the best coaches going around, and then at five o'clock (after the grand final) you're a dud?" McGuire said.<\/p>\n

\"'Excited'<\/p>\n

"He's got one (premiership), but you've got to make the eight, and there's a lot of things that go into getting to a grand final."<\/p>\n

Podcast oo-host Jimmy Bartel responded that history remembers premierships, not coaches that consistently got their teams to September.<\/p>\n

"Thirty years from now we don't remember 'oh, geez that coach was good because he made the eight'," he said.<\/p>\n

"Premierships are the currency."\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eddie McGuire suggested now should be the time the Swans set up a succession plan between coach John Longmire and Dean Cox. Cox \ufeffre-signed as […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424270,"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\/424268"}],"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=424268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424273,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424268\/revisions\/424273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/424270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}