{"id":465361,"date":"2025-08-14T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=465361"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:14:48","slug":"demons-coach-target-humbled-to-be-in-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=465361","title":{"rendered":"Demons coach target &#039;humbled&#039; to be in the race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/brisbane-lions-5sb\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Brisbane\">Brisbane<\/a> footy boss Danny Daly admits it is &quot;humbling&quot; to see his name in the ring for the vacant Demons head coaching job, even with the endorsement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/chris-fagan-25et\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Chris Fagan\">Chris Fagan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Daly has been floated to be the likely successor of Fagan if he is to step into retirement when his Lions contract expires at the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>However, his desire to step into a senior coaching role could be handed to him sooner if he is to make the move to Victoria to replace the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/afl\/news-2025-melbourne-demons-mess-simon-goodwin-axing-tom-morris-analysis-20250805-p5mklu.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"sacked Simon Goodwin\">sacked Simon Goodwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-harry-grant-penalty-milking-nathan-cleary-field-goal-video-penrith-panthers-melbourne-storm-reaction-20250814-p5mn56.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Cleary fumes as dodgy Grant act robs Panthers\"><strong>Cleary fumes as dodgy Grant act robs Panthers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\ufeffREAD MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-penrith-panthers-melbourne-storm-round-24-results-highlights-video-harry-grant-golden-point-try-20250814-p5mn4y.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Grant magic leads Storm to victory in golden point epic\"><strong>Grant magic leads Storm to victory in golden point epic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/football\/premier-league-2025-manchester-united-resurgence-title-fight-breakout-player-mark-bosnich-craig-foster-predictions-20250814-p5mn3h.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>Why &#x27;pear-shaped&#x27; Man United could reignite &#x27;big four&#x27; battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Coaching aspirations is something in the last couple years I&#x27;ve thought about a little more,&quot; Daly said on 3AW&#x27;s <em>Wide World of Sports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffWhether there are clubs out there that want someone like myself, who knows. It is something that I potentially might have a go at at some stage in my career.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s pretty humbling to have my name put out there.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a7de1d9a-636b-489a-910b-68fb819a5a4b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a7de1d9a-636b-489a-910b-68fb819a5a4b\" alt=\"(L-R) Danny Daly and Chris Fagan, senior Coach of the Lions.\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"705\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daly has been an integral member of Lions&#x27; coaching staff over the past 11 seasons, taking on several roles before becoming the head of footy in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>If he were to get the vacant Demons role, he would have the support of Fagan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know we wouldn&#x27;t like to lose him but if it was (to happen) &#8230; I&#x27;d be chairing him out for the place and saying &#x27;Good luck and go well&#x27;,&quot; the Lions premiership-winning coach told reporters last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffHe&#x27;s been a fantastic help to me from the day I arrived here at this football club. We&#x27;re like brothers, I reckon.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We talk a lot about football and I know he&#x27;s got the capacity inside him to (be a senior coach) if that is what he wants to do.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s completely up to Danny and the others who make those decisions. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>Interest from rival teams does not stop at just head coaching positions, with reports Daly is on the radar of Carlton to take over as the general manager of football.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m pretty happy in the role I play, and I am pretty fortunate to be part of the AFL industry and have this great role,&quot; Daly said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m pretty happy to be doing what I&#x27;m doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/wide-world-of-sports-3aw\/brisbane-footy-boss-danny-daly-opens-up-about-his-future-coaching-aspirations\/embed\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-omnypodcast\" data-show-caption=\"false\">https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/wide-world-of-sports-3aw\/brisbane-footy-boss-danny-daly-opens-up-about-his-future-coaching-aspirations\/embed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffThere are different pathways to get to a coaching position but certainly the way he (Fagan) has done it is something different.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know I am pretty much in the same mould as Fagan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That is one thing I am so grateful for in terms of Fagan last year winning the premiership, it is something that has been hanging over his head&#8230; it is always in the back of your head that you&#x27;ve never played at this level. He was able to get a team from where we were to finals and grand finals. But being able to win a grand final was huge.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Thankfully, for a lot of people who have followed in his path, it gives them hope as well.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Brisbane footy boss Danny Daly admits it is &quot;humbling&quot; to see his name in the ring for the vacant Demons head coaching job, even with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=465361\" title=\"Demons coach target &#039;humbled&#039; to be in the race\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465363,"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\/465361"}],"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=465361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465364,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465361\/revisions\/465364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/465363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}