Eddie McGuire urged now must be the time the Swans arrange a succession plan between coach John Longmire and Dean Cox.
Cox re-signed as an assistant coach with the Swans in July, turning down the vacant West Coast Eagles job, that was on Monday stuffed by Andrew McQualter.
Former Collingwood chief McGuire applied one between Mick Malthouse and Nathan Buckley, and there may be additionally a handshake settlement in place at Port Adelaide between incumbent Ken Hinkley and his assistant Josh Carr.
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Longmire will start his fifteenth marketing campaign on the helm of the Swans after he, too, took over in 2011 from Paul Roos in a succession plan.
Because the mud settles on the Swans’ 60-point grand ultimate flogging on Saturday, McGuire stated there are “inquiries to be answered” by the Swans hierarchy.
There may be some suggestion Longmire is contemplating his future. He has one 12 months remaining on his contract, and can greater than probably decide earlier than the beginning of the season.
Though the Malthouse-Buckley succession plan labored out publicly, there was animosity between the 2 behind the scenes.
“I wished to make the transfer earlier than we began to dip down, whereas we nonetheless had some – pardon the pun – horsepower,” McGuire stated on 9’s Eddie and Jimmy podcast.
“Because it turned out, their personalities did not line up to do this regardless of all the very best plans.
“So do you have a look at that (a succession plan)? Or do you go: ‘No, (Longmire) is the very best coach we have, in you go once more’.”
McGuire stated Longmire is a “large supervisor of gamers”, and urged he disagreed with criticism of his grand ultimate selections.
The Swans have performed 5 premiership deciders underneath Longmire however gained only one.
“At 5 to 2 (1.55pm on Saturday) he is thought to be top-of-the-line coaches going round, after which at 5 o’clock (after the grand ultimate) you are a dud?” McGuire stated.
“He is received one (premiership), however you have to make the eight, and there is lots of issues that go into attending to a grand ultimate.”
Podcast oo-host Jimmy Bartel responded that historical past remembers premierships, not coaches that persistently received their groups to September.
“Thirty years from now we do not bear in mind ‘oh, geez that coach was good as a result of he made the eight’,” he stated.
“Premierships are the foreign money.”