John Longmire joins Essendon - The Late Trade - Day 4 (28.09.26)

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Gary Lyon 0:04

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Why did Essendon appoint John Longmire as its new general manager of football?

Damian Barrett 0:22

News update this uh hour is a big one, and it is that John Longmeyer, Premiership Coach John Longmeyer, will be joining Essendon as the bombers new head of football.

Gary Lyon 0:33

Huge.

Damian Barrett 0:34

Yeah.

Brad Johnson 0:34

Massive to secure the services of of John Longmeyer to your football club. It's it's just as big as the announcement of Alistair Clarkson to North Melbourne a couple of years ago. I personally think so. Even though

Damian Barrett 0:46

it's not the coaching.

Brad Johnson 0:47

Even though it's not the coach, because this is this is your point exactly. To allow Mark McVeigh to succeed as coach, he needed someone. And we both agreed on that. And I didn't think it was going to happen this year. And twenty minutes later there's an a there's an announcement that, you know, it's one of the greatest coaches in in modern times that he's is now at the Essen Football Club. They'll be pumped the fans to um to hear of of disappointment.

Damian Barrett 1:11

It's uh clearly a relationship decision too, Marty, given the connection they would have had via the Sydney Swans ranks in in recent years, Mark McVay and and John Longmire. And the fact that John Longmire only uh a week and a half ago was happy for the footy industry to know that he wasn't going to be part of the North Melbourne coach search and clearly conversations of this nature, I would imagine if we retrofit the the timelines now with this decision being announced today was well and truly in play.

Marty Pask 1:38

Yeah, absolutely.

How could Longmire’s experience bring stability to Essendon and support Mark McVeigh?

Marty Pask 1:39

And I just think it would bring a to Johnno's point, it'd just bring a calmness to the club. I I think that that's what you need at a footy club. When you look at there's obviously a first-time coach, um, obviously Matt Rose is very new in the list management position as well. Just to have somebody there with with that experience and that understanding of how a football club needs to run and a successful football club needs to run, just to give that calmness to the group and understand and and probably just take some take some bullets for McVay too, just shield him a little bit and just to be able to give him that ext that experience and understand what what he needs to do. I I just think it's a terrific appointment.

Marty Pask 2:15

Certainly changes my metric a little bit too now um when we get to Essendon because that was one of actually my key things was just a little bit about their football program and when you're trying to attract talent and track players. Uh Yeah.

Marty Pask 2:27

I just feel that that just gives them that extra little uh little push now. Um and I I agree. I just think it's a it's a really good appointment and well done just keeping it keeping it quiet too. Yeah there's no line of sight on that prior to the announcement uh a few moments ago. Oh to the I think that I think that helps too. It just shows you probably a little bit about the new Essendon now. Um and just point wasn't it? Well that was Hurdy's point, wasn't it? Hurdy's point was Hurdy's point was

Brad Johnson 2:48

he was disappointed that it was getting out that he was having other discussions with with the footy club. Well, this one didn't. Yeah.

What does Longmire’s move mean for the Sydney Swans and his football role?

Brad Johnson 2:54

So that's that's the positive.

Marty Pask 2:55

Yeah, and and interesting too now, probably on the other side of the the the coin is where to for Sydney too, because obviously now there's a couple. Yeah. No, they've obviously lost a couple of key key key figures. They've obviously got a little bit of turmoil going on at the moment too. Ben Hart may leave GW.

Brad Johnson 3:11

US and head

Marty Pask 3:11

down the road.

Damian Barrett 3:12

Yeah, maybe. Possibly. Yep. It was a luxury to have John Longmire on the Swans Books though, wasn't it? It was the o the overhang contract initially from the the coaching deal that he'd signed b prior to standing down himself after the twenty twenty four grand final. So that that was not normal and that wasn't going to be sustainable. And I I mean correct me if I'm wrong, I I don't think it was a completely hands on football, hard football role in the year just gone anyway, was it under Dean Cox?