Coaching Merry-Go-Round

It's been quite a few years since we had a bunch of coaches being sacked or resign in such quick succession. To re cap we have had:

• Neale Daniher resign from Melbourne, replaced by Mark Riley
  
• Chris Connelly resign from Fremantle, replaced by Mark Harvey
• Denis Pagan sacked by Carlton, replaced by Brett Ratten
• Kevin Sheedy not having contract renewed at Essendon, but will see out the rest of the season

I don't think Denis Pagan will coach again as his reputation has been somewhat tarnished. Kevin Sheedy may coach again but I see him moving on to bigger and better things. AFL CEO, Andrew Demetriou has already sounded him out as been the driving force of promoting the game internationally, a task I'm guessing Sheedy would jump at.

Daniher has been widely tipped for the vacant job at Essendon being a former player and favourite son, while Connelly is less heavily backed to go to his old club, Melbourne. There was talk at some stage that Daniher and Connelly might do a direct swap.

One this is for sure, there are openings for new senior coaching aspirants. Whether it is a current assistant such as Mark Harvey, Chris Bond, Peter Sumich, Guy McKenna amongst others, or if it is a straight out playing coaching newby such as Michael Voss and Nathan Buckley. Whatever the case may be it will be a talking point until all positions are filled which will be no earlier than October.

Get used to the endless banter and speculation.