New Gold Coast coach Damien Hardwick has landed an enormous off-field poaching transfer attractive former premiership participant Shaun Grigg out of his contract at Geelong to affix him on the Suns.
Days after Hardwick was filmed catching up with Tigers star Dustin Martin on the Gold Coast, amid ongoing hypothesis the pair may re-unite, Geelong confirmed it had launched Grigg from the ultimate 12 months of his contract to “pursue another opportunity”.
The Suns then confirmed that chance was with triple-premiership winner Hardwick who has signed an enormous six-year deal on the Suns having left the Tigers mid-way by way of the 2023 season citing burnout.
“Geelong Cats can confirm that it has agreed to release assistant coach Shaun Grigg from his 2024 contract to pursue another opportunity,” the Cats stated in an announcement.
Grigg spent 9 seasons with Hardwick at Richmond, together with the 2017 premiership victory earlier than spending 4 years at Geelong as an assistant coach.
Richmond are assured Martin, who’s contracted on the membership, gained’t be shifting north to affix Hardwick however hypothesis intensified when the pair had been photographed sharing a beer on the Gold Coast, the place Martin is holidaying.
Grigg’s departure from the Cats got here as North Melbourne continued a cleanout of assistants with John Blakey and Gavin Brown becoming a member of Brett Ratten in leaving the membership.
Ratten, who took over as caretaker coach when Alastair Clarkson stepped away to concentrate on his psychological and bodily well being, confirmed final week we wouldn’t return in 2024.
Now Brown and Blakey are out the door in what the Kangaroos have labelled a mutual parting of how.
Blakey had oly been at North for 2 seasons after 14 years with the Swans., whereas Brown had been on the membership for a decade, having first joined North Melbourne in November 2013 as senior improvement coach.
“After conversations with ‘Blakes’ and ’Browny’, we have agreed to mutually part ways,” North Melbourne’s normal supervisor of soccer Todd Viney stated in an announcement.
“These decisions are never taken lightly, but the time is right for all parties to move forward in new directions.”
The Western Bulldogs additionally parted methods with improvement coach Travis Varcoe after three seasons on the membership.
Varcoe, a premiership winner with Geelong, joins assistant coaches Marc Webb and Rohan Smith to depart the membership within the low season following the Bulldogs failures to make the finals.
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