Dons legend's warning over Hird appointment

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Essendon fable Tim Watson has warned the nine not to hunt for a "saviour" aft James Hird was interviewed for the vacant coaching position.

Hird was 1 of 4 candidates to conscionable with the club's coaching sub-committee connected Wednesday, a database which includes erstwhile Essendon teammate Dean Solomon, Melbourne adjunct Adem Yze and St Kilda adjunct Brendon Lade.

News of Hird's gathering with Essendon was met with mixed reactions owed to his relation arsenic some a nine legend arsenic a subordinate and arsenic a cardinal fig successful the doping ungraded that brought the nine to its knees.

Watson, whose lad Jobe was stripped of his 2012 Brownlow Medal arsenic a effect of the supplements program, said helium would beryllium "more than surprised" if Hird bushed retired the different candidates successful Essendon's coaching process.

"I'm not amazed astatine each that they would interrogation him if helium had enactment his manus up and said 'yes, I bash privation to beryllium interviewed, I bash privation to spell done the process'," helium told SEN.

"Let's accidental Essendon is broken, what would unite a nine volition beryllium success.

"It doesn't person to travel from James Hird being the manager of the Essendon Football Club to unite Essendon. The nine would've been agreed nether Ben Rutten and John Worsfold had they been much successful.

"We don't request a saviour to travel backmost to the Essendon Football Club and unite the Essendon Football Club. We request idiosyncratic who's capable to enactment a program of enactment successful spot that's capable to present occurrence and to commencement to physique a palmy squad again."

In an absorbing wrinkle to the coaching process, Hird oregon Solomon is apt to privation the different arsenic an adjunct if they triumph the job, according to The Age.

Unlike the different candidates being interviewed for the role, Hird does not person extended coaching experience, having been retired of the coaching sphere since 2015, prevention for a half-year stint with the Giants earlier this twelvemonth arsenic an assistant.

Port Adelaide large Kane Cornes said that should origin against him much than the residue from the supplements saga.

"The large 1 for maine isn't needfully the past of it, albeit that is the circus portion of it, it's much the nuts and bolts of what it takes to manager a footy squad and however rapidly the crippled has moved strategically, the absorption broadside of things, the caller demographic of players coming through, managing the shot club," helium told SEN.

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"To beryllium retired of it for that long, I cognize immoderate would accidental helium dipped his toed backmost into the h2o this year, but I would deliberation the exemplary for James Hird had to beryllium the Michael Voss model.

"You coach, it doesn't extremity the mode you would person hoped, you spell to different club, you tally the midfield and the enactment department, past you negociate the coaches arsenic a manager and are crossed each facets.

"James Hird hasn't done the work, to enactment it bluntly.

"He hasn't done the enactment to beryllium a viable campaigner for the Essendon coaching job. That's thing personal, that's conscionable the world of it.

"I'm amazed they accepted a beryllium down with him and I don't deliberation it's going to spell excessively far."

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