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Hird meets with Essendon over coaching job - CtrlF.XYZ

Hird meets with Essendon over coaching job

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James Hird has enactment his manus up to manager Essendon erstwhile again, 7 years aft helium was sacked successful the aftermath of the supplements scandal.

Sources confirmed to 9News Melbourne that Hird met with the club's coaching sub-commitee connected Wednesday.

Hird is 1 of a fig of names linked with the vacant role, a database which includes erstwhile Adelaide manager Don Pyke and erstwhile North Melbourne manager Brad Scott. Melbourne adjunct Adem Yze is besides successful the running.

The 49-year-old returned to the AFL's coaching ranks earlier this year, flanking erstwhile Bombers teammate Mark McVeigh arsenic an adjunct astatine the GWS Giants. It was Hird's archetypal AFL-related occupation since being sacked by Essendon successful 2015.

Hird coached Essendon successful 85 games betwixt 2011 and 2015, amassing a 41-43 grounds with 1 draw.

A tenure that started brightly with a finals quality successful his debut play astatine the helm rapidly turned sour erstwhile the nine embarked connected its infamous supplements programme during the 2012 which resulted successful 34 players yet being suspended.

Hird was suspended for 12 months astatine the extremity of 2013 aft being charged by the AFL for bringing the crippled into disrepute.

His adjunct Mark Thompson coached Essendon during the 2014 season, earlier Hird returned for the 2015 season, successful what yet proved to beryllium a short-lived return.

Dons would 'happily' person Hird back

Hird spoke candidly astir his clip arsenic a coach, saying his weakness was trusting people.

"I should person been implicit much of the detail," Hird told the Howie Games podcast of his clip astatine Essendon's helm.

"I trusted the radical I asked to bash things to bash things and they weren't. (I was) a spot naïve. I truly was a precise trusting, accepting idiosyncratic due to the fact that thing truly atrocious had happened to me.

"We had 2 radical determination who were atrocious radical who, I don't deliberation they cheated, but that's debatable. I inactive don't deliberation players took the incorrect thing, but the players were enactment successful a precise compromised presumption which they shouldn't person been enactment in."

Essendon is expected to finalise who its adjacent elder manager volition beryllium by the extremity of the month.

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