Late 'wrinkle' in Dons' coach search revealed

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There has been a precocious twist successful Essendon's coaching contention with adjunct Blake Caracella acceptable to propulsion his chapeau successful the ring, according to The Age's Caroline Wilson.

Caracella has been an adjunct manager astatine Essendon since the 2020 play and had worked nether recently-sacked elder manager Ben Rutten. Like chap candidates James Hird and Dean Solomon, Caracella played successful Essendon's astir caller premiership broadside successful 2000.

While Caracella is yet to conscionable with Essendon's coaching sub-committee owed to being overseas, Wilson revealed he'd spoken with Jordan Lewis, who is 1 of six radical connected the panel.

"There is simply a wrinkle here," Wilson said of Essendon's coaching hunt connected Nine's Footy Classified.

"Blake Caracella, the Essendon adjunct coach, who has been a portion of the reappraisal is successful Europe.

"He's getting backmost successful the adjacent 24 hours and my knowing is helium has decided that upon his instrumentality helium is apt to propulsion his chapeau into the elder coaching ring.

"I'm not definite if Blake Caracella volition beryllium earnestly considered for the job, I'm not definite however he's travel retired of the reappraisal that's been going on, I cognize he's been interviewed doubly ... but it'll beryllium absorbing to spot if they don't privation him to present."

According to Wilson and different reports, Melbourne adjunct Adem Yze is "clearly" the favourite to triumph the occupation retired of the 4 candidates interviewed, a database which includes Hird, Solomon and Brendon Lade.

Yze has already conducted a 2nd interrogation with the nine and was spotted touring Essendon's facilities connected Wednesday.

Wilson said Essendon retains an involvement successful erstwhile North Melbourne manager Brad Scott, who is inactive yet to determine whether helium is unfastened to leaving his relation arsenic the AFL's caput of football.

While quality of Hird's interrogation had sent the AFL's rumour mill into overdrive past week, helium is understood to beryllium improbable to instrumentality to Essendon.

"I deliberation the proposal to James is that helium needs to bash an apprenticeship elsewhere," she said.

Essendon is expected to scope a determination connected its adjacent elder manager by the extremity of adjacent week.

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