Selwood's shock code switch after retirement

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Retired Geelong champion Joel Selwood has revealed his adjacent vocation move, joining the Melbourne Storm arsenic a enactment coach.

The longest-serving skipper successful VFL/AFL history, Selwood retired from the AFL aft 355 games for the Cats. He made the announcement conscionable 5 days aft lifting his 4th vocation premiership cupful successful September.

Selwood volition commencement with the rugby league squad successful a part-time relation from January adjacent year.

"I'm truly excited to beryllium joining Storm. I've been watching them and person been successful envy of what the nine has been capable to execute for a agelong time," Selwood said.

"When the accidental travel up, I saw it arsenic a large accidental to get progressive successful thing a spot antithetic successful an situation that is truthful good run.

"I was impressed with the presumption Frank (Storm footy brag Ponissi) and Craig (coach Bellamy) made and person already been welcomed astatine the nine erstwhile I visited AAMI Park earlier this week. I can't hold to conscionable the remainder of the playing radical and get into the season."

Ponissi said Selwood's relation volition impact mentoring the Storm's emerging leaders portion besides helping to name the club's adjacent captain.

"Joel is an awesome idiosyncratic and has shown helium has outstanding enactment qualities arsenic Captain of the Cats implicit a agelong play of time," helium said.

Geelong skipper announces retirement

"We were peculiarly impressed with his humility and eagerness to learn, which was nary astonishment fixed what we knew astir him and from the feedback we got from those we spoke to done the process, including Simon Lloyd (Geelong shot manager) astatine the Cats.

"We knew our 2 clubs had a batch of similarities, not conscionable successful sustained occurrence but the values we each hold, and Joel has been a changeless operator of those values for a agelong time.

"His enactment qualities and values disconnected the tract are conscionable arsenic awesome and person been precise good documented implicit the years which was besides precise important to america successful speaking to Joel astir this role."

Selwood is not the archetypal retired AFL prima to instrumentality connected the role, with erstwhile Collingwood skipper Nick Maxwell spending six years astatine the Storm aft helium finished his playing career.

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