Months after a second grand final hammering in three years on AFL’s biggest day, premiership-winning Sydney Swans coach John Longmire is set to stand down.
According to multiple reports, the 53-year-old will tell Swans players in Sydney he has decided to call time on his 14-year tenure at the club. A press conference is scheduled for 1:30pm AEDT.
It comes after the Swans’ 60 point hammering in this year’s AFL grand final to the Brisbane Lions at the MCG – the club’s second capitulation in three years after going down to the Geelong Cats by 81 in 2022.
John Longmire looks dejected after their AFL Grand Final loss to the Brisbane Lions at the MCG on September 28, 2024. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/AFL Photos/Getty Images)
Longmire, who took the Swans to the flag in his second season as head coach in 2012, had considered taking extended leave.
His future had been the subject of much discussion in recent months after Swans chief executive Tom Harley threw his full support behind the coach.
Harley said despite the “really challenging” period for his club following the 60-point demolition by Brisbane, Sydney was staunch in its support of its 2012 premiership coach.
“What I love about John is his commitment to the whole of club,” Harley told Melbourne radio station SEN.
“We are unbelievably fortunate and unbelievably grateful to have someone like him at our helm.
“He will process (the Grand Final) and that will take time and we all just need to acknowledge and respect that.”
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