Southern League: St Kilda Metropolis title Simon Goosey as assistant coach

Goosey stepped away from teaching final 12 months when he referred to as time on a two-decade stint with Mornington, Frankston Dolphins and Cranbourne.

However he’ll again in 2023, signing on because the Saints’ senior assistant to go coach Richard Houston, who can also be the membership’s president.

Whereas Goosey has solely signed on for one season, Houston is hopeful that his affect could have an eternal impact.

“I actually need him to develop the crew… we’re so pleased to get him on board,” he stated.

“Whenever you attain out to coaches like Simon Goosey and he’s obtainable, you’ll be a foolish man to not attempt to get him on board.

“His job will probably be to help me in constructing this aspect into a 3 to 5 12 months very, very aggressive crew and help with the tradition to make it as sturdy on the sector as off it.”

Houston says the signing of Goosey as an assistant is a constructive for the membership shifting ahead, as earlier senior coaches have been left with out such high-quality help.

“We have now a mature group, as soon as they win a flag, whether or not that be in a single, two or three years, they might resolve to hold up the boots, in order that they actually wish to make it occur this 12 months,” he stated.

“They wish to bust their guts and make it occur, they fell quick within the preliminary ultimate final 12 months and so they’ve requested how can we construct this membership to be higher.

“I’m going to study heaps from Simon, he’ll assist the gamers, after which the junior gamers coming via can even turn into senior gamers.

“Poor outdated Matty Hoy (earlier coach) had actually no help employees and once I was in there, I had no help employees (both), so we would have liked that energy of teaching skill to come back in and educate different coaches and make us a greater membership general.”

St Kilda Metropolis begins its season with St Paul’s McKinnon at McKinnon Reserve in Spherical 1.

Initially printed as Legendary native coach Simon Goosey will return to a training function in 2023