Daniher on lookout for GC coach
17/07/2008 5:36 PM
Former Melbourne coach Neale Daniher has been appointed to the selection panel which will decide the first coach of the new Gold Coast club.
The new club has already been snubbed by former Brisbane captain Michael Voss, who instead elected to take a two-year job as assistant coach at West Coast.
Voss had been offered a three-year deal to coach the Gold Coast but was only guaranteed to coach the team in the AFL for one season - its debut season of 2011 - under that deal with the first two years of the deal served while the club was still in its development stage.
The new club will begin its life in Victoria's TAC Cup under-18 competition next year before advancing to the VFL in 2010 and the AFL in 2011.
Having been snubbed by Voss, the GC 17 group - the AFL's preferred consortium bidding for the license to run the 17th club from the Gold Coast - is now on the lookout for merely a development coach to guide the club through its first two years before joining the national competition.
Daniher, the chief executive of the AFL Coaches' Association and the last man to coach Melbourne into a grand final in 2000, will join GC 17 representatives Graeme Downie and Alan "Doc" Mackenzie and AFL representative David Matthews on the coaching selection panel.