10 months ago
Former North Melbourne coach Dani Laidley is eyeing a groundbreaking return to coaching aft confirming liking successful nan vacant West Coast AFLW elder role.
Laidley, 56, revealed she had spoken to Eagles players astatine Mineral Resources Park connected Wednesday arsenic portion of nan build-up to AFLW Pride Round this weekend.
It comes aft nan Eagles parted ways pinch elder coach Michael Prior past week aft a disappointing 2-6 commencement to nan season, pinch interim coach Rohan McHugh taking nan reins for nan last 2 games.
Laidley, who splits her clip betwixt Melbourne and Perth, said she was prepared for 'any lawsuit scenario' to return to coaching pinch an AFLW team.
The Kangaroos premiership subordinate successful 1996 besides confirmed she was not pursuing a coaching return successful nan men's game.
Former North Melbourne coach Dani Laidley is eyeing a groundbreaking return to coaching aft confirming liking successful nan vacant West Coast AFLW elder role
It comes aft nan Eagles parted ways pinch elder coach Michael Prior past week aft a disappointing 2-6 commencement to nan play (Laidley, is pictured pinch partner Donna Leckie)
'(My partner) Donna and I person been really reasoning astir what our early holds, and being a passion of mine, I've benignant of been fresh for astir 12 months and moreover really this AFLW season, I was asked to do a coaching domiciled astatine 1 of nan Melbourne teams, but I couldn't because I was contracted for nan doco,' Laidley told SEN connected Thursday.
'People person connected nan dots - well, West Coast person sewage a position available.
'Yes, I want to coach again, but let's not put nan cart earlier nan horse. It's very easy to link those dots, but it's true.
'It's been a fewer years now successful nan making, and arsenic I said, West Coast is nan only nine astatine nan infinitesimal that don't person a coach for their women's team, and they whitethorn perchance spell pinch nan interim coach, who knows?'
Laidley said she had missed nan 'cut and thrust' of a domiciled successful shot but was assured her eight-year absence from nan crippled did not mean she would beryllium excessively acold retired of touch pinch modern coaching trends.
After coaching North Melbourne from 2003 to 2009, Laidley held adjunct coach roles astatine Port Adelaide, St Kilda and Carlton complete nan adjacent six seasons earlier leaving nan Blues successful 2015.
'I'm conscionable being prepared, if you like, for immoderate lawsuit scenario. I person missed nan trim and thrust of week-to-week performance,' she said.
'In nan firm world, you don't get that triumph and nonaccomplishment each week.
Laidley coached nan Kangaroos men's squad from 2003 to 2009 astatine Arden St - he besides won a premiership astatine nan nine arsenic a subordinate successful 1996
'I miss that trim and thrust of competition. Coaching is coaching. The game's changed - (but) it hasn't changed that much, and it tends to spell successful circles.
'I consciousness for illustration that I person each those skills...and I deliberation I've sewage a really bully knowing of watching a batch of AFLW.'
Laidley said she had a 'great morning' speaking to nan Eagles players up of their Pride Round lucifer against Adelaide connected Sunday.
'(Wednesday's session) was organised galore months ago. It is simply a awesome information successful AFLW this play crossed nan board, and a bully friend of excavation organised maine to spell down and speak to nan girls astir Pride Round and my journey,' she said.
'A spot astir being your authentic self, astir acceptance, astir inclusion, truthful that's what that was about. It was really really good.'
