He might be acting AFL Commissioner, but don't hold that against him. A prince among men. Apparently a very useful, tough medium-tall defender (retired just before my time). Endured a huge amount of controversy when appointed Norwood's coach for the 1974 season (transferring from a 14-year playing career at near neighbours North Adelaide), and then led them to their first flag in 25 years in 1975. Retired from coaching at the top of his game: he quit at the end of 1979 after leading Norwood to a second premiership in 1978 (one of the most miraculous upsets of all time), and the club made the finals 6 times in 6 years under him. Never coached full-time again. Except once...
I was amazed to stumble across the odd anomaly that Bob Hammond is an official ex-coach of the Sydney Swans. He was the second of 2 coaches during 1984. (Needless to say, I wasn't following the Swans' fortunes too closely at the time.)
I had kind of presumed that he was seconded in for a few games by the VFL Commission to steady the ship while Sydney was busy imploding, but it seems that at the time he had nothing to do with the VFL Commission. At the start of the season, Rick Quade was coach, at the start of the next season, John Northey was coach, and the series of events that led to the segue seem not to be widely explained.
Anyone know the story?
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