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Seeing as he has now helped the Brisbane Lions win a Premiership as as an assistant coach, we should now look to pursue Cameron Bruce to return to the Melbourne Football Club. Cameron Bruce has been at both the Hawks and Lions and been quite successful as an assistant coach. I think he has had almost 10 years of coaching experience now. Cameron Bruce was an excellent player for the Melbourne Demons. We could look to have him take over as our forward line or midfield coach with Nathan Bassett (who is possibly coming to the Melbourne Demons too). Anyway, the more help we can give to Simon Goodwin to strengthen our coaching panel the better!

I read an interesting article in the Herald Sun newspaper about Mark "Choco" Williams last week. I still think he has some value as an assistant coach in the AFL and would love to see him at the Melbourne Football Club. Especially with the big shake up of our coaching department. Obviously, Mark Williams is seen as being a bit abrasive and confrontational. He has ruffled feathers of some of the more sensitive types. But he did wonders in the development of Dustin Martin and other players at Richmond. If anything I think he had a big influence in helping Richmond win it's 2017 AFL Premiership. It must be remembered that he is still obviously an AFL Premiership coach with Port Adelaide from back in 2004 (we won't talk about the horror of 2007 with Geelong's utter annihilation of Port Adelaide in that Grand Final except that it took that ignominious record away from the Demons disaster of the 1988 Grand Final!). He also has a passion still for coaching and is currently coach of the Werribee Tigers in the VFL as far as I can recall. Seeing as we have a few "good cops" in Simon Goodwin and now Alan Richardson. I would like for us to have Mark Williams as a "bad cop" to balance out all the touchy feely stuff with a more hardline attitude who will tell the players off if they are slack and lazy at training or put in weak and pathetic efforts during a game. Obviously, the "old school" fire and brimstone yelling and screaming at players doesn't work like it used to. Nevertheless, I think Mark Williams would be a handy asset as a great development coach for the Melbourne Football Club. I am interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this suggestion.

Article on the AFL site suggests he might come back into coaching. Pies appear to be front runners but we are in the running. Obviously once Goodwin steps up into the big job we will need another senior assistant. Thoughts?

Starting to warm up, 3AWisfootball: Ling to begin seriously considering coaching career http://t.co/4WHOowVBoC http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-05-24/the-new-crop-of-senior-coaches Paul Roos says Mark Thompson is on the list of next possible coaches http://afl.to/1jQBkF0 theagesport: AFL: Paul Roos flags Mark Thompson http://t.co/hTYKIfoVoM 27/5 Paul Roos spoke to the media this morning and addressed the mounting speculation regarding his successor - http://mfcde.es/1jU7G1x