Two-time Brownlow Medallist Adam Goodes has backed in current Sydney coach John Longmire to be at the helm of the Swans for the long term.
The dual premiership player believes Longmire showed his mettle after getting his side to become the first team in VFL/AFL history to recover from losing their first six games to play finals the same year – bowing out in the Semi-Finals to Geelong after comprehensively defeating Essendon in an Elimination Final a week earlier.
“He knows,” Goodes said of his former coach on SEN Breakfast.
“He’s a fantastic coach who got the boys after 0-6 this year to play finals. He knows what can happen up there.”
Goodes says his relationship with footy remains great since retiring from the game at the end of the 2015 season, currently holding a role with New South Wales AFL centred on developing young Indigenous talent.
He says he is enjoying being largely out of the spotlight after a long and successful 372-game career.
“I’d like to think that’s enough for me at this stage with my footy involvement,” the four-time All-Australian and three-time Swans best-and-fairest said.
“I’ve had that talent program up and running for about four years now.
“I get to a couple of games of footy a year and it’s nice not to have to focus on that and not have it as part of my life, as hectic as it was, for 18 years.”