From the Bendigo
Advertiser
Reported by Luke West
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THE Bendigo Bank Bombers
have signed a new two-year
alignment agreement with
Essendon, ensuring the
club’s participation in the
VFL until at least 2011.
However, after persisting
with it for five years, the
club will scrap its reserves
team, while it will also
have a new senior coach next
season.
Adrian Hickmott has spent
the past two years in the
dual role of Bendigo senior
coach and Essendon
development coach.
Hickmott will remain in
his development coaching
role with Essendon, but a
new Bendigo coach will be
appointed for 2010.
With the new alignment
deal announced after months
of negotiations, it
continues a partnership
between Bendigo and Essendon
which began in 2003.
“We’ve again formed a
two-year relationship with
Essendon, which is a deeper
relationship than what we’ve
had in the past,’’ Bombers
chairman David Joss told
The Advertiser
yesterday.
“Structurally we will be
doing things a little
differently.