Its being reported that the Former Melbourne and Essendon official Danny Corcoran will be appointed President of Sandringham FC today
Update
Sandringham Football Club is pleased to announce our new President Danny Corcoran
24/03/2014
The Sandringham Football Club is pleased to announce Danny Corcoran has been elected as the club’s next president he will officially assume the role from current president Gerry Ryan on Sunday, April 13.
Danny comes with a wealth of sports management experience, he has previously worked as the Football Manager at Melbourne where he was instrumental in creating the first AFL/VFL alignment between Melbourne and Sandringham, the alignment was one of great success for both clubs with Sandringham winning four premierships between 2000 - 2007. Danny also spent six years at Essendon in the early 1990s and was Athletics Australia’s chief executive during the Beijing Olympic Games and in 2010 he became the inaugural general manager of rugby operations at the Melbourne Rebels. After being a Bayside resident for the past 15 years and having a passion for Real Estate Danny has recently joined Hodges Real Estate in Brighton as a Property Consultant.
Gerry, who has been a member of the club for more than 20 years, has served as president since 2006. During his term of office, the club has won a Premiership, had over $1 Million spent on redeveloping the social club and had another million dollars spent on lengthening and completely resurfacing the ground. Gerry leaves with our best wishes in his new career and he will remain a dedicated Zebra member.
“It’s a fantastic appointment and that’s why we went after him,’’ Zebras general manager John Mennie said last night.
“We’re thrilled to get him.’’
He should be ok for the zebras Billy. Plenty of experience.
In reply to He should be ok for the by vfa
Yep He is a good footy man with a lot of smarts and knows the AFL system well which Sandy will need from next season to start to recruit the right players to get a good side together for 2016
He was also Athletics Australia chief in the Bejing Olympics.
Might be a good get for the zebras as they prepare for standalone status for the 2016 season.
Ive got an idea he is a Sandy supporter as well Zebraman would know more about him.
In reply to Ive got an idea he is a Sandy by billythekid
Danny Corcoran has followed the Zebras for many years as his son played with the club for a few years. Danny is well known in footy circles and is a well respected football administrator. His football knowledge will benefit the whole Sandringham club .
Welcome aboard Danny.
To state the obvious, it's a 'non-newsworthy' event if you take away the Essendon drugs 'saga'.
It just shows how the mud will/has probably stuck forever. Despite being both a Zebs supporter and St Kilda fan, I'm happy the two are splitting - it was always excessively weird when blokes like Kosi were running around in 71 etc. And, my hope is, that with the smart operators like Corcoran and others in charge the Sandy boys can become a Port/Willy powerhouse of the VFL and win a flag in the next decade.
In reply to To state the obvious, it's a by TheVoiceoftheB
The Sandringham Football Club has everything to look forward to a bigger and better social club. bigger and better ground hopefully out of debt( zebraman?
All that is needed is to get the footy side right and with the St Kilda Millstone gone that shouldnt be that hard with all the experience of the likes of Mennie,Galimberti and now Corcoran around the club.
As I said before Im willing to throw in $1000 to a fund to get some better players for the 2016 season and I would encourage others to do the same and get the mighty Zebras back to the top where they belong.
Hopefully the current coach will stay but if ntw the Zebs should start looking for a top line coach now - one with AFL experence
In reply to The Sandringham Football Club by billythekid
I'm thinking the semi-opposite, if the new coaches program etc comes in... As the competition becomes more elite - I'd hope that a coach of Sandy on the way up or a Ken Hinkley type who 'drops' back to the VFL will hold equal if not better credentials than 'assistants' at AFL level. It's unrealistic to think that now but it'll only take one club to change the thought process...
Call it the second wave of the Brett Goodes, J-Pod, Orren scenario - but rather than older consistent performers - its transposed to younger coaches of the next generation who haven't coached at AFL level and/or are on the rise.
E.g (Ridiculous pipe dream) Leigh Brown takes the Zebs to a flag in 2019, becomes StKilda head coach in 2020 and takes them to a flag in 2022...
Just a thought.