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COBURG Football Club will welcome bumped senior coach Adam Potter back to the top job in 2014.

Coburg president Bill Balakis said Potter, who has been advised he will not be senior coach in 2013 when AFL affiliate Richmond takes control of the coaching structure, has been offered the job as Development League coach in the interim.

Coburg and Richmond will end its alignment at the end of next season, with Richmond to field an independant reserves team in the VFL in 2014 and Coburg to stand on its own in the state league.

Balakis has previously stated the decision to demote Potter from the senior job was due to "financial constraints", but on Sunday told Leader the club had offered Potter the senior position in 2014 after a year in a lesser role. "If he doesn't take the development role, there will be a position available for him," Balakis said. "He's been offered the senior job (in a year's time) as well."

Balakis, when asked why the club was prepared to make such a commitment more than a year before Richmond's affiliation with the club expired, said forward planning was key.

"It is (over a year away), but it's important for us to get ready for the 2014 season. We are setting our plans in motion to do that," he said.

Potter, who confirmed the club's offer to Leader, said he would wait until Coburg's Development League team's finals campaign expired before he made a decision on his future. "I'm not too sure at the moment. I'm just concentrating on the playing group. Making sure they're focused and I will make that decision in due course," he said.

Coburg legend Phil Cleary has previously condemned the club's decision to demote Potter, suggesting the move was about shoring up Richmond's support for the final 12 months of the alignment.