The West Coast Eagles have today secured highly regarded assistant coach Phillip Walsh to join the club’s coaching staff, as strategy and innovations coach.
Walsh, who recently resigned from his post after 10 years at Port Adelaide, has a diverse range of skills and is an exciting appointment for the club.
“West Coast contacted me after I had resigned at Port Adelaide and I am very excited with the opportunity,” Walsh said today. “I am rapt to be working with John Worsfold and the rest of the coaching staff with a terrific young list.
“To work at a club like West Coast, which has such a proud history, is a dream come true for me.”
Walsh, who enjoyed a successful playing career, racking up 122 games with Collingwood Richmond and Brisbane, where he was the club’s inaugural fairest and best winner, also has an imposing coaching record.
From 1995 to 1998 he was the strength and conditioning coach at Geelong and then spent a decade at Port – where as midfield coach during the 2004 premiership year he was the AFL’s assistant coach of the year. He was then forward coach before spending the last two years as strategy and innovations manager.
West Coast Eagles chief executive officer Trevor Nisbett said securing Walsh was part of an aggressive strategy to recruit the best available people to the club.
“We are committed to securing the best-credentialed people in the business and there is no doubt that Phillip fits into that category,” Mr Nisbett said.
“He has a broad skills set which certainly will complement both John Worsfold and Peter Sumich.”
