By BRAD McGRATH
CASEY Scorpions are expected to make an announcement on their senior coaching position as early as today.
The troubled VFL club was doing a second round of interviews with candidates late last week, with football manager Matthew Young confirming an appointment was imminent.
“We are doing second interviews at the moment,” he said. “We’re hopeful of naming the coach very soon.”
The Scorpions’ alignment with Melbourne will continue next season, with several coaching candidates believed to be at the Demons.
Young said preseason training was under way with ex-North Melbourne rookie Ben Hughes, Cranbourne ruckman Michael Boland and six Gippsland Power graduates among the new faces.
He confirmed that Rian McGough, Dave Collins and Dean Cleven had all departed the club.
Cleven has joined Eastern Football League powerhouse Noble Park while McGough has joined ex-Scorpions James Wall and Ben Waite at Goulburn Valley League club Tatura.
Collins will play with a local club after work commitments meant he could not commit to another VFL season.
“Our list is pretty good and we’ve done a fair bit of recruiting,” Young said.
The Scorpions will go into their opening match next season with a significantly different team than the one that took them to the minor premiership this year.
The Demons’ savage list cuts mean Matthew Bate, Jamie Bennell, Lucas Cook, Liam Jurrah, Ricky Petterd, Jai Sheahan and Leigh Williams have been moved on.
Clint Bartram, Brad Green and Kelvin Lawrence have all retired while Stefan Martin and Brent Maloney have moved to Brisbane and Jared Rivers joined Geelong as a free agent.
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