AFL 2024: Richmond and assistant coach David Teague part ways mid-season
With no future at Richmond, assistant coach David Teague and the club have decided to part ways mid-season. But who steps up to take his place with four rounds left?
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Richmond will take the unusual step of promoting a development coach mid-season after forwards coach David Teague departed the club.
The former Carlton senior coach left Punt Road after Sunday’s loss to Collingwood, in a decision described by the club as mutual.
Teague was not going to be offered a contract for 2025 and assistant coaches are generally signed up by the start of August for the following year.
With no future at the Tigers, he and the club decided to split early, with players told on Sunday.
While coaches are usually told they will not be returning the next year, it is standard for them to coach out the season.
Teague said he was keen to continue to work in football but wasn’t sure whether his next step would be coaching.
“I love all areas of the game and will look to continue contributing to football across the coming years,” he said.
Head of football performance Tim Livingstone said that a development coach will be bumped up for the final weeks of the season to step into Teague’s vacant chair and work closer to head coach Adem Yze.
Three-time flag winner Kane Lambert is among Richmond’s development coaches but it is yet to be decided who will step up.
“As he turns his attention to the next chapter of his career in football, one of our development coaches will be given a chance to step into the line coaching role and begin working with our forward as they look to finish the year with some momentum that will carry into 2025,” Livingstone said.
Teague famously won over Carlton fans as interim coach in 2019, which helped him land the full-time Blues gig the following season.
But he won just 15 of his 39 games after that and was sacked in 2021, with Michael Voss replacing him.
He landed at Richmond following the Carlton axing, firstly under Damien Hardwick and this season under Yze.
Before his time at Carlton, Teague coached at Adelaide, St Kilda, West Coast and VFL side Northern Bullants.
He played 83 AFL matches in the early 2000s for North Melbourne and Carlton.
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