NFL 2018: Montmorency appoints Garry Ramsay as senior coach
Montmorency has landed the prized signature of premiership coach Garry Ramsay as its new Northern Football League mentor.
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THE rumours were true.
Montmorency has landed the prized signature of premiership coach Garry Ramsay as its new Northern Football League mentor.
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Ramsay has spent the past six years as coach of Macleod, steering the Roos to four consecutive Division 1 grand final appearances.
The NFL representative coach has earned a reputation as one of the most successful coaches in metropolitan football and achieved the ultimate success with Macleod and Lower Plenty.
“He is very well performed in the Northern footy league, as everybody knows,” Montmorency president Greg Bowman said.
“He is someone that has a track record with development and that is what we were looking for.”
Ramsay will be charged with lifting the Magpies into finals for the first time since 2014 as they hunt their first Division 1 premiership in 40 years.
He led Lower Plenty to the Division 2 flag in 2011 and Macleod to the ultimate prize in Division 1 in 2015.
Ramsay had a 67 per cent winning rate as coach of the Roos, taking them to five consecutive finals series and emerging victorious in 82 of his 122 games in charge.
“His ability to engage all different types of people is one of his strengths,” Bowman said. “Coaching is very much about relationships and I think that is one of his strengths.
“He has also coached sides of differing abilities and he has been able to improve those sides as well.”
Ramsay also had two stints as coach at Panton Hill.
“Prior to (Macleod) he was at Lower Plenty and Lower Plenty won the Division 2 flag in 2011 and performed in Division 1 reasonably well after that,” Bowman said.
“They didn’t get relegated. That was a factor as well, knowing that he can improve the side.”
Ramsay flagged his intention to continue coaching in August, when it was announced his tenure with the Roos would end after six years.
“I love footy coaching so, yeah, I’ll definitely be coaching football, but where I’m not 100 per cent sure,” he said.
Montmorency finished seventh this year, three games outside the top five, under outgoing mentor Ben Haynes.
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