Triple premiership coach locked in at Ormond
After a golden run at Alberton league club Fish Creek, Greg Hoskin has landed at EE Gunn Reserve.
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There’s something Fishy at Ormond.
It’s new senior coach Greg Hoskin.
The McKinnon Secondary College teacher arrives at the Monders after a four-year tenure at South Gippsland club Fish Creek that produced a hat-trick of premierships in the Alberton league.
Hoskin, 38, replaces Ash Leaver, who steered Ormond to the 2018 Division 1 premiership.
The Monders finished second on the Premier C ladder before a straight-sets demise in the finals this year.
Leaver also took the Monders to the 2015 Division 1 grand final and to the Division 1 preliminary final in 2017.
Club officials worked quickly to lock in Hoskin after approaching him last week.
Hoskin said he had intended to have a break from coaching after stepping aside at Fish Creek, which won the 2016-17-18 premierships under him.
But he said the chance to coach Ormond was too good to let go.
He said the football club and McKinnon Secondary College had strong links.
“That was one of the appeals in taking up the job … I taught a lot of the players there,’’ Hoskin said.
He said the Monders were in good shape.
“From what I understand it’s a young list, so there’s plenty to work with,’’ he said.
Hoskin played junior and then senior football with Fish Creek, and also had stints at Mitcham under Andy Collins, at Waverley Blues and at Highett as a playing coach under Trent McMicking, now the development coach of VFL club Port Melbourne.
McMicking fitted him up for an assistant’s role with the Development League team in 2015.
Hoskin said his time playing under Collins and being part of Gary Ayres’s coaching panel at Port was invaluable.
“I’ve tried to take learnings from all the clubs I’ve been involved with,’’ he said.
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He’s proud of his achievements at his home town, which, for a small community, has cast a sizeable shadow on football, producing league players including Ian Dunstan, Barry Standfield and Wayne Weidemann.
Sam Flanders, one of the best prospects in this year’s draft, is also from “Fishy’’.
“The whole town is based around the footy club, and it’s always been so sporting,’’ Hoskin said.
Ormond said Hoskin “brings a number of attributes to the position, not only his experience and success as a multiple premiership coach, but a proven ability to lead and educate a young and goal-oriented playing group’’.
Ethan Hanley won Ormond’s best and fairest from Dae Szydlik, Max Kennedy and former AFL player Simon Buckley, with the top three all under the age of 20.