McNamee & Sanders in Dunolly's top job
DUNOLLY Football Club's newest coach is returning to his roots. James McNamee will coach the side in the 2009 season and hopes to rebuild a club that for several years has been placed at the lower end of the Maryborough and Castlemaine District Football League ladder.
McNamee coached Rokewood-Corindhap to top of the ladder in the 2008 Lexton Plains season. Former VFL Bendigo and Maryborough and Carisbrook player Jeremy Sanders will jointly coach with McNamee.
McNamee said his aim was to develop the side to play finals for the first time since 1997."There are a lot of young kids that are probably at that point in their career where they are ready to stand up and be good footballers," he said. "We have got a challenge."
Last season Dunolly finished eighth with six wins and 12 losses. McNamee said distance and time prevented him from coaching Rokewood for the 2009 season. "Had I been in Ballarat I would have been 100 per cent at Rokewood and they are the best club I have been at," he said. "Sometimes travel and other circumstances can make it difficult. We aren't going in there to recruit a whole new side. We want to work with what we have got. The idea is to be faster, fitter, and stronger and become a side that will work hard to win."
Last Modified on 05/03/2010 22:53