Warren Tredrea and Jarrad McVeigh say Stuart Dew's footy smarts bode well for coaching success | Stuart Dew
Foxfooty.com.au understands Stuart Dew, John Barker and Scott Burns are the men still in the hunt to be the Suns' next coach, likely to be decided within the next week. Stuart Dew had won a premiership with Port Adelaide four years earlier. Picture: Jerad Williams The players have lost heart. Dew, Carlton assistant John Barker and newly-appointed Hawthorn assistant Scott Burns were the three final candidates for the role.
New Gold Coast Suns coach Stuart Dew. Picture: Jerad Williams The players have lost heart. Barker is believed to be the frontrunner to secure the job. STUART Dew has been appointed as Gold Coast's third senior coach after a two-month search process concluded on Wednesday night.The Suns have narrowed their search down to leading assistants John Barker, Stuart Dew and Scott Burns, with interviews set to wrap up on Wednesday morning. Noone gave Hawthorn a chance of stopping Geelong from winning back-to-back premierships in the 2008 grand final before three minutes of brilliance from Dew put them in the box seat for their eventual win.
McVeigh, who captained the Swans' 2012 premiership with Dew serving as one of John Longmire's assistants, was one of the referees Suns CEO Mark Evans contacted during the selection process. Dew has been an assistant coach at Sydney and was a premiership player at Port Adelaide and Hawthorn in his 206-game.He is known for his playing career at Port Adelaide and Hawthorn, where he won premierships in 2004 and 2008 respectively. Dew, a two-time premiership player with Port Adelaide and Hawthorn, and premiership assistant coach with the Sydney Swans in 2012, takes the reigns of the struggling Queensland club. However, most interesting in the context of this week was the advice he received from Stuart Dew, a premiership teammate who had also played in Port Adelaide's 2004 premiership. Dew has also worked as an assistant coach at the Sydney Swans. Johnson, who has long prepared for a move into coaching ranks, is seen as a major coup for the Swans, who recently lost assistant Henry Playfair to St Kilda and could yet lose Gold Coast senior coaching candidate Stuart Dew. Dew was appointed Gold Coast's third senior coach on Wednesday night. The Gold Coast Suns have selected Sydney's Stuart Dew as the man to hopefully take them from irrelevant rabble to top of the table. Having started off as a Development Coach in 2010, Dew worked his. The best advice I've heard in Grand Final week came from my only teammate who'd played in one when we were about to take on Geelong in 2008. Dew has been an assistant coach at the Swans for nine years, which was just one year short of the decade-long apprenticeship Longmire had at the club under Rodney Eade and later Roos. "Roosy helped me out and I understand what he was able to do for.












