Kyabram Football Club has finalised its 2023 coaching appointments with the naming of joint reserves coaches.
Club president Peter Learmonth will share the role with Scott Hearn.
Learmonth has had vast coaching experience at senior level over the years with Finley, Berrigan and Hay Football Club and as an assistant coach of Bendigo club Golden Square.
Learmonth said he had put his hat into the coaching ring because of the challenge it presented.
‘‘We will have a lot of young players in the side next year and I like developing younger players and with Scott we will be trying do that,’’ Learmonth said.
Learmonth doesn’t shirk a hefty workload.
As well as holding the presidential reins of the club, he also coaches the Kyabram Fire Brigade Cricket Club and runs the Statewide business Kyabram-based business Rivpoly which has employed up to 25 workers at times and currently has eight employees.
Hearn will turn back the clock 25 years in his return to the club.
A former star junior footballer, Hearn won a league medal in the Shepparton Junior Football League Under-16 competition and was also a competition award winner as a young cricketer.
He played some senior games with the Bombers before joining KDL club Lancaster where he played for many years and coached the Wombat reserves for two years, taking them in a grand and preliminary final.
But a knee injury restricted him in his playing days and never allowed him to reach his full potential, eventually cutting short his career prematurely.
Hearn said it would ‘’be great’’ to return to the Bombers after quarter of a century and assist Learmonth in blooding a host of younger players emerging from junior ranks into potential senior players for the club.
‘‘It’s a challenge I’m really looking forward to,’’ Hearn said.
In home games Learmonth and Hearn will be assisted by former assistant Bombers’ senior coach Mark Watson.