Waverley Blues Premiership Coach Tom Langford has let the club know that he will not be seeking reappointment for the 2024 season.
The club will now be seeking a new coach for to take over before next season.
View the President’s address to the fans here:
Dear Waverley Blues Football Netball Club faithful.
Tom Langford has provided notice to our club he would not be seeking to be reappointed as our Club Coach for the 2024 season. When we first met Tom at the end of 2019 and appointed him as our Head Coach. He had made his intentions clear that once he had enabled our club to grow and rise through the ranks with success his ambition to pursue AFL coaching appointments at a higher office would be enacted. It is on this basis we fully support Tom with his career aspirations to further develop his coaching capability where he will no doubt again have an impact.
The name Tom Langford will be etched into history for eternity with the mighty Waverley Blues as the playing Coach who challenged our club and stimulated our players to realise their potential. Building confidence, creating a united team that would see us break our club record of consecutive wins over two season culminating in two premierships in both the senior and reserves grades in 2022. Tom has a winning games remarkable coaching record of 75% at our club. This is a rare outcome at any level and does not occur by chance. Tom Langford will always be known at our club as a coach that was able to test our clubs output including – volunteers, committee, members and most importantly our players. His vision to install a professional, mature, determined and successful platform will shape our club for many years to come.
We will all have the opportunity to thank Tom for his contribution over the past four years at our Presentation Day next Friday. Until then we say thank you Tom and we know you will be moving to bigger and bolder AFL coaching duties in the very near future. We wish you every success with all future endeavours.
Our club will now undertake a coaching recruitment phase with a view to be making an appointment asap once we have completed the full process.
Stephen Pewtress
Waverley Blues FNC
President
View Tom Langford’s message to the club and their fans HERE.