Mark Thompson will coach Essendon. Source: HeraldSun
MARK Thompson could be named interim Essendon coach as early as Thursday - with Neil Craig his potential sidekick.
Craig, who was high performance manager at Melbourne this year, has emerged as the surprise senior assistant to Thompson.
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Thompson's appointment would end a curious month-long search for a replacement for James Hird, who was suspended for 12 months for his role in the club's supplements program through 2011-2012.
Thompson has swayed from wanting, then not wanting and then wanting the job, and in the recent past has shown a real hunger for the position.
The Geelong premiership coach has had several in-depth discussions with senior club people, and was the logical choice to fill in Hird's absence.
Support from all facets of the club became clear at the club's best and fairest count last Wednesday night.
Thompson got a standing ovation and a chant of "'Bomber, Bomber'' as he walked on stage, so clearly the members and influential coterie members wanted him.
Skipper Jobe Watson and best and fairest winner Brendon Goddard had told club officials they also wanted Thompson, while from day one Hird implored the club to appoint Thompson.
The sealer was Thompson telling the club he wanted role.
The appointment of Craig would be left-field.
The former Adelaide coach was interim coach at Melbourne this year when Mark Neeld was sacked, and when Paul Roos was named coach, Craig's days were numbered.
He would be seen by the Bombers as a mature-head in a re-organised football department.
Craig would be likely to be appointed to the role of technical coach, or senior assistant.
Thompson could not be contacted last night, but he told Fox Footy's AFL360 program recently that he was prepared to coach.
"I said that I'd help in any way," Thompson said. "If they want to go down a different track that's fine. If they want me to coach, I'd seriously consider it.
''I'm just worried about the club. Have I got my hunger back? I don't know, we'll find out."
People close to Thompson say he remains frustrated and angry about his $30,000 fine for his role in the supplements saga, and part of him wants to show the AFL, and the football world, that he and the club will restore respect for the red and black.
Meanwhile, the purging of Essendon people continued yesterday when premiership hero Dean Wallis was sacked in a football department reshuffling.
It follows a decision by board member and premiership player Chris Heffernan and chief executive Ray Gunston, the two most powerful football people at the club, to overlook another club premiership player, Mark Harvey, for the senior positions at the club.
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