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West Coast Eagles assistant coach Jaymie Graham believed to be contender for North Melbourne top job

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West Coast assistant coach Jaymie Graham is believed to be one of three final contenders for the vacant North Melbourne senior coaching position.

Fox Footy is reporting the former Eagles and South Fremantle defender stands alongside Brisbane Lions football boss David Noble and Collingwood assistant Robert Harvey as the finalists to take over from Rhyce Shaw, who parted ways with the club last month.

Graham is a former coach of East Perth and was the Eagles’ forwards coach for from 2017 to 2019, before taking over as the backline coach this year under former Kangaroos captain Adam Simpson.

The 37-year-old has already coached at AFL level, having taken the reigns as caretaker of the Eagles in round two of 2018 against the Western Bulldogs after Adam Simpson was forced to return to WA for family reasons.

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Jaymie Graham has been an assistant coach at West Coast for the past four seasons, having coach East Perth as well as been a development coach at the Eagles and St Kilda.
Camera IconJaymie Graham has been an assistant coach at West Coast for the past four seasons, having coach East Perth as well as been a development coach at the Eagles and St Kilda. Credit: Paul Braven/Kalgoorlie Miner

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Speaking in a members question and answer session earlier this week, North Melbourne football boss Brady Rawlings, who worked alongside Graham at West Coast as the club’s list manager, said they hoped to announce the new coach within a fortnight.

“The panel's been together for two to three weeks now, very collaborative process,” he said.

“We come up with a criteria that we want to select our coach on, and yeah, we're really confident, the position we're currently in, that within the next week to two we hope to narrow that down and hopefully will announce the senior coach within maybe a fortnight.

“We didn't want to miss out on a potential coach that’d be a great fit for us in North Melbourne.

“We didn't look purely at age or purely at experience in the senior coaching role. We looked at all different types of candidates, so we really cast a net for potential candidates and then we started to narrow in on the ones we'd like to take to phase one.”

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