By Todd Whelan<\/p>\n
Darley has signed popular 2017 premiership assistant Dan Roy as head coach for next season.<\/p>\n
The appointment of the 31-year-old former South Barwon Best and Fairest winner puts to bed a lengthy search (in football circles), for the Devils to fill the senior role following Heath Scotland’s move to North Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Roy originally joined the Devils in 2017 as a playing assistant coach to Scotland in their premiership year before a knee injury in round one 2018 against Bacchus Marsh forced the experienced midfielder into premature retirement.<\/p>\n
The signing comes as a welcomed change of luck for the Devils who were recently dealt a double blow on field, losing the Graham brothers to West Footscray in Division Two of the Western Region Football League.<\/p>\n
Roy not only has a successful history with the Devils and South Barwon but has links of origin with Mansfield in the Goulburn Valley – the same club from which newly appointed Bacchus Marsh coach Tom German was recruited. The ‘intel’ on each other is sure to add a further dimension to next year’s local derbies. <\/p>\n
Can’t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Todd Whelan Darley has signed popular 2017 premiership assistant Dan Roy as head coach for next season. The appointment of the 31-year-old former South Barwon Best and Fairest winner puts to bed a lengthy search (in football circles), for the Devils to fill the senior role following Heath Scotland’s move to North Melbourne. Roy […]<\/p>\n