Essendon assistant fitness coach Glen Turner will leave the club at the end of this week to take up the role of fitness coach at the Melbourne Football Club. Turner has been with the Bombers for the past two seasons having spent the previous eight years with rugby leage clubs St Geogre Illawarra and the now defunct Adelaide Rams.

Remarkably Turner is the third assistant of head fitness coach John Quinn to take on a senior role in the past few seasons. Andrew Russell was Port Adelaide's senior fitness coach - and is expected to take on the role at Hawthorn - while another former assistant Justin Cordy has been appointed at the Western Bulldogs.  

""I would like to thank Glenn for his terrific contribution while he has been at the club. He has managed the weights program very well and played an important role in the match day preparation of the Bendigo Bombers. I am sure he will have an impact at Melbourne,"" Essendon football operations manager Dom Cato said.