The latest Bomber magazine is set to hit newsagents nationally next week and will feature an insight into how Matthew Knights plans to tackle his new coaching job.
 
This edition also includes all the answers as to why Brent Stanton was the man best suited to taking over James Hird's number five guernsey and gives a detailed run-down of all the new young Bombers now at the club.

Below is an excerpt from the Matthew Knights cover story:

Searching for new coaching staff was just one of a multitude of tasks facing the new Essendon coach. Not least of them was convincing the football world that he is the right man to succeed the great Kevin Sheedy.

Twenty-seven years in charge, four Premierships and the status of the game’s eccentric genius. These are big boots to fill.

“I’ve never seen taking this job as being on a hiding to nothing,” says Knights. “You feel pretty honoured and very fortunate to follow Kevin Sheedy because obviously Kevin and the Essendon Football Club have had such a magnificent relationship over such a long period, and collectively they have grown. There was always going to be someone appointed after Kevin Sheedy; who that was is irrelevant. Any new coach coming in is going to be a different person.

“I will be my own man, with my own philosophy, my own way of how to manage and my own game style. I feel really comfortable with those things, and most of all I feel very calm because I have a magnificent football department behind me that is so supportive and is providing a lot of energy and enthusiasm.”