Next Thursday April 7th former Richmond AFL Coach and AFL Umpire director Jeff Gieschen will be a guest speaker along with a Q&A session at Broadford Football Netball Club. $10 entry all welcome .Kids under 15 accompanied by an Adult free entry .Meal available at canteen prices & fully licensed bar .
All Senior Footballers required to attend !
A Night not to missed.Jeff Gieschen is the former National Umpire Manager of the Australian Football League and a former Australian rules football player and coach who played in the Victorian Football League between 1974 and 1978 for the Footscray Football Club
Gieschen coached the Maffra Football Club in 1979, 1980 and 1982 (and was inducted into the Maffra F.C.‘s inaugural Hall of Fame in 2008).
He coached Wodonga from 1986 to 1991 for two premierships and was awarded Regional Coach of the Year in 1990. During his six years at Wodonga the club won five Ovens and Murray League club championships based on the combined results of the Senior, Reserve and Third grade teams. (He was also named as Wodonga’s “coach of the century” in 2004).
He coached West Perth from 1992 to 1994 which included a grand final loss to Claremont in 1993, during which season he was awarded the JJ Leonard Medal for West Australian Coach of the Year Award. (West Perth also named him as coach of their “All Star Team of the Century” in 2008). In 1995 and 1996 he was assistant coach for the Geelong Football club which included a grand final appearance in the former season. In 1997 he became coach of the reserves team at Richmond and took that side from the wooden spoon (the year before) to Premiership winners. After a string of disappointing results by the Richmond senior team under the previous coach, Gieschen was appointed senior coach from late in the 1997 season. He held the position until the end of 1999. Gieschen’s winning percentage as a senior AFL coach finished at 52 percent.