Blues are making the moves.
Carlton have poached Ashley Hansen, who had been slated to be Luke Beveridge’s senior assistant, to hold the same role under
new senior coach Michael Voss.
Hansen, who has been a fixture at the Bulldogs in Beveridge’s time at the helm and had been promoted to senior assistant following the exit of Steven King to Gold Coast, will coach the forwards and act as Voss’ senior lieutenant in a revamped coaching panel.
Hansen’s arrival will finalise the overhaul of Carlton’s coaching panel, with Tim Clarke, who had worked at Gold Coast until last year, returning to the Blues to be midfield coach, while ex-star forward Aaron Hamill has left the Saints, where he had been a fixture on and off the field,
making a prodigal return to his first club as coach of the defenders.
Hansen, a 2006 West Coast premiership player, wants to be a senior coach and sources said his move from the grand finalists was, in part, recognition that he needed to broaden his experience at another club.
Clarke had worked at Carlton under Brendon Bolton as midfield coach from the end of 2015 for three seasons, having cut his teeth at Richmond as a development coach and of the VFL team.