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John Longmire (born 31 December 1970) is the current coach of the
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. As a player, he represented the
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in the
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(AFL) from 1988 to 1999.


Early years

Longmire was born in
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. He took up Australian rules as a child and first came into notice when he won the 1984 Thirds goal kicking award in the
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with Corowa-Rutherglen. In his first season of senior football career with Corowa-Rutherglen in
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, he nearly won the
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's leading goalkicker title in 1987 as a 16-year-old, kicking 82 goals. His ability and size quickly attracted the interest of the North Melbourne VFL club's talent scouts. Longmire's grandfather is former
Fitzroy Football Club The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of Fitzroy, the club was a member of the Vi ...
player Keith Williams. His uncle,
Robert Longmire Robert Longmire (born 26 November 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Longmire is the uncle of former North Melbourne Football Club player John Longmire Jo ...
, is a former
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player. Walter Longmire (John Longmire’s great grandfather) represented New South Wales v South Australia at the MCG in 1927.


Playing career


North Melbourne

Longmire's physique and size earned him the
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"Horse". His first match for North Melbourne was in the infamous exhibition match between North Melbourne and Carlton at The Oval in London in 1987. His first official match for
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was in the 1988 season against Footscray with a four-goal performance, but he struggled after that and near the end of the season coach John Kennedy Sr. moved him to full-back. He did well in that role during the 1989 season, holding
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to five kicks in Round 14, but North's lack of key position players in attack saw him moved back to the forward line in August. The 1990 season saw Longmire jump to the top of the tree: at only nineteen years of age, he kicked 98 goals and won the
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as the league's leading goal kicker (and the youngest player to have done so). In Round 2 of that year he kicked a North Melbourne record of twelve goals against
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, which he broke twelve weeks later when he kicked fourteen goals in round 14 against
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. Going into the final round Longmire looked likely to reach the 100-goal milestone for the season, however inaccurate kicking against a strong Collingwood defence resulted in two goals and eight behinds, leaving him two goals short. Longmire won North Melbourne's best and fairest award that year and led the club's goal kicking list every season from 1990 to
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. At North Melbourne, he formed a powerful goalkicking partnership with
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. In six seasons between 1990 and 1995, Carey and Longmire collectively kicked 768 goals (of which Longmire contributed 464) and thirteen times they combined for ten goals or more in a game. Individually, Longmire kicked 5-plus goals in a game 36 times, 7-plus goals 18 times and 10-plus twice, before a serious knee injury forced him out of the game for the 1996 season. When he returned the following year, he played out the remainder of his career in defence and in the ruck. Longmire missed out on playing on the winning side of the 1996 premiership with a knee injury and just made it back from an elbow injury to make his last career game the 1999 Grand Final, in which the Kangaroos defeated
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. This was his only year to also not score a goal, managing only to kick 1 point in 10 games. Longmire played a total of 200 games and kicked a total of 511 goals for North Melbourne from 1988 to 1999, as well as being a member of the North Melbourne premiership side in 1999.


Coaching career


Sydney Swans

Longmire returned to
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to take up an assistant coaching position with the
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. In 2006, he was considered to be a front-runner for the
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senior coaching role, which was made vacant by the sacking of Grant Thomas, however, the role later went to then-fellow Swans assistant coach
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. In 2008, senior coach Paul Roos, appointed Longmire the Swans' "coaching co-ordinator". In a succession plan, Longmire replaced Roos as senior coach of the Sydney Swans following Roos' retirement at the end of the 2010 season. Longmire's first game as the Sydney Swans senior coach in the 2011 season ended in a draw against , with both teams scoring 11.18 (84). His first win as senior coach came the next week, against in Round 2, 2011. Longmire had a relatively good start to his coaching career, with only five losses in the first fourteen rounds of the season (albeit against top-four opposition in , (twice), and ). One of his best coaching achievements was engineering Sydney's upset 13-point victory over at Skilled Stadium in the penultimate round of the 2011 season. The Swans had not won there in more than 12 years and the home team had not lost at the ground in exactly four years and one day. Also, the Swans were the only team to beat top-four side at
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during the season. Those two sides won the rest of their home matches during the regular season. Longmire took Sydney to the finals in 2011, his first year as senior coach in what was the club's 13th finals appearance in 16 seasons. After beating in the elimination finals at
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, the Swans were defeated by in the semi-finals ending what was otherwise a promising first season for Longmire in the top job. In the 2012 season in his second year as senior coach, Longmire led Sydney to third place on the AFL ladder, compiling a 16–6 record in the home-and-away season. He later coached the Swans to a premiership victory over in the
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by a margin of 10 points with the final score being the Sydney Swans 14.7 (91) to Hawthorn 11.15 (81). Subsequently, his contract was extended until the end of the 2015 season. In March 2014, Longmire signed a two-year contract extension which took his tenure to the end of the 2017 AFL season. In the 2014 season, Longmire coached the Sydney Swans to the
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, but they lost to
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by a margin of 63 points with the final score being Sydney Swans 11.8 (74) to Hawthorn 21.11 (137). In the 2016 season, Longmire coached the Sydney Swans to the
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, but they lost to the
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by a margin of 22 points with the final score being Western Bulldogs 13.11 (89) to Sydney Swans 10.7 (67). In round 4 of the 2019 AFL season, Longmire coached his 200th game, a career
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. Three rounds later, he overtook Paul Roos as the longest serving coach of the club. On 12 July 2019, Longmire extended his contract for a further three years, to remain the Sydney Swans' senior coach until at least the end of 2023. In 2020, Longmire coached the All-Stars team in a one-off 2020 State of Origin match which was played on 28 February 2020 at
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. In the 2022 season, Longmire coached the Sydney Swans to the 2022 AFL Grand Final when they lost to
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by a margin of 81 points with Geelong scoring 20.13 (133) to the Sydney Swans 8.4 (52).


Statistics


Playing statistics

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1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
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1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
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Coaching statistics

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Honours and achievements


Playing honours

Team * VFL/AFL Premiership (
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):
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*
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(
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):
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* Pre-Season Cup (
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):
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Individual *
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: 1990 * Syd Barker Medal (North Melbourne F.C. B&F): 1990 * North Melbourne F.C. Leading Goalkicker: 1990-1994


Coaching honours

Team *
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Individual * Jock McHale Medal: 2012 *
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References


External links


John Longmire's profile
at AustralianFootball.com



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