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Dean Bailey
Dean Bailey (18 January 1967 – 11 March 2014) was an Australian rules football player and coach. He played for the Essendon Football Club and was the senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club, as well as an assistant coach at Essendon and Port Adelaide and the Strategy & Innovation Coach at the Adelaide Football Club (Adelaide Crows). Bailey died of lung cancer on 11 March 2014.
Bailey played 53 games for Essendon, mainly as a centreman. He wore guernsey numbers 42 and 31, and preceded Dustin Fletcher in wearing the latter number.
Bailey became senior coach of Mount Gravatt Football Club in Queensland at the end of the 1997 season. In 1998, In his first season as senior coach, he guided Mt Gravatt to fourth place. In 1999, he coached Mt Gravatt to third position in his second and final year.
At the end of the 1999 season, Bailey became an assistant coach in the position of development coach at the Essendon Football Club under senior coach Kevin Sheedy and helped the club to their 2000 premiership. In his second year back with the Dons, they again made the 2001 Grand Final, except this time they lost to the Brisbane Lions by 26 points. Bailey left the Essendon Football Club at the end of the 2001 season.
Bailey joined the Port Adelaide Football Club in 2002 as an assistant coach under senior coach Mark Williams, a position he held in guiding the club to the 2004 premiership, its first one in the AFL. After Port Adelaide lost the 2007 Grand Final, Bailey left the Port Adelaide Football Club at the end of the 2007 season.
At the end of the 2007 season, he was appointed as the senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club for the 2008 season. Bailey replaced Melbourne Football Club caretaker senior coach Mark Riley, who replaced Neale Daniher, after Daniher resigned in the middle of the 2007 season.
The 2008 season started badly for Bailey, with the Demons losing their first six games by lopsided margins before winning its first match of the season against Fremantle in round seven. Things did not get better, as the Demons under Bailey lost the next six games; however, they won their second game in Round 14 against Brisbane. Then they lost the next five games and won their third game in Round 20 against West Coast. Melbourne under Bailey finished 16th in the last position on the ladder at the end of the 2008 season, claiming the wooden spoon with three wins and 19 losses.
The 2009 season started with three losses for the Demons under Bailey, before an inspiring and unexpected win by eight points against Richmond in their round four clash at the MCG. At the mid-way point of the 2009 season, the Demons under Bailey sat last on the ladder with one win and eleven losses, but Bailey retained his commitment to youth and gave many youngsters on Melbourne's list valuable experience over the first half of the year. The club under Bailey, finished the 2009 season with four wins and 18 losses and finished last on the ladder for the wooden spoon again in the second consecutive year running.
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Dean Bailey
Dean Bailey (18 January 1967 – 11 March 2014) was an Australian rules football player and coach. He played for the Essendon Football Club and was the senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club, as well as an assistant coach at Essendon and Port Adelaide and the Strategy & Innovation Coach at the Adelaide Football Club (Adelaide Crows). Bailey died of lung cancer on 11 March 2014.
Bailey played 53 games for Essendon, mainly as a centreman. He wore guernsey numbers 42 and 31, and preceded Dustin Fletcher in wearing the latter number.
Bailey became senior coach of Mount Gravatt Football Club in Queensland at the end of the 1997 season. In 1998, In his first season as senior coach, he guided Mt Gravatt to fourth place. In 1999, he coached Mt Gravatt to third position in his second and final year.
At the end of the 1999 season, Bailey became an assistant coach in the position of development coach at the Essendon Football Club under senior coach Kevin Sheedy and helped the club to their 2000 premiership. In his second year back with the Dons, they again made the 2001 Grand Final, except this time they lost to the Brisbane Lions by 26 points. Bailey left the Essendon Football Club at the end of the 2001 season.
Bailey joined the Port Adelaide Football Club in 2002 as an assistant coach under senior coach Mark Williams, a position he held in guiding the club to the 2004 premiership, its first one in the AFL. After Port Adelaide lost the 2007 Grand Final, Bailey left the Port Adelaide Football Club at the end of the 2007 season.
At the end of the 2007 season, he was appointed as the senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club for the 2008 season. Bailey replaced Melbourne Football Club caretaker senior coach Mark Riley, who replaced Neale Daniher, after Daniher resigned in the middle of the 2007 season.
The 2008 season started badly for Bailey, with the Demons losing their first six games by lopsided margins before winning its first match of the season against Fremantle in round seven. Things did not get better, as the Demons under Bailey lost the next six games; however, they won their second game in Round 14 against Brisbane. Then they lost the next five games and won their third game in Round 20 against West Coast. Melbourne under Bailey finished 16th in the last position on the ladder at the end of the 2008 season, claiming the wooden spoon with three wins and 19 losses.
The 2009 season started with three losses for the Demons under Bailey, before an inspiring and unexpected win by eight points against Richmond in their round four clash at the MCG. At the mid-way point of the 2009 season, the Demons under Bailey sat last on the ladder with one win and eleven losses, but Bailey retained his commitment to youth and gave many youngsters on Melbourne's list valuable experience over the first half of the year. The club under Bailey, finished the 2009 season with four wins and 18 losses and finished last on the ladder for the wooden spoon again in the second consecutive year running.