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ESSENDON has all but ruled out James Hird returning to coach the Bombers in a 2014 finals campaign.
But Chairman Paul Little said Hird, suspended until late August, could return in another capacity.
"James' view was that it would be unwise for him to come back to coaching... the decision was made very early in the piece," Little said.
Little said it was an exciting time for the club and that 2014 "will not be a gap year".
As reported in the Herald Sun this morning, Thompson will take up the reins while Hird serves his 12-month ban for bringing the game into disrepute.
Thompson said he was happy to be apart of the rebuild.
"I wouldn't do it if it was just for the club," he said.
"I think I really wanted to do it for nine months and that's what I'm going to do.
"I'm very committed and excited, I want to show Essendon in the best possible way."
Thompson said he was going to add to - and not change - game plan/structures he and Hird had worked on over the past three seasons.
"We'll just aim to do things well.
"I think I've been a little disappointed with what I have done over the past three years, I haven't achieved what I wanted to achieve."
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Craig, who was high performance manager at Melbourne this year, has emerged as the surprise senior assistant to Thompson.
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Craig this morning departed Melbourne with the club saying his position of director of sports performance has become redundant after the appointment of Paul Roos. Chris Connolly has also left the Demons.
Thompson's appointment ends a curious month-long search for a replacement for James Hird, who was suspended for 12 months for his role in the club's supplements program through 2011-2012.
Thompson has swayed from wanting, then not wanting and then wanting the job, and in the recent past has shown a real hunger for the position.
The Geelong premiership coach has had several in-depth discussions with senior club people, and was the logical choice to fill in Hird's absence.
Support from all facets of the club became clear at the club's best and fairest count last Wednesday night.
Thompson got a standing ovation and a chant of "'Bomber, Bomber'' as he walked on stage, so clearly the members and influential coterie members wanted him.
Skipper Jobe Watson and best and fairest winner Brendon Goddard had told club officials they also wanted Thompson, while from day one Hird implored the club to appoint Thompson.
The sealer was Thompson telling the club he wanted role.
The appointment of Craig would be left-field.
The former Adelaide coach was interim coach at Melbourne this year when Mark Neeld was sacked, and when Paul Roos was named coach, Craig's days were numbered.
He would be seen by the Bombers as a mature-head in a re-organised football department.
Craig would be likely to be appointed to the role of technical coach, or senior assistant.
Thompson could not be contacted last night, but he told Fox Footy's AFL360 program recently that he was prepared to coach.
"I said that I'd help in any way," Thompson said. "If they want to go down a different track that's fine. If they want me to coach, I'd seriously consider it.
''I'm just worried about the club. Have I got my hunger back? I don't know, we'll find out."
People close to Thompson say he remains frustrated and angry about his $30,000 fine for his role in the supplements saga, and part of him wants to show the AFL, and the football world, that he and the club will restore respect for the red and black.
Meanwhile, the purging of Essendon people continued yesterday when premiership hero Dean Wallis was sacked in a football department reshuffling.
It follows a decision by board member and premiership player Chris Heffernan and chief executive Ray Gunston, the two most powerful football people at the club, to overlook another club premiership player, Mark Harvey, for the senior positions at the club.
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