STRATHFIELDSAYE is in the process of bedding down its coaching structure for next year, but there will be at least one change at senior level.
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After taking on the role of co-coach with Darryl Wilson this year, Bryce Curnow has stepped down.
"I considered whether I wanted to put my hand up to do the job again, but due to some of my current circumstances I have decided not to, time being a major factor,” Curnow said.
"This year I have not only been coaching and playing, but also studying at university, working and helping out my father who has not been well and together it was too many things going on at the one time. I'm really wanting to focus on my first year of teaching and family next year.
"It has been an extremely rewarding year, which has been enjoyable and I have learned a lot.
“Although I have decided not to focus on coaching next year, I hope that I can keep developing my coaching skills and give it another go some time in the future."
Curnow is yet to make any decision on his playing future next year, with Storm president Michael Farrell saying the club will be fully supportive of whatever he chooses to do in 2017.
Meanwhile, Farrell says the Storm hopes to be in a position soon to announce its coaching structure for 2017.
“We’re talking with all our coaches at the moment and just trying to bed down what our structure is going to look like for next year,” Farrell said.
“Darryl (Wilson) is certainly part of those conversations and we’d probably make announcements very soon as to what our entire football structure is going to look like.”
Wilson has been senior coach of the Storm since 2011, guiding the club to back-to-back premierships in 2014 and 2015 with an overall win-loss record of 89-28.
“When they went down the co-coaching path last year, which I wasn’t part of, the idea was to allow Darryl to focus on a few different areas, but he still had a fair bit on his plate coaching the under-16s as well,” Farrell said.
“But he’s pretty refreshed I think.”
The Storm were knocked out of the finals in straight sets with losses to Golden Square and Eaglehawk, but in what’s a major positive for the future, the club’s under-18 team again won the flag for the second year in a row, losing just one game.
The Storm had 11 of its under-18 squad play senior football among the 46 senior players used this year.
