Tara Murray
David Scott will have the chance to live out a childhood dream of coaching Tullamarine in the Victorian Turf Cricket Association.
Scott, who has captained the side in recent years, was late last month named the club’s captain-coach for the next two seasons.
Scott said he was pretty excited to take on the new responsibility.
“Obviously I’ve been at Tulla for a very long time, besides a stint overseas,” he said.
“It’s a proud moment to be appointed captain-coach. I mentioned to the guys that it was a boyhood dream to captain-coach Tullamarine.
“I played my first first XI game when I was 13, I’ve been at the club for a long time.”
Scott replaces Danny Law as coach, with Law standing down after two seasons in the coaching hot seat.
Scott said Law was likely to stay on as a player.
“He’s got a couple of kids in their teenage years who are pretty active with their sports and hobbies as well,” he said.
“He wants to just concentrate on playing. The guy has 20 years of first class cricket. He finished second in our best and fairest.
“I’ll lean on him on the leadership side and tactics, I’m really happy to have him still here.”
Scott takes over the role at an interesting time.
The Demons top side will drop to division 2 after finishing the bottom of division 1 with just three wins.
Scott said it had been a disappointing season.
“We struggled to get that consistency and we were playing with maximum player points each week and had to rotate players through,” he said.
“We struggled to find that balance.
“We’re also better suited to two day cricket. We won two of the three two days matches at the back end of the season and it suited us more.
“We got bogged down in one-day cricket. We’ve got a good core that will continue on to next season and we will look to add some top class players.”
While the top side struggled, it was a better season for the rest of the club. Scott said overall they were in a really good position.
“I find it hard to assess the year as a club,” he said.
“The first XI were super disappointing, we were a couple of players short. We had 23 players play in the first XI and 40 in the second XI.
“We had five of our sides play in finals and four sides play in grand finals. We won two premierships.
“We’re in a pretty healthy position.”
