Allan joined the club in 2024 after a decorated career in the SANFL where he won three Magarey Medals, five North Adelaide Best and Fairest awards and a premiership with Norwood, among his many achievements. Werribee fans will remember Jimmy as the fierce ball winning number five who played some outstanding games in his two seasons at the club.

After his playing days, Allan joined Norwood’s coaching staff in 2018, leading the under-18s before moving up to senior midfield coach in 2020. That same year, he became the inaugural football director at Rostrevor College in Adelaide. In 2023, he returned to North Adelaide as forwards assistant coach.

In his first season as senior coach Allan took Werribee to their first premiership in 31 years and was awarded the VFL Coach of the Year. 

Hartigan returned to the club he was drafted from in 2024 after a ten-year AFL career with Adelaide and Hawthorn. The defender played three seasons with Werribee from 2010 to 2012, earning VFL state team honours in his final year, which led to his selection by Adelaide in the 2012 rookie draft. He went on to play 113 games for Adelaide and another 22 with Hawthorn back in his home state before retiring at the end of 2022.

The former AFL defender was not unfamiliar with the current Werribee playing group after providing specialist coaching with the team during the 2023 season in his first season out of retirement.

Jarrod Young also returned to coach at his former club, where he was a teammate of Jimmy Allan’s, playing a four-year career from 2005-08 with the Tigers. After his time at Werribee, Young went on to enjoy a playing career spanning over a decade across multiple leagues, including the SANFL with Port Adelaide, where he was twice named Most Dedicated Player and once honored as Best Team Man. He also played in the NTFL and, in 2023, wrapped up his playing career by leading Inverleigh to a Geelong and District premiership before making the transition to coaching in the VFL in 2024.

Young brought in coaching experience from his time as an assistant coach at Grovedale and as a playing coach with Geelong Amateur, before overseeing the midfield group for the first time in 2024 in Werribee’s premiership year.

Hodgson joins Werribee after serving as an assistant coach at South Barwon in the GFNL, where he helped guide the team to back-to-back Grand Final appearances. Before that, he was the head coach at Queenscliff in the BFL.

Werribee is excited to welcome back former Werribee ruckman and AFL cult figure, Peter Street, to strengthen its coaching staff for the upcoming season as he takes up the role of ruck coach.

Standing as the equal-tallest AFL player in history, Street played 78 games for Geelong and the Western Bulldogs from 2001 to 2008, and during the Bulldogs affiliation with Werribee, played 22 games with Werribee.

Kirk Heberle also joins the coaching staff for 2025, stepping into the role of Head of Development following the departure of Hamish MacInnes, who has moved into the AFL system with North Melbourne. A former state league player, Heberle brings coaching experience from the WFNL interleague teams and the junior ranks at Point Cook.