Sheedy can't wait to coach Kurt

GWS coach Kevin Sheedy and Essendon coach, and former Sheedy pupil, James Hird at a coaches media call prior to tonight's national draft at Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast. Source: Getty Images

GREATER Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy says Kurt Tippett and the Giants can prove a great combination, even if the club has to drag him there.

Tippett and his legal team are considering court action to help the Adelaide forward-ruckman join premier Sydney as a free agent, rather than fall to wooden-spooner GWS through the pre-season draft.

But Sheedy doubts they will follow through on that threat and says Tippett's desire to avoid the Giants hasn't dulled the club's enthusiasm.

Sheedy pointed to his own experience of wanting to play for Essendon growing up, but having to join Richmond under recruiting rules of that time, which resulted in him playing in three premierships with the Tigers.

"A lot of players don't really know what is right for them all the time," Sheedy said today.

"Why wouldn't you want to come if you were Kurt?

"And I'm saying this honestly - you're going to be playing with a hell of a lot of good players.

"It's going to be a damn good side in four years and he'll be just peaking by then."

Sheedy said the Giants wanted more talls, had plenty of salary-cap space and Tippett was the sort of player he loved to coach.

"Tippett is a ruckman as well as a forward and I've had a lot of success with those sorts of players, like Simon Madden, Roger Merrett and Paul Salmon (at Essendon)," he said.

"He does fit that bill of a ruckman who can go forward."

An AFL Commission hearing next week into charges of salary cap and draft tampering by the Crows involving Tippett will help determine his club future and whether he faces a ban from the game.

Swans' coach John Longmire was reluctant to speculate on his club's chances of recruiting Tippett.

"We're still interested in Kurt Tippett coming to the footy club," he said.

"But because of this process to go through, things are still up in the air, I guess.

"There's no way we can sit here today and know what's going to happen."

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