Dual premiership player Craig White has been appointed as South Fremantle’s new league coach.
White played 192 matches at the Bulldogs as a hard-running utility player, including the 2005 and 2009 grand final wins.
He was preferred to another South premiership player in Nick Suban, an assistant to Todd Curley in the past few seasons, and emerging coach Chris Mayne.
White, 39, has done a solid coaching apprenticeship, including a period as an assistant at Claremont, before having great success at amateur club Wesley-Curtin.
He steered the club into three consecutive A grade grand finals, losing the first two before winning the 2023 flag.
South Fremantle and West Coast premiership player Peter Sumich was the frontrunner to replace Curley but informed the Bulldogs last Saturday that he would not go ahead with plans to seek the job.
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