Cameron Bruce will be the next coach of the Brisbane Lions.
As widely expected the threepeat premiers have gone for the internal candidate with Seven’s Mitch Cleary first reporting Bruce had won the race to replace Chris Fagan.
He is expected to be officially announced as coach on Tuesday.
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Lions footy boss Danny Daly had been considered an early favourite for the job but chose to remain in his role.
The two coaches from the 2018 Grand Final, ex-West Coast boss Adam Simpson and former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley, and highly-rated Magpies assistant Hayden Skipworth were the other contenders.
Bruce has won six premierships as an assistant coach, being part of the Hawthorn team that won the 2013-15 flags and holding a key role at the Lions since 2021.
In between, he was an assistant at Carlton for four years.
Bruce played 234 AFL games, with 224 of them at Melbourne where he was the captain and their best and fairest winner in 2008.
He will now take charge of the Lions as they attempt to complete the second four-peat in V/AFL history, matching the 1927-30 Collingwood ‘Machine’ sides.