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Introduction
John Longmire is the current coach of the Sydney Swans. As a player, he represented the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1988 to 1999.
Early life
| Name | John Longmire |
| Net Worth | $8 million |
| Occupation | Coach |
| Height | 1. |
| Age | 51 years |
John Longmire was born on December 31, 1970 (age 51 years) in Sydney, Australia. His grandfather is former Fitzroy Football Club player, Keith Williams. His Uncle, Robert Longmire is a former Collingwood Football Club player. Walter Longmire (John Longmire’s great grandfather) represented NSW v South Australia at the MCG in 1927.
Longmire first came into notice when he won the 1984 Thirds goalkicking award in the Coreen & District Football League with Corowa Rutherglen. In the first season of his senior football career with Corowa-Rutherglen in New South Wales, he nearly won the Ovens & Murray Football League’s leading goalkicker title in 1987 as a 16-year-old, kicking 82 goals. His ability and size quickly attracted the interest of the North Melbourne VFL club’s talent scouts.
Career
John Longmire’s physique and size earned him the nickname Horse. His first match for North Melbourne was in the infamous Exhibition Match between North Melbourne and Carlton at The Oval in London in 1987. His first official match was in 1988 against Footscray with a four-goal performance from full-forward but struggled after that and near the end of the season coach, John Kennedy Sr. moved him to full-back. He did well in that role during 1989 – holding Tony Lockett to five kicks in Round 14 – but North’s lack of key position players in attack saw him moved back to the forward line in August.
The year 1990 saw Longmire jump to the top of the tree: at only nineteen years of age, he kicked 98 goals and won the Coleman Medal as the league’s leading goalkicker (and the youngest player to have done so). In Round 2 of that year, he kicked a North Melbourne record of twelve goals against Richmond, which he broke twelve weeks later when he kicked fourteen goals in round 14 against Melbourne. Going into the final round Longmire looked likely to reach the 100-goal milestone for the season, however, terribly inaccurate kicking against a hard Collingwood defense resulted in a tally of two goals and eight behinds, leaving him just two goals short.
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Longmire went on the win North Melbourne’s best and fairest that year and led the club’s goal-kicking list each season from 1990 to 1994. At North Melbourne, he formed a powerful goal-kicking partnership with center half-forward Wayne Carey. In six seasons between 1990 and 1995 Carey and Longmire collectively kicked 768 goals (of which Longmire contributed 464) and thirteen times they combined for ten goals or more in a game. Individually, Longmire kicked 5-plus goals in a game 36 times, 7-plus goals 18 times and 10-plus twice, before a serious knee injury forced Longmire out of the game for the 1996 season. When he returned the following year, he played out the remainder of his career in defense and in the ruck.
John Longmire missed out on playing on the winning side of the 1996 premiership with a knee injury and just made it back from an elbow injury to make his last career game the 1999 Grand Final, in which the Kangaroos defeated Carlton. This was his only year to also not score a goal, managing only to kick 1 point in 10 games.
Coaching career
John Longmire returned to New South Wales to take up an assistant coaching position with the Sydney Swans. In 2006, he was considered to be a front-runner for the St Kilda Football Club coaching role, which was made vacant by the sacking of Grant Thomas, however, the role later went to then-fellow Swans assistant coach Ross Lyon. In 2008 the coach, Paul Roos, appointed Longmire the Swans’ “coaching co-ordinator”. Longmire replaced Roos as senior coach of the Sydney Swans following his retirement at the end of the 2010 season.
Longmire’s first game as the Sydney Swans senior coach ended in a draw against Melbourne, with both teams scoring 11.18 (84). His first win as a coach came the next week, against Essendon in Round 2. Longmire had a relatively good start to his coaching career, with only five losses in the first fourteen rounds of the season (albeit against top-four opposition in Geelong, Carlton (twice), Hawthorn and Collingwood).
One of his best coaching achievements was engineering Sydney’s upset 13-point victory over Geelong at Skilled Stadium in the penultimate round of the 2011 season. The Swans had not won there in more than 12 years and the home team had not lost at the ground in exactly four years and one day. Also, the Swans were the only team to beat the top-four side West Coast at Patersons Stadium during the season. Those two sides won the rest of their home matches during the regular season.
Longmire took Sydney to the finals in 2011, his first year as senior coach in what was the club’s 13th finals appearance in 16 seasons. After beating St Kilda in the elimination finals at Etihad Stadium, the Swans were defeated by Hawthorn in the semi-finals ending what was otherwise a promising first season for Longmire in the top job.
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In 2012, John Longmire’s second year as senior coach, he led Sydney to third place on the AFL ladder, compiling an impressive 16–6 record over the home-and-away season. He later coached the team to a 14.7 (91) to 11.15 (81) victory over Hawthorn in the 2012 AFL Grand Final. Subsequently, his contract was extended until the end of the 2015 season.
Contract
John Longmire signed a two-year contract extension that takes his tenure to at least the end of the 2017 AFL season in March 2014. In round 4 of the 2019 AFL season, Longmire coached his 200th game, a career milestone. Three rounds later, he overtook Paul Roos as the longest serving coach of the club. On 12 July 2019, Longmire extended his contract for a further three years, to remain Sydney’s senior coach until at least the end of 2023.
Wife
John Longmire is married to Shelley Longmire, they had their wedding in the 2000s. Longmire and his wife Shelley have three children. The couple live in a private house in Sydney. However, in 2020, Longmire coached the All-Stars team in the one-off 2020 State of Origin match that was played on 28 February 2020 at Marvel Stadium.
John Longmire net worth
How much is John Longmire worth? John Longmire net worth is estimated at around $8 million. His main source of income is from his career a professional Australian rules football coach. Longmire successful career has earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. He is one of the richest and influential professional rules football coaches in Australia.