17 Facts About Brendan McCartney

Brendan McCartney coached 66 games in 3 seasons before he resigned from the job.

Brendan McCartney has served as the development and strategy coach of the Melbourne Football Club since 2015.

Brendan McCartney is one of the few AFL coaches who never played at the highest level.

Brendan McCartney guided the football club to four consecutive Bellarine Football League premierships from 1994 until 1997.

From 2000 to 2010, Brendan McCartney was an assistant coach with Geelong Football Club.

In 2010, Brendan McCartney was voted the AFL's assistant coach of the year by the AFL Coaches Association awards.

Brendan McCartney moved to be the assistant coach in the position of forward line coach at Essendon in 2011.

Shortly after the conclusion of the 2011 AFL season, Brendan McCartney was appointed as the senior coach of the Western Bulldogs under a three-year contract, replacing the outgoing caretaker senior coach Paul Williams, who replaced Rodney Eade, after Eade stepped down during the 2011 season with three games left to go in the season after Eade was told he would not receive a contract extension for the Bulldogs.

When Brendan McCartney was appointed as the Bulldogs senior coach, he edged out favourite and former Bulldog Leon Cameron who was well regarded as a "high quality field".

Brendan McCartney took the Western Bulldogs for their training session for the first time on 7 November 2011.

Brendan McCartney came under heavy criticism after the Bulldogs lost to expansion team Gold Coast Suns in Round 8 during the 2013 season, but the team had a better second half to the season, which included promising performances against top 8 teams Essendon, Hawthorn and Sydney, as well as wins against Carlton, West Coast and Adelaide.

Brendan McCartney guided Bulldogs to finish fifteenth on the ladder again for the second straight year in a row at the end of the 2013 season, this time with eight wins and fourteen losses.

Brendan McCartney coached Western Bulldogs Football Club to a total of 66 games with 20 wins and 46 losses to a winning percentage of 30 percent.

Brendan McCartney was then replaced by Luke Beveridge as the Western Bulldogs senior coach.

Brendan McCartney joined the Melbourne Football Club coaching staff in an assistant coaching role as a development and strategy coach under senior coach Paul Roos from the 2015 season.

Brendan McCartney left the Melbourne Football Club at the end of the 2019 season.

In October 2019, Brendan McCartney stated that he left the Melbourne Football Club after he "started losing the drive and motivation that came with preparing the team both during the weekend and on game day" and "I just felt myself losing a love of the element to the week, I stepped forward and said to the coaches in a bit of mid-season review that it was time to step back".