Former Adelaide head coach Don Pyke could be donning the business hat and heading towards West Coast within the next year, according to WA journalist Kim Hagdorn.
Hagdorn, a former first-class cricket for Australia, appeared on SEN's SA Breakfast Tuesday morning to address Pyke's next move after voluntarily resigning from the top job at the Crows on the back of a severe crash in the second half of 2019.
The 6PR and Sunday Times reporter offered some insight into the 50-year-old's course of action, having achieved past successes with the Eagles as a two-time premiership player in 1992 and 1994.
"I think he'll eventually end up back at West Coast, perhaps in the business side of things in six to eight months time and then possibly anointed a potential chief executive of the West Coast Eagles when Trevor Nisbett finishes in a couple of years' time," Hagdorn said.
The former 132-game Eagle would surprise many by avoiding coaching again, despite the 2019 disappointment at West Lakes where Adelaide plunged from the top four to missing September by losing five of its last six games.
"He's quite shattered, I'm told, about what happened all of last season in Adelaide," Hagdorn said.
"It's worn him down. In the end...he came to the realisation he's drained and drawn mentally and physically.
"He'll have six to eight months off."
