Michael Hurley

Season 2025 will be Michael Hurley's third year at the Bombers in a coaching capacity.

After retiring from playing in 2022, Hurley joined the club's coaching panel in a development role, working predominantly with the club’s first-to-four-year players through the Jack Jones Academy.

After 194 games in the red and black, Hurley is universally loved throughout the wider football industry, Hurley’s playing career was a story of resilience, overcoming a life-threatening hip infection in 2022 to make a remarkable comeback to play five VFL games and a final AFL game.