Lions still confident of luring former Adelaide coach Neil Craig to Brisbane Greg Davis
From: The Courier-Mail
September 15, 2011BRISBANE Lions are confident they are "right in the mix" for the services of Neil Craig after a three-hour meeting with the former Crows senior coach.
Lions coach Michael Voss and general manager of football operations Dean Warren continued negotiations with the ex-Adelaide mentor about a possible director-of-coaching role with Brisbane.
The trio first met at the Gabba early last month, soon after Craig resigned as Crows coach after almost seven years in the job.
Craig is in high demand due to his vast football knowledge as a player and coach as well as his sports science background.
Craig met Richmond officials last week and is also a chance to stay at the Crows in a different capacity, but Brisbane remain bullish about their chances.
Craig is expected to make a final call before the end of the month.
"Neil has obviously got other options but we feel like we are right in the mix," Warren said.
"It was a terrific three hours.
"We had a good discussion about the role that we want him to fill. He had questions for us and we had questions for him.
"There's no doubt that he is certainly interested.
"He is doing his due diligence for the options he has got in front of him and he told us he would be making a decision in the next couple of weeks.
"We feel like he is just as interested in our role as he is in any of the others that have been presented to him."
Voss and Warren also travelled to Melbourne on Tuesday to meet with possible candidates for the vacant assistant coaching roles at the Lions.
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