Essendon legend 示す Thompson says James Hird would be the BEST MAN to coach the 爆撃機s if Ben Rutten leaves - and 明らかにする／漏らすs why his 逮捕（する） on 麻薬s 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s was a 救済

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Former Essendon 爆撃機s icon and Geelong Cats coach 示す Thompson knows a thing or two about mistakes.

Now, as he chases his own path 支援する after his 悪名高い 麻薬s スキャンダル, the man 愛称d '爆撃機' hopes that former Essendon coach James Hird is also given a pathway 支援する to AFL redemption.

Thompson was Hird's assistant at the 爆撃機s before the 麻薬s スキャンダル ripped through the club. He would never coach in the AFL again.??

Thompson has lived the giddiest highs in the AFL, winning 首相の職s both as a player and a coach.?

Thompson had spectacul ar careers as a player with Essendon and as a coach with Geelong before taking up an assistant coach's 役割 at Essendon under James Hird

He has also 衝突，墜落d to the lowest of lows and is now a 罪人／有罪を宣告するd 犯罪の after 存在 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 麻薬 所有／入手 in 2018.

Police （警察の）手入れ，急襲d Thompson's apartment in Port Melbourne in 2018 and caught him 現行犯で. It （機の）カム after the Essendon 麻薬s スキャンダル left Thompson, depressed, nursing 中毒 and making a 一連の poor choices.

'The 逮捕（する） ... in some ways it was a 救済,' he said.

'I've never had so many people make 接触する and wish me all the best and 申し込む／申し出 help in any way.'?

急速な／放蕩な-今後 to today and Thompson is 支援する coaching on a footy field as Airport West under-18s assistant coach.

He's relishing the second chance and has 勧めるd the AFL and Essendon to afford Hird, the sacrificial lamb at the 高さ of the Essendon 麻薬s スキャンダル, another 適切な時期.?

'I hope Hirdy gets a 上級の 職業,' Thompson told the 先触れ（する） Sun.

'He got 削減（する） out of the game pretty quickly, too 早期に, and he never 削減（する） his teeth into coaching.

'He coached for two years, and then the 圧力 （機の）カム. And it’s pretty hard to live under 圧力.

'He learnt a lot about life.

'I don’t know how many times in life he was put under 圧力 from the football マスコミ, but boy he got it good didn’t he?

'Look, everybody makes mistakes and you don’t hang people for making those sorts of mistakes. You try to give them another chance. You help them.'

Thompson leaves the Melbourne 治安判事s 法廷，裁判所 in 2019 after 麻薬 trafficking 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s against him were dropped

Hird is 現在／一般に working as an assistant at GWS and has been linked to the 最高の，を越す 職業 at the 巨大（な）s, while a homecoming to Essendon is also a 可能性 given the 爆撃機s woeful start to 2022 that has left 現在の coach Ben Rutten on 不安定な ground.

Today, Thompson runs a family 電気の 商売／仕事 out of a factory in Airport West with his boys Michael and Daniel and his 甥s Jaryd and Jacob. At the end of the 倉庫／問屋, Thompson 充てるs his time to making bespoke, high-質 dining （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs.

In his spare time he 作品 with the under-18s at Airport West, the club where he started before he was 新採用するd to 風の強い Hill. After all the 騒動 and 大混乱, he has 設立する a sense of peace - and redemption.

Hird is 現在／一般に working as an assistant coach at the GWS 巨大（な）s and is in the でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる to take the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す vacated by former coach Leon Cameron, or return to his former club Essendon

'You’ve got to leave [AFL footy at some time, and I didn’t leave in the best circumstances, but you know what, it gave me the chance to move on and do other things and find out a bit about the world, and be の近くに to my family,' he said.

“I make better choices now, and I understand what’s happened.

'I enjoy it [coaching juniors]. I still love the game and I certainly know how to coach.

?When I was 上級の coach, and when young people walked into the footy club, I know what sort of things you want to see in them.

'That’s what I talk to these kids about. I train them up.

'That’s what the world’s about, helping people.'