The Adelaide Crows deny new board member Mark Ricciuto is trying to lure his great mate Simon Goodwin back to the AFL club.
Ricciuto, arguably Adelaide's all-time great, recently joined the Crows' board and is one of three men tasked with finding the club's next chief executive officer.
The Brownlow medallist was a long-time teammate and business partner of Goodwin, now an assistant coach at Essendon.
But Adelaide chairman Rob Chapman denies Ricciuto has sounded out Goodwin about a reunion at the Crows.
"I honestly have not spoken to Mark about that, we're not even discussing coaches at this stage," Chapman told reporters on Thursday.
"So at the moment we have got a couple of recruitment processes going along, one for the list manager and one for the CEO. And that is all."
Goodwin has shouldered more assistant coach responsibilities at Essendon this season, given the suspension of coach James Hird.
The Crows are seeking to replace strategic planning coach Dean Bailey, who died in March this year of cancer.
Adelaide also must find a new chief executive, with Steven Trigg leaving the role this weekend to take up the same job at Carlton.
Chapman said the Crows were head-hunting potential replacements in a search to accelerate when applications closed on Friday.
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