SYDNEY Swans co-captain Adam Goodes has endorsed the club’s coaching succession plan that will see John Longmire take over from Paul Roos as senior coach for the 2011 season.

Goodes said the promotion of Longmire, currently the club’s coaching co-ordinator, would ensure the club’s famed Bloods culture survived into the future. 

"What we’ve started with Roosy six or seven years ago, we want to keep up at this footy club," he said before training at the SCG on Tuesday.

"This culture we’ve started, we don’t want it to change and we want it to keep building on it.

"Having ‘Horse’ (Longmire) take over at the end of next season ensures that this culture, this brand of footy and what we started a long time ago will stay on and bypass a lot of us at this footy club."

Goodes said he wasn’t surprised by Roos’ decision to end his tenure before his contract expired in 2011, saying he "knew Roosy wasn’t going to coach forever."
 
The prospect of avoiding the drama that surrounds the appointment of a new senior coach was another positive for the players, he said.

"Knowing that ‘Horse’ has come from the system that we built up and has been one of the key movers in that system… I’ve got no doubt that system will continue on," Goodes said.

"What Roosy has done well is really empower the [playing] group and the leadership group so I have no doubt that will continue and the relationship between coaches and the leaders will stay the same."