Camden Haven Redbacks are the latest club to unveil a new man in charge of the clipboard with Jim Tredinnick to take over from Simon Hancox.

The Redbacks join Port United, Port Saints and Port FC as clubs with a new coach after several years.

Camden Haven are no doubt still smarting from their 1-0 grand final loss to Wallis Lake last year.

It is something that undoubtedly has been simmering away in the back of the player’s minds.

They can’t wait to have another chance to right that wrong.

Tredinnick has a long history in the game through his family connections.

His two brothers Peter and Howard played 30-plus games in the old national league and also played some games for Australia.

His father was a long-time football supporter, president of various clubs and the Northern NSW Federation for some years.

Tredinnick hasn’t coached in nearly seven years, but now he’s looking forward to becoming involved with the game again.

“I did a lot of coaching previously to that around the Sutherland area in junior coaching and refereeing,” he said.

He acknowledged it would be a learning curve for himself although he was looking forward to it.

“I’m new to the area and not familiar with the competitions up here so I have a huge learning curve in that regard,” Tredinnick said.

While former coach Hancox will step aside as coach, Tredinnick was thankful he was going to remain heavily involved with the Redbacks in his role as president.

“I’ve got to learn and thankfully Simon will be helping me and transfer as much knowledge as he can so I can hopefully take the team to another level.

“I appreciate the fact Simon has done that, because it would be daunting if I didn’t have that back-up.”

After coming up short in the last two grand finals, the club will hope a change in coach brings about a change in success at the business end of the season.

Tredinnick simply wants to be in charge of a happy playing group.

If that happens, the rest will take care of itself.

“If they’re playing well within themselves and achieving the goals we’re setting I think that’s the main thing,” he said.

“We’re there to have fun. Winning is part of the fun, but it’s not the be-all and the end-all.

“Winning your home games helps because typically in the league the team that has the fewest  goals scored against them wins the ladder.

“It will be interesting because the personnel will change this year because we have a few players that have moved on.”