Ben Hart Biography

Greater Western Sydney adds Ben Hart to new senior coach Adam Kingsley's coaching panel.

Adelaide begins a significant restructure of their coaching department by moving on assistant coaches Michael Godden and Ben Hart, the latter of whom will be returning to Melbourne for family reasons.

Development coach Brent Reilly has been told he will no longer be an assistant coach, but his position within the coaching panel will be determined in the coming weeks.

Ben Hart has apologised for his role in the club's breach of the AFL's COVID-19 training protocols, after it was revealed that he and 16 Crows players were training in groups of more than two while serving a 14-day isolation period at a Barossa golf course.

"It was unintentional and purely an innocent mistake but nevertheless it was a breach," Hart said as part of his apology.

"I am thankful the club was not sanctioned. It is full of dedicated and hard-working people, many of whom have been stood down from their duties while trying to push through this difficult period as best they can. They have offered their full support to the players and myself through this event and I cannot thank them enough."

Ben Hart is stood down for six weeks by the AFL from his role as assistant coach of the Crows after being involved in a breach of COVID-19 training protocols.

An AFL investigation determined the breach, which involved 16 Crows players, to be "inadvertent and not done to create a competitive advantage".

Ben Hart returns to Adelaide to join the club's coaching panel for the 2018 season.

"I first walked in the doors as a 16-year-old and to get the chance to return 26 years later is something that really excites me," Hart said.

"I've admired this current playing and coaching group from afar over the past few years and can't wait to get to get to work with them."

Ben Hart is inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

"My first press conference was done in my school uniform I think," Hart said at the ceremony ceremony.

"I remember 1992 – we were playing St Kilda. Cornesy (Coach Graham Cornes) asked, 'Who wants to play on Tony Lockett?' I don't know why, but my arm shot straight up in the air. I wanted to do it."

"I had to find ways to beat these guys, or match these guys. They taught me how to play the game."

Mark Ricciuto and Andrew McLeod are among eight inaugural inductees honoured with a place in the Adelaide Crows' Hall of Fame on Wednesday night at a lavish function at the Entertainment Centre.

The club's inaugural CEO Bill Sanders, inaugural chairman Bob Hammond, dual premiership coach Malcolm Blight, and players Ben Hart, Tony Modra and Simon Goodwin were the club's other inductees.

New Collingwood defensive coach Ben Hart is working on improving the Magpies' frugal backline in 2012 although he concedes there may not be much that needs to change.

There probably won't be too many changes. There will be a few little things but nothing major," Hart said.

"There are little bits about how we can defend even better and also when we get the footy how we can move it, so they're the things that we'll try and look at but we're pretty set and it's a pretty good defence as it is."

Adelaide premiership player Ben Hart has left the Crows to become an assistant coach at Collingwood in 2012.

"Ben has a desire to pursue a senior coaching role in the future and we both agreed that expanding his knowledge and experience somewhere else will help him in that pursuit," Crows CEO Stephen Trigg said.

"Ben has been an outstanding Adelaide Football Club player, staff member and then assistant coach and we wish him and his family all the best. The door is definitely left open for a return in the future."

Nathan Bock has removed his moonboot and resumed light running but a microfracture in his heel is still troubling him and is too small to be treated with pain-killing injections.

"Nathan would have to be up and running. He'd have to prove on the training track that he can do what he needs to do as far as running, jumping, kicking and not pulling up sore is concerned," Adelaide assistant coach Ben Hart said.

"The whole idea of injecting any sort of injury is to numb it or get so you're able to play a certain amount of the game. If it's not going to work, there's no use doing it and that's why Nathan has to do as much as he can now while resting to make sure he's at the percentage he needs to be to play."

Ben Hart hands down his no. 34 jumper to young defender Greg Gallman, putting aside original plans for the jumper to be kept in retirement for five years.

"I've seen a fair bit of Greg and I believe he has a promising future," said Hart. "Hopefully he gets as much enjoyment from playing in the No.34 jumper as I did."

Gallman, who is already familiar with Hart after spending time with North Adelaide over the last year, said it was an honour to wear it.

"I was just amazed that a club champion like Ben, who I had gotten to know over the last couple of years, would even think about offering me a number I used to watch out on the park as a youngster," Gallman said.