The Cobden man is about to embark on his biggest adventure yet, which will combine his two passions - teaching and football.

He will uproot wife Jacque and his young family next month to take on an AFL regional development manager's post in the Northern Territory.

"It will be a completely new experience," the Cobden premiership player said.

"Jacque and I have never been able to get away as a family and this will be an opportunity to do that.

"It will be a great adventure with our boys."

Walsh coached Cobden's senior football side for the past three years.

He led the side to an unsuccessful premiership tilt against Koroit in his first year.

It was the club's first senior football grand final appearance in almost a decade.

Walsh said he would continue developing his coaching skills in the Northern Territory.

"It will be a different stream,'' he said.

''They play football up their 12 months of the year - it's huge.

"A lot of the work will be based in schools.

''Local clubs don't run the Auskick program up there, it's all done by AFL NT.

"Much of my role will be implementing different programs and basically it will give me good management skills."

For the past several years, Walsh, a former plumber, taught at Camperdown's Mercy Regional College (MRC).

He said he loved working with students and was pleased most of the Northern Territory work would be school-based.

Walsh will spend at least 12 months working from the AFL's Northern Territory headquarters in Marrara.

"About 30 of us work from there," he said.

"I had a great job at MRC, which they were good enough to release me from.

"I could not have done it without their help.

''If I go back to teaching next year this experience can only help." Walsh visited Darwin last weekend.

It was his first time in the Territory.

He said his role would cover all multicultural groups.

"Football is really big up there with the indigenous population.

''I will be based in Darwin but there are some regional managers who work in remote communities.

''It will be hard leaving Cobden.

''We've got a lot of family and friends here.

"It'll be a change and it's something we're both looking forward to."

The Walshes leave for Darwin on February 26.