The second-year coach, who is in his first season at the helm of the club, has jumped straight into the role and worked on ways to help the Cats return to finals action for the first time since 2015.

“We have been working on set plays the last six weeks,” he said. “I want to play fast-attacking netball and we also have plays to use when we have to play controlled netball.

“We have some set plans we are going to do that I don’t think I’ve seen a lot of Warrnambool District league teams do these plays, so hopefully they come off and work well.”

Redmond, who is the first male to coach in the WDFNL, wants to focus on his team being versatile and utilise its depth. 

“We have focused on team attack and team defence, we want everyone to attack but we also want everyone to defend as well,” he said.

“The whole team can be turned upside down, so we could put our goalies in defence and put our defenders in goal and you wouldn't know they had changed.”

Redmond, a former Allansford footballer who hung up the boots after a knee reconstruction, self-taught himself the game.

“I found myself going along to games and just watching,” he said.“I would then go home and write stuff down about what I had seen in that game.

“I then thought that I would give coaching a go and from there I started studying the game just about every day.”

The new mentor has plenty of netball experience having played 16 years of indoor netball, winning 28 grand finals and playing in a mixed netball state title team during his playing career.

Redmond’s first stint of coaching came last year in the Mininera and District Netball Association, where he coached Caramut, before Allansford approached him in November to coach the Cats’ top two sides.