The Bombers have appointed Hampden duo Jason McIntosh and Lachlan Barr to work along side of Eales for the 2019 Mininera and District league season.

McIntosh, a strong and reliable utility who has played most of this career in defence, joins Penshurst from the Hamilton Kangaroos.

While Barr, a Hampden premiership player with Warrnambool, will pull on the red and black in a league where he was previously crowned its best player in 2008 when playing for Caramut.

"Both are great speakers who don't speak often but they speak when something has to be said and don't carry on, but when they do speak people listen," Eales said.

"They both have fantastic football minds with fantastic ideas and attitudes.

"And they are two guys that our team and club are going to immediately respect, both through what they have done in footy and what they say.”

Penshurst is set to experience a successful recruiting campaign according to Eales, though he said it was as important to add quality coaches as it was talented players.

Eales, who recommitted to the Bombers for a seventh season last week, said he looked forward to having McIntosh and Barr share the coaching with him.

"We haven't had an assistant coach the last two years and it has been bloody hard," he said.

"When you have been at the club for five or six years (as coach) like I have you need to freshen things up at times so it isn't the same drills and same message all of the time.

"So I really needed someone who could coach, who was a great speaker with fresh ideas and a great footy brain.

"And I just think that was a huge step in us moving forward because you can get bogged down and become pretty complacent with things the way they are each year."