Harvey in running for Blues role

After his first taste of life as a head coach with Collingwood, Robert Harvey believes he’s better placed than ever to take control of an AFL team again.

The field for the vacancy at Carlton has narrowed to potential first-time head coaches like Harvey, or former Brisbane mentor Michael Voss, after Brad Scott chose a job at AFL headquarters.

Harvey, who was appointed as the Pies’ interim head coach after Nathan Buckley departed midway through the 2021 season, left the club after a mutual agreement and is now on the look out for a job.

Having dipped his toes into the waters of life as a head coach, Harvey feels he’s all the better for the experience, and knows he would have a chance to prove he learned from mistakes made with Collingwood.

“The good thing about this experience for me was that I can do it,” Harvey told TAB’s Inside 50 Podcast with Crawf and Quinny.

“I feel like it didn’t throw me. I think it got better as it went, so clearly you learn from it, so I’d do things differently.

“I’d love to be able to have a crack at it, now that I’ve experienced it.”

After retiring as a player in 2008 having made just under 400 appearances for St Kilda, Harvey began his coaching career in earnest in 2009 with Carlton as a development and fitness coach.

He returned to St Kilda in 2011 as an assistant coach before linking with Collingwood.