Last Years in Football
After leaving St Kilda, Jesaulenko was captain-coach of Sandgate in the QAFL for two years, finally playing his last game at the age of thirty-nine, after which he moved into the hotel business in Queensland for several years. In the first half of the 1989 season, Carlton was in disarray and after a three-point loss to the lowly Brisbane Bears, their eighth in ten games, the board finally lost patience and sacked Robert Walls. Jesaulenko was appointed caretaker coach for the remainder of the season, eventually leading the Blues to a respectable eighth-placed finish. The blues were expected to return to the top of the ladder in 1990, but won only fifty percent of their games and Jesaulenko was replaced by David Parkin. His last coaching appointment, at Coburg for the 1993 season, was a total disaster, with the Lions losing all eighteen games during a losing sequence of thirty games in the dying days of the Victorian Football Association.
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