Coaching Career
After retiring, Cahill took up coaching. Starting with Port Adelaide, he would lead the club to 10 premierships in the SANFL (1977, 1979–81, 1988–90, 1994–96).
Cahill spent two seasons at the Collingwood Football Club in the VFL (1983–84) where he led them to 6th in 1983 and 3rd in 1984. He then returned to Adelaide where he coached West Adelaide in the SANFL (1985–87), taking the club to 3rd in his first season and the league Night Premierships in 1985 and 1987. But it was Port Adelaide where his heart lay and he returned to Alberton in 1988 and led the club to six more premierships before moving on to coach Port in 1997 and 1998 when they were admitted into the AFL.
After two successful seasons in the AFL, Cahill left the club and, it seemed, football forever. However, in 2005, he was appointed coach of the Port Adelaide Magpies for one season to revitalise the struggling club. He took them to their first finals series in three seasons and they finished a respectable third. At the end of the season he announced that he was retiring from coaching.
However, in 2008, he signed a two-year coaching deal with the South Adelaide Football Club in an attempt to pull them out of their current slump. He resigned eight matches into the season, apparently citing "outside influences".
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