By Jon Geddes

THE Shute Shield coaching carousel has taken another turn with Billy Melrose to step down from his role with Gordon at the end of the season.

The competition’s longest serving coach told the Highlanders’ players of his decision in the dressing room following Saturday’s 31-26 win over Warringah at Rat Park.

He is the second high-profile and experienced premiership coach in the past week to announce he will moving on after Ben Batger revealed he is departing Eastwood at the end of the 2023 campaign.

And the merry-go-round will continue - Gordon and Eastwood certainly won’t be the last Shute Shield clubs with new men in charge next year.

“I said to the boys this will be my last rodeo,” Melrose told Rugby News after the game.