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• Glory finished eighth and missed out on the finals
  
• Coach will move into position with club’s academy

Perth’s longest-serving A-League coach Kenny Lowe has been sacked, and it appears unlikely owner Tony Sage will fork out the big dollars needed to lure Tony Popovic as the replacement.

Lowe, who had one more year to run on his contract, was told on Wednesday of his axing, just four days after his side had crashed out of the finals race with a 3-2 loss to Brisbane. But Lowe has not been cast aside altogether, with the Englishman to take up the title of technical director of the Glory’s youth academy.

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