Career
He served as interim senior coach at the Essendon Football Club after the resignation of James Hird for the final 3 rounds of the 2015 season. Egan took up football in his late teens after having been a promising junior tennis player, having once been ranked fifth for juniors in Victoria. As a sentiment to this he is known for his trademark "Forehand punch" as he swings it like a tennis Forehand.
Geelong drafted him with their final pick in the 2004 National Draft, after he had played in the VFL with the reserves and was named Geelong"s best first-year player for 2005.
He was a tall centre half-back, who often shut down some of the opposition"s top forwards, including Nick Riewoldt, Barry Hall, Matthew Lloyd, Fraser Gehrig, Jonathan Brown, Matthew Pavlich and Quinten Lynch amongst others Against the Brisbane Lions in Round 22, Egan fractured the navicular bone in his right foot during a marking contest with Jonathan Brown, requiring emergency surgery to insert screws into his foot.
This injury saw Egan forced out of the finals, missing both the American Federation of Labor-Congress and VFL"s victorious premiership sides. He was also named Geelong"s Best Clubman for 2007.
In November 2008, Geelong admitted it was unlikely that Egan would play American Federation of Labor-Congress again, as a result of the foot injury he sustained in 2007.
On 26 August 2009, Geelong announced that they would delist Egan, but that they remained hopeful he would play again in the American Federation of Labor-Congress and they also retired the number 19 for season 2010 in honour of Egan. He worked that year as an assistant coach at the Cats VFL team and continued to work for the club as an assistant in 2010.
