Career
He also spent almost twenty years as an assistant coach for various Australian Football League clubs. A rover, Elshaug made his league debut in 1979 with Melbourne and by the age of 19 was representing Victoria in interstate football. After a short stint with Collingwood in 1988 he finished his career in the Victorian Football Association with Dandenong, whom he captain-coached to the 1991 premiership.
After retiring from playing, Elshaug moved straight into a role as regional manager for the Eastern Ranges, in the newly established TAC Cup, which had only just replaced the former VFL/American Federation of Labor-Congress Under 19s competition.
In 2007, he moved to the Street Kilda Football Club. Throughout his coaching career, he has been involved in developmental, senior assistant, and reserves gameday coaching roles.
He resigned from his coaching in the middle of the 2010 season for personal reasons, then returned to Street Kilda as the recruiting manager in 2011.
