Western Bulldogs premiership coach Luke Beveridge has revealed a rival club made a bold play for him last year before he was offered a new deal until the end of 2023.

Beveridge has told the Herald Sun he was approached after the bye last year, but refused to name the club that tried to poach him out of the kennel.

St Kilda, Carlton, North Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle all replaced their senior coaches during a chaotic second half of last season.

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Luke Beveridge during a training session in March.

“I don’t want to talk about who it was from,’’ Beveridge told the Herald Sun.

“It didn’t shock me and I don’t want that to sound egotistical at all, but based on what the market was — and to seek out your interest and maybe even give you a guarantee that if you’re willing to come over, there’s every chance there is a role there — what it did was allow the Bulldogs and I to sit down and talk more seriously about my future and the future direction of the club.’’

Beveridge met with Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon in Noosa during the bye to discuss an extension when the club was struggling at 4-7.

They agreed to put contract talks on hold until later in the year, but that changed after an undisclosed club made a play for the man who ended a 62-year premiership drought at the Western Bulldogs.

Beveridge said he was worried about his future at the Whitten Oval when he was approached but only wanted to stay at the Bulldogs.

“Within our own club, I felt vulnerable,’’ the premiership coach said.

“I felt vulnerable as far as job security goes.

“And I knew the competition had changed and I knew there was a little bit of demand for coaches at other clubs. But I only wanted to coach the Bulldogs.”

Beveridge has strong links to St Kilda.

He played 45 games for the club and was appointed as head of football before the Bulldogs made the surprise decision to install him as senior coach in 2014.