The four-time AFL premiership coach got his first glimpse at some of the talent who could make up his squad at the club's Blacktown Olympic Park base last week.

He conducted a training session for the club's inaugural TAC Cup squad, which makes its debut in the under-18s national competition in April.

Many of the 30-strong squad are scholarship holders with other clubs.

They include Broken Hill teenager Tom Kickett, whose uncles Derek and Dale are among the greats to have played AFL.

It was a busy first week on the job.

It included a trip to Canberra and a meeting with the ACT government, negotiating possible links with the new AFL franchise.

Sheedy identified the ACT and country NSW as zones where future champions waited to be unearthed.

``They're out there, we just need to work hard to find them,'' he said.

``I was very lucky with players from NSW and ACT during my time at Essendon.

``I can pick half a premiership team of them.''

Sheedy will also head overseas to scout talent, following the signing of South African Bayanda Sobetwa to the club's TAC squad.

``We can recruit players from all over the world now,'' he said.

``There will be another five boys at least from South Africa who will be signed up by AFL clubs in the next 10 years.

``I'll also be going to California I just won't tell when I'm going.''

Sheedy said the challenge ahead would be different from his 27-year coaching stint with the Bombers.

The man who developed a love for sport as a young boy during the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, said western Sydney sports-lovers would be crazy not to support the code.

``You'll be barracking for kids from the local area,''Sheedy said.

``This is our chance to get it right.''

There are a few thousand tickets left for the NAB Cup match between Sydney and Carlton at Blacktown on February20.