The four-time premiership-winning 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-man squad are scholarship holders with other clubs, including Broken Hill teenager Tom Kickett, whose uncles Derek and Dale are among the greats to play AFL.

It was a busy first week on the job, which included a trip to Canberra to meet with the ACT Government to negotiate possible links with the new AFL franchise.

Sheedy identified ACT and country NSW as zones where future champions are waiting 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.

The club has signed South African Bayanda Sobetwa to the new club's TAC squad.

``We can recruit players from all over the world now,'' Sheedy 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 told the Star he was excited about the challenge ahead, which would be different to his 27-year 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 February 20.