Jayden Klemke, Nick Perryman and Daniel Frawley will be assistant coaches under head coach Brett Somerville after the Demons opted to sit out this year's AFL Riverina Championship.

Perryman had signed with Lavington for this year, but played for Osborne instead after the Ovens and Murray League was cancelled.

His decision to return to his junior club is a huge boost to their midfield, as will the addition of two-time Jim Quinn medallist, three-time Demons premiership player and four-time best-and-fairest Klemke.

Klemke joined SANFL's West Adelaide last year but ruptured his ACL in the first round, and had planned to play for the Demons this season.

"All three of them, Dan included, have a talent for coaching and a drive to do it," Somerville said.

"To give them that opportunity, while also allowing me to do some of the other stuff, that comes with coaching is going to be great for the club.

"Nick was a big get because he was going to play at Lavington this year. But when he came back he saw what we had with our young brigade, and was really keen to press what he could on that group.

"The respect he has among those young fellas is immense. He's a footy head who lives and breathes it, to have his knowledge imparted onto them will be great."

Somerville said Klemke will drive standards for a squad he expects to be quite young next year.

"It solidifies us, he's a great bloke around the club and presents his best at training as well, which is what we need to get back to," he said.

A handful of Demons players elected to play elsewhere this year after the club decided not to play, but Somerville is confident the majority will return to the fold.

"It's obviously disappointing to see your players playing elsewhere, but if we had of played it would have been the shoe on the other foot as well," he said.

"Hopefully the young fellas all get back to us and we can keep going with where we left off."

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