Applications close for the vacant head role on Tuesday.

Club operations manager Richard Bennett will sit down over the coming days with chairman Chris Mitchell to engage with the candidates.

The Raiders had a player in mind to replace non-playing coach Andrew Gower, who had resigned shortly after the season ended to spend more time with his family.

Bennett said the club will follow the process, but that will include a new outlook to fast-track the development of its inexperienced talent.

"We'd want a coach that is also an onfield leader or player that adds something too given that our deficiency is that we don't have the onfield presence of players who have played 50-plus Premier League games," he said.

"Generally, you wouldn't necessarily set out [a coach] who was also playing, but it's particularly attractive to the Raiders if our favoured coach is also someone who could play and lead. None of that is in any way a comment about [captain] Miles Barnard - in fact, he's been a rock for us."

The Raiders had informal discussions with Cricket Tasmania to bolster their side.

But Bennett said luring a first-class star was not easy.

"While ever someone is contracted, it's not just about discussing their future with an individual but also talking to their employer," he said.

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"So everything would have to absolutely line up.

"Right from the start our ambition was to seek some accommodation from Cricket Tasmania to enable or acquire someone towards the end of their first-class career."

The rookie club before its inaugural 2018-19 campaign began to try and chase down a big-name player, whose career with Tasmania was in process of winding down.

Early talks had included pursuing Xavier Doherty just before the club's inaugural season after his retirement from first-class cricket, but the left-arm finger spinner, who played four Tests for Australia, contributed only to the foundation committee to get the club off the ground.

"He wasn't expressing too much interest in playing to be honest," Bennett said.

Another standout recruiting consideration was former Latrobe batsman Trent Keep.

The Kingborough 26-year collected this season's dual batting awards after scoring a leading 924 runs at a high average of 77 following four hundreds that included 160 not out against the Raiders.

"He's been attractive to us right through," Bennett said.

"Last season, he made another attempt to put his name and face right in front of the decision makers and played in Hobart really well.

"For Trent, it is about his personal circumstances and ambition, but we're certainly very keen to talk again."

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