Maylin, who last year coached Bundoora to the Division 1 premiership, announced the decision to his players at training on Tuesday night.
The 56-year-old told NFL.org.au he was looking forward to life after coaching following a career in football that has spanned more than 40 years.
“I’ve been in it a long time and I’m just at the stage that I wouldn’t mind doing some other things during winter,” he said.
“I don’t know how I’m going to handle not being involved but I’m actually looking forward to it.
“I’ll still have the opportunity to go and watch some footy if I want to and I’ll still support the Bulls no doubt about that, but if I want to head to the races one Saturday or go to my favourite spot in Noosa, I might just do that as well.”
Maylin joined Bundoora from Eltham in 2009 and has guided the Bulls to two Grand Final appearances and a preliminary final during his time at Yulong Reserve.
He played 122 VFL games for Carlton and Footscray between 1980-86 and was a member of the Blues’ 1981-82 back-to-back premierships. He was also captain-coach of Springvale’s 1987 VFA premiership and was an assistant coach to Terry Wallace and Peter Rhode at the Western Bulldogs.
After winning the opening six games of its 2011 premiership defence, Bundoora slipped to third on the ladder at the conclusion of the home and away season but Maylin is confident of repeating last year’s glory despite a testing second half of the 2012 season.
“It’s very hard to win two in a row and we’re finding that out now,” he said.
“We’ve performed well against the top sides so I’m thinking coming into September where the weather certainly fines up and on a bigger ground will suit us with the type of players that we have in our side.
“This weekend is obviously an absolutely vital and important game and it will really show us where we are at as far as the whole season goes.”
The Bulls take on Heidelberg at Preston City Oval in this Saturday’s qualifying final with the winner to play Montmorency for the right to book the first place in this year’s Grand Final.
Maylin believes his side has performed admirably to hold on for a double chance in the finals and said expectations would still be high despite the Bulls winning only five of their past 11 matches.
“Falling away a bit in recent months has taken some pressure away from us but at the same time the pressure is applied on yourself when you’re not winning as much as we had been. Obviously there’s that internal pressure and I think we’ve come through it pretty well.”
Another premiership would be a fitting way for Maylin to end his coaching career but as he concedes, fairytale endings don’t always play out in football.
“That’s obviously my dream and it will be a lovely way to finish but there’s a lot of hard work to go before that happens.”
