Bomber or Choco, a year of " director of football" under Roos allows a smooth transition. Let's not kid ourselves we are coming from a long way back.

Ling WTF, I won't watch any post match interviews or anything involving him because he is so ugly and he will get grilled so badly if he wants to be a senior coach, seriously. Imagine winning 2 games a season under Ling and then having to watch him explain why. Stick to radio Lingy, you saw how bad Neeld copped it at times with his face all screwed up (sadly from a stroke) imagine how bad Ling will cop it. image.jpg

Too ugly to coach. That is definitely a new one.

Forget your apprentices. One man for me and for all at Melbourne; Alistair (King Hit) Clarkson. Ex Melbourne player, dual premiership coach, he will be just the man we need when Roosy is done.

How does Barrett keep his job, and his self-inflated reputation, as a "leading news breaker" by getting up on national TV and sprouting this stuff?

A list of 6. Oh, really! Are you sure it isn't 5 or 7?This is so much like the Holy Hand Grenade from Monty Python's The Holy Grail it's not funny.

I hope Kirk is on our radar, along with about 20 others, and through this year the short-list will be formed. But the Holy 6 is absolute bull.

Roos may just turn around and sign for a little longer.

The media want to make a story out of this.

They smell potential for trouble with the succession plan and the more they can keep it in the headlines, the more likely it is to sell papers.

It's the old Fox News trick. The media will insist they are only reporting it because 'people are concerned and have a right to know about it'.

The reason they are concerned is because these flogs keep it in the headlines.

Great,after learning the Paul Roos gameplan for 2 years our players will have to learn another gameplan which will make it the 4th in 5 years!!!

Whoever succeeds Roos will bring a whole new gameplan like Buckley did and look how that turned out,he turned a PREMIERSHIP team into a Top 8 team.

This is why there will always be instability at MFC,changing CEO's and Coaches every couple of years!

Forget your apprentices. One man for me and for all at Melbourne; Alistair (King Hit) Clarkson. Ex Melbourne player, dual premiership coach, he will be just the man we need when Roosy is done.

I reckon if he lands another for the Hawks he'll be looking for a new challenge. Can coach.

I reckon if he lands another for the Hawks he'll be looking for a new challenge. Can coach.

If we were looking for a coach in isolation, I agree with you. Clarko would be great. I think though that Roos is trying to build something ongoing and continuous. Clarko would arrive and understandably want to implement his own ideas on the game (which mightn't be a bad thing). If he is not able to do that then he won't come to the MFC. It would disrupt 3 years of work and one thing this club has suffered from the most is chronic instability.

This is the reason why the succession plan has been mooted. I am not 100% on board with it as it stands as it should be a case of Roos stays until the foundations are solid rather than Roos stays for 2-3 years but I reckon if Roos doesn't see himself here in 6 years time, he should be training up his successor as he gets to the end of his run. This allows the successor a chance to just focus on the small things rather than overhauling the whole club.

Too ugly to coach. That is definitely a new one.

When part of the job involves being on camera and scrutinised by the media I would think being comfortable with your looks is quite important, but perhaps he is.

When part of the job involves being on camera and scrutinised by the media I would think being comfortable with your looks is quite important, but perhaps he is.

Matty Primus won Cleo Most Eligible Bachelor of the Year at the end of the '90's. Don't think it helped him much in his coaching career.

Can't believe the direction these threads take sometimes! Sheesh!

I am sure the Filth were very aware of what Cameron Ling looked like during the 2011 Grand Final.

Cost them a Flag thankfully!!

If we were looking for a coach in isolation, I agree with you. Clarko would be great. I think though that Roos is trying to build something ongoing and continuous. Clarko would arrive and understandably want to implement his own ideas on the game (which mightn't be a bad thing). If he is not able to do that then he won't come to the MFC. It would disrupt 3 years of work and one thing this club has suffered from the most is chronic instability.

This is the reason why the succession plan has been mooted. I am not 100% on board with it as it stands as it should be a case of Roos stays until the foundations are solid rather than Roos stays for 2-3 years but I reckon if Roos doesn't see himself here in 6 years time, he should be training up his successor as he gets to the end of his run. This allows the successor a chance to just focus on the small things rather than overhauling the whole club.

Colin, I have always been a little skeptical about succession type arrangements .i.e Buckley, Keating. Lets get now right so that we can have the luxury of selecting a coach who fits the side that presents at the time. For mine, Carlton's appointment of Malthouse is a decision that doesn't add up. Wrong coach for their situation. As my Carlton mate said, 'we should have gone for Hinkley'. Still, hindsight and all that.

I am sure the Filth were very aware of what Cameron Ling looked like during the 2011 Grand Final.

Cost them a Flag thankfully!!

Great players don't always end up being great coaches, right?

Hiring the ugliest bloke in Australia is the last thing our club needs, let's hope Roos makes it 3 years and by that stage we are so close to a flag that he signs on for longer.

Great players don't always end up being great coaches, right?

agreed. But it has nothing to do with his looks.

Right?

It is obvious that Kirk will be the successor. For the record, I picked Kirk as the man as soon as Roos was elected.

However, I am starting to think our rise will happen rather quickly, and as soon as Roos gets a sniff of a finals campaign, he will find it hard to pass the team over to Kirk.

When part of the job involves being on camera and scrutinised by the media I would think being comfortable with your looks is quite important, but perhaps he is.

Haha..seriously dude, are you for real?

Not that it even remotely matters, but he is clearly comfortable being on camera unless you live under a rock and aren't aware of his media role.

He also has a stunning missus and runs a very successful construction company, from what I hear. So his appearance that offends you so much has had no bearing on his successes.

I've heard it all now, a coaches looks being part of the selection criteria FMD, school holidays?

Haha..seriously dude, are you for real?

Not that it even remotely matters, but he is clearly comfortable being on camera unless you live under a rock and aren't aware of his media role.

He also has a stunning missus and runs a very successful construction company, from what I hear. So his appearance that offends you so much has had no bearing on his successes.

just putting it out there shagger.

I've heard it all now, a coaches looks being part of the selection criteria FMD, school holidays?

Just saying, my missus changes the channel when he is on.

Just saying, my missus changes the channel when he is on.

I don't care if our next successful coach has a head like a dog licking pi55 off a nettle, it's how they perform that counts

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I find stupidity repulsive.

Just to preserve it for eternity, when it comes to coaching, you think:

being comfortable with your looks is quite important