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Newsflash we already have a Coach! We are in the Market for a Junior Manager with L plates, where does Bomber fit into this equation.

if Thompson wants to coach the MFC long term im pretty sure the 'Junior Manager with L plates' plan will get thrown on the scrapheap faster than you can say '13th premiership'

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Newsflash we already have a Coach! We are in the Market for a Junior Manager with L plates, where does Bomber fit into this equation.

Newsflash why get someone who is on L plates when we can possibly get someone on their opens?

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if Thompson wants to coach the MFC long term im pretty sure the 'Junior Manager with L plates' plan will get thrown on the scrapheap faster than you can say '13th premiership'

Thats fine i like Bomber, Roos can then be the the bloke holding the bananas for the next 2 years

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if Thompson wants to coach the MFC long term im pretty sure the 'Junior Manager with L plates' plan will get thrown on the scrapheap faster than you can say '13th premiership'

It's taken fifty years and counting to say "13th premiership."

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I really don't think 2 guys of that calibre can coach effectively in the same team.
Both are used to having it their own way, and once Roos starts to pull rank as senior coach I have no doubt sparks will fly.

BUT in saying that, considering where we are at as a club, having them both on board offers stability and leadership to the playing group. It reinforces the notion that melbourne are not a basket case and dare I say it, could be a draw card to entice free agents to the club.

It's not the right decision for the long term, but it doesn't have to be. Its the right decision for right now. Make it happen MFC.

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Oh burn!!! I actually noticed that but i couldn't be fuked fixing something so irrelevant. Anyways, does commenting on my typo make you feel better about yourself?

Made absolutely no difference to me princess, but you still don't know what you're talking about.

That was the point.

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Made absolutely no difference to me princess, but you still don't know what you're talking about.

That was the point.

Always great to see you pointing out that you, and only you, know what you are talking about Machsy. You'd be a real acquisition in the work place, no question.
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Same could be said for Thompson being an assistant under Hird.

There weren't any issues there.

I think you'd be jumping at shadows.

Completely different. Hird was an unproven, first-time senior coach. Bomber was a successful and established premiership coach.

Bomber was brought on specifically to guide Hird.

Roos needs no such guidance - so how do you have 2 giants in the same room?

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Completely different. Hird was an unproven, first-time senior coach. Bomber was a successful and established premiership coach.

Bomber was brought on specifically to guide Hird.

Roos needs no such guidance - so how do you have 2 giants in the same room?

I know it's not the same thing, but they do alright on AFL 360.

I don't think, and more importantly they don't think, it would be an issue.

Thompson is happy being deferential.

How do you think Thomspon & Neil Craig cope?

Doesn't seem to be an issue there.

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Always great to see you pointing out that you, and only you, know what you are talking about Machsy. You'd be a real acquisition in the work place, no question.

Oh RTG... It's fair to say intellectual minnows like yourself wouldn't get a guernsey in my workplace.

But iI'll explaint it for you, just this once:

It's not anything I'm talking about, nor that I'm asserting no one else can understand it.

It's what the other poster said, being "Mark Thompson is a poor communicator," and the fact that it's completely wrong.

I think it'd be far fetched for many to agree with him, even yourself.

Or are you foolish enough to do that in an effort to score some sort of win in your own little mind..? x

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If this was the eos to the 2016 season i could understand this but it isnt and fail to grasp any logic to the idea.

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If this was the eos to the 2016 season i could understand this but it isnt and fail to grasp any logic to the idea.

What he said.

It was reported he was on massive money when they lured him to the Dons. MFC won't be able to pay him massive money with what they are paying Roosy. He said earlier this year on AFL360 that the succession plan wouldn't work for him under Roos. So what role would he come over for. Why would he come to Dees as an Assistant on a lowly Assistants wage. Maybe he could be the head of the footy dept but after his performance at the Dons that better not happen. According to the evidence that came out about him telling them to stop the injections and they kept going for two months afterwards, he is just as implicit in that f-up as anyone. For some reason he can't see that. Not sure we want him onboard as a head of a footy dept and can't see him as an Assistant. Doesn't make sense.

Maybe the talks GOF was talking about were pre Roosy's decision to sign on for the third year.

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Oh RTG... It's fair to say intellectual minnows like yourself wouldn't get a guernsey in my workplace.

But iI'll explaint it for you, just this once:

It's not anything I'm talking about, nor that I'm asserting no one else can understand it.

It's what the other poster said, being "Mark Thompson is a poor communicator," and the fact that it's completely wrong.

I think it'd be far fetched for many to agree with him, even yourself.

Or are you foolish enough to do that in an effort to score some sort of win in your own little mind..? x

I must be an intellectual minnow. It will explain why you lost me at explaint.

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