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kurtneverdied
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thanks to those who had faith in my words. Great get for our club.

Straight Sets Simon
Straight Sets Simon

Classic.

Norm Smith's Curse
Norm Smith's Curse

He coached Ocean Grove to four premierships ... oh hang on ...

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Awesome news. Jackson is a gem - how different this club would be if we had him in '07 instead of that [censored] Schwab.

Both Geelong and Essendon rate Macartney incredibly highly in developing players - like Stone, probably should never have been a senior coach - doesn't mean he's not a superb addition.

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will be a great appointment if true

A few of us said in the George Stone thread that McCartney would be a great replacement for him

I'm way, way beyond pretending I know whether or not support staff are good appointments or not. I thought Chris Connolly and Neil Craig would be great appointments who would surely help our rookie coaches stay on the right path.

Good luck to McCartney all the same.

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This is a fantastic news!

His development of younger players is right up there in the best in the AFL. You have to see the likes of Libba, Macrae, Stringer, Dallhouse and so on and its pretty impressive.

The way they treated him was an absolute disgrace.

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This will be a very good get, is it safe to say we have the best coaching panel in the AFL now we need results

No, lets leave that up to other supporters in their own time, when its becomes abundantly clear Via our on-field results.. lets not get ahead of ourselves, like we have done far too often in our pasts.

When other clubs start praising us, we can then smile with an inner satisfaction, that we are finally on the right pathway. we have shot ourselves in our feet too often, to do it yet again.

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Im VERY happy with his signing in an assistant and development capacity. As soon as he was fired from the bullies I thought he'd be a great get - however I never thought we'd be the ones to get him. This could prove to be one of our better signings of the trade/draft period.

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So how is McCartney such a good development coach if the Bulldogs players disliked him enough to get him sacked? How does that work? I'm honestly asking.

Think you'll find chook it was a lot to do with the older players and the one on one conversations with player reviews.

As a development coach he wont be required to do this

Vey good appointment for the club

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The source of this information has just posted his 48th post. Are we sure that they are genuine or are they just making stuff up? I guess we will have to wait until Monday to find out!

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So how is McCartney such a good development coach if the Bulldogs players disliked him enough to get him sacked? How does that work? I'm honestly asking.

Was an assistant coach at Geelong from 2000 to 2010. They did alright during that period from memory.

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I can see this potentially imploding tomorrow and a potential villain of Demonland being inducted into the ranks...
P.S. If it is on the news then Demonland villain status has been averted.

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The source of this information has just posted his 48th post. Are we sure that they are genuine or are they just making stuff up? I guess we will have to wait until Monday to find out!

I just saw it on channel 9 news commercial during the Bond film! Went straight to Demonland.

A good get for the club if it goes ahead.

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