7 hours ago, No10 said:

Buckley? Caroline Wilson has completely lost her touch.

I hope Enright.

I think Enright but anyone of the sxmf eta, with s “smart” football advisory person

6 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

Ralph reckons we are not a good proposition. Coaches may prefer coaching at Carlton.

Some make this make sense.. Carlton is worse off than us.

They have more money, influence and have an easier time recruiting but are more systemically messy.

List wise it’s pretty similar.

If (and it’s a big if) our board and admin can settle down for a while we can get back well ahead of them. But for now coaches might take the money, facilities and proven footy admin in Graham Wright at Carlton

4 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

It will be interesting to see what bodies Troy Chaplin has going through the midfield in the next three games.

Also if he is prepared to bring anyone in from Casey.

Bailey Laurie was last seen bringing Troy a basket of homemade muffins

i think we are attractive to coach

we have gawn, trac and kossie. might even get clarry firing again

and windsor, lindsay and langford are good young players

plenty to work with for the new coach

28 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Here is my concern with Horse. He had the world on a platter at Sydney. Inherited a winning culture, COLA and academy at his disposal. A club well supported by the AFL and a good home ground advantage (although a disadvantage to playing on the G).

With all that he won one flag, which granted are very hard to win, but he also coached a team that was mentally fragile on the biggest stage of all. Twice they got humiliating in a grand final.

I think from setting standards perspective he will be excellent, and he takes no prisoners which I think we need, but likewise is he capable of coming up with a game plan that suits the large MCG? Does he have the fire in the belly? Can he coach without the luxury of top quality academy picks coming his way? Does he want to drive to Casey?

If Longmire is the target then it makes sense that we pulled the trigger now, before Carlton blink on Voss. We definitely don’t want to compete with a big club if we are chasing an experienced guy with a plethora of options.

My preference is still an untried high quality assistant from a winning club, and an experienced GM of footy. That’s the best balance of power IMO.

He looked very jaded after that GF in 24.

Pardon the Pun @Jaded No More 😂

We’re talking to James Hird according to E McGuire.

So Will Faulkner on Fox reports that Longmire is top of our list.

Damian Barrett (yes, yes, I know) has done a piece on afl.com.au arguing that we are would prefer an experienced coach to an untried one, and that we want to appoint the new coach before the Grand Final.

We know the club's leaking, so I tend to accept these reports.

Sounds like we want an experienced coach, and maybe Longmire is the first choice.

Personally, he's the only experienced coach I'd want.

6 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

We’re talking to James Hird according to E McGuire.

They're mates I think, so this doesn't surprise me, but this also makes me sick.

Put the supplements to one side, Hird wasn't even any good.

12 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

As if. Try North, St Kilda, the expansion teams when not stuffed full of free picks or even Freo.

Demtriou cracked it at Roos ball, even since then they’ve been spoiled with advantages and had a very easy path to success.

You missed my point. If North and Saints are struggling it is BAU for the league. It is not detrimental to the league and sport growth. Sydney can't afford to not be playing finals for as long as North and Saints have.

I hope it's Buckley for mine and I even suspect it might be given the detailed insights he offers about our games and how we have played - like he has been carefully assessing us and our list.

Roosey suggested Horse would have been called already.

8 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

We’re talking to James Hird according to E McGuire.

A sure fire way to kill off the last remaining few of us die hard supporters of the club.

1 hour ago, Adam The God said:

So we want to replace a team with clear psychological issues with a coach who oversaw multiple brain melting crumbles on the biggest stage of all?

Short sighted view.

He got them contending in a consistent manner year after year.

4 grand finals in total with a premiership as well.

Malcolm Blight lost 3 grand finals with Geelong before winning two with Adelaide.

Horse has proven track record on and off field.

Sounds like we'll have Horse / Hird / Buckley all coaching us next year, first ever trio of headcoaches

Chris Scott would have been sacked years ago based off some of the Cats finals performances prior to their flag a couple years ago

10 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

We’re talking to James Hird according to E McGuire.

Unbelievable if true! It has been 12 years since he last coached ffs

Jon Ralph on Longmire: “He’d take the phone call but I think I’d prefer Carlton to Melbourne.”

Please do royally get stuffed Jon.

Edited August 5Aug 5 by P-man

Carlton - haven't had any players with quite the level of off field allegations that the Dees have and probably a better all round list.

1 minute ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

Carlton - haven't had any players with quite the level of off field allegations that the Dees have and probably a better all round list.

Not sure about the list bit. Struggling to see their young core coming through minus Jagga who hasn't even played a game.

Anyway let's get serious and stop debating and deliberating and just wait for Tom Morris to make the decision and announce it

5 minutes ago, P-man said:

Jon Ralph on Longmire: “He’d take the phone call but I think I’d prefer Carlton to Melbourne.”

Please do royally get stuffed Jon.

We might have the better list, right?

But we have worse facilities, fewer members, less money, a 2hr round trip to Casey required multiple times per week, a dysfunctional board, a new CEO, probably/hopefully a new head of football, possibly/hopefully a new list manager, a $1m coach payout that is going to impact our bottom line and salary cap problems.

It's probably no wonder we went early on this. We're worried that, in a choice between us and them, our preferred coach would likely choose Carlton.

11 minutes ago, praha said:

You missed my point. If North and Saints are struggling it is BAU for the league. It is not detrimental to the league and sport growth. Sydney can't afford to not be playing finals for as long as North and Saints have.

But thanks the academy, free agency etc they’ll never have to. Mark Neeld could coach Sydney to 8-10 wins.

35 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

Ralph reckons we are not a good proposition. Coaches may prefer coaching at Carlton.

Some make this make sense.. Carlton is worse off than us.

They have a worse list than us...but they have had a significantly worse list than us for the last 5 years yet they routinely beat us or run us within a couple of points. They get more out of their players than we do (and that's scary). I'd be shocked if any coach with options willingly put the fate of their career in the hands of our players.

No one in the media saw this coming today, they a were all pedalling the same story, no one in a position to make the hard call. Yet now they all know who are our preferred options to replace Goodwin, hopefully it’s another case of why we distract you over here we’re doing something over there and our new coach surprises all. Someone across the the current style of game would be ideal.

What if we don't improve under Horse? That would be a 'mare.

Just now, Demonstone said:

What if we don't improve under Horse? That would be a 'mare.

Yeah but at least we’d stop making such as asss of ourselves

Edited August 5Aug 5 by demoncat