2 hours ago, Dee*ceiving said:

Serious question. Is it Meahan or Meaghan?

It's Meahan

1 hour ago, Young Angus said:

Do people really thing its predetermined and they'd go through a public charade for the sake of it? What a waste of time if they do that...surely not!

And a waste of money too.

I agree that it is a fantasy to think this panel is all just a charade to appease the supporters and the media. Buckley is by no means a sure thing and if that doesn't eventuate then we need to be prepared and do our due diligence on the next best available candidate (which we should be doing anyway).

1 minute ago, raDeelaide said:

I don't know why everyone is so quick to think signing Bucks is a forgone conclusion. My mail is that is that he was keen and would need to be sold. This panel might also be a panel to convince him as well as sound out some assistants and if Bucks falls through then pick the best of the rest.

Agree. Might well be a front runner but I'm not quite convinced its a slam dunk.

My impression is he's interested. Desperate for the job ?? Doubt it. There are any number of things I suspect he can/could do.

Has he been sussed out. London to a brick.

Was he in a skirting manner sounded earlier in year ? Very Iikely. Were others? Also very likely.

Is Bucks on a list of ONE ?? Doubt it. Would folk like Bruce, Daly, others be on the list. ?? If not initially, they are now.

Might the Finals impact availability of some personnel ?? Logic suggests a very big 'Maybe'

Will they ( club) go through a sham contrivance before announcement? I very much doubt. I don't think anyone involved with letting go Goodwin and appointing successor(s) would want anything other than dealing with this other than with appropriate proprietary.

I also think this backs up the suggestion that the timing of all this ; sacking and hiring, requires a month or thereabouts ( plus) so in order to have a result prior to trades etc it mandated the order of things.

No one's going to bother with a charade if you were to shut one door and immediately open another.

Bucks might be the short priced favourite currently but a hell of a lot of favourites don't win 😉

Let's hope they don't over analyse everything or go for the one who talks themselves up the best.

Somewhat ironically, the continuing media assessment that the job is Buckley's to lose somewhat weakens his position. The people appointed by the club to make the decision might feel some subconscious pressure to appoint someone else just to prove the "process" was real.

10 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Somewhat ironically, the continuing media assessment that the job is Buckley's to lose somewhat weakens his position. The people appointed by the club to make the decision might feel some subconscious pressure to appoint someone else just to prove the "process" was real.

A bit of reverse psychology.

3 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

Club website says Meahan but I'm not sure how much I trust our media team to get that right lol.

Meahan is correct. She has been on the MFC PCNR (in case you're wondering, People, Culture, Nominations and Remuneration) Committee since April, so she'll be on the Board soon....

Every other poster seems to have some mail these days. May as well throw my mail in the mix.

$10 peri peri chicken via uber eats, offer ends 17/8

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3 hours ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

Will be interesting to see what Buckley does with our game plan. Does he try to transition us further toward a transition game? Try to continue to mold contest players into transition players? Or let them play to their strengths and dictate an older contested style?

I'd like to think he'd try to further improve the positive aspects of the current gameplan as opposed to starting again from scratch. If you believe the talking heads on the tube we're top 4 in ball movement.

If we retain than and get to top 4 in defending transition we'd be back in the hunt I'd have thought?

38 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Somewhat ironically, the continuing media assessment that the job is Buckley's to lose somewhat weakens his position. The people appointed by the club to make the decision might feel some subconscious pressure to appoint someone else just to prove the "process" was real.

In that case we should hire who the least expect. Perhaps go throught the whole process and then announce Simon Goodwin as our new coach. This would show that we are not afraid of acting decisively and making the tough decisions (sacking a Premiership Coach during the season) while also not being swayed by public opiniom (rehiring the coach we sacked only weeks earlier).

I say let’s cut out the middle Man and put Tom Morris on the selection panel.

After reading through most of this thread, every time I read "Bucks", I wonder what Gary Buckenara has to do with things.... then I remember that we are talking about someone a bit more recent. 🙄

1 hour ago, chookrat said:

In that case we should hire who the least expect. Perhaps go throught the whole process and then announce Simon Goodwin as our new coach. This would show that we are not afraid of acting decisively and making the tough decisions (sacking a Premiership Coach during the season) while also not being swayed by public opiniom (rehiring the coach we sacked only weeks earlier).

I can just see how the process might pan out if AI was used to make the decision. It would analyse all the contenders, whether they were applicants or not, and determine that Simon Goodwin is the best choice.

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I can just see how the process might pan out if AI was used to make the decision. It would analyse all the contenders, whether they were applicants or not, and determine that Simon Goodwin is the best choice.

Lol, yeah, because he has the best premiership winning ratio out of all of them and it's just data driven.

...incidently I wounder what it would conclude if it were to analyse the "Is Goodwin the right guy" thread? Can someone good with AI get it to do that, I wounder?

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C'mon bucks.. you know you're want too..

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11 minutes ago, adonski said:

Starting early Bucks?

1 minute ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Lol, yeah, because he has the best premiership winning ratio out of all of them and it's just data driven.

Depends on the conditions you give it but AI would most likely output Buckley if you asked who should be the next coach because that’s what the vast majority of people are saying. It’s just going to hallucinate a response that sounds like what the general consensus is. It doesn’t actually perform any analysis or thinking.

23 minutes ago, adonski said:

This is just getting silly now.

28 minutes ago, adonski said:

Ooooh Learnings

28 minutes ago, adonski said:

can someone please summarise

1 minute ago, Vineytime said:

  30 minutes ago, adonski said:

Can someone please summarise?

8 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

Club website says Meahan but I'm not sure how much I trust our media team to get that right lol.

All good. But is it Callaghan or Callahan?

23 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

I honestly can't work out the Jobe Watson selection. The guy has been out of club land for years, wasn't part of any successful era at a club, his media commentary has been less than impressive, and I'm unaware of his involvement with other panels.

Does anyone have any insight on this?

Feel like they missed a trick not asking a Jimmy Bartel or a Jason Dunstall type.

He was a Captain, an absolute star and a Brownlow medalist and had multiple coaches

13 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Ooooh Learnings

No, “lessons”, from the old French leçon, as opposed to proto–Germanic“ learnings”.

Totally different.