2 hours ago, Ferghus31 said:

I was informed by a well known player manager friend that Danny Daly will be our next Coach also Neville Jetta will rejoin us in the role of Development we will keep some of our Assistants

The Football Department will have new faces along with Fitness staff the review conduvcted was scathing on our performance ?

Watch this space

It would end my year on a high if Nev came back.

What concerns me the most about our next coach is that Richardson is involved in the process.

He is one that must go, i never liked the appointment to start with. IMHO the whole football department needs to go and the new coach can bring in his people.

The new FD Boss need to be a senior type, like Neil Balme, not a nobody that doesnt get respected from day one.

1 hour ago, VNightCityLegend said:

Buckley is the re-energizer. He inherited an aging list (Didak, Jolly, Krakeour, Ball, Maxwell, Johnson, Swan), turned the list over knowing he had to introduce youth and took them back into the Grand Final in a year where they were paying $31 for the flag and people writing them off.

That is one way to look at it and is valid.

Another way is he inherited a premiership/PF team in the previous 2 years with a prime Pendlebury, Dale Thomas, Heath Shaw, Travis Cloke, Ben Reid, Beams, etc. Later added Grundy, Elliot, Adams, etc.

Then missed the next 4 years of finals.

Impressive to rebuild and almost snag a flag but I thought he could have done better with the list he inherited.

Not sure us supporters would accept missing finals the next 4 years

31 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Buckley, like whoever coaches us will want to know precisely what support he will receive from the both MFC and AFL in regard to important matters like cheating from the AFL sub bodies, tribunal, umpiring bias and media purging.

What does this even mean?

16 hours ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Bro. They know that the club has the power. It would look weak to go to a club and especially look silly if they weren’t interested in you at all.

this isn’t applying for McDonald’s or to work in retail…

Do you think that they actually have people approach them when they are one of 19 employers who can offer this type of role.. cmon now..

G, I understand what u r saying but there is nothing wrong with being proactive and contacting the club to let them know u r interested imo.

Just now, DemonOX said:

G, I understand what u r saying but there is nothing wrong with being proactive and contacting the club to let them know u r interested imo.

I kinda concur. I've got jobs in tge past where there ostensibly wasn't one. But I enquired and was keen. Here there IS a job.

I don't mind that anyone would ask if keen.

As a world we get caught up in ritual than need not apply.

Left fielders can be good.

5 hours ago, Ferghus31 said:

I was informed by a well known player manager friend that Danny Daly will be our next Coach also Neville Jetta will rejoin us in the role of Development we will keep some of our Assistants

The Football Department will have new faces along with Fitness staff the review conduvcted was scathing on our performance ?

Watch this space

Just as an aside, I work for a Carlton Coterie Member and former player sponsor and he and his son told me about a week ago that he had firm intel that Carlton are after Daly and that it would happen in 2026.

Personally he is the other coach that gets my interest.

My only thought was after the fiascos of 2024 we might need someone who has wide afl community respect and gratitude if we are to plug the mid-age gap in our list.

Mind you imagine the media hate if we had got Houston now...

I just think its depressing that us Dee's fans are once again impatient of off season trades, changes and appointments.

Was nice while it lasted. Thanks Goodie!

4 minutes ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

Just as an aside, I work for a Carlton Coterie Member and former player sponsor and he and his son told me about a week ago that he had firm intel that Carlton are after Daly and that it would happen in 2026.

Personally he is the other coach that gets my interest.

My only thought was after the fiascos of 2024 we might need someone who has wide afl community respect and gratitude if we are to plug the mid-age gap in our list.

Mind you imagine the media hate if we had got Houston now...

And if we had gir him we would have missed out Lindsay!

8 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

The argument was they needed percentage to finish top 4 which is incorrect. If the Hawks beat the Lions they finish top 4 and get the double chance. Lose and they don't. Percentage is irrelevant to that.

Had Collingwood won on Saturday night Geelong may have been in 1st and Adelaide 2nd. So this talk about home final is grasping at best. Hawks destiny is in their own hands now as it relates to the double chance, and all this grasping at straws to try and justify why our performance in the last 4 minutes was commendable is laughable. We were pathetic on the weekend, that's the end of the story.

No! I'm not excusing 96 minutes of last week. But it's disingenuous to argue that Hawthorn aren't trying to finish as high as they can. I know when we missed finals in 2017 by a bee's appendage we had a late game against lowly Carlton where we coughed up a lot of late goals. It was easy to forget as Collingwood won and Adelaide rested players that we still would've gotten through on percentage but for the Carlton lapse. Hawthorn might rue their late lapse too.

BTW if people want to look at the St Kilda comeback and our other close losses and say "yes, but scoreboard!" they should be saying the same about last week and accepting the "inaccurate" margin.

Why do I get a certain vibe each time I see the name 'Danny Daly' (and enhanced if I see 'Fagin' (sic) linked to it)?...

11 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Why do I get a certain vibe each time I see the name 'Danny Daly' (and enhanced if I see 'Fagin' (sic) linked to it)?...

Will he drive a Capri ?

22 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Why do I get a certain vibe each time I see the name 'Danny Daly' (and enhanced if I see 'Fagin' (sic) linked to it)?...

It is with great pleasure that I inform you that I’m too young to understand this reference.

7 hours ago, Ferghus31 said:

I was informed by a well known player manager friend that Danny Daly will be our next Coach also Neville Jetta will rejoin us in the role of Development we will keep some of our Assistants

The Football Department will have new faces along with Fitness staff the review conduvcted was scathing on our performance ?

Watch this space

If this is true I'll be stoked.

42 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Why do I get a certain vibe each time I see the name 'Danny Daly' (and enhanced if I see 'Fagin' (sic) linked to it)?...

He’ll have to run it by Her Indoors

6 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

He’ll have to run it by Her Indoors

A small correction: ‘er indoors’

6 hours ago, VNightCityLegend said:

Buckley is the re-energizer. He inherited an aging list (Didak, Jolly, Krakeour, Ball, Maxwell, Johnson, Swan), turned the list over knowing he had to introduce youth and took them back into the Grand Final in a year where they were paying $31 for the flag and people writing them off.

He is exactly the type of coach we need. We don’t need a rebuild, just a reset, and Buckley has proven he can re-shape an AFL list back into contention.

He’s also a big name, so without a proper training base, players might compromise driving to Casey just to work with him.

Also, considering how the Collingwood administration off field was a basket case from 2013 with back room infighting, I reckon Buckley did well all things considering as a first time coach.

With a new CEO and President inbound, we may finally have a stable environment for Buckley to thrive under

The 2010 pies grand final winning team is the youngest in afl history, when he took over in 2012 they were still extremely young for team that had made back to back grand finals, they were the opposite of aged list, bucks took over a side that should have been in contention for years to come.

55 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

It is with great pleasure that I inform you that I’m too young to understand this reference.

I dunno. I'm sure people have looked at/ listened to stuff older people have raved about and scratched their heads. But who knows - maybe you'd enjoy 80s Brit show, Minder, with the dodgy Arthur Daley and his muscle Terry.

7 hours ago, VNightCityLegend said:

Buckley is the re-energizer. He inherited an aging list (Didak, Jolly, Krakeour, Ball, Maxwell, Johnson, Swan), turned the list over knowing he had to introduce youth and took them back into the Grand Final in a year where they were paying $31 for the flag and people writing them off.

He is exactly the type of coach we need. We don’t need a rebuild, just a reset, and Buckley has proven he can re-shape an AFL list back into contention.

He’s also a big name, so without a proper training base, players might compromise driving to Casey just to work with him.

Also, considering how the Collingwood administration off field was a basket case from 2013 with back room infighting, I reckon Buckley did well all things considering as a first time coach.

With a new CEO and President inbound, we may finally have a stable environment for Buckley to thrive under

I’m sorry but this is absolute nonsense. He inherited the youngest premiership team of all time. Younger even than the 93 “baby Bombers”.

Despite inheriting this list, he only took the team to finals 5 out of his 10 seasons.

I hope he’s learned some lessons and will be better the second time around but let’s not pretend his first stint as a senior coach was an impressive one.

6 hours ago, The Jackson FIX said:

What does this even mean?

Which part or is it just the big words

6 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Which part or is it just the big words

No need to be a smart [censored] Will.

I’m pretty sure it was a genuine question about trying to understand what u wrote from @The Jackson FIX .

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by DemonOX

39 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

No need to be a smart [censored] Will.

I’m pretty sure it was a genuine question about trying to understand what u wrote from @The Jackson FIX .

If I couldn't understand what someone had written, I most certainly would not have put my query along the lines of " what does this even mean?"

Which is sort of ....how could you possibly construct a sentence like that, and therefore I refuse to understand it..

So Ox in the letters of PJSW.ALIAS ME.........GFY.

10 hours ago, demoncat said:

We would do very well to have someone like Daly as senior coach

Putting aside his tactical acumen, the work he and Fagan have done to turn Brisbane into a well oiled machine can’t be understated, and it’s a key part of their onfield success

Sam Edmund mentioned that Cam Bruce was also on our radar for an assistant coaching role

We might need to change our name to the Melbourne Lions 🤣

That outcome would make Nathan Buckley a modern-day Man of La Mancha, a la Kevin Sheedy...

12 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

If I couldn't understand what someone had written, I most certainly would not have put my query along the lines of " what does this even mean?"

Which is sort of ....how could you possibly construct a sentence like that, and therefore I refuse to understand it..

So Ox in the letters of PJSW.ALIAS ME.........GFY.

Looks like my first sentence in my reply was right after all.

8 hours ago, Macca said:

Yes we were pathetic and the loss also highlights that our issues run much deeper than just Goodwin

Time might have been up for SG but what about everyone else?

Every position in the FD needs to be looked at and as for the current list of players, there are holes everywhere ... especially in the area of difference makers or matchwinners

We're down to one only - Gawn

Whether we put players up for trade (strategically) or whether certain players ask to be traded is the question

One thing is for sure, this current list is taking us nowhere. We lack basic skills, we're not motivated, the teamwork is poor and we give up too easily

On Saturday, we were beaten in the first 5 minutes of the game

The concern for me is if the Board and the current FD genuinely believe we're not far away, we're in all sorts of trouble

We need a cleanout and an overhaul, Gonzo

Can’t disagree, we looked insipid early on but to be fair in the second half we chased and scragged and managed to stem what looked like being a 100 pt thrashing into a 36 pt loss.

Just where we are I am not sure. The week before against the dogs we tried, we ran, linked up, transitioned the ball from D50 to I50, delivering the ball into our forward line in different ways that allowed us to rack up a competitive score against a better, inform side.

Then on Saturday I fear we were watching this year’s best and likely Premiership team take us apart. The Hawks’ relentless pressure across the whole ground laid bare all our deficiencies in skill, lack of system and running power. With the Hawks dominating the midfield we reverted to the get ball, kick ball forward stuff that is a trademark of the Goody years and too easily picked off by good defences.

So maybe we are somewhere in the middle and there is some hope if a new coaching panel can develop a resilient, competitive game plan, annd adding some extra midfield leg speed from somewhere. I suspect a fire sale of senior players will not gain us much in return and there may not be many suitors.

Our performances are suffering from having experienced players struggling who should be in their prime in their late 20’s. Tracc, Oliver, Langdon are all playing well below their best. Along with Viney their butchering of the ball, lack of poise in traffic is just baffling. Can a new coach change this around? Viney as a defensive forward, Oliver back to handball first, kick second, Langdon back to the wing and new faces (Langford, Windsor, Rivers )for the majority of CBAs. Tracc an extra year from his traumatic injury to regain his ability to operate in traffic. Most importantly in my mind if the old firm starts the get ball and blindly bang it long stuff we are so familiar with, the new coach has to act and drop the offenders.