3 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

AFL tampering with its own competition. Banana republic and comical to be honest.

I’m not surprised or concerned by the AFLs clear and transparent desire to get Buckley to Tasmania. It reinforces 2 things to me.

1. We should be doing all we can to convince him to come to Melbourne instead and if we are a serious club we will be able to do that.

2. Nathan Buckley is EXACTLY the coach we need. It would be disappointing if we’ve sacked and are paying Goodwin 1.2 million dollars next year to miss out on all the experienced coaches and go with an untried assistant. That feels like nearly the worst case scenario.

44 minutes ago, Lefty said:

Prepare to be shocked. He doesn’t want the job. Anyone banking on Buckley becoming the next coach should temper their expectations and brace for a face-saving announcement from both him and the club. From what I’ve heard, Hayden Skipworth has now emerged as the frontrunner.

Firstly I’m not sold on Buckley. His game plan at the pies will no longer hold up to today’s football. Nevertheless, Buckleys options are limited. Waiting around for another club next year is a massive gamble. That club is likely to be in a worse position than Melbourne and might require a full rebuild. Tasmania also isn’t a great option. Not sure he is keen to get pummelled for the first 2 years.

The opportunity at Melbourne is as good as he is likely to see in the coming years.

Bucks wants the job, he wouldn't have stayed in this long if he didn't.

But he's now squaring off with the best assistants in the league especially those from Collingwood and Geelong who have spent 60 or so hours a week for the last 4 years on the cutting edge of innovation.

Meanwhile Bucks has been mucking around on Best On Ground and getting Whateley brained on SEN.

He has the advantage of experience but it's hard to know just what that provides us. His media profile likely helps us little, if anything we would do well to be decidedly out of the spotlight for a while, even if that hurts the financial bottom line. That's far more valuable to Tassie than us.

All in all, the leaking of apparent lack of interest to me just sounds like a guy making sure he's saving face for the strong likelihood we hire one of the assistants instead.

2 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Bucks wants the job, he wouldn't have stayed in this long if he didn't.

But he's now squaring off with the best assistants in the league especially those from Collingwood and Geelong who have spent 60 or so hours a week for the last 4 years on the cutting edge of innovation.

Meanwhile Bucks has been mucking around on Best On Ground and getting Whateley brained on SEN.

He has the advantage of experience but it's hard to know just what that provides us. His media profile likely helps us little, if anything we would do well to be decidedly out of the spotlight for a while, even if that hurts the financial bottom line. That's far more valuable to Tassie than us.

All in all, the leaking of apparent lack of interest to me just sounds like a guy making sure he's saving face for the strong likelihood we hire one of the assistants instead.

That's how I read it, too.

Those treating this as a fait accompli are well off the mark (thankfully).

For me it isn't whether Buckley is the best person.

The issue is the unbecoming way the AFL is putting lots of mayo on the Tassie job to stop him joining mfc (if he is offered it). And to create a blatant campaign by Caroline Wilson is very poor.

Also, I'm not fussed that he hasn't won a premiership. Right now regular top 4, PF, occasional GF are looking pretty good to me!

37 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Tassie pulling out all stops to get Buckley involved next year.

AFL appears to bring fwd VFL and VFLW start up to 2026

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They are also dangling a carrot:

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"But in the background, the Devils are also dangling the keys.

"The opportunity to be Tasmania's first senior coach will be on Buckley's mind, with the possibility of a flexible start-up plan next year allowing for his media commitments before taking on the role permanently down the track ahead of the Devils' proposed 2028 start in the AFL".

"...its start-up list rules should be officially announced later this month and it is getting more commercial support off-field and adding staff internally'.

tbh, I find the AFL's campaign effectively working against MFC's interest very distasteful. They have sunk to a new low imv.

Its the AFL way. How many times has our club been shafted in the last decade. It continues to amaze me how we dont go full offensive on here. I would hope that Smith and Guerra are a bit more experienced in dealing with these [censored] bags and know how in time to fire a few back at the AFL.

8 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

Its the AFL way. How many times has our club been shafted in the last decade. It continues to amaze me how we dont go full offensive on here. I would hope that Smith and Guerra are a bit more experienced in dealing with these [censored] bags and know how in time to fire a few back at the AFL.

Was always going to happen. Even with three Hawthorn footprint in Tassie, Collingwood has a HUGE support base there. Getting Buckley on was always a priority.

On 07/09/2025 at 17:02, dazzledavey36 said:

1 hour ago, sisso said:

I'm not convinced Buckley is the best person for the job, not sure why he's so favoured....the way he waffles on bores me, I hope he's a more inspiring an orator when he gets in front of the playing group if we do end up going with him

This is why we can't have nice things.

(Insert head in hand emoji).

All the rats are up and about sticking the knife in.

I cannot believe what a horrible shady organisation the AFL is.

They shafted us all year, and when we reacted by saying the truth, they get grubby Media Hacks to do their dirty work. No wonder all football contacts I know, think the AFL is a compromised body and should bear the brunt of a Commission investigation asap, with heads to roll, and I would suggest to MFC to pursue a meddling aspect to this whole, ugly now, business.

4 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

It would be a shock if a potential coach didn't do a 'stack of research'!

Nothing to back up his opnion - not even a reference to a rumour or 'parties not authorised to speak'.

He has no idea!

Its a perfect example of the media 'echo chamber'!!

Danny bloody Edmund trying to impose his opinions on the process, I love the term ‘echo chamber’ 👍😁

24 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

All the rats are up and about sticking the knife in.

I cannot believe what a horrible shady organisation the AFL is.

They shafted us all year, and when we reacted by saying the truth, they get grubby Media Hacks to do their dirty work. No wonder all football contacts I know, think the AFL is a compromised body and should bear the brunt of a Commission investigation asap, with heads to roll, and I would suggest to MFC to pursue a meddling aspect to this whole, ugly now, business.

What on earth are you talking about?

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

What on earth are you talking about?

You are entitled to your opinion that nothing detrimental to our Club is taking place and nothing unfair has happened to us this year.

5 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

What on earth are you talking about?

In some ways I envy you Dazzledavey36.

4 hours ago, Abyssal said:

The first and only timed I cried at the football. I was in my 30’s.

Sitting in the car for an 1 hour waiting to exit the car park didn’t help much either.

I was coming back from the country on a bus. I had to crouch on my seat as the speaker was in the roof and reception was poor. When we jumped in the cab at the bus depot in Melbourne all over the cabbies radio they were barracking for Melbourne. We arrived home at my mates house and listened to the last 15 or so minutes on the radio. The rest is history. I must have watched the vhs 25 times at least. What a month of footy that was.

3 hours ago, sisso said:

I'm not convinced Buckley is the best person for the job, not sure why he's so favoured....the way he waffles on bores me, I hope he's a more inspiring an orator when he gets in front of the playing group if we do end up going with him

Obviously you have never listened to Goodwin then...

The old classic, do a 90 minute interview with days of prep leading in for a job you don’t even want trick. Ah Nathan Buckley and his classic pranks.

2 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

Bucks wants the job, he wouldn't have stayed in this long if he didn't.

But he's now squaring off with the best assistants in the league especially those from Collingwood and Geelong who have spent 60 or so hours a week for the last 4 years on the cutting edge of innovation.

Meanwhile Bucks has been mucking around on Best On Ground and getting Whateley brained on SEN.

He has the advantage of experience but it's hard to know just what that provides us. His media profile likely helps us little, if anything we would do well to be decidedly out of the spotlight for a while, even if that hurts the financial bottom line. That's far more valuable to Tassie than us.

All in all, the leaking of apparent lack of interest to me just sounds like a guy making sure he's saving face for the strong likelihood we hire one of the assistants instead.

Agree with your summation, mostly.

Except Goodwin, for all his faults, was a good technician. He has multiple innovations in the game that are attributable to him. The problem imo was that he throttled the player's natural abilities to fit his system. An assistant will come with their innovations and systems, but that wasn't lacking with Goodwin.

I see the board choosing Buckley for the reason alone that he'd lean more into each player and their gifts, Geelong do this well. His media ability is the other major positive and a change from Goodwin - a strong voice and a more mature Buckley second time around is a brand the club needs.

As you said, he's been mucking around on Best on Ground and spending time with Whateley. If anyone thinks the man is not desperate to coach, and desperate to coach us, they're either insane or have an agenda.

The Next Coach Information scoreboard looks very interesting:

Facts: 2

Rumour, innuendo, groundless speculation, inflated opinion, and journalist bile 14,753

16 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

But I thought he wasn’t interested in the coaching gig!!

Can’t wait for this to be over.

I hope Buckley keeps a record of all his phone calls in the last month for his book on how many flags he got for us.

4 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

I hope Buckley keeps a record of all his phone calls in the last month for his book on how many flags he got for us.

Maybe he can thank Caroline Wilson for the recommendation to go to tassie when he’s holding up a cup for Melbourne and tassie are last?

56 minutes ago, demon3165 said:

Obviously you have never listened to Goodwin then...

I did.

Did anyone watch on the couch? What did bucks say about today?