1 minute ago, Adam The God said:

Ooooh, I like it. Kelly to Melbourne and Caulfield sorted. Reckon our club might have sorted that one itself, but who knows.

Maybe some special sauce perks like Goodwin and brayshaws salaries secretly popping outside of the soft cap and salary cap as well to smooth it over even further

37 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

I’m interested in examples of us taking them on

1. Seeking to have Brayshaw's salary removed from our cap. 2. The Mac Andrew debacle 3. The whole tanking saga was a stitch up. I could name another dozen.

If Buckley does indeed decide to take the Tassie gig, he'll forever be bashed by the likes of Cornes and other media personalities for giving up a real shot of success as he coaches a bunch of kids to 3-5 years of bottom two finishes before eventually being moved on just like every other foundation coach. It'll be an absolute disaster for him.

Just now, Sideshow Bob said:

1 hour ago, Engorged Onion said:

Step one: preliminary meetings with Buckley in early 2025.
Step two: politely turf Goodwin.
Step three: instead of fighting off Carlton or Essendon, we actually get ahead of the AFL itself to line up Buckley.

And then—because the AFL can’t help but meddle—they’re forced to offer up Caulfield as a home base, or other collateral or incentives, plus “mysteriously” help us land a fantastic coach (who, spoiler alert, isn’t even Buckley).

That’s not just doing a Steven Bradbury. That’s Steven Bradbury winning the Olympic gold, then being handed a lifetime supply of ice skates, and a Netflix doco deal by the IOC.

Maybe, just maybe… we actually know what we’re doing after all. 😆

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(for those that are too young ,or forgot...)

Yeah nah.

Bradbury was favourite for the Gold 4 years earlier and a similar crash gave it elsewhere. Apollo the favourite this time and all the other main skaters were wearing skates made by Bradbury. He was a gun and fully deserved his medal. Have been deadset against the overarching 'Bradbury theme' since the start. Battler that won due to everyone else crashing. The bloke was already a legend in the sport well before that moment and finally got his due after luck going against him previously.

/rant over carry on

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6 hours ago, 640MD said:

With these comments about how fantastic some of the other candidates are or presented. At least it’s a payback of sorts to them for having the guts to interview. No loss of credibility next time. If Buckley is the chosen one.

We have no coach but have moved on 7 players, it’s going to be shape up or piiss off.

And definitely a new look team. Go Dees

i distinctly remember reading that Mark Neeld's powerpoint presentation was amazing.

4 hours ago, Random Task said:

Kind of a bad look for Skipworth imo. Outside looking in it appears he didn't impress and bailed early knowing he won't get the job. Had he stuck around for an interview I'm sure a public presser would have complimented all candidates but now I'll, rightly or wrongly, view him as the weakest candidate of this crop of aspiring coaches.

I play golf weekly with a person who works in the sports management industry and is a coterie member at Carlton (and he is also my boss although in something completely different). There is a major thing going on with people knowing internally what might happen and the external 'public' optics. If someone comes out and says I put my hand up for job x while hearing via the inner circle of management teams that someone has likely been earmarked for the role then there is no career upside for putting their hand up. Whereas by coming out and saying you cant or are not interested in role x, everyone wins.

As an example if Horse had said 'yeah maybe im interested' and then Nathan Buckley comes in as prince charming all that does is suggest that Buckley was a better candidate than Horse. If however Horse is 50/50 and asks his manager what people in the industry are saying of his chances and they say Buckley is the leader by a fair bit he will just say 'i cant coach now, good bye' and all is well.

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2 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

If Buckley does indeed decide to take the Tassie gig, he'll forever be bashed by the likes of Cornes and other media personalities for giving up a real shot of success as he coaches a bunch of kids to 3-5 years of bottom two finishes before eventually being moved on just like every other foundation coach. It'll be an absolute disaster for him.

Buckley will only coach if he thinks there is a chance of a flag - remember he hasn’t won one yet and that is the driver. I’d say he’d be on a pretty cushy media pay packet so wouldn’t be motivated by that.

Tassie are not winning a flag let alone making finals in the first decade no matter how hard the AFL compromise the system.

2 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

If Buckley does indeed decide to take the Tassie gig, he'll forever be bashed by the likes of Cornes and other media personalities for giving up a real shot of success as he coaches a bunch of kids to 3-5 years of bottom two finishes before eventually being moved on just like every other foundation coach. It'll be an absolute disaster for him.

Cool!