1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

How so?

I reckon he is the most stubborn bloke in footy. I’m a soccer guy and I liken him to one of my heroes Roy Keane. Such a dedicated professional that doesn’t understand why everyone else isn’t devoted to the game all day every day.

Bucks had the best years of Pendlebury, Sidebottom. When he took over there was Dane Swan, Heath Shaw, Daisy, Ball, Cloke, Jolly etc etc. He came in, said there was culture problems, (that Malthouse had been able to handle) and decided to rebuild a ready made premiership team. He got rid of the guys he didn’t like.

Then won zero finals for the next 5 years. Then in fairness he did very well to build a team that almost won it.

Those 5 years fans were begging him to do something different, change his style, but he never wavered. My belief is he wanted to win a flag that was his, not on the back of Malthouse. If he was not a club legend he would have been sacked in 2016 - Goodwin style

That’s not to say I think he is a bad choice. I’ll back him and hope he’s learned from his mistakes.

13 hours ago, Standard Deviation said:

Demonland presents Schrodinger's coach : the veteran coach who is obviously still hungry for glory while at the same time will promptly decline any coaching position he has to go through a standard process for.

I don't mind the club sounding out potentials, but in recent times clubs courting coaches (Lyon, Clarkson) hasn't led to success. I don't believe Buckley is the man, but if he is then he should go through the same process as an assistant at another club who is hungry, if only to prove that he wants the job and has the new ideas needed - it's easy to point out the flaws from the outside, 2/3rd of this forum can see what's going wrong with the team, doesn't mean he can fix them.

If the club runs a proper process and Bucks is the choice, then I'll be much more confident in him than I am now. I've still yet to see the logic as to why we need a veteran coach though, in recent years the path to success has been through former assistants with new ideas.

Someone further up the chain here made the comment there's a few posters regretting wanting Goodwin gone with some of the alternatives being offered, even if we end up with Buckley I'm not going to be one of those. My impression of the team's direction was we'd continue to bob around between 9th and 14th for a few years before retirements had the wheels come off, bleeding supporters as we did so. I'd rather take the risk of blowing it up quickly and starting again than just watch us slowly decline.

Surprised it's that high.

3 hours ago, NeveroddoreveN said:

I don't think Simon read the room.

I made this precise observation a few months ago. Also wrote an article in support of this position that was published on The Roar. In the end, the man's grip on reality was tenuous at best. The board no doubt could see this as well. A tragedy of near Shakespearean proportions.

3 hours ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Caroline Richmond would be in that unique group of Media sycophants that indulges in revengeful spite for a living. She would object to Buckley or even Hird, not on the grounds of non capability, just on the secret overarching thought that they just might be successful, as if the were her Dolls to play with and no one else's.

She throws the dolls out of the cot all to often. She needs a jolly good sp$%^ing.

2 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Bucks is definitely throwing his hat into the ring based on what he's said on the couch. I think the board will have to sell to him a bit about the training base plans and board stability.

Bucks' analysis on the Pies problem was excellent btw.

I also thought Lewis's comments were interesting. He's always very measured but he often gives you a good little insight into Melb. I think there's still a bit of immaturity in the locker room and players were becoming too comfortable with Goody as he was everyone's friend.

Someone who has that balance of empathy and care but someone you always know who's boss is what they need.

Agree with your observations about On the Couch @At the break of Gawn. For me, the most interesting part of JIGJAM's stream of consciousness were his musings on the TPP. I recon this is the biggest tripwire to landing the best candidate quite frankly.

1 hour ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Agree with your observations about On the Couch @At the break of Gawn. For me, the most interesting part of JIGJAM's stream of consciousness were his musings on the TPP. I recon this is the biggest tripwire to landing the best candidate quite frankly.

That also pricked my ears up a bit.

Does anyone on this forum know with any great authority where our cap space is or isn't?

Know we've got some stars tided up on long term contracts, but is it possible that we've actually been able to shift stuff around a bit TPP wise, particularly with that bit of relief we were given for Gus (i.e. did it allow us to bring any back ended payments forward? etc)