Buckley’s commentary is a good insight to his thinking. I’m happy to have him as our coach. He understands the game. He knows the pressure. I think he’d be highly motivated and respected. Get him in. 4 year deal gets it done.

Is Whitford any chance of being looked at as a candidate?

Has good pedigree / experience in winning flags with Nth Launceston, the senior assistamt during the 2022 flag for Casey etc and getting them into the finals from nowhere this season.

Has got the Casey boys well sorted. Almost everyone knows their role on the day. They are desperate and run in waves for each other on the sling shot turnovers. Defend extremely well in most cases as well.

Could do alot worse imv.

Edited Sunday at 12:201 day by Demon Dynasty

The coach should be asked firstly how you'd fix our forward line in the fact we deliver the ball properly & how'd you get them to lead separately than all go to the one spot.

8 hours ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Is Whitford any chance of being looked at as a candidate?

Has good pedigree / experience in winning flags with Nth Launceston, the senior assistamt during the 2022 flag for Casey etc and getting them into the finals from nowhere this season.

Has got the Casey boys well sorted. Almost everyone knows their role on the day. They are desperate and run in waves for each other on the sling shot turnovers. Defend extremely well in most cases as well.

Could do alot worse imv.

I wouldn't think so.

He would need to have had at a minimum senior (AFL) assistant coaching experience.

Edited Sunday at 20:591 day by rjay

1 hour ago, dees189227 said:

The coach should be asked firstly how you'd fix our forward line in the fact we deliver the ball properly & how'd you get them to lead separately than all go to the one spot.

Now this is the $64 question. But perhaps a better question as opposed how are you going to 'fix' something...is... What are you going to BUILD and how are are you going to do it ??

For mine its the latter.

Need to build an essentially new team. This ones worn out. There is the semblance of a new order coming through and imho that's what you take and build upon.

Getting the duct tape out and slapping it around ... nahh !!

I want a coach to create a new era side.

Edited Sunday at 22:011 day by beelzebub

11 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Just heard Bucks say on commentary "I think expected score is a waste of time" 👏

I heard that too and thought it was very interesting. Wonder what the thought processes of the players would be if a new coach came in saying that, I know Max has commented in the past that Goodwin's focus on expected score did his head in sometimes (after the 23 finals series?)

Edited Sunday at 22:341 day by Dr. Gonzo

11 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Just heard Bucks say on commentary "I think expected score is a waste of time"

Starting to warm to him.

If he said the same about disposal efficiency and mentioned that Eddie McGuire was a clownish, blustering [censored], I'd be giving him a ten-year contract.

Edited Sunday at 22:421 day by The Taciturn Demon

11 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Just heard Bucks say on commentary "I think expected score is a waste of time" 👏

Any link ? Cheers

Brendon Lade, James Kelly and Danny Daly formally spoken to.

Shortlist to be whittled down to 6 for further interviews.

Buckley, Enright and Skipworth the favourites for me. Giansiracusa the Smokey.

10 minutes ago, Dannyz said:

Brendon Lade, James Kelly and Danny Daly formally spoken to.

Shortlist to be whittled down to 6 for further interviews.

Buckley, Enright and Skipworth the favourites for me. Giansiracusa the Smokey.

I am the most confused little rpfc that ever did live…

Dannyz is up there with Chook in Perth as the ones with inside info to the club and is detailing what is the skeleton of a process.

Thank the football gods.

57 minutes ago, Dannyz said:

Brendon Lade, James Kelly and Danny Daly formally spoken to.

Shortlist to be whittled down to 6 for further interviews.

Buckley, Enright and Skipworth the favourites for me. Giansiracusa the Smokey.

Source? Or this is gut?

8 minutes ago, Red and Blue Flame said:

Source? Or this is gut?

Dannyz has a pretty long track record of inside Intel.

3 hours ago, rjay said:

I wouldn't think so.

He would need to have had at a minimum senior (AFL) assistant coaching experience.

Yep that's fair

1 hour ago, Dannyz said:

Brendon Lade, James Kelly and Danny Daly formally spoken to.

Shortlist to be whittled down to 6 for further interviews.

Buckley, Enright and Skipworth the favourites for me. Giansiracusa the Smokey.

Appreciate this then.

I am not sold on Skipwroth but would be happy with any of Buckley, Enright, Lade or Kelly. Not sure about Daly either - reeks of David Noble.

Spoke to an Essendon supporter who told me that Skipworth's coaching method is shouting and waving arms on the boundary. Similar to this guy:

2 hours ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

Starting to warm to him.

If he said the same about disposal efficiency and mentioned that Eddie McGuire was a clownish, blustering [censored], I'd be giving him a ten-year contract.

What is wrong with disposal efficiency?

I think that stat, for the most part,shows how skilled you are.

6 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

What is wrong with disposal efficiency?

I think that stat, for the most part,shows how skilled you are.

Like raw hitout totals, only useful as a guide, and then not a particulary useful one.

The issue with DE and Kicking Efficiency is they don't differentiate between positions, for example a half back flanker has way more easy sideways chips than an inside mid, whose possessions are alwayss ndet pressure.

Similary if one team us putting on a lot more pressure, lower DE might be a function of that pressure. Or not.

Better measures to get a sense of realise kicking and hanballing skills are turnovers, scores from turnover, goal kicking accuracy and clangers.

Glad it looks somewhat like a real process. They can get a lot of insight in to the list and the way it’s viewed across the league as well as different perspectives on coaching from the initial interviews.

1 hour ago, Dannyz said:

Giansiracusa the Smokey.

With Gob Bluth on the committee as well as our new CEO/essendon super fan I expect a current Essendon assistant will get a good look in.

If it’s not bucks, which I think it will be

Danny Daly as senior coach and cam Bruce as senior assistant would be a pretty strong second choice. raid the Brisbane lions

19 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

What is wrong with disposal efficiency?

I think that stat, for the most part,shows how skilled you are.

The way it's measured is fatally flawed. And that means you get results like this:

Disposal Efficiency in 2025:

Tom McDonald 85.3%

Ed Langdon 77.2%

Massimo D'Ambrosio 70.6%

Zach Merrett and Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera 68.8%

If it measured skill, the least skilful player in the league (with over 180 disposals for the season) would be Nate Caddy.

I don't even think it's somewhat useful or you can take something out of it. It's a complete junk stat.

7 minutes ago, Ted Lasso said:

If it’s not bucks, which I think it will be

Danny Daly as senior coach and cam Bruce as senior assistant would be a pretty strong second choice. raid the Brisbane lions

As long as they aren’t the coaching equivalents of Sharp and Fullarton

12 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

They can get a lot of insight in to the list and the way it’s viewed across the league

Absolutely crucial.

2 hours ago, Dannyz said:

Brendon Lade, James Kelly and Danny Daly formally spoken to.

Shortlist to be whittled down to 6 for further interviews.

Buckley, Enright and Skipworth the favourites for me. Giansiracusa the Smokey.

Good to see the club is going through a proper process rather than just giving someone the job.

I believe Enright has been promised the Saints job, although I'm sure he doesn't want to take his chances on a promise