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Cam Bruce to Melbourne?

dazzledavey36
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4 hours ago, D Rev said:

Love Jonesy but that coaching appointment was completely baffling

We simply did not have another choice. We lost Yze and McQualter. We poached one coach in Basset and had no more options.

Cannot forget we also elevated Sam Radford to midfield coach as well. Jones is just the stoppage coach.

I also think he was appointed in some way to mend and manage the relationships between Viney/Trac/Oliver/Gawn as Goodwin believed the old core would be successful once again.

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    20 hours ago, Bendigo_Demon said:

    I think we all acknowledge that one of our biggest issues is a lack of skill in all aspects of our game. Cam Bruce was an amazing accumulator of possessions when he played, but his kicking and handball skills were sub par. We need to build a culture of elite kicking, hand balling and decision making, and employ coaches who can introduce this culture. Not sure Cam Bruce is the man for that, even if he has many other good qualities.

    Don't think this is a culture issue. Club has put enormous time and resources into kicking skills and goal kicking. Grundy commented on how blown away he was at how much time was spent on this. Hasn't helped. It's the list.

    Baras once famously said to a player at 3/4 time Show me possessions and I'll shut up. This is going to be a case of show me the forwards and skilled players and shut up. No new coach is going to transform anything without the right list. And right now we don't have it. There's not going to be any magic pill no matter who they appoint, without that being fixed.

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    12 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    One of the alleged knocks on Buckley was that he didn't appreciate or connect very well with the flawed and second tier players.

    I'll speculate that one of the advantages for coaches like Clarkson, Sheedy, Fagan and Hardwick is that they understand the value of not only the not-perfect contributors, but also the stars and silky types who can do things they never could.

    I'd also argue Bruce understood it even in his playing days. Knew his limitations and knew which teammate to connect with. Although looking back the Daniher years were not wildly blessed with smooth operators or outright top rated players.

    This comment made me think of the incredible Nev Jetta.

    A second tier player that just made himself indispensable and one of my all time favourites. Solid as a rock.

    He's development coach at the pies.

    I reckon he'd be an awesome replacement for Chocco.

    That would be an awesome steal to get him back in some capacity

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    1 hour ago, Its Time for Another said:

    No new coach is going to transform anything without the right list. And right now we don't have it. There's not going to be any magic pill no matter who they appoint, without that being fixed.

    This.

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    18 hours ago, picket fence said:

    Gee I always liked Cameron the Bruce I think you are underestimating his goalkicking ability, I remember him vs Carlton in a final and he and Frank Green were huge!

    I was at that game, yes he was great, but I’m talking about his ability to hit targets under pressure, and that was his strong point.

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    Cal just said it's more than likely Cam Bruce stays at Brisbane. I mean, hardly blame him. Stacked midfield with F/S and NGA's galore to feed the next generations.

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    If you already have work there, it would be very hard to choose Melbourne over Brisbane.

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    On the MFC web pages. Redford has also decided to go home to Adelaide (I think)

    So that’s another coaching position open.

    I had not seen that mentioned on here apologies if it’s been discussed.

    Worst of times but the Best of times go Dee’s

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    While I’d be absolutely thrilled to have cam Bruce I do find it really strange we’d be trying to attract assistant coaches when we don’t even have a senior coach and presumably they’d want to bring their own team

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    3 minutes ago, Ted Lasso said:

    While I’d be absolutely thrilled to have cam Bruce I do find it really strange we’d be trying to attract assistant coaches when we don’t even have a senior coach and presumably they’d want to bring their own team

    Maybe we do have a coach and we’re already working through his plan?

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    Did anyone else think, "Ken Bruce has gone complete mad!" when they read the thread title?

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    10 minutes ago, praha said:

    Did anyone else think, "Ken Bruce has gone complete mad!" when they read the thread title?

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    9 hours ago, MurDoc516 said:

    Cal just said it's more than likely Cam Bruce stays at Brisbane. I mean, hardly blame him. Stacked midfield with F/S and NGA's galore to feed the next generations.

    It’s a timing issue more than quality of list.

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    1 hour ago, Ted Lasso said:

    While I’d be absolutely thrilled to have cam Bruce I do find it really strange we’d be trying to attract assistant coaches when we don’t even have a senior coach and presumably they’d want to bring their own team

    But we might have a senior Coach, who is already planning and implementing.

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    1 hour ago, The Jackson FIX said:

    Maybe we do have a coach and we’re already working through his plan?

    Sorry mate just saw your post after I repeated it.

    Great minds yeah.

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    37 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    But we might have a senior Coach, who is already planning and implementing.

    This is really the best hypothesis that can be made. Otherwise the people making these decisions are incompetent !

    Doing stuff they should not Cart before the horse stuff !

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    4 hours ago, 640MD said:

    On the MFC web pages. Redford has also decided to go home to Adelaide (I think)

    So that’s another coaching position open.

    I had not seen that mentioned on here apologies if it’s been discussed.

    Worst of times but the Best of times go Dee’s

    Radford. And going to WCE

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    2 hours ago, Redleg said:

    But we might have a senior Coach, who is already planning and implementing.

    See I wonder that too but then I think. If we could announce bucks tomorrow I don’t see why we would waste our time running a fake process which erodes trust in the industry. My guess is we think it’ll be bucks and we hope it is but we haven’t got a firm enough yes yet. Which does make some of our other decisions odd

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    4 hours ago, 640MD said:

    On the MFC web pages. Redford has also decided to go home to Adelaide (I think)

    So that’s another coaching position open.

    I had not seen that mentioned on here apologies if it’s been discussed.

    Worst of times but the Best of times go Dee’s

    He’s heading Westward to Wet Toast 640MD, already has a job.😁

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    If Bucks is actually already coach it'd be ridiculous if there's an announcement later today that some player he wanted to keep has been signed elsewhere and wouldn't have if he'd known about Bucks. Is this possible or is nothing set in stone till trade period?

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    4 hours ago, The Jackson FIX said:

    Maybe we do have a coach and we’re already working through his plan?

    Or maybe the good assistant coaches decide in the next week where they are going next year, or if they are going. We have to chew gum and walk at the same time.

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