5 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

A genuine surprise. Very impressed that this was not leaked ahead of time.

Last I heard it was between, Bucks, Kelly or Lade but I guess the media was guessing just as much as we were (surprise, surprise)

Love them or hate them, Geelong have been the AFL benchmark in the 2000's. I think King will be good for us (fingers crossed anyway!)

No doubt Bucks was in the 'yes, pending better offer' camp. I can see why we didn't go down that direction.

Maybe ‘we’ don’t leak after all…

I'm actually happy we didn't get Buckley. Seemed less likely by the day and with every article by Caroline Wilson, or by the AFL about Tassie. Timing seemed very peculiar. At least King has been recently active in coaching.

I for one would like to thank the club for giving my brother the opportunity to send me 'evil clown face' gifs with no context.

Just now, Jaded No More said:

My god this place is unbearable.

FFS if Buckley was not 100% committed he wasn't the right guy.

There were lots of questions marks around him, both with his average coaching history, the time he spent away from the game, and his desire to do the job. But of course the usual suspects are bitching and moaning, because the media TOLD THEM Buckley is the man, and now that he isn't, it must be because we are a basket case and not because, wait for it, Buckley just wasn't that impressive or that committed to the job.

If you hate this club and think everything we do is so bad, please just put yourself and the rest of us out of your misery and leave.

"Was Buckley the wrong guy?"

Edited September 12, 2025Sep 12 by layzie

Premiership player at Geelong in 2007, Premiership assistant coach at WB in 2016. Knows how to win them, not just chase them

1 hour ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Bout time we started asking...

Is Kingy the Right Guy??

I think he is too close to the players😉

Just now, layzie said:

We live to fight another day Roy!

Encountered this when Amorim was appointed at United, 8 months younger than I, that did not make sense.

It’s another Neeld appointment, it’ll be a disaster, membership will drop by 10,000, we won’t get to 50,000 next year, it’s just a bad choice

Not sure what his style is but I’m looking forward to finding out

I played footy against Kings school in ‘96 when he was already drafted to Geelong. The Cats wouldn’t let him play in the school footy team, but he was very chirpy from the sidelines.

It’s only been 30 years, so he has some work to do to win me back over.

Having a 10 year coach isn’t a prerequisite in my view and anyway we don’t have King probably until the GF weekend anyway. We would have lost nothing by waiting.

Just now, Dave1711 said:

It’s another Neeld appointment, it’ll be a disaster, membership will drop by 10,000, we won’t get to 50,000 next year, it’s just a bad choice

Can I have next week’s Tattslotto numbers?

We're going to need a dedicated thread just for horror gifs and random Demon King comments.

Is this the beginning of the end for the no-ts-no-bs thread? How much overt silliness can one footy forum retain?

It has restored some faith to see the football club act in unity, with effectively zero internal leaks regarding this process. Massive credit to the board for finally giving some stability and direction to the club.

Looking forward to the presser.

Just now, Little Goffy said:

We're going to need a dedicated thread just for horror gifs and random Demon King comments.

Is this the beginning of the end for the no-ts-no-bs thread? How much overt silliness can one footy forum retain?

I think any aspect of life needs a serious-nonsense/silly balance. So bring it on.

Welcome Steven. Please be the ‘new voice’ that we have been craving. ❤️💙

4 minutes ago, Dave1711 said:

It’s another Neeld appointment, it’ll be a disaster, membership will drop by 10,000, we won’t get to 50,000 next year, it’s just a bad choice

Have a good weekend bud

6 minutes ago, layzie said:

"Was Buckley the wrong guy?"

Ooooh but wait till Buckley's Tasmania starts crushing all before it.

'We missed the chance...' etc etc.

I like we didn't go with the safe option of Buckley. King has been captain of Geelong and a premiership player. He's been at a few clubs for experience & learnt off some of the best.

Gee the media were certain it was bucks.

New CEO has started & there wasn't a leak.

I thought we'd have to wait a couple more weeks. Did they just have the 1 interview?

Not going to lie, part of me wanted bucks so if we had success it would annoy the pies fans & Ed

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1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Had a 2-5 record at the Suns as caretaker.

Gerard Healy has been raving about his credentials for a good 2 years now (and I always tuned out as to the reason why).

Not critical of the decision, but I find it a bit odd that he'll still be coaching Geelong, but good luck to him in his flag endeavours with the Cats. Don't we need a coach hands on deck to sort out list management?

He's on deck in 15 days. Not a problem

'King stoked !!!

So 1 premiership & how many GF's, is it 3? Knows what it takes.

I had come round to Buckley in a big way, but if he wasn’t ready to commit to the club this late into the process then he wasn’t the right choice

Congratulations to King, who has done a great apprenticeship under some of the best coaches of the modern era

Hope he can follow the recent trend of guys like McCrae and Kingsley who can come in and make an impact early

2 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

I like we didn't go with the safe option of Buckley. King has been captain of Geelong and a premiership player. He's been at a few clubs for experience & learnt off some of the best.

Gee the media were certain it was bucks.

New CEO has started & there wasn't a leak.

I thought we'd have to wait a couple more weeks. Did they just have the 1 interview?

great points on confidentiality of process.

Happy with appointment. Can he get Bartel now I wonder?

8 minutes ago, Dave1711 said:

It’s another Neeld appointment, it’ll be a disaster, membership will drop by 10,000, we won’t get to 50,000 next year, it’s just a bad choice

Who was your pick as coach?