This is so predictable (I haven’t opened the link):

https://x.com/3awisfootball/status/1966424495150825548?s=46&t=TxNWR8IQfpnCS5ZUkmzG9A

7 minutes ago, Sydney Pennski said:

Once Geelong comes to grips with the fact that King is handling its IP at the pointy end, I suspect they might have some second thoughts and let him go to Melbourne sooner rather than later.

Hopefully, he’ll take Max Holmes with him.

We can only wish

8 minutes ago, Sydney Pennski said:

Once Geelong comes to grips with the fact that King is handling its IP at the pointy end, I suspect they might have some second thoughts and let him go to Melbourne sooner rather than later.

After all the time he's spent at Geelong, you'd think that he already knows all there is to know. Hard to see how another couple of weeks will make a difference in that regard, it's not as if he's involved in trading/drafting.

1 minute ago, titan_uranus said:

This is so predictable (I haven’t opened the link):

https://x.com/3awisfootball/status/1966424495150825548?s=46&t=TxNWR8IQfpnCS5ZUkmzG9A

Ha ha ha it’s Sam Mcccccclure nuff said🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

We always planned to have a coach by the prelims.

Bucks was meeting Tassie next Tuesday and asked us to wait until Wednesday.

It doesn’t make a lot of sense that we wouldn’t wait until Wednesday if we really had Buckley number 1 on our list.

Maybe it was the tie breaker. Maybe King is happier to work with our current staff. But I’m not buying that we wouldn’t wait for a time that’s inside our arbitrary time period.

2 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

Ha ha ha it’s Sam Mcccccclure nuff said🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

He's ****ty he didn't break the news

2 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

Ha ha ha it’s Sam Mcccccclure nuff said🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Sour grapes by Sam. Justifying by saying that the Essendon and St Kilda current coaches didn't go through a coaching interviews - great examples there !

Bring on the door to new guys

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

22nd November but will be celebrated on 8th June in 2026.

Sorry, but that birthday is taken. By ME!

Per The Age: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/steven-king-appointed-demons-coach-in-shock-move-20250912-p5mulr.html

“Steven King’s outstanding presentation and “clarity” about how the Demons would play were key factors in his surprise choice as Melbourne’s new senior coach.

According to a separate source with knowledge of the discussions, Buckley had informed the Demons that he would be meeting with Tasmania Devils chief executive Brendon Gale next week.

Buckley had been the perceived favourite for the Melbourne job, and is now a frontrunner to be inaugural coach of the Devils, who are slated to enter the competition in 2028.

Guerra said King’s “presentation was a standout ... [he had] real clarity about how he wanted to play the game”.

Guerra told this masthead that King, a former Geelong captain and seasoned assistant coach with experience at the Cats (where he still works alongside Chris Scott), the Western Bulldogs and Gold Coast - would bring the Demons “a contemporary game plan from a successful program”.

And to me, most insightful:

“Asked how King matched Melbourne’s needs as a football club, Guerra said: “How do we be competitive and stay competitive.”

The new Melbourne CEO described the Demons’s aspirations: “We want to get competitive really quickly and then hopefully contending (for the premiership) in the not too distant future.”

6 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

This is so predictable (I haven’t opened the link):

https://x.com/3awisfootball/status/1966424495150825548?s=46&t=TxNWR8IQfpnCS5ZUkmzG9A

Bartel ripped him a new one. Complete banana split.

3 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Bartel ripped him a new one. Complete banana split.

Hopefully because hes signed up as well?

Some of the comments re Buckley are pretty ordinary. The fact that the club had him on the short list of 2 speaks to how the selection panel saw him in comparison to the other candidates. He clearly has a lot to offer, but equally as clearly, wasn't ready to commit. The question as to whether King or Buckley are the better choice is moot, we'll never know.

2 hours ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

The truth will come out one way or another.

Steven King either blew the selection panel away out of sight with his presentation and was always the clubs 1st pick or other factors were at play.

It sounds like Bucks was hedging his bets with Tassy and the MFC and may have not been the panels preferred choice.

Steven Smith has then come off the top rope and said were not holding out any longer for you Nathan to present your final input to the club.

Now quietly jog on Naif.

Is it possible Buckley was using the MFC interview as a practice run for the Tassy job?

What an absolute [censored] SM is. Making shiit up to justify his wrong prediction about Buckley being a Monty to win.

Sam Mcclure is a such a nuffie. i'm amazed he has a paid gig.

15 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

This is so predictable (I haven’t opened the link):

https://x.com/3awisfootball/status/1966424495150825548?s=46&t=TxNWR8IQfpnCS5ZUkmzG9A

I swear this club could come out and say they’re donating 10 million dollars to help find a cure for cancer and these hacks would find a reason to have a problem with it.

8 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

This is so predictable (I haven’t opened the link):

https://x.com/3awisfootball/status/1966424495150825548?s=46&t=TxNWR8IQfpnCS5ZUkmzG9A

The guy is legitimately suggesting we wanted Buckley more but didn’t ask him the question because he might say no. It’s nonsensical.

We literally said and this is confirmed by Buckley “if we offered you the job would you take it” he hesitated and we went with Steven king.

McClure is generally really average with his takes in my opinion but when what you’re saying doesn’t even make sense, you need to put your bias and ego aside and get back to following the facts now creating them in your own mind to suit your own narrative

13 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

We always planned to have a coach by the prelims.

Bucks was meeting Tassie next Tuesday and asked us to wait until Wednesday.

It doesn’t make a lot of sense that we wouldn’t wait until Wednesday if we really had Buckley number 1 on our list.

Maybe it was the tie breaker. Maybe King is happier to work with our current staff. But I’m not buying that we wouldn’t wait for a time that’s inside our arbitrary time period.

Seen this before. It tells me Bucks wasn't in the frame. Nothing to do with bucks looking elsewhere if we had our man.

Nice one Brad and team Well handled.

Let's move now. It's the fair thing to do for Buckley also letting him know early he's free to look elsewhere

3 hours ago, Demonland said:

The headlines are going to write themselves:

Steven King's Misery

Steven King's Horror Show

Steven King's Stand

Steven King's Salem's Lot

Steven King wins the big one!

Let’s Elope!

1 hour ago, bush demon said:

  1 hour ago, bush demon said:

  1 hour ago, bush demon said:

https://youtu.be/QZZA4c-7jV4?si=ErKdNSqS8RlZOx0t

  1 hour ago, bush demon said:

I was at that game in that pocket and heard the whack/crack when the boot connected. Sickening.

And now he'll be coaching the great Jeff white's son.

Full circle sort of.

4 minutes ago, bing181 said:

Some of the comments re Buckley are pretty ordinary. The fact that the club had him on the short list of 2 speaks to how the selection panel saw him in comparison to the other candidates. He clearly has a lot to offer, but equally as clearly, wasn't ready to commit. The question as to whether King or Buckley are the better choice is moot, we'll never know.

who cares about what anyone says about buckley.

he's just an ex-pies figjam who was only prepared to accept our offer if he had no better options

McClure is about McClure and nothing else, he says irrelevant attention seeking things to build his own profile. He is pure gutter journalism.

4 hours ago, binman said:

One small gripe - king in future olease refer to us THE oldest oldest professional sporting club in the world (I dont care if not true)

Do you think The Royal and Ancient counts?

11 minutes ago, BDA said:

Sam Mcclure is a such a nuffie. i'm amazed he has a paid gig.

He makes Troy McClure look like Mike Willesee.