Anyone know if he starts immediately or will he finish the year at the cats

4 minutes ago, Garbo said:

Anyone know if he starts immediately or will he finish the year at the cats

Finish year with Cats.

That was a fun little chat eh....

Caro.... I'm gunna trap you .

PG. .. yeah.... nahhh...

Biggest takeaway of all this ...in my humblest view , is that all along the MFC did what was best for the MFC . This wasn't about buying into everyone's narrative . It was about solving a problem. This started with recognising what that was ( in terms of what's best , again, for the MFC ) and starting along the path to its solution. The path had a few twists and turns . The path had a few doggy doo landmines as well as some jerry built hurdles. All focus was kept on the prize, but eyes were also peeled for anything set to derail OUR process.

Result

MFC 1..... all the others ... O

Im truly encouraged not just by the selection but by ( trend appearing) the clarity of vision.

We're not going to play other's silly games we'll just concentrate on ours and hopefully that game, on the field is as adept as our game off the field ( is shaping ) .

Go Dees

2 hours ago, Superunknown said:

Would Love to hear it. Is there a link?

Chapeau!

Heard the interview. It's harder to think of a bigger fool in the football media than McClure. And he's got plenty of competition. Nothing he said made any sense. Lloyd and Bartel made a meal of him.

The more this sinks in, the better I feel about it.

Not only SK coming in, but not having Buckley at head coach.

I'm absolutely pumped for next season!

Let's hope we get Bartel and a few others in shortly

10 hours ago, Ted Lasso said:

he’s still absolutely jacked! Might have to slot him in at full forward as a playing coach yet

He can sit behind the goal umpire and take hangers

21 hours ago, Supreme_Demon said:

I am still angry about this [censored] stupid decision appointing some 2nd rate dud who only ended up coach of the Demons because nobody else seemed interested enough! How [censored] embarrassing!

Adam Simpson, John Longmire, and Hayden Skipworth not interested at all! Nathan Buckley only having lukewarm interest. Why?! Are we that much of a basket case?!

This is like Dean Bailey in 2007 or Mark Neeld in 2011 all over again!

By all means, continue to laugh it up at me. I don't give a flying [censored]. I am entitled to my opinion and I am allowed to disagree with others. We will see who is right in the long run! If I am wrong, I will happily eat my own words with chocolate sauce on them! But my gut tells me this has been a huge mistake!

Hopefully, at the very least, we appoint a senior assistant like Ken Hinkley or someone else to help support Steven King. Otherwise, he will be absolutely thrown in the deep end.

What a total laughing stock our Club is. I have been a Melbourne Demons member for over 26+ years and besides our Premiership in 2021, it's been nothing but disappointment and frustration!

Anyway, I am done. I am still far too angry at this stupid decision by the Melbourne Football Club. I am going to have a break for a long while until we get the [censored] homebase finally built at Caulfield Racecourse! If we can't do that the Club may as well [censored] fold!

Nah! I'm proud that MFC stared down Buckley and his press club mates and did it their way in their own good time.

13 hours ago, Redleg said:

From around the traps and looking logically, when Graham Wright had that discussion with Bucks at Collingwood which led to his “ resigning “ , it was likely because as with most ex coaches, he had lost the players,

Bucks even said the message had become stale and a new voice was needed. Sound familiar?

Until I see firm evidence to the contrary though, I believe Bucks had the job, the AFL came hard with a massive offer and Bucks accepted it and then gave answers that basically eliminated him. Saying you are seeing another club and won’t commit until after that meeting would eliminate any candidate.

Anyone want to predict Bucks won’t be Coach of Tassie now? The yachts are sailing up the Derwent as someone posted. Bucks will be announced as Tassie Coach without a process in the next few months.

Maybe we got the better Coach, hopefully that is the case.

I just hope the AFL is compensating us for what I perceive as their interference in our process. Candidates withdrew because they believed Bucks had the job. Sure it is the Tassie consortium, but we know who is behind them,

10 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

I really think, horrible as it was, it is time to put what was a very reckless, high impact, high (but not deliberate or malicious) contact behind us. Yes, he should have been suspended, but I feel more anger at his coach at the time, Thompson, who seemed to think it was quite amusing.

Jeff appears to have shown his class and done so.

11 minutes ago, monoccular said:

I really think, horrible as it was, it is time to put what was a very reckless, high impact, high (but not deliberate or malicious) contact behind us. Yes, he should have been suspended, but I feel more anger at his coach at the time, Thompson, who seemed to think it was quite amusing.

Jeff appears to have shown his class and done so.

Maynard is beyond forgiveness

Have a great contact at Geelong who has worked in the football department for around 10 years. Spoke to him today and he couldn’t have spoken more highly about Steven King.

Says he’s a ripper of a bloke, but he’s also a hard man with very high standards. Said he sees the game as good as anyone he’s ever dealt with. He said Dees have made a great choice

By the way, he said James Kelly probably has the personality for a senior coach, but he doesn’t see the game anywhere near as well as Kingy

Stated that there is a big gap today between those two candidates.

1 minute ago, goodwindees said:

Have a great contact at Geelong who has worked in the football department for around 10 years. Spoke to him today and he couldn’t have spoken more highly about Steven King.

Says he’s a ripper of a bloke, but he’s also a hard man with very high standards. Said he sees the game as good as anyone he’s ever dealt with. He said Dees have made a great choice

By the way, he said James Kelly probably has the personality for a senior coach, but he doesn’t see the game anywhere near as well as Kingy

Stated that there is a big gap today between those two candidates.

Good Intel.

Going to be strange see King celebrate a potential premiership 5 minutes before he takes over the reigns.

Geelong are a professional unit and we’re not in a position to rock the boat, but I still think there’s a very outside chance he parts company with Geelong next week. No info, just my opinion.

On 12/09/2025 at 19:15, 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.

I haven’t been through all pages, but I can categorically say Buckley was NOT in the final two candidates.

Coming around to believing we have THE best man for the job. I really applaud the club for doing this process fully. Despite the dribble from the usual media ratbags I saw a professional club in action.

The only question mark I have is that his family has moved to the gold coast I believe? I read somewhere he stayed to see if he could land the job. Coaching is one of the highest pressure positions you can have…anyone with any info at all re how he can make this work with his family?

5 hours ago, BLWNBA said:

I haven’t been through all pages, but I can categorically say Buckley was NOT in the final two candidates.

intersting indeed. your opinion or information?

6 hours ago, BLWNBA said:

I haven’t been through all pages, but I can categorically say Buckley was NOT in the final two candidates.

Why was it only he and King were invited back for second interviews on Thursday and the decision ratified by the board Thursday night?

Oh boy, some real Annie Hall vibes coming through here

1 hour ago, Dannyz said:

Why was it only he and King were invited back for second interviews on Thursday and the decision ratified by the board Thursday night?

That was what I'd understood. Wasn't it Buckley himself who said on the Friday night broadcast that he'd been called back on Thursday?

21 hours ago, SFebes said:

1 Premiership as Captain

21 hours ago, SFebes said:

1 Premiership as Captain

Um, really?

19 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Thanks for posting that . Our CEO makes it very clear that Steven King was the man they wanted & gave the reasons why. So basically we don’t need to wonder about Buckley ..the media and all “their reasons”. Our club has in their words “got their man”.

On 12/09/2025 at 15:01, Lucifers Hero said:

A nice start from hiim:

“Melbourne has a rich history, and I feel very humbled to be given this opportunity at one of the oldest professional sporting clubs in the world,” King said. “I can’t wait to meet the playing group, my fellow coaches, the staff, and the Demon faithful, and start building towards 2026.”

htking-of-the-castle-melbourne-demons-appoint-geelong-cats-assistant-steven-king-as-coach

And yet we must wait while he completes the finals campaign with the cats.

I fully support him and must wait to see what he brings and how he relates to Ghostwriter. The most significant contact.

On 12/09/2025 at 15:06, OhMyDees said:

Very disappointed - don’t think King is better than Buckley but time will tell. AFL got what they wanted.

Hope thats correct and this decision improves our media and especially relationship with MRO and officiating personnel

I think some praise should go to the new CEO. In that 3AW interview, he spoke so well, was polite to Caro and answered all the questions with a straight bat. He left no room for ambiguity or clickbait for the likes of Caro & McClure.

Trac & Clarry - King sees them in our best 25 and have long contracts.

King wanted the job and was our first choice. Cop that

Both he and Steve Smith were part of the process that sanctioned sacking the coach. Smith, as a board member and the CEO, even though he hadn't started yet. He wanted it made very clear that he and Smith were part of the process

The panel liked King's vision for our game style. Not a lot is wrong, but some tweaks can be made to bring our game style up to modern needs. This is the advantage of having appointed a new coach active in the current footy environment. Ther IMO has to be some doubt with Buckley as he has been out of the system for a few years and he wanted to see what Tassie offered him next Tuesday

Wow if he keeps this up, the journo's will have nothing to speculate about, Demonland will have nothing to gossip about, and our football club will get on with playing footy

9 minutes ago, Older demon said:

I think some praise should go to the new CEO. In that 3AW interview, he spoke so well, was polite to Caro and answered all the questions with a straight bat. He left no room for ambiguity or clickbait for the likes of Caro & McClure.

Trac & Clarry - King sees them in our best 25 and have long contracts.

King wanted the job and was our first choice. Cop that

Both he and Steve Smith were part of the process that sanctioned sacking the coach. Smith, as a board member and the CEO, even though he hadn't started yet. He wanted it made very clear that he and Smith were part of the process

The panel liked King's vision for our game style. Not a lot is wrong, but some tweaks can be made to bring our game style up to modern needs. This is the advantage of having appointed a new coach active in the current footy environment. Ther IMO has to be some doubt with Buckley as he has been out of the system for a few years and he wanted to see what Tassie offered him next Tuesday

Wow if he keeps this up, the journo's will have nothing to speculate about, Demonland will have nothing to gossip about, and our football club will get on with playing footy

You mean like when Jackson was on board?

Good times!