3 hours ago, Demons11 said:

I heard today that Bucks was not even in the top 2 preferred candidates

Wonder who was and where you hear that? Surely they didn’t release a list to people.

3 hours ago, Demons11 said:

I heard today that Bucks was not even in the top 2 preferred candidates

Yep, was posted on here yesterday.

23 hours ago, Ted Lasso said:

Maynard is beyond forgiveness

Quite a different scenario to King’s reckless act, which unlike 💩#5 had no malice.

7 hours ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Wonder when they’ll decide on the assistant coaches in full?

I suspect that wheels are grinding busily below the surface.

And as for Buckley, may he freeze in the open air stadium in Hobart devoid of success for decades.

2 hours ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Does anyone know how Buckley's approach to coaching was couched and delivered? Did it rely heavily on statistics and planning or concentrated bombardment with speed and pressure. I never heard his coaching techniques, so I would be interested in how he tackled it on his first effort?

In his comments during the year about us and our games he would often say that 'they seem an unhappy club, Melbourne' and talked about our pressure or lack there-of at times. Generally had a lot to say that was positive about specific players and tactics.

4 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Is that because King's about a foot taller?

Seriously, I'm pleased we've gone with an experienced assistant rather than a recycled senior coach. The last recycled coach who coached a team to a premiership at his second go having not succeeded first time round was Malcolm Blight at Adelaide. And that was in the last millennium.

We'll never know (at least, I hope we won't because it would be a breach of confidentiality) but it would be very interesting to know what value the various members of the coaching selection panel brought to the process.

I still don't get this stand against recycled coaches. As long as they weren't hopeless i'd have thought five years as a senior coach was better than five as assistant. Blight went to Adelaide as a coach who nearly won a GF and as a player won the Brownlow and Magarey(?) medal. Buckley nearly.......

Anyway we didn't choose Buckley. I just know he may well been a great choice. Surely another recycled coach will emulate Blight some day.

4 minutes ago, Go Ds said:

I still don't get this stand against recycled coaches. As long as they weren't hopeless i'd have thought five years as a senior coach was better than five as assistant. Blight went to Adelaide as a coach who nearly won a GF and as a player won the Brownlow and Magarey(?) medal. Buckley nearly.......

if buckley does get the taswegian job, he'll have had 7 years between afl coaching gigs

quite the gap

I guess Buckley chose between coaching a real team and maybe winning a flag and a shed load of money and AFL handshakes

Process was too quick? if you can’t decide in 5 weeks if you want it, that’s your problem. Don’t put that on us

24 minutes ago, Go Ds said:

Surely another recycled coach will emulate Blight some day.

Only when a team/list capable of winning a flag appoints one. Which isn't the current situation, or even likely to be. The tendency is for experienced coaches to be appointed to struggling or at best, mid-table clubs.

5 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Is that because King's about a foot taller?

Seriously, I'm pleased we've gone with an experienced assistant rather than a recycled senior coach. The last recycled coach who coached a team to a premiership at his second go having not succeeded first time round was Malcolm Blight at Adelaide. And that was in the last millennium.

We'll never know (at least, I hope we won't because it would be a breach of confidentiality) but it would be very interesting to know what value the various members of the coaching selection panel brought to the process.

And how are we going to get that info and what matter of interest is it?

It was a unanimous decision I believe from the Coaching Panel so it seems 1/7th was the value from each of the members.

Happy ??? Ie One Vote each!!

Talk about wanting irrelevant information and yes we won’t know except what has come out about Guerra’s question to Buckley and Brad Greens public announcement to the press and us members via an email. Both seem quite appropriate actions.

1 hour ago, whatwhat say what said:

if buckley does get the taswegian job, he'll have had 7 years between afl coaching gigs

quite the gap

agree, he’s already right on the cusp of having too long a gap between coaching jobs. It’s one of the reasons I was never 100% on him

It’s not a stretch to see a Tasmania role turning into a Head of Football/Ambassador/Mentor role rather than the game day coach.

1 hour ago, DubDee said:

I guess Buckley chose between coaching a real team and maybe winning a flag and a shed load of money and AFL handshakes

Process was too quick? if you can’t decide in 5 weeks if you want it, that’s your problem. Don’t put that on us

Buckley is spinning it that he did not want to commit before talking to the Taswegians implying he knocked us back. However, others were prefered regardless. No need to rub his node in it at the monent.

2 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

if buckley does get the taswegian job, he'll have had 7 years between afl coaching gigs

quite the gap

Ok. But I was referring to Buckley coaching us after 4 and a half years or recycled coaches in general. I'm sure there is a cut-off point when a coach is obsolete but what is it? Bucks is obviously still watching lots of footy and some coach things such as leadership and establishing would probably never disappear. Anyway if a coach candidate is too far out of the loop surely they're not wowing the selection panel anyway.

8 hours ago, DubDee said:

I guess Buckley chose between coaching a real team and maybe winning a flag and a shed load of money and AFL handshakes

Process was too quick? if you can’t decide in 5 weeks if you want it, that’s your problem. Don’t put that on us

I don’t think we would have hired Buckley even if he was desperate for the job. The surprising thing for everyone is that Steven king seemingly did legitimately win the process and was the best candidate.

I liked Buckley coming on but not if he didn’t actually want the job or was only sort of keen.

8 hours ago, DubDee said:

I guess Buckley chose between coaching a real team and maybe winning a flag and a shed load of money and AFL handshakes

Process was too quick? if you can’t decide in 5 weeks if you want it, that’s your problem. Don’t put that on us

Truth be told I suspect it was nothing about 'speed' and everything about the proprietariness of the process.

I think any and all could have been forgiven for remembering who was in the driving seat. It was us.. not anyone else.

It was our prerogative to adjust as things became clearer and what became abundantly clear was not all were both feet in on this process. Bit like musical chairs... dont get caught out when the music stops. Buck's was. No soup for you. I wish him well with Tassie. He'll need it.

9 hours ago, DubDee said:

I guess Buckley chose between coaching a real team and maybe winning a flag and a shed load of money and AFL handshakes

Process was too quick? if you can’t decide in 5 weeks if you want it, that’s your problem. Don’t put that on us

Came on here to say the exact same thing. Since his name was first mentioned, he's kept rolling out this same line, that essentially he doesn't know if he wants to coach yet, still feeling his way through etc etc. I would have thought he's had plenty of time to get his head around it at this point.

Totally fair enough that he may just be trying to protect himself after being touted as the front runner. Maybe it's all just a bit of reputation protection, but it sounds like King well and truly blew them away and beat out Buckley fair and square.

Really excited for the appointment of King. Footy IQ, good character and person, plus hunger for a head coaching role, yes please.

9 hours ago, DubDee said:

I guess Buckley chose between coaching a real team and maybe winning a flag and a shed load of money and AFL handshakes

Process was too quick? if you can’t decide in 5 weeks if you want it, that’s your problem. Don’t put that on us

It was a lot longer than that we raised it with him, as reported. He has had months.

This is the excuse to save face and then accept Tassie.

This thread has become a bit like the Herald Sun articles announcing King as coach and all the other media surrounding his appointment. It's all about Buckley and Tassie.

I'm more interested in how King is going to have us play, how he can galvanise the group and how quickly (if at all), he can turn it around.

Given his extensive assistant coaching career, he will have connections all over the place, so provided the soft cap doesn't get in the way too much, he should be able to build a decent team around himself.

7 minutes ago, Redleg said:

It was a lot longer than that we raised it with him, as reported. He has had months.

This is the excuse to save face and then accept Tassie.

Exactly... he has a need to be instantly revisionist in order to redirect gaze.. He's no bunny but neither is Guerra

I've no real problem in him (NB) attempting such provided he understands no one needs believe him.

We weren't head-hunting him. He was invited into the selection. He chose to. He forgot, our bat, our ball.

Now he looks like he dithered and looks a bit of a goose.

I dont really care. I'm sure he'll cope.

We on the other hand have things to get on with. Roll on Sep 29

2 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

This thread has become a bit like the Herald Sun articles announcing King as coach and all the other media surrounding his appointment. It's all about Buckley and Tassie.

I'm more interested in how King is going to have us play, how he can galvanise the group and how quickly (if at all), he can turn it around.

Given his extensive assistant coaching career, he will have connections all over the place, so provided the soft cap doesn't get in the way too much, he should be able to build a decent team around himself.

Suspect we'll get a teaser when we more fully understand what the entire FD looks like.

I would hazard a guess that we will see a very aggressive and assertive game style in 2026. Built around winning and dominating clearance and giving our forwards first crack at kicking big scores

Guerra on radio this morning said that our aim, and what King spoke about in his interview, is to be more attacking, “defend with ball in hand”, and score 100+ each week, so that we’re more attractive to watch.

8 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

so that we’re more attractive to watch.

That will be nice to c, it’s been a while!

12 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Guerra on radio this morning said that our aim, and what King spoke about in his interview, is to be more attacking, “defend with ball in hand”, and score 100+ each week, so that we’re more attractive to watch.

Geee most on here worked that out 3 years ago!

Is it just me or is anyone else fed up with discussing NB? This is the Steven King thread. King won. NB lost. King was the best candidate. NB was not (and possibly not even second best for our Club). I could care less about some Tassie job that may or may not happen. This might have only factored into our consideration if NB was the preferred candidate. But he wasn’t so it didn’t.

NB may need to brush up on his presentation skills before tomorrow. Good luck SK. Well done MFC.

18 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Guerra on radio this morning said that our aim, and what King spoke about in his interview, is to be more attacking, “defend with ball in hand”, and score 100+ each week, so that we’re more attractive to watch.

Rignt! No pressure on King and co then 🙅🏻‍♀️

Hope that comment doesn't become a millstone like Pert's 'best culture he has seen in 40yrs'!