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.