DemonFrog

On 14/09/2025 at 07:35, dpositive said:

The Age article quotes KIng as saying he "cant wait to meet" players coaches etc. And yet he is involved in the Geelong finals campaign so we are, and must all wait.

Hope communication can be improved

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I am very happy with the appointment and dont expect him or the club to reveal the plans, strategies, programs, Etc that he will bring. I will certainly judge him on results and hope he can get the results from our list that is possible. Strength and confidence are two issues that must be addressed.

We had to wait for the new CEO, so why not also wait for the new Senior Coach?

IMO our new appointments don't seem to prioritise Melbourne. But I guess the 2026 AFL season will show if the right decisions 🤔 have been made.

Great news! He is a coach I can fully support. Bananas 🍌 for everyone 😀

20 minutes ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

You also got your "no C$&!(# people" wish ... 🤣

True, I wanted Goodwin gone. In my view we needed new leadership. But now I worried we are about to get more ex Collingwood staff. That never ends well for us.

On 09/09/2025 at 14:26, redandbluemakepurple said:

Like when MFC went out in straight sets. We were usually within x amount of points but still gutted. BRING BACK GOODWIN!!

I don't think Goodwin is coming back.

4 minutes ago, Redleg said:

I think you are going to be disappointed then.

Will not be the first time, Red.

1 hour ago, Redleg said:

Not sure about discounting someone from another club for that reason alone.

That discounts 17-18ths of the available candidates to clubs for Coaching appointments.

The Pies last 3 flags were Coached by non Pies people, who would have hated them when they played at their clubs.

As long as the new coach doesn't come from either Collingwood or Essendon, I don't really care about their previous club associations.

As regards to Collingwood, I give you Mark Needle. IMO nothing more needs to be said.

On 08/09/2025 at 06:10, Redleg said:

He was one free kick or missed kick by Sheed from being a Premiership Coach.

Ross Lyon has had three stints and is so far unsuccessful. Is he a good Coach? Bevo has won one flag, when everything went his way, especially including the umpiring in one year and has failed with good player lists every other year, is he a successful Coach. Fagan has one flag with a team full of stars and multiple benefits provided to his club, is he a successful Coach?

Longmire and Simmo each only had one flag and many failures, are they successful Coaches?

Not sure there are that many successful Coaches available, other than maybe Sheedy, Pagan and Malthouse.

You make some good points

On 08/09/2025 at 06:10, Redleg said:

He was one free kick or missed kick by Sheed from being a Premiership Coach.

Ross Lyon has had three stints and is so far unsuccessful. Is he a good Coach? Bevo has won one flag, when everything went his way, especially including the umpiring in one year and has failed with good player lists every other year, is he a successful Coach. Fagan has one flag with a team full of stars and multiple benefits provided to his club, is he a successful Coach?

Longmire and Simmo each only had one flag and many failures, are they successful Coaches?

Not sure there are that many successful Coaches available, other than maybe Sheedy, Pagan and Malthouse.

Playing a Grandfinal against the Eagles on Collingwood's home ground must be worth a three or four goal headstart! That one of the major advantages the Melbourne based AFL teams has in winning a premiership. As a Melbourne supporter I can accept this advantage, although Melbourne has not won a premiership at the G in the past 61 seasons. But that another issue.

Buckley's biggest claim to fan was he lost a Grandfinal by under a goal. Well in football there is no prizes for coming second, it's winner takes all.

The same argument could be made about the Eagles having an extra free kick in front of goals or a point becomes a goal, then they win by 12 or more points. It's football, there is a certain amount of luck involved in the outcome. Fortune favours the brave.

I just a simple country boy from the West, who wants Melbourne to win every Grandfinal it can. I can't see that happening if we recruit more coaches etc. from Collingwood, particularly Nathan Buckley who is a rusted on Collingwood supporter. IMO Collingwood underperformed during his time as their head coach, that's why they got rid of him.

Real success in the AFL is the number of premierships a club/coach/player can win. Unfortunately, Melbourne has only won one premiership in the past 61 seasons. However, I feel the Melbourne board considers success as playing finals football, that is why we are looking for a new head coach.

So we are interviewing six candidates for our Senior Coach, one of the candidates is Nathan Buckley. The club wants someone with atleast eight years experience at a state league or AFL level.

It appears the club is not looking for successful coaches as they are interviewing Nathan Buckley 🤔 He only ever lost a Grandfinal to the Eagles. Our recent track record with recruitment from Collingwood has been a disaster 😕

I starting to feel this is another John Todd moment to me.

16 hours ago, Redleg said:

I feel somewhat ashamed to reveal this, but I have had matcha lattes in the last few days, as I heard matcha possesses several health benefits.

I have not forsaken the banana, as it holds a scared place in my daily life, but I have broadened my horizons somewhat and will now wait to see if the mooted benefits of matcha are in fact true.

One day you accept Mactcha Drinks instead of Banana based ones, next thing you're a Collingwood supporter. Once you start down the dark side you don't know where it will end. It's better to stay in the light and not listen to others who are peddling misinformation.

27 minutes ago, dpositive said:

Well, there could be some merit in projecting long range plans to deny the reality of variables and trends which provide euphoric short term emotional succour arising from success. Resilience could be built on frustration, despair and failure, When aligned with one fleeting outlier of success the magnitude of joy is overwhelming. I hope the club is seeking funding for the variety of health academics who can quantify and analyse this innovative and bold initiative.

Such studies can be aligned with the effects of banana smoothies supply, distribution and quality variation. Demonland has been instrumental in providing the data base for this ground-breaking research. The full resources of AI ( I remind you that is Artificial Intelligence) can be applied in this fruitless examination, The full range of Dland commentators who have over the journey developed and displayed their expertise in any sort of intelligence are invited to contribute. Of course most interest and controversy will be engendered from the artificial type. To Norris will of course contribute the usual tripe to add more irrelevance to the case, any comments attributed from him will be removed from any statistical analysis.

So you support another 57 year plan by Melbourne?

50 minutes ago, Redleg said:

I am probably more interested in the second one.

LOL there is no prizes for being second

One senior coach has just been appointed (West Perth) and another one to go (Melbourne)!

6 hours ago, Redleg said:

No just like our season, same old same old.

It's just we have another 57 year plan for our next Premiership. So we can afford another 56 years of underperforming with our the need to change the plan.

On 22/08/2025 at 11:56, Redleg said:

And of course Baci, Berry, Bubblegum and Blueberry.

Does it come in a Suger Free version?

On 15/08/2025 at 21:40, Red and Bluebeard said:

Great title for a country & western song ...

There is only one song that I know the words and can sing loudly! And that is ITS A GRAND OLD FLAG. Is there any other song I need to know?

On 15/08/2025 at 20:45, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Home remedy readily available: ripe banana, good quality vanilla bean ice-cream, milk of choice, whizzer of choice.

OK, technically a milkshake, but that's all we ancients had when we Ilved in holes in t'roads.

I did make a Banana 🍌 Smoothie 🥤 for dinner last night. When Corporations fail us, we have to adapt.

Banana Ice Cream would be great but I only wanted a Banana Smoothie 😔

I tried to buy a Banana Blitz (Muzz Buzz) but unfortunately they run out of Bananas AGAIN. Life can be so cruel as both my football teams are disappointing me and I can't buy a Banana Drink. I blame Uncle Bitters as he's left us all to suffer on our own!

Now I am reading that Nathan Buckley is the front runner for the senior coaching role at Melbourne. I said it many times before NOTHING GOOD COMES FROM COLLINGWOOD!

OMG I see a few media articles about Melbourne possibly recruiting James Hird as senior coach. Not sure how likely 🤔 this is, but if it happens, I would need to find another AFL club to support. Surely there much better coaching options out there?

Just now, Redleg said:

Tbh I have no idea who we should appoint and just hope we get it right.

Could be an interesting off season coming up.

Well I heard Nathan Buckley and Mark Needle are both available.

10 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Where have you gone, @Bitter but optimistic?

Your moniker, so apposite to this day of heightened mixed emotions.

Uncle Bitters has likely taken time off to have his spikes polished and new make-up applied.

10 hours ago, Redleg said:

Had to take some time to gather my thoughts after the Saints debacle.

On the same weekend, I had West Perth 6 goals lead at half time and Melbourne had a 46 point lead at three-quarter time. Both teams lost their games. So I can feel your pain.

IMO it's a good thing both teams are looking for a new head coach.

So Red you need to embrace the light and support the search for a new coach. Although our issues are not just with the former senior coach.

50 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Another quiet day for the Dees and on DL.

Red, glad to see that you're still posting.

OMG someone suggested Nathan Buckle as our next coach, FIGJAM himself. My number one rule in recruitment is NO ONE from Collingwood, EVER. They want to bring back Mark Needle next!