Mickey

Maybe Paul's actually been quoting Buckley this whole time. It's much funnier when you think about NB talking in the third person during his presentations. "Nathan Buckely is a standout coach" "Tasmania would be very lucky to have Nathan as coach" "Hopefully, in a couple of days time, Nathan will be announced as coach of the Tasmanian Devils"

King was also a Saints assistant for the 2010 GFs

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

This might get spun as 'Melbourne didn't want to wait a week' but i think its actually 'No need to wait because King was our man'

Yep, said there were a few things he wanted to prosecute as an experienced coach that a first time coach would absorb and then try to fix when they got in, but otherwise said the process moved quickly and in the end too quickly for him, with his meeting with Tassie next Tuesday.

He also wasn't premiership captain. That was the other tall bald guy, Tom Harley

Premiership player at Geelong in 2007, Premiership assistant coach at WB in 2016. Knows how to win them, not just chase them

How is this on the club? They were clear it was a genuine process, if people chose to pull out that was their decisions and not anything to do with what the club said or did

Given the quality of the externals on the panel I'm excited by this. Went through a thorough process and got the best committed candidate. Also, eff you to the journos who were pushing the boat race line

IF theres one thing that Barrett constantly harps on about at this time of year THEN its the free agency compo. His comment on Spargo isn't a one off, and isn't a dig at whether he has value or not. If he had no value, he wouldn't get a contract. Not sure what free agency compo has to do with it.

No or very low compo is fair. He's hardly played the last few years, and his contract from North wouldn't be huge

Assuming one is Bucks. If it wasn't we probably would have heard about it by now

Chappy said when announcing Kozzie's third spot, that if he hadn't been suspended for 3 games at the start of the year he probably would have finished higher. Trac had 3 more games to poll in and only finished 12 pts ahead.

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Unless they've been promised a succession plan (maybe Daly or Bruce), an assistant who wants to be a senior coach would be crazy to pass up being involved in any process. There are 18 jobs. 1, maybe 2 come up every uear or so. And you have Hinkley, Simpson and Longmire waiting in the wings. Anyone who thinks they're too good for a club, even West Coast, is running the risk of not getting any senior gig.