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It’s an article from three days ago. Nothing new.

The minutiae around the circumstances of him signing isn’t really important. I just hope Judd can return to the form we all know he’s capable of.

This is a bit silly. May would’ve told plenty of people around him - friends, family and teammates. Not to mention his management are obviously across it along with lots of people from the club. Only takes one. Journos are on top of every club’s possible comings and goings. The fact the King news came out before anyone in the media even had an inkling he was a strong contender is a good sign.

Up there with @Chook in Perth and @goodwindees

Listened to it yesterday and there was no link to us whatsoever. This is the transcript from the bit about Simpkin: “What about Jy Simpkin, another captain? It's unprecedented the amount of captains that are looking to move at the moment. He's exploring his options as well after a season spent playing on half forward and across the wing. Yeah, four years to go left on his deal as well. And North Melbourne looking at Marcus Windhager to add to their midfield too. So it's tough to get into that midfield given the star quality. Look, Richmond always had a little bit of interest after he had some links there as an under 18. But I don't think that would be the case now. He knows it will be a challenge for him to find a new home, given the price, given the contract, given the role. But he's wanted to have a look regardless.”

Haven’t seen us linked to Simpkin anywhere. Thankfully.

I also missed him by a decade or so but sounds like an amazing footballer and human being. Everyone says we were almost a one man team during his career. How on earth did he only win one BnF?

Not last touch mate, last disposal. Punches or fumbles out don’t count. And only between the arcs. There’ll still be plenty of boundary throw ins.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1421830/gold-coast-suns-gun-sam-flanders-tells-club-he-wants-to-explore-trade-options

I’ll repeat again - a great footballer does not necessarily make a great coach. Dig a little deeper into his “coaching journey” and relationships with others.

Imagine if you let every player at your club demand to play whatever position they wanted, and acquiesced to it. That’d be superb coaching! Just the way to run a good footy club! Christ almighty.

You’d give away our only natural wingman for a bloke who can’t get in the midfield of the second worst team in the comp, wouldn’t get in ours, and is on a million bucks a year? Good lord.

I’m not sure if you’re being serious. How on earth did he “lie to him?” He said he’d give him some opportunity further up the ground, and did. Judd did not perform well when given this chance. What would you have liked Goodwin to do? Just continue playing him there when he wasn’t earning it? I repeat - this is AFL football, not local kids footy.

Yep, this is a fair summation.

Plus Treloar $300k for the past five years. And this was before the salary cap increase! Cal Twomey confirmed that next year's one-year deal with the Dogs is the first year Collingwood are off the hook for Treloar.

Lie to the kid's face?! Goody owed Judd McVee absolutely nothing. He picked him to play, from the obscurity of being one of the last picks in the rookie draft, in round 1 of his second season. A long time before most VFL watchers thought he was ready. But he clearly saw something in him and believed in him. But have to earn your position in the team. When tried further up the ground, Judd was poor. This season, Judd has been poor. I hope Ghosty is right and he commits (or has committed) to the club, but coaches don't owe players anything. If a player isn't performing up to scratch in a new role, why on earth would you keep him there? An AFL coach's responsibility is to win games of football, this isn't the under 10's where you try to give everyone a go.

The Isaac Smith who's about to turn 37 and retired two years ago?

I can tell you that the players also rate AMW extremely highly. He’s only 21 and has a big future for mine.

He’ll already know that. Our games aren’t behind closed doors!

MCG.

Buckley has his pros and cons, Kelly has his pros and cons. Reckon we’ll have done well with either. Sounds like it’s down to those two.

I would absolutely kill for Sam Mitchell to be our coach.

No he won’t. The bashing would be reserved for us, about how we’re such a basket case that even the Tassie job, with all the uncertainty that comes with it, was more attractive than ours. Nobody in the media’s going to bash anyone for choosing not to coach little old Melbourne.

Buckley wants the job. If we decide to go with another candidate (unlikely at this point despite Kelly’s incredibly impressive interviewing so far) then the club have told him he’d be welcome to announce he’s withdrawn from the process to enable him to save face. This was one of his requirements for going through the process. Agreeing to this, whilst admirable from the club, would lead to increased pressure on the successful candidate and the club itself. You can just imagine the grief we’d get from the usual suspects in the media for only getting our “second or third choice candidate” and “the club continuing to be a rabble”.

He was told on Monday.