Young Angus

Sub rule fair enough, but nothing changes, just have no sub. Every team has same amount of interchange so when someone is injured that team has one less on the bench. Might as well have just axed the sub and left with 4 on bench, but hey extra bench why not.

Rachelle sounds great, but Darcy Fogarty certainly is intriguing since we reckon we've been crying out for a forward for a while...I wonder if we really need one or would prefer a Rachelle and just get our forwards up to scratch, we have quite a few young gun forwards up and coming that could be very very good in JVR plus Kentfield and Noah Yze but they are unknowns...but might be awesome!

What is Rachele actually like as a player? He seems to be the most talked about from Adelaide at least as a possibility and I know he's meant to be good...don't know that much about him though except he's been in and out of the side all year. He's not injury prone is he like poor Mr. McAdam?

Is Howes a decent enough replacement for McVee do people think?

Can we get someone back for him that's like for like (or better) that isn't just a pick in a crappier draft?

Hahahaha yeah screw that guy, bit of a dawg really.

He wants to go…this is the beginning of the trade for Jackson to come back.

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Put Trac back in there he ain't going anywhere.

Haha well he sure did an okay job with the VFL lads towards the end of that season.

Don't lose him and just go rebuild mode because we don't need to and don't want to waste Max's last years, which are still looking bloody good!

He absolutely must stay, if only at least for the first year with new coach and new fresh system. Would be an absolutely travesty if we let one of our best players go without seeing what comes of our current top tier players with the freshen up in the club. KEEP HIM PLEASE!!!!

I remember Grundy was in my calendar the year after he left the club for Sydney, just made me laugh. These calendar printers should really sync up more with the list managers.

Is the rising star announced tonight?

Would love that, I reckon he will poll alright too, we didn’t win many games though :/

Trac shouldn’t go anywhere. New coach, new system, we’d be so stupid to let him go before making him a part of the new look Dees he is a champ and will be again. Keep him. Anyone wanting him gone has rocks in their heads.

The banks run this country did you miss the memo?

Haha I hope he and the cats make it, I live down here and gotta say I hate the other teams so much more and am just rooting for our new coach...GET SOME KINGY!

I don't get it has he or hasn't he re signed?

AFL will pony up, no way they let this go now with all the water under the bridge. That's a lot of money though jeepers creepers.

I think this is right on. The AFL are going to push this hard and so they would want to. They will do everything to ensure Tassie does not flounder and hits the ground running. Then all the other clubs will feel very hard done by!

That is such garbage, the whole "process too quick" line is a furphy and has nothing to do with anything. Maybe Bucks using it as padding for his ego but if he was the right man as if we don't wait another week. That interview question was asked purely to gauge commitment and enthusiasm, like you would in any job interview really. We gotta wait two weeks for Kingy anyway. Bucks got beat by a better more suitable candidate. We had a good panel of professional thorough interviewers who did their job. Caro actually asked this question of Paul Guerra, that is "would Steven King had got the job regardless of Nathan Buckley's timeline" and Paul answered it properly. I'm sure everyone here has heard that great interview from Paul with Caro trying her best to keep the journalism in the gutter where she hangs out. The whole "too quick process" just shouldn't be spoken about, it seems to be scapegoating the fact that he just didn't get the job and another guy did who just beat the pants off him. I was keen on Bucks too but I'm glad we ended up with Steven King. Take it on your solid chin bucks you're a big boy just admit when you got beat.

Fantastic interview from our CEO, Caro sounded like gutter journalist but Paul still tried to answer her obviously provocative questions with class. Loved his answers and love his class and polish, he’s just terrific and very inspiring for our future.

This exactly!! King can’t even start doing anything for a couple of weeks potentially, so waiting a week wouldn’t have been the reason. I think they clearly thought King was the best and wanted him, but Buckley answering that question the way he did also indicated he wasn’t really able to commit so that also wasn’t great. if he was right though they would have waited 100%. Bucks wasn’t right, King was, and I trust the process and can’t wait for him to start!

I was warming to Buckley like others here, but honestly it sounds like the right people were conducting a job interview, the right way, and he flunked the interview. He went for it, liked the idea of it, but let's not kid ourselves the guy didn't stack up to the likes of King and Kelly who obviously knew they wanted to be a senior coach and had the skills to pay those bills. Buckley was part of it and he just wasn't chosen, and that question of whether he would take the job and was committed was a very important one so kudos to the panel for doing their job properly and for making sure they chose someone who was the standout best choice for doing the coaching job and not just being seduced by the high profile celebrity even if he wasn't quite right. Bucks just didn't get the job. Kingy did. The panel wasn't full of dummies so I'm sure their decision was for a good reason.