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Slightly different but Robert Walls got sacked after losing to the Brisbane Bears and was their coach two years later.

Usually the Senior Coach get their pick of the litter when it comes to their assistants. Maybe one or two blokes are left over with contracts to carry over. Not seen a team hire assitants before the new senior coach is announced. I would not be at all surprised to learn that we're all just watching a pantomime selection process when the decision was really made weeks ago though. As silly as that would be.

I'm a big fan of Bruce but it does seem odd to be hiring an assistant coach before the senior coach is locked in.

Probably two years away with this sort of form before he'd be ready. Haven't seen him do a whole lot of media so not sure how he speaks though.

IIRC Morris kick-started his career by reporting a rift between McCartney and Goodwin

Completely agree. A lot of 'beliefs' 'suggestions' and 'rumours' but the segment was very short on facts.

The spectre of Norm Smith is getting a bit much now. Why so much hand-wringing over moving on a premiership coach. Hawks can boot Clarkson and get praised. Eagles move on Simpson and everyone accepted it was time. We sack Goodwin and apparently it’s the curse 2.0 despite being extraordinarily different circumstances.

If this were true we wouldn’t have spent half a century looking for a training ground. You chastise me for comparing punt road with the mcg only to come up with this.

It’s a stadium that is being used to play professional matches in multiple competitions as well as functioning as a training ground for those competitions. It requires an upgrade to serve its purpose and the Jack Dyer stand was impossible to restore. Knocking it down was the right decision.

So the MCG should never had any of its stands rebuilt because that history is more important than having a functional, modern, safe stadium. There is a place for heritage listings and there are times where the value of preserving something completely dysfunctional becomes a burden. Richmond can make a little museum to the history of their ground in a hallway in their newly developed facilities. Society can’t be built on historical artefacts that do nothing but take up space and decay.

It’s not about aesthetics, it’s about functionality. Which the Jack Dyer Stand was never going to be again.

Wasn't that a major hang up for them? Honestly, good for Richmond. Heritage listings are too often used to negate progress. There's no reason a rotten grand stand no one can even use needs to be kept around.

Pies have swindled us a bunch over the years. A late first round pick for Chris Dawes. Trading Geelong Clark and taking Lumumba so they could get Varcoe. Howe for Kennedy and change. Relieving them of the Grundy salary so we could embark on the most pointless experiment ever.

People won't like it cause it's Cornes saying it but I think there's a really valid point made about how the senior players gained way too much power within the club and it's probably one of the biggest reasons Goodwin needed to go.

Moving Fritsch on would be madness.

Look I'm usually of the view that people are too quick to dismiss information from the media. They definitely drum up the controversy but most of what they say is based in fact. I could be wrong, but here I'm not feeling like there's much of a story. Caro is drawing a massive bow from a line in a letter written a year ago that said Smith would take over after the 2025 season and that the timeline is now closer December. Outside of that it seems like she's spoken to a few coterie types and is trying to make their opinions out to be a bigger story than it is. As for the notion that Brad Green pushed Goodwin out behind Smith's back, it's an utterly ridiculous premise that falls apart when you think about it for longer than 5 seconds.

So just so I have this straight, Caro's argument is that Buckley shouldn't come to Melbourne because we don't have a proper training ground and we have some uncertainties around key roles at the club. And instead, he should wait to maybe get offered a job at a team that doesn't yet exist. How embarrassing for her.

I’d be quite astonished if this were true. Green seemed like he was a big fan of Goodwin. We also know that Smith was present at the board meeting that Goodwin presented at a week before he got the chop. Also presidents don’t make decisions on their own, boards do. Not to mention green came off like he was reading a script at the presser, felt very coached. I think it’s more likely that they want Smith and Guerra to come in with a clean slate. Green is effectively there to make the big decisions before being parachuted out. Not uncommon corporate strategy.

Too little too late. We’ve won two games since round 11 against bottom 4 sides.

That was the most frustrating thing to listen to. So many factual inaccuracies and half truths.

Wtf is this article? Lmao [censored] off Caro.

Buckley should come in and coach us for the final round to knock the pies out of the 8. Would be like a WWE face turn.

Buckley came into the job too early and stuffed things up but rebuilt the list and got better as a coach in the second half of his tenure.

Rest anyone under a cloud, but Club should have the attitude of treating the next three weeks like a finals series and try and go into next year with some momentum.

Massive hit.