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So what exactly do you mean by 'Buckley is the very Melbourne choice' Historically we've leaned mostly towards highly touted untried assistant coaches, which is what you are suggesting.

The team had no talent when he started and was knocking on the door of finals when he left. Was the exact right person for the club at the time.

Fair enough. Though that's just another year under him where crows didn't do much.

Can you elaborate on this? Roos is the only Melbourne coach I've seen that meets a similar criteria to Buckley and I think that was a good appointment.

Poor coaches can come from good clubs and good coaches can come from underperforming clubs.

Personally think Burgess gets mythologized a bit too much. Yes we were fit and uninjured during 2021 but that was a year where literally everything was going right for the club. He was there the following year when we were cooked at the end of the season and bungled out in straight sets too. People have been praising his work at Adelaide. But they didn't make finals in their first two years under him and couldn't run out the game against Collingwood last night. A lot has to go right for clubs and fitness is just a part of the bigger picture.

Oliver said our strength and conditioning has gone downhill since Burgess left. Amazed anyone could think that's not insulting to the current strength and conditioning team.

Doesn't really matter if he's right or wrong. Keep it in house.

Yeah, nah. It's completely unprofessional. More airing of dirty laundry that has been so toxic for our club in recent times.

Pointing the finger at Griffith for our issues is a bit rich coming from Oliver. Doubt Selwyn told him to give himself a prison tattoo on his own foot that extended his injury that year either. Oliver did a little interview yesterday where he talked about how much he loved the club and how much he owed and then comes out with this. It's not great.

Clarry... Mate. It's time to stop talking to the media.

Do not want whatever Bomber has to offer in the background lol.

Bartel said he hadn't been approached by the club on his podcast with Mcguire but that he'd be interested in a role like it.

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Occam's Razor for mine is that we lost Jackson and wanted to recreate that dynamic and Grundy was available at a discount so we went for it. Probably realised during pre-season the same dynamic wouldn't work, which is why when we were asked about what our plans were we kind of handwaved it and just said "we had ideas". Those ideas formulated as the two sharing the ruck duties between 50/50 and 60/40 and the other never really getting into the game when the other was being the main man. We were trying to win a flag so we abandoned the experiment mid-season and did a hail mary of trying to turn Grundy into a forward.

Read like the entire article was a regurgitation of a report written by some group of supporters intent on destabalising the club, with an added level of spite from the author to go with it.

It's pretty concerning that we felt we needed to pay extra to get guys to stay at the club where usually it's the other way around.

We've made Casey an unstoppable force.

Gawn is the same bloke who told Goodwin to leave Jackson on the ground when the GF was in the balance. The notion that he wouldn't make a sacrifice for the team is ludicrous imo.

What is this actually based on. Never seen anything like this reported. You'd think with as many leaks we've had over the years this would have made the news.

We're never going to have a key forward again lol

This draft is [censored] and compromised. Lindsay would have been a top 5 pick this year. Langford would be the number 1 pick. The Carlton pick will get pushed back to outside the top 10. Even if we offer that and another first rounder that's still less than what Freo paid us for him and he was out of contract and his form is better now than it was then.

Curious about this line.

I don't think it's that deep. Caro has sources throughout the industry. She will generally takes the side of those who give her info. She's hardly going to throw them under the bus. Think she's been pretty soft on the AFL wrt the major issues over the years.

Genuinely baffling choice as host.