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If this is true are we just replacing one interim president with another? Is there no serious person who is interested in running the club long term?

We already know Smith is on the panel to decide the next coach. I’d be astonished if Smith isn't keenly involved in every key decision being made right now.

Genuinely cannot work out the big deal about a timeline that was vague to begin with being moved a couple of months.

If Miranda Kerr wants to discuss dating me I will pick up the phone.

Without reading the article that headline is like “we have no intel about whether these players will seek a trade but we will make a story out of it regardless.”

Junktime vs stealing the game, cmon man.

Hawks were toying with us.

Ha! But what I mean is I’m pretty sure the AFL rules prevent us from formally interviewing/appointing someone with a club in the finals.

The reports that we want to appoint someone before the GF would all but rule out anyone from a team that make it past the first week of finals.

Jordan Lewis already recommended Buckley lol

Man sacked, tells old boss to gagf. I’m in disbelief that something like that could happen.

Green has said a couple of times this year that he’s struggled with the role with a young family and has no interest in doing it long term at this stage of his life. I find it hard to believe he’s trying to do some Game of Thrones takeover out of the blue.

He wrote in a letter last year that smith would take over at the end of this AFL season. She has basically taken that tidbit and run with it.

Insurers really are the scum of the earth.

Coaches don't really get poached. They renewed him because he and the club were going through a smear campaign.

No one wanted to be at the lions 10 years ago. They had many players including captains walk out on them. They turned themselves around when they brought in Swann, Noble and Fagan.

So it's clickbait haha.

This is just getting silly now.

Depends on the conditions you give it but AI would most likely output Buckley if you asked who should be the next coach because that’s what the vast majority of people are saying. It’s just going to hallucinate a response that sounds like what the general consensus is. It doesn’t actually perform any analysis or thinking.

I think the club didn't want to say anything negative about Goodwin publicly which is why 'fresh voice' became the staple line. Essentially the football equivalent of "It's not you, it's me."

Club website says Meahan but I'm not sure how much I trust our media team to get that right lol.

Never heard this. Thought most of the Essendon players maintained that he didn't do anything wrong.

How many times are they gonna ask him the same question?

I'd be extremely concerned if the club based their expectations around betting odds. Some early injuries notwithstanding, our injury list has been fairly healthy throughout the year, and again, the inclusion of Langford and Lindsay was argued to the members as a reason for us to improve this year. The expectations were based on the outcomes of the review completed in the last off-season which Goodwin was a key part of. Either Goodwin sold the board a vision that was unobtainable, he wasn't able to achieve what was actually atainable and moved the goalposts.

We had injuries at the start of the year and were also told that the high draft picks would be key in getting us back to finals this year. Two of the debutants were mature aged VFL players who have barely been seen since, aka depth. One was Jefferson who had been on the list for two years already and the club had to bite the bullet and see if he could actually play.