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Good point. Might as well shut down the whole site.

You've said this a few times but I'd be pretty [censored] if we threw out this whole process because a guy who already knocked us back changed his mind.

This reads like we'll be tenants at our own ground.

Considering how Bailey Smith spoke at the AA about his mental health post-injury I think I'll be cutting Petracca some slack over his social media content.

Goodwin would easily have been the best player out of the past 10 years of premiership coaches. It's a completely different skillset.

Chris Scott had basically only done a three year stint at a mediocre Freo before the Cats brought him in.

The models developed by these organisations are attempting to be as predictive as possible though. When teams defy those models it's worth questioning their efficacy.

Geelong last year were 11th for points against and were a kick away from a grand final. 😲

I don't disagree with this. It goes back to my point about the flaws with these statlines and 'premiership windows' and things that are created by champion data and squiggle and fox footy etc

We were far far worse this season. They were the best defense in the comp last year as far as points conceded go though but still got smashed in a final by the team that was 6th for points against and points for.

He absolutely changed over the years haha. Max spoke a lot about Goodwin citing things like expected score and doing his head in.

But their defense isn't even that bad. For instance this year they were 8th for points against but 1st for points for. They just couldn't get it done against other top 8 sides. Last year is even more crazy. They were 2nd for points for and 1st for points against. AKA the best defense in the comp.

Genuinely insulting offer lmao.

Settling down in Casey could be just the ticket!

Dogs are a weird anomaly because the past couple of years they have been really highly ranked in all those premiership window charts that measure points for, points against and so on. Yet they can't actually get it done consistently. It does make me wonder whether we focus too much on these statlines as a way to measure success sometimes. I always felt like Goodwin based our gameplans around certain KPI's that correlated with winning games (inside 50s, contested posessions etc) but in doing so couldn't see the forest for the trees.

If Buckley hasn't indicated his interest yet then he's a no. I think it's more likely that we are very keen on Buckley and he's keen on us but have asked him to go through a formal process, which we're running just in case someone else totally blows us away. Not uncommon for clubs to operate like this. Before they appointed Voss, Carlton asked Ross Lyon to go through the same thing but he said no because he basically thought, you either want me or you don't. In this case, Buckley would be happy to go through the process.

Are people actually giving this insane rumour the time of day? 😂

Goody was one of her sources and she wants Buckley to go to Tassie. She literally wrote an article trying to convince him not to join us.

You've got the nerve to say that and even be here!

In this case it seems he achieved that goal in one sentence.

Watson was on radio yesterday and said the actual process hasn't really started so think we've just been getting candidates sorted so far. Interviews should start soon and you'd hope the details of which remain under wraps. We might hear about the list of candidates being narrowed down but I doubt (hope) not much else until we announce the coach.

What on earth is he trying to say here?

I suspect those contract had been offered a little while ago.

I know which job I'd take.

Brisbane will go back to back. A couple of weeks ago would have said I want Crows for the ANB factor but recent events have left a bad taste in my mouth, so will be barracking for Freo.