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This guy has cult hero written all over him.

He went on a Tassie Devils podcast and they specifically asked him if he'd make a good coach for them.

This guy will be our best player in 3 years time.

I mean, that’s literally all we’ve got to judge him on right now. Obviously he will be ultimately judged on the outcomes he actually delivers, that goes without saying. Pretty clear that the reactions here are just people happy with the first impression they’re getting. Don’t need to read much into it beyond that.

Didn't mind it. Prefer a bloke who can be honest over someone who tries to appease everyone with bs.

So flat after that. The third quarter was about as exciting football as we've played in years and we just went to pieces in the last as usual.

Buckley said he already has a relationship with Guerra on fox footy which surprised me.

Poor take OP.

AMW did his ACL, PCL and MCL iirc. Horrible injury, no idea how hard it will be to recover from that. Are there any other examples in the AFL?

Interesting that they are all rookies. I guess we won't have many spots on our main list once White and Sinema get picked up.

That it all happened during Covid has made that whole season feel a bit like a dream.

Assuming that the position is not already well and truly Buckley's and he hasn't given us his input on that exact question. Yes.

New coaches are rarely appointed prior to the end of the home and away season. Recent examples would be McQualter who was appointed in late september, McRae who was appointed early september, Adam Kingsley was appointed the day after the home and away season ended, Yze was appointed after we were knocked out of finals that year. The recent exceptions I can think of is Clarkson who was appointed North's coach the day before their final game of the season, and Hardwick, but that whole appointment was a bit of a farce. He was going to the Suns before he'd even wrapped up at Richmond. There's also the case of succession plans but that's a completely different situation. I think moving Williams on makes sense. He's reportedly on pretty decent coin and we will want to offer the new coach some cap room to play with so they can bring in a few of their own people. Of the people who have contracts the coach will get to see if they gel with them over the next 12 months. Potentially moving them to different roles etc.

He was out of contract and you have to tell coaching staff if they are getting renewed or not at this point. I don't really understand any of the confusion about the timing of these decisions. It's the end of the season. Pretty much the time all these decisions get made.

Think we are remembering things differently. 2017 I think was relatively drama free. Honeymoon period for Goodwin I guess. Unless I've forgotten something 2018 we had the Mccartney/Goodwin feud 2019 we had the Goodwin/Jennings fallout and the preseason camp blow up. 2020 was the start of the turmoil behind the scenes between Goodwin and members of the board and murmurings of players being unsettled. 2021 we heard all about the trouble over that off-season, goodwin nearly being sacked the previous off-season and the AFL and clubs concern about his relationships with the players. Basically most of the drama from 2022 onwards we aren't even allowed to talk about on here so I'll stop there.

Don't think this is true at all.

There is certainly a bit of this. Having certain journo's on the drip isn't a necessarily a bad thing if it's a club policy and you are careful about what information is getting out. For example, giving a journo a story about a big hire, sacking or trade target is really just letting them break a story that is about to get out anyway. The issue is when certain actors decide to go off on their own steam and leak information to suit whatever their personal agenda might be. I think in recent times we've had various people within the club leaking info to try and control the narrative around a particular story but basically having it all blow up in our faces. It's always ugly to see dirty laundry being aired out in public.

WRT Chocco moving on, Cornes and Williams are pretty close. Cornes doesn't break many stories at all because he's not a journo he's a commentator. So it's pretty clear who told him. Leaks have been an issue that I would hope we are able to clean up but I actually think the fact that the Goodwin news got out 12 hours after he was told is not really a massive problem. If the players weren't told before that got out then it speaks to a problem with our internal comms not getting on the front foot quick enough. The worst leaks I've ever seen were over the last couple of years surrounding the Petracca/Oliver stories. We were hearing details about internal conversations between players it was that bad. Thankfully we haven't seen anything at that level this year.

That's it. Former GM of AFLW program. Now curiously being run by Clare Pettyfor.

Think he mentioned this last night. One of our AFLW coaches who was moved on a couple of months ago worked with Buckley in the past. Can't remember the name

Thanks for your service Chocco. I'm sure it won't take long to find another role. Viva la Revolución.

I read your post as arguing that their reads being backed up by Roos gave them more credence. If that's not your position then I apologise.

So you agree that premiership coaches can get things wrong?

Robert Walls predicted the Eagles to collect the spoon in 2018.

Max was right to doubt the Grundy trade. If anything it exposes that Goodwin didn't really know how to handle Jackson leaving.