Go Ds

I still don't get this stand against recycled coaches. As long as they weren't hopeless i'd have thought five years as a senior coach was better than five as assistant. Blight went to Adelaide as a coach who nearly won a GF and as a player won the Brownlow and Magarey(?) medal. Buckley nearly....... Anyway we didn't choose Buckley. I just know he may well been a great choice. Surely another recycled coach will emulate Blight some day.

Are you taking him with the girls to Bingo and mojitos on Tuesday night? 😂

Some people love a challenge. If Buckley got Tasmania from basket case to premiership in , say, five years it'd be the stuff of legend and some people would love having that legacy. It's easy to forget that coaching Melbourne means a (Melbourne- based) person's life is not uprooted whereas moving , working and being about as important and as well-known in Tasmania as the premier may cause extra snags for the first Tassie coach. Certainly I could see why potential coaches would avoid the Devils and wait for teams like Essendon and Carlton be looking again.

Can you explain this further? I'm not sure Buckley has lied at all. It is possible since Melbourne started their coach search he always genuinely considered both Tassie and us, yes?

Just get the '2' on your left cheek and for the last 2 digits wait ! 😉🤣🤣🤣

While I'm excited we have King now he was an EX-captain in the 2007 GF. @Adam The God Wikipedia says King was with the suns from 2021-3 while Geelong won their last flag.

It can be amusing how namesakes crop up. Stephen is less common than John but I can't remember tons of John King's as one example. Technically the writer is 'PH' and our new coach is Steven with a 'V'. But I'm sure there'll be some puns. Also there was a jockey SteVen King, best known for winning the Melbourne Cup on Let's Elope in 1991. Here's hoping for more Melbourne cups!

Oy! Honestly somehow I missed that. I could have guessed what PM means but I've only ever seen DM used and over 20 something years on forums and Facebook I've only ever seen the quizmaster ask for the answer in the comments. Anyway I'm quite tired today. If the Blurter Police want to squirt me so be it. BTW not to be confused with a demons wikia I bet some on here would love to have good look around Demonwiki.org

If I heard someone losing their nut in the pub after we picked Neale Daniher i'd have been confused. But back then pre-social media I think those within earshot would have just shrugged their shoulders and maybe filed in the back of their mind that at least one supporter had reservations. SD could be right. No one can say. Anyway it's not like he said some really nasty slur and the whole room went quiet. As much as I c an get excited about a coach who can prove nothing for months I am.

Yep, it was stupid. But most of the time players how tell the difference between so ******* dangerous and more innocent accidents and can forgive. I don't remember King being a thug. Actually despite being tall I don't remember him being a rough, physical -presence player.

Ok. I was never after a victory. I didn't see it was secret.

Huh? Was that wrong?

Number Player Games 1 Denis Cordner 151 2 Nathan Jones 302 3 Garry Lyon 226 4 Norm Smith 227 5 Christian Petracca 212 6 Frank Davis 162 7 Jack Viney 237 8 Tassie Johnson 202 9 David Neitz 286 10 Angus Brayshaw 167 11 Jim Stynes 251 12 Todd Viney 233 13 Adem Yze 262 14 Barry Bourke 175 15 Stan Alves 226 16 Travis Johnstone 160 17 Brett Lovett 227 18 Brad Green 254 19 Ray Biffin 165 20 Matthew Febey 143 21 Steven Febey 258 22 Bryan Kenneally 171 23 James McDonald 247 24 Russell Robertson 225 25 Tom McDonald 247 26 Greg Parke 119 27 Sean Wight Jared Rivers 150 28 Tony Dullard 108 29 Hassa Mann 178 30 John Beckwith Alex Neal-Bullen 176 31 Ron Barassi 204 32 Cameron Bruce 226 33 Gary Hardeman 210 34 Jeff White 236 35 Steven Smith 180 36 Aaron Davey 178 37 Bernie Massey 99 38 Jeremy Howe 100 39 Neville Jetta 158 40 Mark Jamar 155 41 Peter Rohde 117 42 Peter Walsh 104 43 Guy Rigoni 107 44 Rohan Bail 70 45 Matthew Whelan 150 46 Dean Terlich 35 47 Alan Jarrott 91 48 Jack Fitzpatrick 22 49 James Magner 17 50 Ben Brown 45 51 John Howat 5 52 Stephen Tingay

Wearing? They all wore Lynx body spray? I don't care about prizes. I'm guessing each player played the most games in a particular numbered jumper.

If Fagan announced weeks ago he was retiring it would be ridiculous if yesterday King became the Lions successor and then in a fortnight had a foot in both camps in a Cats v Lions GF. But I just don't think him going to Melbourne's the same. Of course King will take knowledge from his time at Geelong (and GC and Dogs and Saints. I can't vouch for others but I still wanted to do my wbest on the last day of most of my jobs. Surely King still wants his current club and mates there to win this year's flag. Also if Melbourne doesn't quite work out a premiership as an assistant coach at a second club will look better on his cv if he looks at being assistant or senior coach yet again. While it would be nice if King virtually started yesterday as our coach there may well be a lot of great.... "learnings" he still gets in the next fortnight which ends up seeing Melbourne win the 2028 GF by a goal instead of losing it by that amount. Anyway I'm sure Geelong and the AFL have properly thought these scenarios through. ( I'm sure King and Neeld aren't the only assistant coaches that have been in this position.)

Yep, and how some players were 'carried'. If Gus comes back it'd be the Brayshaw Redemption. There's probably a few other puns out there.

I don't know but I feel a little surprised or disappointed. It felt like Buckley was almost over the line and I got the feeling King wasn't people's second prediction. I now have trouble believing the MFC spent much time apparently asking Buckley if he was interested before sacking Goody. Anyway King does tick a lot of boxes. Who knows, by the time we're in May (no pun intended) it could well be he's already looking like a gun. Anyway , all hail the King!

I have it on good authority that all these players listed The Shawshank Redemption as their favourite film in The Record.

Three are just so many factors at play, whether at board level, coach level and so, so many in two hours 22 plus games a year across a coach's tenure at a club . I don't even think any of us have a complete list of every 'repeat' coach this century ( or last forty years or sixty years or whatever) let alone proper analysis past simple calculations. Most first time coaches come in with almost impeccable recent assistant coach records. The aura on second- time coaches has nearly always faded. Just look at our own Goody - despite breaking our drought by even last year quite a few had given up on him and were calling him an ordinary coach. If he applies for senior coach again that team will have fans pooh-poohing him just we have some doing to Buckley. Honestly there's no magic formula -just get someone who hasn't proven that they CAN'T coach and presented well and not worry whether they're an ex-coach, had more than 2 years out of coaching, were a Brownlow medallist or even a ruckman. They're probably the wrong factors

It's so easy to forget that there can be good bad recruitments and bad good recruitments. There are Brownlow medallists picked up so late that every team overlooked him a few times in their draft and players everyone had as the top , or top 5 , pick who ended up nowhere near a top 5 player in the whole league. Maybe our recent selections have been quite poor. But there's a huge difference between our recruiters being clueless or being unlucky.

Umm only Bedford has improved. As for our imports we took in high draft picks (Billings, Schache) hoping they could still realise their potential plus players like McAdam we hoped would plug a gap. Surely none were paid with top ten draft picks or anything. But anyway the hindsight comments were right.

I am reminded of Yes, Minister where a bigwig public servant only needed to know stuff he needs to know. The catch was he needed to firstly know everything to know whether something was something he needed to know. The only way we'll know whether we're getting a really good coach is AFTER they've coached for years. Honestly it's the same catch-22 that Beveridge and Clarkson need more years to show whether more years is the right decision for these clubs. As long as our bootstudder doesn't become our new coach we've got our decision right ( FOR NOW)

Come on, while long-term teams like Essendon and Collingwood have advantages that mean they'll do slightly better it's too simplistic to assume that in a patch of ten years that Collingwood must be lot better than North. On top of that in a three-year period it's not that hard to have more unusual occurrences. While over many decades Essendon might be better at not choosing a horrible morale-destroying staff member than, say, the Dogs or GC that doesn't mean some incompetent [censored] isn't the current reason Essendon players want out.

Yes, and Revolution 9 was one of the Beatles worst songs and may have been a start to them going their separate ways, 14 Years was a song on GnR's Use Your Illusion, 27 is the age a lot of musicians have famously died, Aussie bands 28 Day had hits such as Rip it Up and What's The Deal?, 38 Special had a song Second Chance released coincidentally in 1988 when we came second and finally Sum 41 had song In Too Deep. Ethan, you may be overthinking this! 😉