Adam The God

Great post mate. As to the game plan, I really think if we can get a great senior assistant, this would be the perfect fit with Buckley. Someone like Justin Leppitsch if Bruce has truly passed up the role.

It was a great appointment for where we were, at the time. The question now is whether Buckley fits us best in 2026. How do we know people are trying to undermine Guerra from inside the club? This is a guy who's been head of a Chamber of Commerce. He will have enemies. Let's not jump at shadows. Great post mate and I agree. I think bringing in a top notch senior assistant below Buckley is the way to go.

This is very true and one reason why I'd be fine with his appointment. We do have to deal with commercial realities unfortunately.

Sacking Goodwin seemed like a commercial choice to me more than anything. We may never know, but on appearances, Buckley seems like a commercial replacement.

Nah, I've stopped coaching. One of my good mates deals with him.

He's head of footy at Caulfield Grammar. The Melbourne role would be supremely more challenging and exciting I would have thought...

I'm keep Clarry irrespective of Trac, and I find the binary approach of you have to trade one or the other, a bit dopey (not saying that's your approach). I too have wavered throughout the year on both players, but with Clarry's still elite ability to extract, he is vital, IMV, for the next midfield, surrounded by better ball users in Langford, Lindsay and Kozzy. The latter needs to improve his ball use, but is not Viney, Trac or Clarry in terms of kicking.

@Gator , Richo is being pushed out the door. He might still be employed, but he's outside for next year, with few powers. Hopefully we can get his salary outside the soft cap too. It worries me he's on the coaching panel, but he's one of many voices.

I wonder if Buckley has changed his view on ruckmen...

I haven't watched AFL media in a few years. I was surprised to see Riewoldt as host in a clip I saw yesterday. He has the charisma of a donut.

This is basically AFL journalism 2025. They pretty much all do it.

Merrett would be a perfect addition for our midfield. Never going to happen though. Oliver, Kozzy, Windsor and Merrett with Lindsay and Langford on the wings would be drool-worthy.

We met with him last year too.

Our comms are pretty hopeless, so I wouldn't put anything past them. They could also have punched in on Max a little further to frame out May, as they did on another video I saw on socials. I think they just missed it.

Adam Unhinged The God. Has a nice ring to it.

To be fair though, neither Ghosty, myself or anyone else said it should. We were just salty.

We also saw it at Collingwood, as did Wright, in the 2021 off season.

The potential upside for Hollands is not at all worth the risk. If you have an A+er like Dusty or Clarry already at your club, you take the cultural risk and try and protect the rest of the group while giving Dusty and Clarry greater leeway. When you're talking about bringing in a B grader (if that), it'd be a brain melting list management decision.

He didn't play firsts in year 11, which is unusual for someone with his background. Lovely kid though.

Carlton are usually 1-2 years behind us. On things like game plan, imploding and probably sacking coaches.

This could well be true - Occam's razor. But I think it's pretty clear that given Guerra has indicated creating a role above Richardson in the FD, it's merely soft cap constraints keeping Richo here, and potentially a modicum of continuity.

Thanks Dad, I know. 😂 Say hi to Jimmy for me.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but just changing people in roles does nothing unless they're good. Otherwise, it's merely deck chairs and the Titanic.

James Kelly was the [censored] who pretended to sleep during a rendition of the Geelong theme song in the club rooms after beating us down at Geelong one year. I'm glad I'm not the only one salty about that still, @Ghostwriter . Wouldn't stop me from hiring him, but shows his arrogance.

Interesting that he mentions 4 other guys (quoting those mentioned), which to me sounds like Ralph is correct that one (Gianceracusa?) has already dropped away and we're at 5 candidates.