Adam The God

Well, by your measure, we'd have to rule out Skipworth then, as he's at Collingwood...

This is true and he did lay some potential fall back ground work on that OTC segment last night, but I think it's more likely the board have said, cool your jets publicly, so we can be seen to run a coaching search. But who knows.

She uses a weak argument, but I believe it more likely comes from the fact that we are a mess off field.

Yes. But I'd be staggered if Buckley wasn't offered the job prior to us sacking Goody. If you're Buckley you're not going to risk putting your name out there unless you're confident of getting the gig. It impacts on your brand to not get senior roles if you go for them and have media love ins about it.

So this is what people are getting the8r knickers in a knot over? It appears I've heard similar things to Caro. Nothing she says above is that outlandish.

I'm not saying Caro is right, but she has a long track record of eventually being vindicated on this stuff.

No, he blinked a lot as he spoke though.

Yep, he was recommended by the AFL too.

Agreed, but looking increasingly like they'd chosen Buckley before sacking Goody. Which makes sense. And the selection panel is about providing cover to the board so that if Buckley fails, they can say their positions are still tenable.

Again, that's the wrong question because Buckley didn't win a flag at Collingwood.

This feels appropriate for this thread. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ZWiomRDr8/ Paul Roos, "they can win the flag next year".

He won a flag the first time around though.

He's done that a fair bit in the second half of the season. When his marking clicks, watch out. He'll be genuinely threatening from the goal square.

I was wrong. Thanks mate.

When his junior marking comes together at AFL level, he is going to become a weapon that could kick 30/40+ goals a year.

That too. There's little recent history, Malthouse being the last coach to win having coached elsewhere, but I don't believe there has ever been a coach that failed to win a flag in his first job, win one in his second job. And/or Lindsay.

I'm on the fence with who we trade this year, but the thing that hasn't changed in footy is you still need extractors to get it to the likes of Windsor, Kozzy, Lindsay etc. Personally, I'd be keeping Clarry, and making sure we have the likes of Windsor, Kozzy and Lindsay with him at centre bounces and around the ground. Their pace is obviously an offensive weapon with Clarry extracting, but their pace also covers Clarry's leg speed flaws.

I had a chat yesterday with some guys we regularly sit near at the footy. We discussed Buckley and all four of us agreed that none of us liked Buckley, so we were having to shift that in our heads, but that if Buckley won a flag with Melbourne instead, we wouldn't be complaining. The second chance saloon is definitely an issue though. It would be unprecedented (correct me if I'm wrong) if Buckley won a flag having failed in his first time as a senior coach. That doesn't mean you don't employ him, but he has to, pardon the pun, buck history.

I think you'll find the club is the one leaking all this/most of this to the media. Caro laid the ground work post St Kilda loss. Where do you think she got her information from? Someone is clearly briefing Tom Morris too. Which given his history with us, surely, we choose a different conduit. Shhhh. Don't tell us that. It doesn't align with the Demonland groupthink.

This is a pathetic post. Surely, we can discuss trading players without being disrespectful like this...

Spot on. People see what they want to see. As Chaplin said in his pre match presser, there's no time to change anything, so they'll continue working on what they have all season.

Totally, but there was one really important tap in the last (when momentum shifted against us) where Max had out bodied English, had his hand completely free to guide it straight down the throat of a Melbourne player, instead, he tapped it straight down the throat of a dog. It happens too often IMO. Agree on the midfield coaches though.

Max's tap work in the last. 🤦 We showed a bit but our lack of leadership at the death is a massive problem. We can’t blame Goody for that one. But I'm sure some will.

I love Judd but he doesn't have the skill set for midfield IMV.

Completely understand the lack of faith in the board. They are a shambles. But it's possible they have also made the right call here. I found the initial decision mind boggling for similar reasoning you're suggesting, if they didnt fire him at 0-5 or much earlier in the season, why with three rounds to go and not say 10 rounds to go? To me, it could imply that they simply want a fresh voice, but to continue the shift to the transition game style that Goody was implementing anyway. Connecting the dots, Buckley was also not our first choice. If you go back to Caro's reporting earlier in the year, we hit up Beveridge in early 2025 and then moved on.