Adam The God

Agree with all that. I just think we've got an agreement in place with Buckley already. And we had that in place before we sacked Goody.

You mean a coach that can win a flag like Goody? Sure, we can talk about Buckley's impressive backs against the wall victories, but it'd be bad faith to not give Goody credit for making a prelim and then winning a flag with one of the most powerful finals series ever. You were a Goody knocker, so I find this post particularly ironic. Grass is always greener, hey?

Be staggered if it's not Buckley. Given we are seemingly canvassing assistants, that will have the okay from the incoming coach. ie the guy who's been jumping up and down with excitement in the media about our coaching position.

Buckley with a Cam Bruce succession plan? 😉

Is McCreery still yet to re-sign? He played half a season under Buckley. Could that help or hinder? He'd be very handy IMO.

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...