Adam The God

I said bookmark it multiple times. Was surely never in doubt. Welcome, Kalani. 🎉🙏👏

Yep, very unlikely to get a revamped team. Chocco and Selwyn are out of contract I believe, so we could get a new fitness guru and new head of development (Nev Jetta?), but Richo has a year to go and Radford, Jones and Bassett signed deals this year. I would be staggered if Chaplin doesn't stay. And hopefully we can get a senior assistant like Bruce to run strategy and ball movement or midfield. We may have to get creative with our accounting regarding Richo.

What are you basing this on? How do you know this?

Haven't you been banging on for years about trading away our senior players? Now you want to make sure we appoint a coach who played for their childhood team to keep them around? Again, I don't really care who we appoint as long as they are the best fit for us. But you're all over the place on this.

No? Various FD people still have contracts, like the head of footy. On top of Goody's payout. Are they going to pay out Jones, Radford and Bassett? There won't be many changes due to the soft cap.

And it also opens the door to Windhager. I hope we're still asking the question.

I'm not really sure what you're talking about. Smith is on the panel...

I hear Green thinks he's the mid to long term leader of the club. People are making assumptions about Smith's longevity. They needed to twist his arm in the first place.

Sorry, everything's fine. 👍 Nothing to see here.

Caro clearly has sources at board level, directly or indirectly.

Agree. And maybe he re joins Buckley at Melbourne next year. 😉

And Green told members last year "I will encourage Steven to seek Board endorsement to succeed me as President of the MFC at the end of the 2025 AFL Season." Now it's allegedly the AFLW season. Not good enough. Step aside, Brad.

I would if I thought it were a chance. Let's hope all your Collingwood love is for the best and we make finals next year. Because if not, the board should sack themselves.

Righto, Bucks.

17 coaches have won a flag in a quarter of a century. Okay. How many coaches in that time? The strike rate isn't high.

What a bizarre argument. King of the grass is greener everywhere but the MFC. Buckley is the right coach for us because some of our players used to barrack for Collingwood? 🤣 Come on, Steve. If anyone else said this, you'd rightly lampoon them.

I'm very motivated to win a flag, doesn't mean I'll win one. I'll hold fire on Buckley if he's appointed, but it's not like we're getting a better version of Goody. We're just getting a different voice. And maybe that will work. But just because Buckley has never won a flag before, he's not owed one. Footy is abloody tough industry and it's why I supported Goody for so long. Most coaches don't get to the top, so he's in rare company. Buckley, not so much.

Agreed, but on your last paragraph, the board have already been all over the place on what next year's expectations are. First it was, we expected to play finals in 2025. Now it's seemingly become we need to re-set. Hopefully this is cleared up with the incoming coach asap. But this is a board that have constantly failed to deliver on basic promises and failed to create an environment that lives up to the ethos of a football club where we can all feel proud to belong. I've said it before but they let a journo attack Goody from the sidelines for two years before finally getting clean air at the end of 2024. Not good enough. They dragged the club through the courts, needlessly spending on legal fees, and creating bad press, on constitutional issues only to eventually accept most of the simple recommendations. Not exactly a club that will make its supporters or coach feel proud to belong. Green said in September last year that "we expect to see an outcome on the success or otherwise on the business case around mid-2025”. It is August 16th. Nothing. Green said "I will encourage Steven [Smith] to seek Board endorsement to succeed me as President of the MFC at the end of the 2025 AFL Season." So in a fortnight's time, if Green is true to his word, Smith will be president. In name. Not just pulling strings. That needs to happen. And who can forget that in April 2025, the CEO was famously going to "hit the ground running", but then we found out he wouldn't be starting for six months. The way our club is being run is a bit like an episode of the classic Australian satire The Games. Hopelessly out of their depth individuals pretending everything is all a-okay. And watch them tell us who to vote for again on the board this year, despite a current board member telling the courts that Melbourne members were not happy with this approach. They did it last year and they'll do it again this year. The decision to sack Goody needs to reap commercial benefits and success immediately. It's a risky move to dump one of four AFL premiership coaches the club has ever had. If it pays off, great, but if it doesn't, the board needs to be held accountable.

Hope his ego can take it. Because I agree completely. The pace of the game is too quick for him in the midfield, but off the back of stoppage he could be a weapon. Hard conversations to be hard.

Fair enough, Rob. See if you can get in Greeny's ear then. Perhaps while you're at it, you can get him to step down from the board too.

Okay, but that's not happening as Chaplin has said multiple times he won't be putting his hand up.

Ever since SWYLs mate Green has been back at the club we've been an unravelling basketcase off field. He's been letter happy all year and when it comes to providing clear direction for the club with the President, all we get is crickets. He was part of a board that seemingly failed to ask the question of Guerra regarding a start date and a hired a guy that couldn't start for 6 months. He was part of a board that allowed innuendo to fester around the football department and the coach for two years before finally getting some clean air at the end of 2024. That should have been dealt with it in 2022 or sooner. He might have his heart in the right place, but it's been downhill under his watch.

Not to mention Brad Green was the deciding vote to ditch Goody. Take a look at that final presser and listen to Green's answer to that question. He says the vote was unanimous. This is why the board is split and it's why we've had mixed messages coming out of the club ever since. In that presser, Green said they believed this list should be playing finals. In the last few days, they've changed the narrative to, oh, we believe we need to take a few steps back and attack a flag in 2-3 years. Well, which one is it? Should we be playing finals or shouldn't we? When you don't have a clear direction and everyone on the same page, that spells disaster for the future. We might get lucky, but I doubt it.

Reuniting with Jennings. I'd like to get Jennings back.

I find it to be a couch jumping moment. But let's agree to disagree.