Adam The God

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.

This has been my experience too. I'm open to it now. Thanks James.

Yep, but the club is clearly banking on a new voice. Let's hope the admin have finally made a good decision. It is funny seeing those anti Goodwin posters fawning over Buckley though.

I didn't say it was the only reason...

We can't attract players because the board has failed repeatedly in securing and building a home base. FFS, did anyone watch the presser yesterday? Not even the coach liked going out to Casey. None of the players do, that's why we've been close but no cigar on recruits. Lever, May and Langdon came almost 10 years ago when I'm sure the promise was we'll get a home base sorted. Still nothing.

On Mahoney though, he has left two organisations quite quickly. I was for him coming back 12 mo ths ago, but there could be some red flags there now.

What a [censored] show. 🤦

In game style, in the way we wanted to move the ball and in margins. Yes, we were struggling to finish off those games, but we have a percentage of 108.7% and a record of 7-8 since Round 6. That is a trend upwards given the previous year. And again, I don't know how many times I have to say it, but I wasn't against the sacking. I don't like the timing or its handling. As for Alan Richardson allegedly being on the selection panel for the next coach, who was the person responsible for ensuring off field matters with Clarry and Trac were handled appropriately and professionally? That's not up to the senior coach. And who is responsible for the wider football department? Alan Richardson. And yet he seems to have got a pass. Mind boggling. I'm sure some of the players won't be too keen on him. He had to be consulted on the senior coach being sacked. I haven't heard a single positive thing about Richo until he has a year remaining on his contract and he's allegedly doing a good job. And thanks to the restructure that Pert did at the end of 2020 you had Richo being moved from Goody's mentor to his boss. Soft cap constraints aside, a toxic and confusing, conflict riddled management structure I would have thought.

He had a larger salary cap, a weirder shaped ground (which could explain the inability of his teams to play the MCG), and practically all Sydney's best players were gifted to him through the academy. He wouldn't have any of that at Melbourne! As for the Blight comparison in 1876, totally different game. I can see you're reaching for another example, because in the modern era, in the 21st century, which is now a quarter of the way in, there is not a single coach who's coached elsewhere and then come to a new club and won a flag. Edit. I'll correct myself. Malthouse at the richest club in the land was the only coach to win a flag having won flags elsewhere in 2010.

So we want to replace a team with clear psychological issues with a coach who oversaw multiple brain melting crumbles on the biggest stage of all?

They've managed to sack the coach, so having an interim everything hasn't been a barrier to a pretty bloody big decision. You'd have to say Smith is clearly pulling the strings and thus will pull the next one with the incoming coach.

Bruce would be high on my list, but I wouldn't really know as I'm not in the industry.

To be clear, I'm not saying I necessarily disagree with sacking Goody, but I don't like the timing or the way it was handled. But we've covered this now.