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Could be Mark Neeld who would have been a Senior Assistant at the same time as Bucks.

If he were Jeff Kennett he would take credit for motivating Adam Simpson to prove him wrong.

George will end up at the Filth

Before Trac's injury last year we were playing reasonable footy and were in the mix to lay finals and alot of this was to do with Trac's good ball use in our forward half. It is just after a year on from an injury where he had multiple operations and had to rest for more than 4 months for his internal organs to heal before he could do any form of exercise other than resting and walking. I think he will benefit significantly from anothor preseason.

Ironically the year that we won our Premiership it was when the entire league was nomadic. Another way to put it is that living interstate united key personnel across the club in the same location instead of being spread across the MCG, AAMI Park, Gotches Paddock and Casey.

I heard he is sick of Kochie's shrill voice.

In that case we should hire who the least expect. Perhaps go throught the whole process and then announce Simon Goodwin as our new coach. This would show that we are not afraid of acting decisively and making the tough decisions (sacking a Premiership Coach during the season) while also not being swayed by public opiniom (rehiring the coach we sacked only weeks earlier).

I have been very much in the camp of backing in Goody but have come to the conclusion that the Board have considered our on field performance over a ling enough period to make the difficult decision to move on our Premiership Coach. It seems like the Board looked at contingencies either prior to this season or early on after our poor start before monitoring the situation throughout this season and making the decision prior to the end of the season so that we could have our new Coaching team before the Trade and Draft period.

For all we know Tom Morris sleeps in a bin outside Goody's house.

Our challenge has not been to do with Heritage overlays but rather trees and dog walkers, both of which seem to be more difficult to circumnavigate.

This is why I have warmed to Bucks. I think he did alot right at Collingwood, handled himself with grace in dealing with Malthouses trlantrums and when he stepped down as Senior Coach, has a presence about him and is great with the media, has had enough time out of the game to be refreshed, and is hungry to win a Premiership having not yet done so as a player or coach.

Maxy for Player Coach and President

I think the problem is that the MRO/Tribunal "review" these incidents with a predetermined outcome in mind and then spend hours deliberating to work out the subjective factors to support their predetermined outcome. The May suspension is fully based on subjective "interpretations" of what the mythological reasonable player would do. I wonder which reasonable player they will use this time.

Interestingly in the four rounds before West Coast we were first in the league for % of marks for kicks inside 50.

Imagine if Goody wasn't really sacked but that the club staged the Board meeting to draw out the mole.

This is where I reckon Simmo or Horse would be good. It is an ideal role for an experienced Head Coach who has had success, is strong on culture, but no longer has the desire to be the Head Coach. Then bring in a Cam Bruce or simarly experienced Senior Assistant ad the Head Coach.

I'm torn on this, on one hand I feel like Goodwin has been badly let down by the Club Administration this year but am also hopeful that the decision was made based on an informed view of how our Footy Department were tracking internally and ability to turn things around rather than a reaction to our win/loss record the past couple of years and the embarrasing 4th quarter vs Saints. The Board had better have a good plan to bring in a coaching group that will being sustained success and not simply make change for the sake of it.

Kenny - no real success Simmo - the reason why WCE are uncompetitive Horse - won a GF with COLA, smashed in subsequent GF's with Academy Players Voss - probably should have offered to swap coaches for 2026 and see what happens I'd look at something along the lines of Cam Bruce with Simmo or Horse as Football Manager.

Re Pettyfor, she was the GM Football Ops and AFLW at Collingwood before joining us so for all we know she was slated for this role when we brought her in as Comms Director. It id not as if we've grabbed a random person from Marketing to run a footy program.

Boys have done enough, need to ease off and look to next week.

This seems good on paper but I'd be wary of the Filths tricks.

I reckon clubs would pay $800k to $1.2m for Oliver with a second to third round pick. While he is not tearing games apart he is still one of the best inside mids and for clubs with such a need he would be better value than an equivelant 25+ year old free agent.

It is also very strange that the AFL CEO met with Bailey Smith to tell him how valuabpe he is to the league. My take is this is a highly inappropriate meeting as the league CEO should not be meeting with players at clubs re their future in the league.

Extraordinary call, I couldn't believe Salem didn't recieve free and then foe it to go the othrr way. Beggars belief.

I heard that Fritsch was upset and felt blindsided about Lever being dropped.