Ted Lasso

A really tough one to assess the trade value of. You don’t just give away a guy who’s been a star player or a leader but given his age. Who knows.

Keep an eye out for the article saying Kane Cornes is a secretly Gifted coach from channel 7. Maybe we can get Caro in to head up our development and TJ running the fitness dept

If it’s not bucks, which I think it will be Danny Daly as senior coach and cam Bruce as senior assistant would be a pretty strong second choice. raid the Brisbane lions

My guess would be Buckley hinkley Skipworth Enright King Daly would be the 6 the panel will explore fully

for what it’s worth I think mark williams would be absolutely brilliant in the player welfare space and a real Asset for the club to keep in that capacity.

I love when people respond like a smart Alec while missing the point entirely. I’m saying we are patting him on the back for speaking well, because we are so used to either BS or silence. Of course that’s his job and what he’ll be judged on…. I’ve never seen a professional in any industry receive more applause for simply being able to speak like a human being besides maybe some politicians?

Brownlow medalist level. Is his ceiling in my opinion and he could be closing in on the level as soon as next year with a good pre season. The fact he’s universally not seen as a runaway rising star is bonkers, the draft pool was crazy good

I’m going to sound overly negative here. But… While I think Paul guerra spoke well and hats off to him for that, we are setting the bar pretty low because Gary Pert talked in circles about best culture in 40 years when we all knew that was silly, and now the interim CEO is essentially silent publicly. just having a CEO that actually speaks and sounds genuine and isn’t making huge claims about our culture seems to be the bar we’ve landed on, when in reality his success will be, getting Caulfield announced in the next 12 months, a good decision on the next coach, and stability over a 3-5 year period with increasing profits, membership and crowd attendance being another huge thing to figure out. I’m hopeful he’s up for the job but I see a lot of patting him on the back for just speaking like a human being rather than a used car salesman

How could you not want to coach Harvey Langford! The kid is a superstar

Steven mays worst AFL season is still Comfortably better than anything Mitch McGovern has ever produced. If we were going to recruit him, the only potential would be as a short term sugar hit up forward and I wouldn’t even do that

I laughed out loud about his article Mentioning trac “ my gut feel is petracca will either stay or go to a club like hawthorn” which is of course about as insightful as “I’m pretty confident Melbourne will hire Nathan Buckley, or someone else as a senior coach for next year”

Geelong will open their bottomless pit salary cap up and sign him and clarry

I think Jared rivers was an assistant under bucks?

I don’t think any major footy dept re signings or decisions will occur until we have a new coach, they might want to bring their own people and so on. Though I do very much hope JT stays with the club as I feel he’s done a very good job

I’m really struggling to get my head around the urgency to sack goody being such that we would pay him 1.2 million a year to hire a coach with a worse record (bucks) or an untried assistant. change for the sake of change is generally a sign of poor governance and if there is a clear and urgent reason this needed to happen now the club hasn’t really communicated it. I’d get it for John Longmire. If we’re sacking goody to get access to horse before Carlton or anyone else could, but if bucks rules himself out it’ll basically be an untried assistant

Imagine wanting to attract or keep talent… hahaha [censored]

I’d argue petty has always been capable but the thing that’s improving is he’s now getting better looks at it with better and more aggressive ball movement

I don’t wanna pot our players but he’s so goal hungry man, he just get it’s and winds up. If he wants to play regular AFL footy in 2026 I’d suggest he works out how to pass it

Ugh Tom morris pretending as though this isn’t normal. Every coaching race the club has 2-3 targets they’d love. For us Simpson, Longmire, Buckley and if one of them wants it it’s theirs. Happened with the saints and Ross Lyon. And if they rule themselves out they then move to the best untried assistant. Melbourne aren’t running a boat race, Melbourne are a stronger and more appealing prospect than a typical rebuilding club like Richmond were and west coast are and as such we are a chance to sign one of our preferred candidates and we are prioritising that. it’s good governance to canvas the market to make sure it’s still the best decision even if we initially like one of the options and will very likely Lean that way

It’s all smoke and mirrors Picket fence is the new front runner for the job.

Can we just re hire him?

Totally agree. Even the pursuit of cam Bruce I don’t believe would happen without the approval of the new coach who’d want to hand pick any members to his coaching panel he can. I think the club possibly wants to give the appearance of a thorough process but in reality the decision is made and wheels are already in motion. the interesting irony would be if this assumption is correct and it hasn’t been leaked that’s at least one positive

Far out. I knew it was going to Leak. good news guys, I’ve got the job

If we hire Daly as the coach maybe the Ashcroft boys and Logan morris can come as a bonus

It should be that and my phone has dogged me with autocorrect. Good catch