Ted Lasso

I agree the AFL conspiracy angle is a bit silly, but i think Caro is a person who does have a lot of close personal connections with very senior people associated with Tasmania and her bias and desire to help them is pretty clearly seeping into her reporting on this. I mean her arguement a coaching job that doesn't even currently exist is better than the Melbourne job Bucks is interviewing for is evidence of the enormous intellectual stretch she's making to try and make the two comparable enough to be worth discussing. I think this is the reason no other journo is seriously discussing Tassie as a viable alternative for Bucks, Damian Barrett did a good job talking about exactly this recently as well, stating Tassie might not ever actually have a job to offer so they really can't do much beyond sit and watch.

Caro thinks Melbourne is a bad job Paul Roos thinks Melbourne is a great job who would know? the media personality clearly pushing her own agenda or the premiership coach with intimate knowledge about the people and club in question?

Dogs, fair. But the Melbourne prospects are significantly better than Carlton or Essendon

Caro has also been shut down on this before but you’ve got a team that actually exists and plays at the MCG Every other week and is a real chance of playing ans winning finals in the near future vs an idea. A hypothetical team that might not ever exist and even if they do they’re minimum 5 years of getting belted every week off even being a chance to make much less win finals

Well as of now he’s still in the process so Caro and Brendan gale might be telling him not to, that doesn’t mean he won’t listen.

If we manage to find another mark neeld style coach it’ll be fun to watch him sack max as captain and appoint Windsor and Langford as co captains

I'm totally with you, but Sam Mitchell isn't exactly a picture of humility either, and he's a decent coach. the whole jab thing at Essendon is one example. I'd be happy enough with any of the candidates if the club thinks they're the best person, probably still hold a preference for Bucks as he does feel a little bit safer to me, but i'm really intrigued by Steven King as well

Best coaching selection process Gary pert has seen in 40 years

Makes life tough for Carlton, if a bloke is willing to give up hundreds of thosands of dollars to get away from you, it's probably a good indication the relationship is in a fair bit of trouble

I keep reflecting on this and Nathan Buckley as a person and i just can't see him being someone to string us along, i don't think he'd be engaging in any sort of process with us unless he was very close to 100% sure he wants the role

This is honestly getting a bit silly now! Can anyone actually see us passing on Nathan Buckley and signing James Kelly? That feels as unlikely as Nathan Buckley to waste his or our time interviewing for a job he doesn’t want. we want him, he wants us, the whole footy world needs it. Just make the call and save our time, effort and money and respect these 5 assistants time.

I don't think the two would be related, i know it's over a decade ago but when we signed Paul Roos we allowed him to continue media commitments beyond that point for the remainder of the season, and i'd suggest that would be exactly the same with Bucks

I do find this interesting. Chris Scott inherited a premiership list and was very fortunate in a way to get the first flag out of the way right away, Hinkley and Scott after that actually had really similar records in terms of being consistently around the mark without perhaps cashing in, Scott has probably tipped that further in his favour the last 3-4 years, but the idea Ken Hinkley can't coach is silly.

Honestly i think memories of Mark Neeld will be the reason we're super reluctant to hire any of the potential 5 untried assistants in this process, the huge bonus with Nathan Buckley is we know for sure he isn't going to be a Mark Neeld, which wouldn't matter as much for most clubs as it clearly will for Melbourne

You’ll find yourself on the coaching team with that attitude!!

I like the idea the club just literally forgot to announce this and it's all just one giant misunderstanding! while it'd be an ordinary look it'd be pretty funny.

I personally get anxious when anyone commits to anything so i am hoping for a coach who is neither here nor there on whether the team actually wins games and instead prioritizes the players having fun and being good sports.

Cal left my name off the short list because he thinks it's a [censored] take but i can assure you it's not. Beard and i will be joining the Dees

Correct. There does seem to be this weird pattern where an assistant that puts his hand up and misses out too often falls out of the thinking for a role, i think a lot of the assistants probably are thinking of that in this regard, perhaps it's not worth the risk if their chances are slim to none

Yep. i'd take him as a rookie, if not as a late pick in the main draft.

Kentfield is such a good prospect. i'd be pretty surprised if he doesn't play regular senior footy next year.

You have to wonder if the potential availability of Curnow does make the Lions doubt the Oscar Allen signing, i mean it's clear which one most teams would choose of those two given the choice and money required.

If you were Carlton you could say something like "Don't negotiate with us, call Port and convince them to send us Zak Butters, if you can organise that, you can have Charlie in a 3 way deal.

I think this is incredibly true, Fagan is an obvious success story, but David Noble was an absolute disaster. I can see why we'd want him to be part of the process and his experience added some sort of appeal but i think the AFL world at times gets sucked in a little bit to what's trendy, Fagan had done ALOT of coaching even before his role at the Hawks so it wasn't foreign to him at all.

I'll put my hand up to manage Tracs socials if i get to eat the food he makes! i had to unfollow him because i was getting too hungry and wanting to make it most days!