Ted Lasso

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

I should clarify, Brad green is a footy person that I’ve met a few times and really rate, which I know not everyone agrees with. I think generally speaking the degree to which “we’re a mess” is overstated, though I’d like the leaks to stop and I personally am unsure if Nathan Buckley is really an upgrade on what we already had and are now paying not to coach. they’re the experts and I’ll trust them to make the right call. I hope the leaks that might exist do stop, and things settle when Steven smith and Paul guerra are in their seats and we have a new coach and hopefully a period with a bit more stability

Simon Goodwins sacking was leaked to the media half way through a zoom meeting letting our senior players know their coach has been sacked. That’s a monumental governance failing that something like they leaked out.

It’s kinda silly isn’t it professional sporting club tests the market to see what options they have before making enormous decision on premiership hero coach I’d argue it would be negligent not to have those conversations ahead of time and common practice within the industry

Few influential Tassie people are Richmond legends, not surprising Richmond supporting Caro starts crapping all over Melbourne when we look a huge chance to steal their number one coaching target from them.

He’s still very young but Xavier Lindsay is about the most impressive young leader I’ve ever met. He’s probably someone who’ll find himself a captain of the MFC within 5 years IMO

Kane made her look pretty silly about which job is more appealing. Melbourne are already on the way. Best case by 2032 or 2033 Tasmania might reach where Melbourne are right now, If they’re lucky, there are no guarantees. And history says 5 years without finals is going to probably spell the end for any coach

It reminds me of Paul Roos before he took the job but bucks excitement is a little more obvious and he’s not as good an actor I’d be pretty shocked if he wasn’t our senior coach next year

I must admit I think it’s probably more simple than that. Simpson said he never even spoke to us, Chaplin didn’t even apply. I think a few things are pointing to the idea we’ve had bucks as our target a long way out. No one wants to publicly express interest and not get the role.

I would assume this is a lot further along than many realise, I’m sure we’ve had a pretty good idea what our options are for weeks if not months and all roads seem to point to Nathan Buckley. if it’s going to be him, I hope they just rip the bandaid off and appoint him right away so he can get to work on attracting the best players and coaches and staff and launching into 2026

I think one thing with Clarry that it’s worth pointing out. of the one dimensional inside bull players that dominated the league 5 years ago, the game has basically moved on from them now. The challenge clarry has got is two fold because he has to not only get his body and mind right, he needs to add more strings to his bow. I would even argue patty cripps who’s the best at that role has been largely ineffective this year because the game is changing. So I agree it’s not injuries with Clarry, probably a bit mindset and a bit the game itself is changing and as a result he’s gone from elite, to a pretty good player who can be exposed

So can Buckley. You don’t accidentally make grand finals or deep finals runs. easy to remember that one slightly worse kick from dom sheed and bucks is a premiership coach.

There is a perception rightly or wrongly that the mfc rule the roost a little bit, I have no idea if this is true or not, but I’m softening to Buckley simply because if it were true, I can’t imagine him putting up with it.

Yup. Strange play to sus out potential assistants when your unsure if you even want to coach, don’t know how many vacancies the club in question has or what the soft cap situation is, and don’t know where exactly the role is. this is definitely an indication that bucks is at least in his mind down the path quite a way. And the MFC have provided him with some insight about what a team around him and its structure might look like. I would expect bucks to be announced before finals to be honest

Personally I’d ask the question if miocek and Elliot. 2 40 goal forwards coming into our set up could really give us a boost and both are high end of forward craft

I’ve for a long time held the view Gawn is going to be an incredible media performer.

Normally the clubs just leak that to essentially gently let down a wave of assistants who might apply when the club has a pretty good idea who it’s going to be. In our case gently saying we’d rather one of Longmire, Simpson, Buckley or Hinkley. the fact we’ve already said no to Chaplin says it all really, he’s a very good assistant who I’d be shocked if he isn’t a senior coach in the next 2-3 years

Hope we get him a petrol card for the drives out to Casey!

I think horse was able to maximise Sydney’s advantage at the SCG but was exposed in big finals at the MCG. If he were to coach Melbourne I suspect he’d aim to make us unbeatable at the MCG, which you need to be to win premierships.

You’d have to imagine a number of teams would see a motivated Simon Goodwin as a pretty good addition. I have a feeling he’s going to the tigers to work with yze

The fact we’ve told Troy Chaplin not to pursue the role seems to be some evidence we either already know who we want or what we want, or we don’t want anyone from the previous FD involved at all.

Let’s be real, if nick daicos walked into our club this off season we’d be playing finals in 2026 as well. Yes fly has re energised the pies but I have no doubt they’d have spiked under bucks as well when you have an 18 year old walk in and play at near Brownlow level

Horse worked very hard to avoid saying no.

Hinkley would tell the dees players to take max out off the ball just out of habit. the Hinkley appointment does become interesting if it increases our chances of luring Zak butters. You don’t make a coaching call because of that but if it’s a 50/50 choice for example perhaps that becomes a factor