Nathan says “I will walk”

[Magpietothemax]

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

I personally have no preference in a new coach other than that we need a new coach and he needs to be the best available that we can afford BUT if I was a betting man I'd be throwing a tidy little bet on Lyon - in fact i'm positive he'll be our next coach.. like it or not. I give Brad Scott almost zero chance of coaching us in the future. I also give Clarkson or Mitchel almost zero chance of coaching us either... which basically leaves Ross..

I'm not vouching for him but he was unlucky at the saints, and he managed to get Fremantle to one year on top of the ladder and another as the runner up in the GF.. and personally I thought he was going through the motions out west - he always looked bored... but yet look at the results, at least for a period.

Even though we will lose some pretty important players over the next 2-3 years... we have a good nucleus to work with.

As long as we get the best available.. I'm all in (well I am anyway but you know what I mean..)

[Jezza]

^ Lyon does well with lists about to hit their prime.

He's useless if a club is in rebuild mode.

[simon tonna]

It eerks me to see Brisbane and st Kilda flourish in no time after a good decisions in coaching oppointments.

[Presti35]

Maybe it's time to bring back Choco?

[Lazza]

Well Simon, you can choose to be eerked. I’m very excited about Buckley finally having a reasonably injury free list to work with and happy to see what happens. I’m pretty optimistic that we will finish in the 5 - 8 group of finalists. As for Choco, oh please for once, can we use some intelligence when appointing coaches? That would prevent me from eerking 🥺

[Pies4shaw]

You don't want a premiership coach?

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

There could be a lot of worse appointments for our next coach than Choco... he wouldn't be my 1st choice, but, considering how good he is with youth and list development and the realistic prospects that we won't be in 'contention' anytime soon (and they pretty much even admitted it when they were justifying only being able to viably continue to pay overs for players when we were vying for a premiership 'with this group' and then backing that up with the way we traded/drafted this year, and set up for grabbing Nick Daicos next year... and then the 'possibility' of being back in the race for and affording a 'gun free agent').

But back to the truth and what will happen... Bucks is now just warming the seat for the next cab on the rank (barring a miracle premiership), imo anyone objectively looking at the situation from the outside (i.e not a one eye Bucks lover) will see that this truth is clearly evident.

The next cab on the rank is a clear choice - why - because he's the best available. Who he is is also clearly evident.

[Lazza]

Anyone but Choco for me I’m afraid. He is not the answer to the question of future planning and coaching strategies for the ever changing modern game. Need someone with a state of the art grip of the 2021 and onwards game. I wouldn’t mind a recently retired player who interviews with confidence and well thought out game plans and strategies to take us to the next step. I think this is an achievable task. We have to be prepared to be patient though and this is a huge problem for Collingwood and most fans who want a flag within the next 1 - 2 years. I don’t think this is feasible but I could be totally wrong.

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

Lazza, ask yourself this - after ten years with an untried coach and pretty much zero success do you think the club will go for an inexperienced... recently retired... player? Or is this code speak for Brad Hodge? Or perhaps Mitchell?! Neither is going to happen.. and the last thing the club is going to do is go for an inexperienced coach... Just for a minute imagine we did go for a coach like that and it was a total failure - who'd be with egg on their face... the inexperienced coach? or the fools who selected him?!

They're are going to go for the best and most experienced coach available... and for some at our club, its going to be rough because the choice is obvious... and many here dislike him. Right now we don't need to be romantic and select a hero, we need to hire a professional.

It's not a perfect match and they rarely are, but quietly... I'm fairly optimistic.

[Lazza]

You are probably right and I need to move on from my unresolved anger from when the bloody captain of Collingwood decided to chase money at a new team interstate. Treasonous low act IMO.😡🤬
However if Collingwood go with Choco, I will never ever give up on my dearest maggies but will take a backseat next season and observe from a distance. The issue is that many young posters here and even some players wouldn’t know about his bastard act and Collingwood probably don’t want to get into a shit fight. So it is quite feasible and likely that they will appoint Choco 🥺😟 And as a lifelong loyal supporter I wish him the very best if he gets the gig. BTW, I never meant Hodge or Mitchell. I meant what I said, get a recently retired player familiar with the ever evolving modern game.

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

It won't be Choco.. you're safe.

[Lazza]

Hope you are right Wolf. Phew! 😯

[ronrat]

It won't be Brad Hodge either. Just saying. Luke Hodge maybe.

[simon tonna]

The problem with Brad is he was only really noted for the short game version. We’re now back to full quarters.