You do realise, like any job, probably has to give a certain amount of weeks notice right...
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Steven King is the new Demons coach
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Bluelegs
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I'm sure that the AFL changed the rules around 2011 to stop coaches from finals teams from getting poached while they were still alive. That year like 5 coaches were taken from the grand finalists.
Usually teams elect to not announce the coach until their current team bows out but in this case everyone was mature enough to do things publicly.
Usually teams elect to not announce the coach until their current team bows out but in this case everyone was mature enough to do things publicly.
FFS, he has some of the most important list management decisions this club has had to make for decades and he wants remain with his previous employer.
What is he doing, organising Olivers farm and Cotton On deals.
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Stephen King was in the running for the West Coast but had a health scare which had him pull out. I read that on another forum today
That being said, even if he did come second in that job, it shouldn't really matter too much.
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He's doing his job that he is currently contracted for...
Bullshit.
That contract needed to be annulled once he accepted the job as head coach at the MFC.
But another typically week MFC decision.
Guy Threepwood
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Nah, it's a good outcome for all parties. King gets to stay involved at the Cats to try and help them win a flag, Geelong don't end up short one assistant in the lead in to a prelim and Melbourne get their main with plenty of time to assess the squad prior to trade week. As someone earlier mentioned, it seems like mature decisions have been made by and for everyone involved.
It's two weeks. The MFC will live.
As we all know (bar Hawthorn supporters), the opportunity to be part of a flag doesn't come around often.
I remember Hawthorn being told that they had basically stuffed it after experienced coaches all went for other teams two decades ago, so they had to settle for the untried Alastair Clarkson.
I still remember Brenton Sanderson missing on being part of 2007 because he had been appointed Adelaide coach a week earlier. Very bittersweet
To be fair, that's what most blokes wasting money at the casino look like.
Yeeeah that's not how it works with proper jobs that you're good at and can't be immediately replaced from within...
Not quite - there are roles where you are immediately sent home but paid out your notice. For example, C-suite employees or employees with substantial access to IP who are going to a competitor are often paid "gardening leave" (i.e. stay away from work and don't access work intel).
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No need to wait.
It’s rather like his situation in 2007 as a player - he was going to be moved on but got picked for the GF and played in a flag on the way out.
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Buckley’s record is basically on par with Goodwins. Don’t rate him.
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Fitting given that the MFC is an absolute MISERY!We really got a best selling author coaching Melbourne before GTA 6
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They’ve got to start somewhere!
About as inspiring as both WA club coaches I’d say
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so much for all of those whacky conspiracy theorists that thought they'd already chosen Buckley. lol. That was some of the silliest logic I've heard. Why would a panel of people, most of them who have no relationship or affinity to the MFC decide to choose Nathan Buckley and not follow a due process of interviewing other highly credentialed candidates. Literally made no sense at all.
Didn't seem that was what he was implying but fair point.
Good luck Kingy, good choice.
They are surprised as Buckley will be when the AFL offers Chris Fagan a ridiculous amount of money to go spend his late 60s being 'Grandad Tassie: The Local Hero'.
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You sound salty that King had to pull out of the West Coast coaching race last season and now you're stuck with McQualter.
King will be a great coach.
Let's make this clear because it's already starting to spread as 'fake news' - he didn't pull out - he just didn't get the job.
Here is an article from early October last year explaining as much:
Steven King opens up on collapse that rocked Geelong
