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all true. meh.

Re Rachele, my two bob's worth is that he's a young, ego-driven confidence player. At the moment he probably thinks he's better than he is, but he's also quite possibly capable of being better than he is. As long as he doesn't get the enthusiasm and confidence knocked out of him by a panicking...

At last, something to celebrate!

A longer quote from the Australian - from the first sentence it seems quite clear that supporters' opinions do not count towards 'pressure' - I wonder what/whose opinions do? The AFC football department? The media? The players? Silvers said coach Nicks was not under any pressure for his job...

It’s behind a paywall, it was on Apple News...

“I am confident as well as the club and our board that he is going to be our next premiership coach.” Tim Silvers Is this the proverbial kiss of death?

Noooooooooooo!! Buckley was a dour, mechanical coach who struggled to inspire his players (I think). We need a coach who can take the team to another level - Blight managed that, but he's past it. Next.

I did wonder why Hardwick left Richmond......

This is more evidence that the AFC Board and management has adopted (mostly) the DAD strategy for decision making. DAD = Decide Advise Defend. However, they are weak on the last D, defend. They seem to regard silence as an acceptable communication to their members, of which I am one. I can't...

His cranium is a tad egg-like, poaching always a risk (but needs to crack first).

Daniel Jackson

Why don't we offer the head coaching gig to Josh Carr? Annoy Port plus get a good coach. Win-win.

We wasted Easter then. Vale. Apparently a good bloke.

Is Matt Rendell still wandering the wilderness? Consultant, if he’d do it. If not I wouldn’t blame him.

cooked, unless someone turns off the heat

Port’s recruitment strategy looks good because they identify and choose their targets well. We get kudos for recruiting our captain and gun midfielder, except we identified and chose him as a HB. Some would say dumb luck.

This implies that we are capable of identifying the best mid in the draft. History is littered with such errors.

To quote the late great Peter Cook, something Matthew Nicks might like to think about. “I’ve learned from my mistakes and I can repeat them perfectly.”

I just signed up, didn’t realise that. Damn.

He’s obviously been hitting the vanilla smooothies

On current form I reckon 1-9 after 10, although hesitant to rule out 0-10.

Ah, so evidently we don’t want to be taken seriously

Aren’t coach payouts now limited to 6 months, regardless of contract length?

Crystal meh?

"........... and the removal of Mr Bartlett as president of Melbourne after he suggested to Mr Goyder and Mr McLachlan that AFL officials be regularly drug tested." This should be news!

hmmmmm, a mate once got busted in a pub car park

Yes you have. Being over the limit with car keys in your car = gone.

The best analysis of Nicks' coaching vs the cats that I've read. Maybe his assistants did more that we think last year? https://www.theroar.com.au/2024/03/23/footy-fix-the-crows-played-2024s-dumbest-game-against-the-afls-smartest-team-and-it-was-ghastly/

I had a friend who started an IT company. He was looking for angel investors. One, who offered a bucket of funding on the condition that he nominated a new CEO, said "what would you rather be, the founder of a successful company or the CEO of a failed one?" The inference being that it can be a...