AFL 360.. Buckley " we weren't concerned about winning"

[Royal Flush]

Ouch. He said he was more concerned about conserving players. Well mr Buckley if you were so concerned about conserving players why didn't you do a ballsy move like Ross Lyon and rest 10 players.

 

[naturally north]

Clearly they haven't been concerned about winning all year .Their season will end in two weeks,and Pie fans can rest easy cause Buckley won't be concerned.

 

[Royal Flush]

The arrogant Buckley the arrogant McGuire winging about hypothetical scheduling in week 2, the arrogant maxwell..
Watch em fall humiliated this week

 

[koshari]

why didn't you do a ballsy move like Ross Lyon and rest 10 players.

i thought they had the flu?

 

[scooby1279]

Dane swan also said on radio after the game that he had his eye for the finals, therefore he wasn't chasing as hard or running as hard as he would usually in an important game. We played well but need to be realistic too. A good sign was magpies looked like they were going to run away with it in the third but we fought back hard.

 

[Saintly31]

Sounds like a coach in denial. He made hardly any moves to suggest that he was in fact taking the game easy (either before or during game), so it appears we beat them on merit and he has twisted the story to pretend it was all part of the plan.

In other words......being a tool, and he is quite good at it.

 

[LB2Snake]

Worth listening to is bucks ......multiple premiership player, wait, what?.....

 

[Royal Flush]

Sounds like a coach in denial. He made hardly any moves to suggest that he was in fact taking the game easy (either before or after game), so it appears we beat them on merit and he has twisted the story to pretend it was all part of the plan.

In other words......being a tool, and he is quite good at it.

I can just picture zeibel watching that and just frothing at the mouth for 2014

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

So Nathan is alright with his players selectively choosing when and when not to go flat out?

What a leader....

 

[Maddox]

You're a ****head, Buckley.

 

[Hunters Host #3]

So, why the **** would he sit in the coaches box with a stunned look on his face as the final siren went, if he didn't give a s**t.

Wouldn't you be smiling and skipping down to the clubrooms?

 

[Saintly31]

I can just picture zeibel watching that and just frothing at the mouth for 2014

I hope so.

It was quite disrespectful what he said, especially as we were multiple key players down and still got the job done. Pretty poor whether it has merit or otherwise.

 

[Maddox]

Bloody oath it was disrespectful. What a toss of a bloke.

 

[deano28]

When the camera panned on him after the game the look on his face wasn't the look of someone who didn't care about winning or losing , looked like a bloke that knows his side is in trouble . The same guy who went on record before the game saying that they wouldn't be taking it easy , that they wanted to hit finals winning . But I'm glad he said this , I'm sure it will be relayed to the boys before we play them next year .

FIGJAM .... Never been more apt .

 

[Liam Boy]

Excuses. We beat them. They need to accept it.

 

[Rooboy 96]

another great decision (to be disrespectful) by Mr I constantly make the poor choices in life.

 

[Reagan Smash]

Buckley is a tosser of the highest order and before tonights 360 I didn't give a s**t about this weekends results, But now I want Port to win

 

[Hearts to hearts]

They weren't playing flat out. But they weren't not trying to win either. Probably slacked off in the last quarter once it came to a choice between working really hard to win or letting it slide. If it really didn't matter they could have rested players in the second half, starting with Reid. I expect Buckley would have been less concerned about the result than about being sliced open, conceding so many goals, and getting smacked at clearances. I said in the MB game thread tat it was crazy to hear supporters getting so fired up when the players weren't, really. Kind of graceless to say they weren't fussed after losing, although you'd have to hear the context.

 

[winalotroos]

Alway ezy to say wasn't trying, when you lose! What a dick.

 

[GoNorth]

I heard the Dane Swan interview after the game as well. Collingwood are scum! I hope they get smashed in the finals!

 

[Mixed Results]

Why did he bring Reid back on then?

 

[LETSGOKANGAS]

Buckley would give it his all to win throwing scrunched up paper into a bin comp.

The man is built to win and he comes put with this dribble?

One thing I'm sick of is every team coming out and stating how flat they were against us, how bad of a day they had and now, how they really didnt want to win

 

[DarwinRoo]

Dane swan also said on radio after the game that he had his eye for the finals, therefore he wasn't chasing as hard or running as hard as he would usually in an important game. We played well but need to be realistic too. A good sign was magpies looked like they were going to run away with it in the third but we fought back hard.

Ok let's be realistic. No Swallow, no Thompson, no Grima and no Adams.

The umpires and some flukey goals kept them in it.

 

[TheBowandArrow]

What sort of player doesn't chase as hard in a game because your focused on the next week? Once you cross the white line you don't think about that s**t. Bucks obviously cared about player conservation as he sent Reid back out after he had a decent stint of the bench with an injury worry. Why would you risk it?

 

[Rooboy 96]

I heard the Dane Swan interview after the game as well. Collingwood are scum! I hope they get smashed in the finals!

it really is much more fun to watch them lose Grand Finals.