Coach Craig McRae

[Chief Ten Beers]

With this article McCrae is pumping his own tyres up again - he may very well be great at everything as he claims to be and I desperately hope he is.

But telling us all this now is pretty pointless.

He has only been coach for 5 minutes.

I dont like it.

Hubris.

There's always one..

 

[MyManLynch]

I would rather see hundreds of positive posts re our new coach (potential), than not.
Glass half full sir? Nah…fill it to the brim.

 

[pablo disco bar]

And when losses come ppl will turn quickly

 

[jimmy35]

And when losses come ppl will turn quickly

I’m not expecting any losses mate. Otherwise the panel have chosen the wrong man and I’ll be calling an egm to get rid of them.

 

[jonmacTrag]

I would rather see hundreds of positive posts re our new coach (potential), than not.
Glass half full sir? Nah…fill it to the brim.

I'm a stone cold realist - the glass isn't half full and it isn't half empty . . . .

There appears to be some liquid in that glass . .

 

[MyManLynch]

I’m not expecting any losses mate. Otherwise the panel have chosen the wrong man and I’ll be calling an egm to get rid of them.

Then I will be calling for an EGM to counter your EGM.

 

[jimmy35]

Then I will be calling for an EGM to counter your EGM.

Pffft then I shall play my EEGM card. No returns.

 

[JLC]

Then I will be calling for an EGM to counter your EGM.

The funny thing is that the intended outcome will likely be achieved even though some stakeholders appear to have switched camps.

 

[jonmacTrag]

The funny thing is that the intended outcome will likely be achieved even though some stakeholders appear to have switched camps.

All that will be achieved is a change of faces - structurally at the board level it's as you were.

 

[MyManLynch]

Pffft then I shall play my EEGM card. No returns.

That’s not cricket.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

You certainly like to bring people back to earth with a thud. You have just drained the euphoria from the appointment leaving it parched of joy and exposed to all sorts of harsh objective scrutiny. Your words have flushed out last night's dream of a 2022 GF B&W win on the back of a faultless home and away performance. You are telling us that Buckley has not gone but simply returned in the guise of Craig McCrae! Thanks for popping all the party balloons, sitting on the cake and stealing all the presents!

Yeah sorry, I’m always the yin to everyone’s yang… but even that works both ways when things are bad.

 

[gouki88]

With this article McCrae is pumping his own tyres up again - he may very well be great at everything as he claims to be and I desperately hope he is.

But telling us all this now is pretty pointless.

He has only been coach for 5 minutes.

I dont like it.

Hubris.

Ridiculous. "Pumping his own tyres up again" FMD

 

[jathanas]

Magpies have no plans to trade out veterans

Craig McRae does not plan to overhaul the club’s list as the Magpies enter a new era.

www.sen.com.au

“What’s there at the moment is some excitement around the youth and we heavily invested in the draft last year and potentially the number one pick this year (in Nick Daicos), I think there’s enough young talent there.

“The balance for me, and I learned this at Hawthorn this year, you can’t have too much youth. You need a balance of experience around them because it really does stress the others out too much.

“That’s going to be a delicate balance all year, finding the right mix that doesn’t stress too many of the better players.”

Is this kind of logic too well-reasoned for the Collingwood Football Club? I'm not sure I welcome it, it unsettles me. Sack him before he turns things around.

 

[jonmacTrag]

Magpies have no plans to trade out veterans

Craig McRae does not plan to overhaul the club’s list as the Magpies enter a new era.

www.sen.com.au

“What’s there at the moment is some excitement around the youth and we heavily invested in the draft last year and potentially the number one pick this year (in Nick Daicos), I think there’s enough young talent there.

“The balance for me, and I learned this at Hawthorn this year, you can’t have too much youth. You need a balance of experience around them because it really does stress the others out too much.

“That’s going to be a delicate balance all year, finding the right mix that doesn’t stress too many of the better players.”

Is this kind of logic too well-reasoned for the Collingwood Football Club? I'm not sure I welcome it, it unsettles me. Sack him before he turns things around.

It's certainly too well reasoned for many contributors here, that's for sure.

 

[jathanas]

It's certainly too well reasoned for many contributors here, that's for sure.

You couldn't resist, could you?

 

[76woodenspooners]

With this article McCrae is pumping his own tyres up again - he may very well be great at everything as he claims to be and I desperately hope he is.

But telling us all this now is pretty pointless.

He has only been coach for 5 minutes.

I dont like it.

Hubris.

Kudos for putting out a dissenting opinion, especially an unpopular one.

The “hubris” word goes back to the infamous Patrick Smith article in the aftermath of our 2011 Grand Final loss (Link). (Maybe it goes back even further?). It does provide a cautionary tale.

What are the specific things in what McRae has said that make you see him as “pumping up his own tyres”?

Maybe an obvious one is the “‘Winning is in my DNA”, and if it went unexplained I might have had a real problem with it too. I certainly wouldn’t like to see it as a marketing slogan.

But he did go on to explain that he sees winning as a process, and it’s a process that he has evolved over a long period of time, and to be fair it has been a process that has seen him achieving success in various different roles in various different environments. So for me I’m happy to let that one go through to the keeper.

He’s also said a whole bunch of things that are counter-hubris. He’s said on a number of occasions that he’s not a finished product. He has said - unprompted - that he treats everyone from the President down to the bootstudder property steward with the same level of respect.

 

[Vicky Park]

Pffft then I shall play my EEGM card. No returns.

And I’ll get signatures on a petition outside the…the…well I’ll just get some signatures and give them to somebody who might or might not be associated with the club.

The petition will demand change. This will be defined later.

 

[jonmacTrag]

You couldn't resist, could you?

Certainly not, too many around and have been around for far too long

 

[Jonno94]

Magpies have no plans to trade out veterans

Craig McRae does not plan to overhaul the club’s list as the Magpies enter a new era.

www.sen.com.au

“What’s there at the moment is some excitement around the youth and we heavily invested in the draft last year and potentially the number one pick this year (in Nick Daicos), I think there’s enough young talent there.

“The balance for me, and I learned this at Hawthorn this year, you can’t have too much youth. You need a balance of experience around them because it really does stress the others out too much.

“That’s going to be a delicate balance all year, finding the right mix that doesn’t stress too many of the better players.”

Is this kind of logic too well-reasoned for the Collingwood Football Club? I'm not sure I welcome it, it unsettles me. Sack him before he turns things around.

I still think Sidebottom should be the only one traded. Wont be around for our next flag, could demand a decent price from Gold Coast and we have too many smaller outside types now.

 

[jathanas]

I still think Sidebottom should be the only one traded. Wont be around for our next flag, could demand a decent price from Gold Coast and we have too many smaller outside types now.

Yes agree, if it's in the club's best interests I see him as the most disposable.

 

[MsPendles]

There's always one..

Nothing like a doom and gloomer, gosh the Pies might end up blushed with success

 

[NMBB]

Too right TRS talk is cheap but Craig strikes me as someone who can get the point across to the common man, Bucks never had that touch.
We will know by the end of next season one way or the other.

agree there - think they got confused amongst technicalities at times

 

[jonmacTrag]

agree there - think they got confused amongst technicalities at times

Yes Bucks was definitely a detail man, besides being utterly focused - probably the most completely prepared footballer I have ever witnessed.
But he could be overwhelming for a young bloke just starting to make his way I guess.

 

[Pie eyed]

I'm a stone cold realist - the glass isn't half full and it isn't half empty . . . .

There appears to be some liquid in that glass . .

Whether the glass is half full or half empty is never the real issue.
How much is in the bottle is the only question.
McRae seems to be a well aged, mature full bottle, as yet opened.
If he were a wine, then based on his constituent parts, an extremely good finish would be expected.
That said some of the best wines turn to vinegar.

We can only be confident that the processes of selection left no stone unturned and the best available choice was made.

 

[jonmacTrag]

Whether the glass is half full or half empty is never the real issue.
How much is in the bottle is the only question.
McRae seems to be a well aged, mature full bottle, as yet opened.
If he were a wine, then based on his constituent parts, an extremely good finish would be expected.
That said some of the best wines turn to vinegar.

We can only be confident that the processes of selection left no stone unturned and the best available choice was made.

Finestkind PE trust in the process always.