Everybody is saying THATSGOLD is wrong on this. How do we know he is?
How will we feel next year if Heater & Daisy are tearing it up @ their new clubs?
How will we feel if we still have a game plan that sucks?
Is it against the law to question if the coach is the problem just because the coach is Bucks?
Everything cannot be all the players fault surely? Could a different coach have reeled them in & got them on side?
These questions have to also be asked. Not just use the mantra that if we are playing crap that it must be all the players fault.
If we had Jo Shmo as coach of our club right now & we had gone from Grand Finalists to eighth in 2 years & then he started dismantling what was a perfectly good list that reigned supreme in 2010, then most people on here would be tearing the walls of the Westpac centre down & calling for his head.
Why is everybody so sure Buckley's way is the right way? What has he done as a coach that fills everyone so full of confidence to say what we are doing is the right thing, ridding ourselves of players who have been icons at Collingwood? I'm not trying to start world war 3 here. I'm genuinely interested to know that due to poor performances, why has the coach & his staff not been put under the same scrutiny as the players?
Many of us can see that Bucks has never had the full list of Premiership players on the park. Hawthorn slid for a couple of years as they dealt with injuries and re-jigged the list after 2008. 5 years down the track and how many of that side played in the 2013 flag?
If Heater and Daisy are out because of Buckley, then you have to attribute Swan's year to Buckley's coaching as well. How far away from Ablett was he?
I don't think those who are blaming Buckley's changes for blokes leaving would ever give him credit for Swan's form this year.
The icon's of a club are the ones you have to watch because they have a tendency to think that they are untouchable. They get a bit too comfortable and when there is a change and expectations of them rise, the comfort zone is gone.
I just wish someone from the club would tell us exactly the attitude of some of players was when Bucks took the reigns. We could all stop guessing about the appropriateness of Bucks' approach.