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Re: David King's "How to Beat Collingwood" (Part III)
It takes guts to do what Buckley has done. It is allot easier to take a team that is struggling rather than take a team that has won a premiership or possibly 2. The way it stands ATM if Collingwood were to win this year’s premiership than if he were to coach the team to a 3rd straight premiership others will be saying that the team was in auto pilot and that anyone could have coached them. If He were to be unsuccessful at winning Collingwood a 3rd straight premiership then in the wider football world he has failed.
History tells us that is on hiding to nothing as there has been very few teams that have won 3 premierships in a row in the history of the game. Only one team has managed that feat in the past 50 odd years and they had more money than the rest of the teams to retain players.
There have been some inroads into Collingwood game plan this season so it would be fair to say that the gap has narrowed. Time will tell how long it will take before someone comes up with something better or if Collingwood can keep tweaking the game plan to avoid being caught by other teams.
You seem to be intimating that Buckley has a decent chance of succeeding because there are others around him to water down his influence. This may be the case. However, it now becomes a money issue and not so much a Buckley issue.
It takes guts to do what Buckley has done. It is allot easier to take a team that is struggling rather than take a team that has won a premiership or possibly 2. The way it stands ATM if Collingwood were to win this year’s premiership than if he were to coach the team to a 3rd straight premiership others will be saying that the team was in auto pilot and that anyone could have coached them. If He were to be unsuccessful at winning Collingwood a 3rd straight premiership then in the wider football world he has failed.
History tells us that is on hiding to nothing as there has been very few teams that have won 3 premierships in a row in the history of the game. Only one team has managed that feat in the past 50 odd years and they had more money than the rest of the teams to retain players.
There have been some inroads into Collingwood game plan this season so it would be fair to say that the gap has narrowed. Time will tell how long it will take before someone comes up with something better or if Collingwood can keep tweaking the game plan to avoid being caught by other teams.



