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I think it was about 2008 that I finally decided that Malthouse was no longer a coach I wanted for my beloved club.
It wasn't so much the on field performances, though his constant playing of favorite players, who were never going to be Premiership standard, was grating on me.
His constant disregard for the fans that he showed in pressers and interviews truly shit me.
Ed acted and gave him a line in the sand. It worked, but it also cost us 2011.
Now we have come full circle.
History is repeating. While I was very vocal at the time that I wanted Malthouse gone, I was unsure about appointing a favorite son, with little coaching experience.
We had been down this path before. And ironically, it was that path that lead us to Malthouse.
But such was my hatred for Malthouse that I just wanted change, at any cost.
2016......I see nothing different to 2008. Except for the fact that in 2008 at least the coach had Premiership experience.
I look at our list and see some genuine excitement. There are done players that may become elite.
But they are not there yet and they will only get there with elite coaching. And that's the issue.
Buckley was a gun kick. Lace out from 50 metres, time and time again. Hell, he even invented a kicking test for potential AFL recruits.
So why, as head coach responsible for all skills, are we so woeful at kicking? I would have thought that he would rank this skill as number one in the list as he was so good at it. And he knows what he did over his junior years to become so elite.
Yet we continue to recruit bad kicks and seem unable to rectify that when we get our hands in them.
And one of my biggest complaints of Malthouse was his inability to switch to a plan B when there was a tide of attack on the field.
Buckley is arguably worse than Malthouse in this regard.
I cling to the hope that the history of 2008 turns into the history of 2010.
But times have changed. The spectre of GWS makes that scenario so much harder.
It wasn't so much the on field performances, though his constant playing of favorite players, who were never going to be Premiership standard, was grating on me.
His constant disregard for the fans that he showed in pressers and interviews truly shit me.
Ed acted and gave him a line in the sand. It worked, but it also cost us 2011.
Now we have come full circle.
History is repeating. While I was very vocal at the time that I wanted Malthouse gone, I was unsure about appointing a favorite son, with little coaching experience.
We had been down this path before. And ironically, it was that path that lead us to Malthouse.
But such was my hatred for Malthouse that I just wanted change, at any cost.
2016......I see nothing different to 2008. Except for the fact that in 2008 at least the coach had Premiership experience.
I look at our list and see some genuine excitement. There are done players that may become elite.
But they are not there yet and they will only get there with elite coaching. And that's the issue.
Buckley was a gun kick. Lace out from 50 metres, time and time again. Hell, he even invented a kicking test for potential AFL recruits.
So why, as head coach responsible for all skills, are we so woeful at kicking? I would have thought that he would rank this skill as number one in the list as he was so good at it. And he knows what he did over his junior years to become so elite.
Yet we continue to recruit bad kicks and seem unable to rectify that when we get our hands in them.
And one of my biggest complaints of Malthouse was his inability to switch to a plan B when there was a tide of attack on the field.
Buckley is arguably worse than Malthouse in this regard.
I cling to the hope that the history of 2008 turns into the history of 2010.
But times have changed. The spectre of GWS makes that scenario so much harder.
