Hopefully the leadership group has a word to Buckley about the Witts incident

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There is no way he should have done that as much as I like what he did and if I got the chance I would have done it more aggressively.

Witts is a grown man and has his family watching the game and 80 000 other people who are at the game and they see him get man handled by his coach like that. It's just not a good look at all, I know footy is an emotional game and there is no way Buckley would have meant it personally but part of being a good sportsperson is to control your emotions.

I love Bucks, he has apologised for that and we move on.
Where has he apologised?
 
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Everyone is entitled to post in a thread and express his or her opinion.
It's not about 'following someone around'

If you disagree with them you have 2 options

1. respond respectfully and debate the topic

Or
2. ignore them

You all know name calling is not allowed

Please treat everyone with the respect that we all deserve
 
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Disappointing response tbh.

Just watched his bit on Wittsy in the press conference and didn't seem like he did anything wrong, nor should he.

I'm not one to go conspiracy, but imo, quite clearly been instructed by the club to make that tweet.

Disappointing.
 

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I had enough respect for my coaches that if they grabbed me by the jumper, as they often did, the last thing on my mind was to pile drive them. I don't give a **** what era it was in but they knew how to get through to me.
Wits needed a rocket and he got one. Whether it was done in the rooms or in front of 70,000 it had the desired effect. Soft efforts in front of a crowd are more embarrassing.
 

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I had enough respect for my coaches that if they grabbed me by the jumper, as they often did, the last thing on my mind was to pile drive them. I don't give a **** what era it was in but they knew how to get through to me.
Wits needed a rocket and he got one. Whether it was done in the rooms or in front of 70,000 it had the desired effect. Soft efforts in front of a crowd are more embarrassing.
Yeah normally if a coach gives you a spray you bloody deserve it. Mind you though I thought there were others who deserved a spray just as much as witts
 

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Glad Bucks apologised. It is a tough game but not a great look.
Do you categorise it as abuse? Disrespect? Do you think in an environment where Witts has spent 3 years of a working relationship with Bucks for most of the week, that Bucks would abuse him?

Why is it specifically "not a great look"?
 

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Glad he apologised.
If he needs to do it again then I hope he does.
I know the two comments above sound contradictory but you get what I mean.
 
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Apologising only makes him look weak now. The players will continue to get away with being lazy out there.
Losing his shit like that made him look weak.
Stronger man would have held his composure.
You'll never see a guy with class like Pendles lose his shit like that, or like how maxwell did, instead lead by example and prove his point with football skill, not screaming and violence toward own players.
 

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Losing his shit like that made him look weak.
Stronger man would have held his composure.
You'll never see a guy with class like Pendles lose his shit like that, or like how maxwell did, instead lead by example and prove his point with football skill, not screaming and violence toward own players.
I've seen Pendlebury In fights on the field. Buckley didn't look weak yelling at his player. Who cares what the outside world thinks. Witts could've sooked it up but it fired him up and got something out of him.
 
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Must say I don't have any problem with it. It's a public show of something that occurs behind closed doors all the time. Coaches spray players, question their manhood, use abusive language etc etc. I am sure Bucks will grab a player or poke him in the chest as part of this. Always of the opinion that if this stuff goes on then there shouldn't be any problem if occasionally it springs out onto the public stage. Alternatively people may feel because it offend their own sensibilities they would like it hidden from view.

No use comparing this to your own workplace. At most workplaces you are not encouraged to acts of physical aggression against your opposition. Absolute rubbish for anyone to suggest that Witts appropriate response would have been to get physical back to Buckley. There is a chain of command and that needs to be respected. Buckley is there to be hard on them. If he loses his temper too often and resorts to abuse all the time he will lose the players. Part of his role is to balance the tough hard side of his job withits other facets.

People are worrying about seeing part of an AFL coaches workday. Forget it, as an isolated incident I have no problem with it. Players are always talking about sprays they cop from a coach. This is nothing like 99% of people's workplace so to compare what your own reactions may be doesn't make any sense. I think anyone who has played a bit of footy wouldn't bat an eyelid
 
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#46
Buckley must have some idea how his players respond to either a spray or a tap on the ass.

I'd prefer to be told i need to pull my head in face to face as buckley did then get screamed at over the phone by a gutless coach 'delegating' all the hard stuff.

Bucks :thumbsu:
 

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#48
Let's look at the circumstances.

We had just let the game slip in a five minute period. Bucks comes down from the box and is pissed off with everyone. Witts is the biggest of the three on the bench and the one that catches his eye. Witts also just made an error that cost us a goal.

Now imagine if the siren had then gone for half time. Is there a coach in the afl that wouldn't have been angry at half time and out of the public view verbally abused the group? No.
The only thing bucks did wrong was let the cameras catch it. Barassi, Malthouse, Hafey, etc etc have all got physical with their own players and opposition over time but the majority of it has been in the non public area of the rooms.

As a junior footballer and in other sports I was yelled at just like anyone who plays or has played sport has been.

Let's not get too precious.
 
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