The sooner we swallow our pride and lose the perception that only a big name former player or already experienced senior coach is good enough for the club or can handle the so called pressure cooker of Collingwood the sooner we can put this football club on a new and better path IMO.
I'm not wedded to any coach presently but if we deem a novice coach has gained enough experience in an assistant role, we like what he his selling the club in terms of his vision then why not hire him and surround him with an experienced senior assistant?
If we ever were then we we aren't unique when it comes to coaching appointments anymore IMO and are just another club alongside Richmond, Essendon, Carlton, West Coast and Adelaide who all have a large supporter base filled with expectations of success. You could probably add Hawthorn and Geelong to that list also as I doubt their fans would suffer fools gladly given their clubs history of success.
If this football club ever wants to return to being the biggest and the best in the land then it needs to stop believing it still is.
Where we once won premierships to build our legend, over the last 60 years our clubs greatest achievement is perpetuating the myth that we somehow remain better and more special than the rest and this inevitably leads to the coaching choices we make.
This approach has netted us 2 flags.
That we still have a large supporter base owes a lot to the legacy of those early dominant Collingwood sides as one generation of family support lead it being handed down to the next.
But surely the passage of time and lack of premiership success in this period is gradually taking it's toll on our level of support.
It's now 85 years since we won consecutive flags and we have not won multiple flags in the same decade since the 1950's.
Until 2017 Richmond might well have been irrelevant for close on 35 years but in winning multiple flags in the late 60's early 70's they cemented themselves a large supporter base and now having won over a new generation of kids they have simply grown it again.
My greatest hope would be that our current board finally get it and freed from the hyperbole of Ed we dispense with all the hubris based on glories long gone, we show some humility and alongside the new coach we work bloody hard to build this club up to the point where we can deliver sustained Premiership success.
Personally I don't want to leave this mortal world without witnessing at least one period of success that the fans of Richmond, Hawthorn or Geelong have gotten to enjoy over the last 10 years.
How about everyone else?
For me I just want the best coach for Collingwood and will keep an open mind even if heaven forbid that is deemed to be Lyon.
What I don't want is for half the field to be out of the race before the starters gun has even sounded because of age/experience/low profile.
