In fairness BJ, these coaches improved their teams position during their coaching tenure. Something Bucks has not been able to do in 6 years.
Coach/ Position/ Wins
Hardwick: 15/16 (6); 12/17 (8); 12/18 (10); 5/18 (15); 8/18 (12); 5/18 (15); 13/18 (8); currently 4/18 (9)
Ayres: Gee: 2/16 (16); 7/16 (13); 2/16 (15); 12/16 (9); 11/16 (10); Ade: 11/16 (9); 8/16 (12); 3/16 (15); 6/16 (13); - sacked 12 games into 5th season
Daniher: 4/16 (14); 14/16 (6); RU; 11/16 (10); 6/16 (12); 14/16 (5); 5/16 (14); 7/16 (12); 7/16 (13) - sacked 12 games into 10th season
The Kangaroos have made the finals 4 times in 7 years under Scott including 2 Prelinary Finals
Buckley: 4/18 (16); 6/18 (14); 11/18 (11); 12/18 (10); 12/18 (9) and currently 15/18 (5)
What's worse is that we have regressed on last year, despite having minimal injuries. So what is our excuse this year??
Here is an extract from today's paper:
"Here is the stunning stat that would worry the Collingwood board as well as its football department.
Collingwood’s top 10 players from the 2016 best-and-fairest have missed a total of three games with injury this year. Yep, three. Of the top six players in the count, they have played every game bar Adam Treloar’s single absence in Round 8. Scott Pendlebury, Steele Sidebottom, Brodie Grundy, Jeremy Howe, Taylor Adams and Jack Crisp have played every game. Josh Smith (seventh) has been dropped but hasn’t missed with injury, Levi Greenwood (eighth) missed two weeks with a hammy and Jarryd Blair has been in and out on form.
Of the players outside the top 10, Jamie Elliott has played nine games, Darcy Moore 14, Alex Fasolo 13. Daniel Wells has missed seven and Travis Varcoe eight but consider Melbourne’s eight wins despite playing without Max Gawn, Jesse Hogan and Nathan Jones, among others.
In August 2015, after another failed season, Buckley said: “We have got plans and designs about what our team is going to look like in 2017-18 when we think this particular evolution of our list is going to reach its full maturity.’’
Now
Buckley says the fans must wait for this youthful group to mature into their mid and late-20s before we see their full talent realised.
The definition of insanity often attributed to Einstein is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
What exactly will Buckley change with his game style and list management to keep a sinking ship afloat?
Damien Hardwick didn’t just expect Richmond to rebound, he changed his entire game plan, recruited smartly,
admitted his coaching flaws and addressed them.
Rolling Buckley over for one more season would just create 12 more months of discussion and controversy. Assessing all options with Buckley’s full knowledge and then extending his contract — if that is the board’s decision — would actually give him a mandate for the future.
FIT TO SERVE
Games lost to injury this year by Collingwood’s 2016 best and fairest Top 10
1. Scott Pendlebury 0
2. Adam Treloar 1
3. Steele Sidebottom 0
4. Brodie Grundy 0
5. Jeremy Howe 0
6. Taylor Adams 0
7. Josh Smith 0 (dropped for three games)
8. Levi Greenwood 2
9. Jack Crisp 0
10 Jarryd Blair 0 (played just six AFL games on form)
Champion Data says Collingwood has lost 81 games to injury, the ninth-most in the competition.
Nine players have played every game — Pendlebury, Sidebottom, Howe, Grundy, Adams, Crisp, Moore, Maynard, Hoskin-Elliott"