Don't sack Buckley

[Cam]

I'm an optimist too and having played alot of footy know that a coach doesn't do much at all. Its up to the players. I'm not sure why it took a quarter and a half and 9 demon goals before our flankers and wings shifted outwards to where the demons [and saints] were moving the ball unhindered - to simply be in the way instead of out of the way. Changing the coach will do nothing. Paul Roos is a pretty good coach I would have thought, Don Pyke has inherited a team that has bonded over a few years. Everyone thought Hinkley was a good coach, so is he now a bad coach? It's the players who make you a great team. All sacking the coach does is lead you into another false dawn, when all along it depends on the development and talent of the players and how they gel as a team. The Brat pack were talented AND they would take a bullet for each other [cough Dids cough] thats a big part of why our team won the flag.

[didick]

[simon tonna]

every game this season to date has resembled bucks game plan. one that has resembled the very first one in which he lost me as a supporter. the 2013 elimination against port. an abomination of foot ball by collingwood. we look like hacks and i feel for the players and bucks.

[PyreneesPie]

[ANNODAM]

[Collingwood Crackerjack]

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Perhaps he can come back when his son turns 18yo or some shit like that, I dunno...
That's how long it's gonna take me to forgive him, I reckon!

[Mr Burns 17]

Well said Cam. Not too many on this site with half a clue. It rests fairly and squarely on the players. No leadership. No guts. No endeavour. No clue and maybe lacking in ability. Let's blame Bucks because that is what the media want you to do. If you don't like what is happening, don't support them. Do something else with your lives, I love the Pies and don't want Bucks sacked.

[Flashman]

[Mr Burns 17]

No wonder we're in such a mess with this slack, complacent and "blame everyone but Bucks" attitude among blinkered sections of our supporter group. You aren't doing anyone a favour least of all Collingwood with this blind and misguided loyalty to a clear failure of a coach ffs.

<snip, personal abuse not on>. Did you even read Cam's message above or just took the opportunity to attack me because I believe the players are to blame. Pies have had injuries the last couple of years and obviously <snip, personal abuse again, lay off it>, believe we should be successful every year. <snip, language - bbmods>

[thompsoc]

[Gerry Cooper]

The usual disorganised mess again today. For an exercise I watched the two 2010 Grand Finals again. What was on show was system, discipline, players knowing their roles, believing them, and carrying them out successfully. I compare them to this current dogs breakfast and there is no comparison. We are a mess and likely to remain so under the current coach.

A few wins against weak teams whilst gratifying just papers over the cracks temporarily. The sad truth is that the "Buckley system" will never take this team to a premiership. Given that he is a dead man walking. He just really needs to go.

[Cam]

Supporters don't matter. The team does. The team needs to bleed together and bond, get over the drug thing and strive together with purpose. Get the team right, and the supporters will be right too.

Although, you can't please all the supporters any of the time. The same people that bitched and moaned, wailing even, in 2009, quitting on everyone and everything, spitting on all the organisational structures that the club had, Malthouse's predictable gameplan that everyone had unpicked, and no plan B... still happily danced in the aisles in 2010.

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die

[ANNODAM]

History will be thus:


Buckley 0 Premierships as a CFC player, 0 Premierships as a CFC Coach.



Here endeth the history lesson.

[Cam]