Buckley's sudden shift in recruiting stance: Gubby Effect?

[BEAMER09]

[inxs88]

[Pies4shaw]

Yes, fair enough.

[Donny]

Wells ?

When he's 'on', he looks like a World beater, but often, it's a matter of, "Is Daniel Wells playing today?"

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

[Haff]

I still think we only get the dirt cheap, Ivan and whomever costs us SFA. We then bank the coin and next season give Fyfe an offer he can't refuse.

[Cam]

Fyfe is a country boy from W.A., there is no way in hell he would leave.

[Geek]

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

Gubby = ruthless. Read anything else you want to read into it. Personally I'd rather have Balme around the club, but after 3 years of not making finals we have to make changes.

[qldmagpie67]

This is a bit of a funny situation really.
We've been losing experience for a few years really and have invested heavily in the youth policy. I'm not against that as at least we have had a chance to add some real potential future stars to our list.
I'm not adverse to getting some expernced players in as long as there the right side of 30 (meaning no one over 28 before round 1 2017) this way we should be able to get 2-3yrs good service from them whilst the younger players keep learning. Also they need to fill roles we are weak on. We don't need any mids but could do with a small forward who can kick 30+ goals and a big bodied back or forward and maybe some real outside speed to work with Treloar. Really the most we would look at is 3 players max. Don't want them taking games away from our best kids.
If we lose Witts then we need to find a old ruck man who's happy to play VFL and be emergency for Grundy. As much as I like Cox I don't see him as a long term afl player just a tad bit slow and cumbersome really.
If we can't find those then stick with the youth policy and see how it plays out.
I would think losing Swan Toovey McCaffer and maybe Brown our list managers might think we could do with some experience

[inxs88]

Having Gubby and Balme is perfect: Good cop Bad cop

[35forever]

Yeah, we're in a REAL funny situation, bloody hilarious!
If I barracked for any of the other 17 sides I'd be pi$$ing myself!
The genesis of Buckley's stated disinterest in older players came when he was asked if he had any interest in Boomer Harvey. His very revealing answer was that he didn't, as Boomer was better suited to a side whose "window" was open... IE: a side who had a snowman's chance in hell of playing a part in September. IE: Not us. Oh no, according to the Great Man, OUR window will be open around 2019-2023. (Perhaps he does have plans to retire after all?)
Well at least the man is smart enough to know how likely a Collingwood Flag is while the cancer called Buckley is eating the heart of our club.
This year there was a chance of course, all King Eddie had to do was wave his magic wand and consider the other million people beside himself & his best mate, and appoint ANY other coach, and the nightmare would be over. The 5 years of horrific games - more of them every year, the record low attendances, the loss of our 60 odd years as the Vic. club with the highest membership. All these and several other symptoms of our illness could have been wiped away in an instant if Eddie had seen fit not to piss another year away, and do what must be done to make us great again. But he's not going to. He's going to toss 2017 onto the bonfire of Buckley's ego, and ensure mediocrity for years to come. Then next week, he's going to let the members have their say about 2017, after all the decisions have been made. But fear not, he'll listen to your thoughts on member seating, membership packages, Women's football, and other peripheral shite. I'm guessing 4 or 5 people will get to ask a question, as long s it's not about anything important. Then he'll tell you about the exciting new things planned for members in 2017, and you'll all be suitably impressed, and you'll clap like brain dead morons while the great men smile benevolently and get the hell out of there having done their bit to soothe the plebs for another year.
But rest assured, 2017 will NOT be Buckley's last year. The list we have is simply too good to keep down and we will win around 12-13 games, just enough to scrape into 7th or 8th, making Buckley a genius supercoach, and earning him a 3 year extension of the nightmare. In 2018 we'll scrape in again, but betweeen the 2 years we'll win one final, then in 2019 we'll be right here again, having missed the finals and we'll be debating all over again while half a dozen wise ones insist that we're very close, and that the players and bad luck was to blame. Before you know it a decade will have passed. Another long decade, thrown away by ego, greed, and stupidity. Just like the 80's & 90's.

This could all have been ended 3 years ago, don't tell me you don't wish it had been.

[Raw Hammer]

Here's your 2018 premiership team

Scharenberg | Brown | Ramsay/Maynard
Wells | Reid | Dal Santo
Sidebottom | Pendlebury | Aish
Hoskin-Elliott | White/Cox | Mayne
Elliott | Moore | Fasolo
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Grundy | Treloar | Adams
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DeGoey | Greenwood | Crisp | Blair | Goldsack | Jong | Josh Green

Just about every player can kick! (exc. Brown)

[thompsoc]

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