The Nathan Buckley Debate - Back Bucks or Sack Bucks?

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What amazes me with all this talk is no one has named a replacement. Yes it's easy to say this coach sack this assistant etc but who replaces them ?
The bemoaners huff n puff and say bring anyone in they would be a better job than Buckley. Really if this was the case then Joe Bloggs off the street would come cheap and save clubs money. Truth is if your going to replace w coach then you a new one
Thompson has said he won't b coaching again in the foreseeable future. Choco Williams has stated he isn't interested in a head coach role. That would leave untied assistant
The ones who just right off injuries being a factor and naive or just plain Buckley bashers. Injuries are a reason not the total reason but a real factor.
We've used 36-37 players so far and likely to be at least another one or 2 before seasons end.
Look at the last 15 premiership winning sides and none have used more than 34 and that includes clubs who have rested multiple players late in the season. The average of competing grand final sides for the past 15yrs is 30.78 players average.
We just don't have the experienced depth to have those amount of injuries.
It's not only injuries but who is injured. Our structure has been rattled all year. We haven't been able to get our best 22 on the paddock yet (and won't because Elliott is gone for the season along with Swanny)
There's to much pressure of younger inexperienced players and some weeks they handle it some weeks they don't. That's the natural learning curve.
Look Buckley might lose his job at seasons end or he might see out his contract as well but one thing I can assure everyone is no matter what gets said on here won't make a lick of difference (thankfully those running the club are way smarter than to listen to some of the dribble written here)
Envying is entitled to an opinion and that's great and I love the debating side of it but don't come in sprouting opinion in the guise of facts.
Statements Buckley stood up at a members forum and said he would train the players hard and didn't care if they broke down.
That's just a plain face lie. He actually said the training loads on the players would be increased but monitored to ensure they are always at there optimal fitness levels.
You can hate Buckley that's your personal choice and you can want him sacked that's fine but don't lie to suit your agendas

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[Medders85]

Interesting! Just read an article from Mick Mcguane saying Taylor Adams should replace Pendlebury as captain. He basically says that Pendlebury doesn't have the full backing of the playing group, and also That Pendlebury talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. He goes onto say that Taylor Adams stands for aggression, unity and stands for not suffering fools and is in the mould of Tony Shaw. He then said that when Taylor says something he will go and do it himself and others will follow. Very interesting indeed.

Imagine Pendlebury wouldn't be all too pleased to get demoted but ah well whatever is better for the side..... I'd prefer Mcguane to be coach over Buckley..... from memory these two used to clash!

[Pies4shaw]

Interesting.

I'm not sure whether Pendlebury should be captain or not (but probably lean to the view that someone else should have a turn) but I don't know that I'm persuaded that Adams should be because McGuane says so. He isn't the guy I'd be asking to evaluate the character of respective potential captains, really. He was a favourite of mine but I did feel that, for a guy with all the talent he had, it was sad that he he'd played all his best football before he was 25. Save for the fact that he was a mostly underperformed, gifted player for the Club in a great era, is there some compelling reason to think that he has any better (or worse) understanding of what is required to prepare oneself and motivate team-mates than anyone else?

I should add, I suppose, that this probably isn't the right thread to be discussing McGuane's views about the captaincy.

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