The I ❤️ Collingwood thread.

[tigertim]

Read this in your head as Robbo, including the slurring and the pauses:
“Nathan…sorry….Nathan, congratulations…on your career ….let’s seperate your private life from your coaching …do you full feel , sorry, fulfilled with your career?”

 

[Harry]

Buckley's the only coach to knock the tigers out of the finals in the past 4 years.

 

[Jason King]

So, the real reason for Joffa's extradition from Fiji is now exposed.

Joffa to replace Buckley!!

I cant see it myself, there's no underage kids in the Collingwood side.

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Selfless move to step down so close to the big 500.

 

[nswtiger]

copywood == perfect

off you go Buckley ..........

 

[TrialByVideo]

I may be in the minority, but I think he’s a good coach and I enjoy listening to him, particularly the contempt with which he treats Robbo.

You could hear Robinson towards the end of that conference trying to get a question in.... think Buckley had him on the ignore list!

 

[King Kong]

Yeah agree, I think he's a very good coach and misunderstood as a bloke.

Premierships are bloody hard to win, if that's your criteria for success there's an awful lot of failures in football.

Nope. Rather as he grew older he learnt to hide his Figjam ways and present a considered mature persona. However, a leopard never changes its spots. Once a Figjam always a Figjam.

 

[Number8]

Yeah agree, I think he's a very good coach and misunderstood as a bloke.

I spent some time with Buckley when he worked at the AFL between his playing and coaching careers. He is a fantastic bloke but I don't take great issue with those who perceive him to be arrogant and intense, because his public persona is very different to his private one. The thing I found most interesting about him was the childlike enthusiasm he had for life. I reckon coaching has probably robbed him of a lot of that. Anyway, it's a good reminder to us all that what we see on camera is rarely the full picture.

 

[AngryAnt]

Buckley's the only coach to knock the tigers out of the finals in the past 4 years.

a good point

 

[Carter]

Players are sick of his message, plain and simple.

Was not able to release the handbrake like Hardwick did. The day Hardwick started focusing on players strengths, whilst using effort and pressure as non-negotiable so, he was halfway to a flag.

 

[T-Shirt Tommy]

I may be in the minority, but I think he’s a good coach and I enjoy listening to him, particularly the contempt with which he treats Robbo.

I think their list has been massively overrated (they haven’t had a key forward since Travis Cloke) so to perform like they did from 2018-2020 was a pretty good achievement. Not to mention their disastrous list management and salary cap.

If they win in 2018 (shudder) we wouldn’t be here.

His coaching will always be questioned as he inherited a club and list at the top of its game and in every subsequent year (up to 2018) dropped further and further down the ladder. Yes, they had a spike in 2018-19 but so have many other coaches.

Danny Frawley took a club with no money and a crap list and made a prelim. This was without the finance and resources that Buckley had at his disposal as well. No-one talks about Frawley being a good coach.

 

[Tigers of Old]

For a Collingwood coach, ol Figjam didn't seem like a bad a guy.
Whilst from a Richmond perspective I'm glad he didn't see any team ultimate success, I hold no ill feelings toward him.

 

[TrialByVideo]

Yeah agree, I think he's a very good coach and misunderstood as a bloke.

We're all very parochial and I reckon the +99% of us who wouldn't know him sort of revel in his lack of ultimate success mainly due to that parochial football era in which many of us grew up. Particularly the Richmond v Pies hatred.

Sadly for him he got most of the non supporting Collingwood football world offside right at the start when he told Brisbane he'd be off to the Pies at his first opportunity.

All that aside. ... I wish him all the best in the future.

 

[TOT70]

To be fair, he went very close to the ultimate success as a player, won a Norm Smith Medal in a losing team and coached his team to a Grand Final, losing in the traditional Collingwoodesque manner. Went close. Led all day. Should have won. Didn't.

Not the worst coach that there has ever been. Left no stone unturned but sadly for him, it didn't quite work out. Not his fault that Eddie McGuire hitched his wagon to him for 25 years. Who knows how things would have turned out for him if he stayed at Brisbane?

 

[bigwow]

At least he didn't do it the week before they played Richmond.

 

[The_General]

Buckley & McGuire gone in quick succession. Copywood is no more. More's the shame.

Nope, now we are just left with Essenclone.

 

[craig]

Players are sick of his message, plain and simple.

Was not able to release the handbrake like Hardwick did. The day Hardwick started focusing on players strengths, whilst using effort and pressure as a non-negotiable, he was halfway to a flag.

Well said Tilt agreed.

But to be fair Carts, Figgy did have a crack at imitating the Tigers in 2018 but the mask slipped whilst continuing the chicanery in 2019.

Once Fat Ed was gone Figgy was dead in the water he knew it we all knew it.

No doubt Wossy or "the Genius" Clarko would've been fielding many calls over the past 6 months.

The biggest issue now with Wright coming in to clean house is that they actually might get their *smile* together.

Will be interesting to see what Clarkson is up to also, especially with Wrights Hawthorn connection to him.

 

[craig]

Nope, now we are just left with Essenclone.

and Copybourne

 

[The_General]

For a Collingwood coach, ol Figjam didn't seem like a bad a guy.
Whilst from a Richmond perspective I'm glad he didn't see any team ultimate success, I hold no ill feelings toward him.

I get some of the comments above about him inheriting a good list, but he basically turned that over and created his own team. They did rebuild around a senior core, but it was different to Malthouse's club. I think he's a good coach, he couldn't have got that long a sustained success, without being a good coach whilst turning over the list.

I don't like him as a person. Although I find him thoughtful, I find him particularly arrogant. But he is a good coach. Taking away the anti-Collingwood parochialism, I think most would admit it. I too, am very glad he didn't achieve that success as a player nor as a coach after leaving Brisbane. I hope Dangerfield joins him on that list.

 

[craig]

At least he didn't do it the week before they played Richmond.

Hear hear