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The I ❤️ Collingwood thread.

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'm bit similar Olden.

If Nathan coached again and was to say win a flag coaching a benign club such asFremantle against another club other than the RFC then I doubt I'd be too fussed actually that would be quite humorous come to think of it.
 
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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?

Not the worst coach but I reckon he was the perfect coach for collingwobble.

It goes back to the age old debate, do we want them to lose by 1 pt or 100pts - I reckon it’s more fun watching them lose close ones, the grannies they should have won and those as a player.

Thanks Bucks for getting so close but no getting the prize - the perfect coach for the pies and no one else could have achieved that better than Bucks.
 
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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.

I would have agreed with you and had sympathy for your argument up and till September 2017, now success is only measured by premierships, simple and pure fact. :cupgold
 
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He's not that bad of a bloke Bucks! P!ss off Robinson!

I love that Robbo stuffed things up and I bet Bucks did too.
Over the years Bucks has treated Robbo with the contempt he deserves. It's no coincidence that the story that Bucks was going to resign was leaked to the Age and not the Hun.
 
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The good coach line is interesting. I don't think he was a stand out. What worked against this good coach mantra is when he blatantly changed who he was and how he coached after reading Konrad Marshall's books. The right noises came from Pie land but his heart was never in it. he was fooling himself and trying to fool the public.

Then he told Treloar his team mates didn't want him at the club anymore..
 
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The good coach line is interesting. I don't think he was a stand out. What worked against this good coach mantra is when he blatantly changed who he was and how he coached after reading Konrad Marshall's books. The right noises came from Pie land but his heart was never in it. he was fooling himself and trying to fool the public.

Then he told Treloar his team mates didn't want him at the club anymore..
History will judge him more kindly than it should because the bulk of the media consider him a good bloke.
 
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The good coach line is interesting. I don't think he was a stand out. What worked against this good coach mantra is when he blatantly changed who he was and how he coached after reading Konrad Marshall's books. The right noises came from Pie land but his heart was never in it. he was fooling himself and trying to fool the public.

Then he told Treloar his team mates didn't want him at the club anymore..
Some very salient points here Balooga.

The Treloar debacle after it came to light was where it ended for him and the club this season before it even started.

No doubt senior Pies players wouldve been extremely annoyed to lose a top line team mate in such a way, and be made out to be the bad guys.
 
Damn it!
With a change of coach they might start to improve.
No one wants that!
 
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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.

Got the norm Smith voting process changed when it was overwhelmingly agreed that voss's game breaking last 5 minutes tipped it in his favour.
Jumped the eagles with a dream start then eagles dominated second half and kept kicking points. They could, not should have held on and won, but they would have been the biggest bandits of all time.

Biggest unequivocal tick is beating us in the prelim.
 
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Got the norm Smith voting process changed when it was overwhelmingly agreed that voss's game breaking last 5 minutes tipped it in his favour.
Jumped the eagles with a dream start then eagles dominated second half and kept kicking points. They could, not should have held on and won, but they would have been the biggest bandits of all time.

Biggest unequivocal tick is beating us in the prelim.
his greatest achievement in footy will be denying the tigers a 5-peat.
 
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I met Buckley once - admittedly when he was signing his autobiography for me (present for a mate, calm down) - and found him friendly and self-effacing. I came away thinking he was a good bloke. He deserves everyone's respect for putting legit fkwits Robinson and Jones back in their boxes.

Before he got the gig he impressed as a footy mind with his media commentary, and apart from winning a flag, did pretty well.

One bloke who does have a rep as a sh!t bloke is Sam Mitchell, but someone like him is who they should go for, not Clarkson or Lyon.
 
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