bennymacca wrote:Time for Eddie to go too? Surely he has nailed his colours to the mast with the whole Buckley transition plan
It's been an unmitigated disaster for all parties involved.
Ratten lost his job despite taking Carlton to 11-11 in his last season in 2012 after a 14-7 season in 2011, all because Malthouse was on the market, Ratten might never be a senior coach again.
Malthouse lost currency when he took on the job at Carlton and went 11-11 ( by default played finals - Essendon* ), then 7-14 in 2014 before being pushed out at 1-7 in 2015. If he wasn't old and bitter before he certainly is now.
Buckley has taken Collingwood from 17-8, 14-9, 11-11, 10-12, 9-13 and now 1-4 all the while clogging up the list with the likes of Wells, Mayne, White, Varcoe, Dunn, Greenwood...all imports who were never going to be part of their next top 4 assault.
McGuire now has to decide if he is prepared to be around long enough to oversee a rebuild with a new coach, does he go with an experienced coach or a rookie in waiting. or does he prepare another succession plan? On his watch they've gone bottom to top and back to the bottom again....
PAFC. Forever.
LOOK OUT, WE'RE COMING!