Forward Tom McDonald will travel to Sydney for Monday’s clash with Collingwood,but the club is prepared to fly him home for the birth of his second child if needed.
Nathan Buckley was warned against taking on the Collingwood coaching job. Would the end have been different had he searched even for a short time for success anywhere else?
How club greats and other prominent AFL figures reacted to the Magpie’s departure.
Football coaching is a results-based business and coaches stand or fall based on flags and ladder position. Normally that is true. At Collingwood this was only partly the case.
Nathan Buckley arguably is Collingwood’s greatest player,and has a winning record as a coach,but leaves the club empty-handed. Collingwood’s favourite thing is favourite sons,but their two flags since 1958 have both been won by outsiders.
Some Collingwood fans wanted Nathan Buckley to go,others hoped he would be retained but almost all of them still see him as a legend of the Collingwood Football Club.
The Collingwood great said the decision for him to leave as coach after the Queen’s Birthday clash was the right decision for all. Robert Harvey will lead in the interim.
Nathan Buckley’s time at Collingwood is up,and here is the list of replacements the Magpies may consider to replace him.
Nathan Buckley’s coaching career may be just about to end. But as the coaching door closes,the door to the media is just about to open.
Former Channel Nine boss and AFL lawyer Jeff Browne has hit back at a suggestion from a Collingwood vice-president that he has an agenda of “power and privilege”.
Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has revealed the Magpies have added a skills-focused training session to their weekly agenda,as Chris Scott defended a controversial tackle on Mitch Duncan.