Bucks wanted to dismantle the 2011 team and start again (and he did). Mickey Mousehouse wanted to keep the team together and go again at a flag in 2012 and 2013.
How could 2 senior coaches with such polar opposite views on the right strategic direction for the club, work closely together? Mick had to go if they wanted to keep Bucks, and I think Eddie understood that.
I’ve always had plenty of time for Bucks which stems back to when he was still fairly young and playing in the SANFL. The couple of times we met he was just a ripping lad and even then he was a massive footy “nerd” and you knew he was going to go far. He was playing league at Port and his best mate played for my local side at the time. Bucks would come out every week possible to watch him and would spend considerable time before and after the game having shots at goal and having a kick with anyone. He wasn’t well known then but you could tell he was something special
Was he suggesting we’re we were booing Pendles or was he saying that the timing of the booing was poor?
Either way I think he was just making a point that his captain and a champion player had nothing to do with the umpires decisions and deserved the respect of the crowd for his performance.
I can sort of understand that if it the roles were reversed.
Supposedly the crowd had been booing for the last few minutes of play, and went right through the presentation. Said something like ‘shame on you for booing a champion’
Then someone pointed out to him all the times Pies fans have booed people, including a couple weeks earlier, and he changed his tune.
Now mick is crying how his family have been affected by Buckley’s comments. How about the comments you made during the saga about our players you old fool
“They feel as if any time I put my head up to collect an accolade, or explain how Buckley’s a dud, Eddie screwed me, I’d have won three more flags with Collingwood, the players really loved me, me, me and didn’t want me to go, it was the umpire’s/players/Eddie’s/Bucks’/a bloke I met at the pub’s fault that we lost the Grand Final or I open my fat mouth and further diminish what should be an outstanding legacy, it gets knocked straight over.”