Buckley carried himself very well when Malthouse was carping and complaining. He was willing to be seen with Hird when others wouldn’t go near him. Sure he has his lesser moments but it is not one-way.
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Best thing about the Beams trade was it was mainly Ed’s doing
Robbo: Will Collingwood find someone to blame for trade period disaster?
If this were a crime scene, forensics would be in a bother.
There are fingerprints everywhere at Collingwood.
Pies fans are still seeking answers from the trade wreck.
Coach Nathan Buckley answered most of them on Monday during a radio interviewon SEN.
Buckley was honest and sharp — the trades were business decisions, he said — and corrected a narrative that needed to be corrected. It was, after all, a salary cap purge.
It was claimed on Thursday night by Collingwood list manager Ned Guy, and the following morning by head of football Geoff Walsh, that the club’s bulging salary cap played only a minor role.
Chief executive Mark Anderson on Saturday then admitted the cap was “a key part” of the call to dump four players. “To be blunt, we found ourselves in a bind,” he said.
On Monday, Buckley said: “It’s been on the cards for probably the last three or four years.” Perhaps he should have spoken on Friday morning and not Walsh, interviewed on president Eddie McGuire’s radio program.
The PR disaster is a learning experience. Next time, no shutting down. Instead, be as transparent as you can be with members and fans. And don’t put up Guy on trade night to drown on live TV.
Pie fans want answers over their club’s disastrous trade period. Picture: David Caird
Collingwood’s claim it wanted to keep the trade strategy in-house was nonsense because it was speaking to other clubs about trading players anyhow.
That sort of stuff finds itself into the media — always.
The football disaster is the far bigger issue.
Fans want answers and they probably want a suspect named: Who pulled the trigger? This is where it gets interesting.
The new list and salary cap strategies are an all-club approach.
Whether the old list and salary cap strategies was an all-club approach is debatable.
We’ll probably find out in coming weeks or months.
If a scapegoat is found, look to a 6.30pm Friday press release in late December or early January announcing the departure of said scapegoat.
Adam Treloar’s move to Whitten Oval presents De Goey with a chance at more midfield time. Picture: Getty Images
Buckley’s response was curious when asked about “old list management” on Monday.
“We decided to keep the group together as much as possible and that required us to push back, or the list manager … the footy manager and list management committee, to push back these cap issues, for right or for wrong,’’ he said.
More than a hint of finger pointing from Buckley.
Anyway, they were all in on winning a flag, it didn’t happen, and now that strategy has been blown up.
The Dayne Beams deal didn’t help and, by the way, there’ll be no AFL exemptions on his salary. Whatever he’s to be paid will be in the cap.
That deal. The Brodie Grundy deal. The Treloar deal. The Darcy Moore deal. The impending Jordan De Goey deal. They were/are all close to $1 million a season, which makes you ask why fingers aren’t being pointed at the players for being selfish and the board of directors for approving such selfish, exorbitant and long-term contracts.
Have the Pies been too greedy? Former coach Mick Malthouse ponders.
Great teams share the wealth. Former coach Mick Malthouse is also curious about how the likes of Hawthorn, Geelong and Richmond can manage their caps and win flags and be contenders.
West Coast actually won the 2018 flag and has not needed to disentangle its salary cap. It’s called sacrifice and unselfishness.
“Geelong have found a way, they have two retirees (Gary Ablett and Harry Taylor) and they bring in three superstars (Jeremy Cameron, Shaun Higgins and Isaac Smith),’’ Malthouse told the Herald Sun.
“Look at Hawthorn. Success in a footballer’s life in his late 20s is about getting a good contract, but more importantly having a chance of winning a premiership.
“Geelong has gone down that path, Richmond has gone a similar path and Collingwood has gone a totally different path.”
The obvious culprit for this mess is Guy, who replaced veteran Pies recruiter Derek Hine in late 2017. For Buckley to say this was an explosion three or four years coming, Hine’s fingerprints are there, too. Faint, but they are there.
Walsh, as head of football, has his DNA splattered about; so, too, does McGuire because nothing of major consequence happens at Collingwood without his involvement.
So, it might be unfair for Guy to carry the can — he clearly didn’t act alone.
It simply might be an unsolved crime and nobody at Collingwood ever talks about it again. Still, watch for that press release.
Poor old Collingwood, never!
Their excuses are lame.
Side by side they stab each other,
P!ss!ng on The Magpies name.
Hear coach Buckley a shouting,
If only Adam Treloar could,
Oh, the salary cap’s a blow–out,
Fabric’s torn for good old Collingwood!
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I’ll never read a Robinson piece ever again.
He is fking hopeless at putting together any article.
That garbage read like some of the disjointed single sentenced one line dribble posted here by some.
Does this bloke read so many forums for info he has started writing like he’s on one? He’ll start writing in the " no caps, I’m too cool for that", type shitt next.
Never.
Again.
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How did he pass his journalism degree?
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Article by Robbo
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It’s uncanny how he writes exactly like he talks. Stop start, rambling, disjointed and generally all over the place.
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They an extra pick in the teens then their next pick is 65 (phillips)
Not sure how they have managed to get back into the draft.
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Eddie blamed the media today lol
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That’s fair! He took the blame himself, since in his eyes, he is the media.
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What for? for them cooking their own playing list
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I’ve posted about this before:
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Got a sense that if Robbo had become an accountant he’d still be blocking hate mail.
And dodging more than just abuse - horse heads in the bed and ICAC hearings could also feature in his CV.
Walnut farm in the Solomon Islands anyone?
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The hypocrisy of the bloke knows no bounds
Did Lol. 
Its out of a Weetie’s box.
I did live in the Solomons for 6 years, & I do believe walnuts grow better in a Mediterranean climate.
I assume you were being facetious?
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Far too much punctuation, and nowhere near enough rhetorical questions.
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