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Speaking to On The Couch on Monday night, Buckley detailed that while he is among the shortlist of preferred replacements for Goodwin, he is still very much thinking critically about what\u2019s next for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still going through my process, which I can speak to, but take Melbourne on face value on who they\u2019re interviewing \u2014 of which I\u2019m a part of that group\u201d Buckley began.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is very different (potentially coaching a second time around), you\u2019re looking at different things … (though) I\u2019ve never been through a process like this before either.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe succession plan at Collingwood was pointing in the right direction … I\u2019m sitting back and prosecuting this a bit more on different levels.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very different. I\u2019m probably more particular, and definitely more conscious on what can, and cannot work. It\u2019s not \u2018X\u2019s and O\u2019s\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Buckley coached the Magpies for nearly 10 full seasons since his maiden year at the helm in 2012, with his replacement of premiership coach Mick Malthouse at the end of 2011 well-documented.<\/p>\n
An assistant coach at the club before his elevation, the application process this time around will be very different for the 2002 Norm Smith Medalist. <\/p>\n
\u201cNathan will be part of a group of (five) who will progress through to those formal interviews. Some of them will take place this week, some of them next week given that some of those applicants are in finals over the next couple of days,\u201d Fox Footy reporter Jon Ralph said prior to Buckley\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a chance that one of those candidates still might pull out, one of them is still thinking: \u2018Am I a realistic chance to try and win this job?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAll I would say is, Melbourne is absolutely insistent (that): \u2018We wouldn\u2019t have put this quality panel together if it was going to be a boat race, and certainly there is no preordained outcome there\u2019.<\/p>\n
Intriguingly, 20 of the last 21 premiership coaches have been first-time coaches, however over 25 or more first-timers have sunk \u201cwithout a trace\u201d in the words of Ralph.<\/p>\n
Buckley departed Collingwood after Round 13 in 2021 with a winning percentage of 54.85% from 112 games coached, and fell agonisingly short of a flag in the 2018 Grand Final against West Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood legend Nathan Buckley has been quizzed once more on his openness to coaching Melbourne in 2026, revealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,24164,64,63,55,639,79258,79262,79263,79261,79264,5330,79257,79149,681,7804,43892,79259,71353,22401,8014,85,79260,45710],"class_list":["post-110652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-assistant-coach","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-boat-race","tag-coaching-options","tag-coaching-race","tag-five-horse-race","tag-formal-interviews","tag-head-coach","tag-james-kelly","tag-job-hunt","tag-jon-ralph","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-mick-malthouse","tag-premiership-coaches","tag-season-reviews","tag-senior-coach","tag-simon-goodwin","tag-sports","tag-steven-king","tag-succession-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}