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\u201cMelbourne were surprised to learn he wanted to go out,\u201d the Herald Sun\u2019s Scott Gullan told Fox Footy\u2019s Midweek Tackle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe interviews started on Monday morning and Nathan Buckley was one of the first ones there … it (Skipworth\u2019s exit) shocked the Demons.\u201d<\/p>\n
Skipworth, who played 55 AFL games across Adelaide and Essendon, ran second to Andrew McQualter in the race for the West Coast job this time last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all see Hayden Skipworth as a coach-in-waiting, so this seems to me like the kind of move you pull if you think you\u2019re not gonna get the job and you don\u2019t want to be a runner-up,\u201d the Herald Sun\u2019s Josh Barnes said on Fox Footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know once you become a runner-up too many times, you start to get a bit of a stink about you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nick Daicos of the Magpies has a laugh with assistant coach Hayden Skipworth. Pic: Michael KleinSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
Many inside the footy world believe Buckley is the clear frontrunner, given he\u2019s the only man with senior coaching experience who was interviewed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mail is he\u2019s preparing a team … as you would, you present to the board and go, if I\u2019m your man, I\u2019m gonna bring X, Y and Z,\u201d Gullan explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the names mentioned has been Marcus Wagner, who he worked with at Collingwood, but interestingly he was at Melbourne until recently in the AFLW program (as the GM of footy) – but left in June I think it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wagner worked closely with Buckley when the pair were at the Magpies.<\/p>\n
Melbourne CEO Paul Guerra told Fox Sports News\u2019 AFL Tonight they\u2019ll announce their preferred candidate to replace Simon Goodwin next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cBig couple of days, and the great thing is for every Melbourne supporter, there\u2019s a number of quality candidates who want to coach the football club,\u201d Guerra said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll sort that out in the next week but it\u2019s been a really good process and we\u2019ve had some really good insights.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about the perception Buckley is the clear favourite, Guerra said: \u201cEveryone\u2019s gonna have their opinion on it. We\u2019ve been really clear – we narrowed it down to six, we\u2019ve taken them through the process, and let\u2019s see what comes out.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was also revealed on Midweek Tackle the Demons contacted Ken Hinkley about his interest in returning to AFL coaching while a large number of clubs spoke with Hinkley\u2019s management about a footy boss or assistant role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the top contenders for the Melbourne coaching job has withdrawn from the race, while Nathan Buckley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-130112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130112","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=130112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}