{"id":216582,"date":"2025-10-16T01:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216582\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:16:11","slug":"buckley-joins-the-cattery-geelong-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216582\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckley joins the Cattery | Geelong Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/smith_510877_01.jpg\" data-caption=\"Nathan Buckley presents Isaac Smith with the 2022 Norm Smith Medal. (AAP Image\/Joel Carrett) \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/smith_510877_01.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"smith_510877_01\"\/><\/a>Nathan Buckley presents Isaac Smith with the 2022 Norm Smith Medal. (AAP Image\/Joel Carrett) <\/p>\n<p>Former champion Collingwood coach and player Nathan Buckley has joined Geelong as an assistant coach for the 2026 AFL season.<\/p>\n<p>Following a decorated playing career of 280 games, Buckley transitioned into coaching, first joining Collingwood\u2019s coaching panel as an assistant coach in 2010 before taking on the senior role in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Across his 10-year coaching career, Buckley guided the Magpies through five finals campaigns, including two preliminary finals as well as taking them to the 2018 grand final.<\/p>\n<p>For the past four years Buckley has worked in the media as a commentator, providing analysis on the game through his roles with Fox Footy and SEN.<\/p>\n<p>Geelong executive general manager of football Andrew Mackie said the Club is pleased to welcome Bukley to an experienced coaching group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to add Nathan to our club and more specifically to our coaching group,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is respected and highly regarded across the football industry and brings a wealth of experience and a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn speaking with Nathan, it was clear he had a strong appetite to return to coaching, and we look forward to welcoming him to our football program to work closely with our players and staff.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as AFLW Pride Round continues to bring the football community together in Round 10, all 18 AFLW captains have voiced the importance of creating a safe and inclusive environment for everyone at the footy.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting the core of this year\u2019s AFLW Pride Round theme \u2013 See you be you, at the W \u2013 the captains spoke from the heart in a new video about why it\u2019s important for everyone to be themselves in the football community.<\/p>\n<p>Geelong\u2019s Meg McDonald described diversity as \u201cthe best thing about being a human being\u201d, and Melbourne skipper Kate Hore stated \u201cwe all have a role to play as allies\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Buckley presents Isaac Smith with the 2022 Norm Smith Medal. (AAP Image\/Joel Carrett) Former champion Collingwood coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-216582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216582","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=216582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}