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\u201cMy purpose isn\u2019t to win a premiership. My purpose would be to help people along their journey, (to) find out how good you can make an environment, how much you can support people,\u201d Buckley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTassie would tick that box. Melbourne came around (last year) … but I just couldn\u2019t quite put that together. I made the point that it\u2019s not the first time I\u2019ll coach, but it will be the last. I was still kicking tires and working out whether it was something I wanted to do, as they were working out whether I was a legitimate candidate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to Tassie through that. I\u2019ve openly said, I would take the Tassie job if it was offered to me right here, right now \u2014 I\u2019d take it. I\u2019ve got my head around that I think that would be an amazing journey to go on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey know where I\u2019m at, and I know they\u2019ve got decisions to make … but that led me to a phone call from Geelong. Pretty much: \u2018It seems like you want to get back into coaching, do you want to come and work with us?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin six days after the phone call, we\u2019d put it all together and we\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The seven-time All-Australian and 2003 Brownlow Medallist has continued his long-standing role with Fox Footy since his departure from Collingwood earlier this decade, and remains a regular member of On The Couch, as well as Friday Night Football. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood legend Nathan Buckley has opened up on links to Tasmania\u2019s vacant head coach role at the AFL\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-607727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607727","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=607727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}