Following Collingwood’s loss to Melbourne on Saturday, President Eddie McGuire said a new coaching succession plan was now in place.
“I pulled Nathan in and told him what a wonderful job he was doing but that the club need a process in place for succession,” said Mr McGuire.
“As a result, I’m excited to announce that in 2016, Eddie McGuire will become the new senior coach of the Collingwood Football Club.”
The new senior coach nominee said he was ‘deeply honoured’ to be appointed.
“I’d like to begin by thanking Club President Eddie McGuire for bestowing such an honour on me. Eddie is Collingwood’s greatest ever President and I look forward to working closely with him,” said Coach McGuire.
“Being the senior coach of Collingwood is a dream come true. I’ve loved this club since I was a little boy and that love has continued as I became its President.”
President McGuire said Coach McGuire bought a range of skills to the position, the most important of which was ‘being Eddie McGuire.’
“Eddie will be a great senior coach, I’ve got no doubt about that,” said President Eddie.
“We can rebuild through the rest of this season, then Bucks is out and Ed’s in to take us to a Premiership.”
The Collingwood Football Club said despite the move, Eddie McGuire would still remain President of Collingwood, for life.
Current coach Nathan Buckley issued a statement saying he had ‘honestly no idea what to make of the situation.’
This post originally appeared in Inside Football
COMMENTS
au_sesquip
Aug 02, 2015
TitusOReily I heard that in tandem together the president and new coach will look to rebrand the club as Eddiewood Magpies
mathewmills73
Aug 02, 2015
TitusOReily makes sense. The only person Ed loves more than Bucks is Ed.
Mathew Rochford
Aug 02, 2015
Steve Matthew
Michael Forkgen
Aug 02, 2015
Nathan has just pushed Eddie out of the bed, ouch!
Ryan Hammond
Aug 02, 2015
Nathan Carey
Russell Gartner
Aug 02, 2015
Paul Robinson
Grant Haye
Aug 02, 2015
Nathan Bungey
Tom Edney
Aug 02, 2015
Lachy Ewart
Lachy Ewart
Aug 02, 2015
Too soon
Lachy Ewart
Aug 02, 2015
Still in mourning
Lachy Ewart
Aug 02, 2015
Have some respect
Russell Gilbert
Aug 02, 2015
Declan Winra
Tom Edney
Aug 02, 2015
Hahaha If it's any consolation Harmesy kicked his first goal
Lachy Ewart
Aug 02, 2015
I'm aware of that
Lachy Ewart
Aug 02, 2015
It was painful and beautiful at the same time
Lachy Ewart
Aug 02, 2015
Like watching your daughter get married but she's getting married to a fat trucky
Chris Dorn
Aug 02, 2015
Collingwood board of directors: "We have the full support of Nathan as coach of this club."
Tom Edney
Aug 02, 2015
Hahahahahaha
Justin Batsanes
Aug 02, 2015
Jayden Kroussoratis
Tim Bean
Aug 02, 2015
Have a read of this Simon Kruger, a good laugh!
jacktrotter2
Aug 02, 2015
TitusOReily 0 chill
Steve Matthew
Aug 02, 2015
Haha......dig up Jock McCale !!!......team not coach !!
Nicole Chapman
Aug 02, 2015
Troy Calvert U0001f602U0001f602
JohnBadge66
Aug 02, 2015
TitusOReily press red for desd
Zoe French
Aug 02, 2015
Jordan Mathews The saddest part is this is actually something we would do
pam82
Aug 02, 2015
TitusOReily he would probably do a better job lol so over Buckley
misanthropicfcuk
Aug 02, 2015
"President for life" is probably not far from the truth, it would likely be harder to remove him from Collingwood than it was for the yanks to remove J Edgar Hoover from the FBI.
Congrats on the win too Titus!
Sincerely,
Everyone who's not a Magpie supporter.
Declan Winra
Aug 02, 2015
That'd be the death sentence that we've been trying so hard to achieve over the last month and abit
Joanne Everett
Aug 03, 2015
God has spoken.
Joe Garretto
Aug 03, 2015
Elie Bourizk lol
Elie Bourizk
Aug 03, 2015
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Mick Ryan
Aug 03, 2015
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