Oppo Camp Graham Wright (Once loved, now loathed).

[Dead Eye Didak]

Confirmed.....


Wright appointed GM Football
Collingwood Football Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Graham Wright to the role of General Manager of Football

 

[Mike Olotripo]

A very very good appointment.

He along with Damian Carroll will hopefully bring a greater Hawthorn style emphasis on skills by foot I hope.

 

[TradeDraft]

Wright was an amazing player. Fast, skillful, with a freaky vertical leap. He owned the wing.

I too had heard that he wasn't a great fan of Buckley when he first arrived at the club from Brisbane. Clearly, it's not a big issue even if true.

Change for the sake of it isn't great but we need a reboot. This could work very well for the club just don't expect miracles to occur overnight.

Agree people can’t expect miracles instantly. Take a Few Seasons/Years to get back on track

 

[TKiL]

Some of the theories I have read today (that Wright has only agreed to come back to Collingwood because Eddie is leaving, or that Wright is coming on condition that Bucks is gone by the end of the season so Clarkson can replace him)....are bordering on the ridiculous.

Theories, rumours, gossip or social media bullsh#t?

 

[neilk]

Theories, rumours, gossip or social media bullsh#t?

All of the above.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Theories, rumours, gossip or social media bullsh#t?

I wouldn’t credit them with being called rumours or gossip

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

His success at Hawthorn was as a recruiter and then list manager. God knows if he'll be a top football manager. To me the best news about the appointment is that he chose us and what that says about his view of our list. I don't think he'd head anywhere with a list that he didn't think was going to go well over the next 5 years.

Ill say again, the same thing I've been saying since 2017...

There's nothing wrong with our list. I don't know why people think there is. Even more so now that Phillips is gone. The only legitimately bad/medicore players on our list now are C Brown and Mayne, one of which will be gone at the end of this year.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

That was in reply to Apex saying there has been talk Wright would not come to Collingwood whilst Buckley is coach. Clearly that “talk” was wrong, as evidenced by Wright’s appointment as Football Manager.
Unless of course Buckley is about to be sacked.

Or Wright has already been informed Bucks is gone with Ed at the end of this year so he'll persevere and be a professional for 1 season while he waits for who I'm hoping is replacing Bucks for 2022.

 

[jonmacTrag]

Or Wright has already been informed Bucks is gone with Ed at the end of this year so he'll persevere and be a professional for 1 season while he waits for who I'm hoping is replacing Bucks for 2022.

Professional people don't deal in hope, perhapsing or wishful thinking.

I don't deal in derailing threads for personal vendettas against non-germaine people to the thread although this troll like behavior seems to be regarded favorably by the site now.

Last I will speak on the subject.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Professional people don't deal in hope, perhapsing or wishful thinking.

I don't deal in derailing threads for personal vendettas against non-germaine people to the thread although this troll like behavior seems to be regarded favorably by the site now.

Last I will speak on the subject.

Who said hope?

I suggested maybe he's been informed.

 

[Scodog10]

A very very good appointment.

He along with Damian Carroll will hopefully bring a greater Hawthorn style emphasis on skills by foot I hope.

Underrated appointment!

 

[ZEV]

Or Wright has already been informed Bucks is gone with Ed at the end of this year so he'll persevere and be a professional for 1 season while he waits for who I'm hoping is replacing Bucks for 2022.

Who remembers when Wrighty was going to walk out if Bucks came to Collingwood....

 

[Mike Olotripo]

Underrated appointment!

Correct - from what I saw at training a couple of weeks ago, he is very hands on with the younger players of which we have a lot and I was really impressed with his communication out on the track.

From speaking to mates previously at Box Hill where he coached, he is a terrific teaching coach, and I know some staff at Hawthorn not in the footy department who say you would be hard pressed to find a nicer bloke too.

 

[left at home]

Who said hope?

I suggested maybe he's been informed.

Sorry for this, or you are talking wishful thinking and through your nose.
By your good self. They don’t make those decisions this early

 

[OniAu]

Cant remember the last positive off field news we received

this is fantastic

 

[docks]

Didn't happen, pablo! Maybe you looked up Grahame Wright's record instead of this one!: AFL Tables - Graham Wright - Stats - Statistics
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He played every season with us between 1988-1998 with never less than 13 games any year.

I am very happy about this news, that's for sure!

He didn’t retire but at the end of 1993 he developed Guillain-Barre Syndrome and lost a lot of weight.
It took him five weeks to get over the worst - a 12kg drop in weight, short-term loss of speech, loss of feeling in his legs and nine days in a wheelchair.

 

[jmac70]

Or Wright has already been informed Bucks is gone with Ed at the end of this year so he'll persevere and be a professional for 1 season while he waits for who I'm hoping is replacing Bucks for 2022.

I doubt that.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

It’s highly insulting to Wright’s integrity to be making up ridiculous scenarios that he has accepted this job on a conditional basis.

 

[jackcass]

I doubt that.

Me to. Bucks will write his own story this season. Finals and a good performance through them and he's unlikely to be going anywhere.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Me to. Bucks will write his own story this season. Finals and a good performance through them and he's unlikely to be going anywhere.

And if he has a bad year the club might decide he’s had long enough and time is up.

Neither scenario however has anything to do with Graeme Wright, or ridiculous allegations that Wright has demanded conditions

 

[magpies42]

I keep having to pinch myself. This is an amazing outcome, just the reinvigoration we need.

 

[left at home]

It’s a good news story, but gee some are getting a bit carried away with it.

 

[TradeDraft]

 

[Jen2310]

For those that don't remember the context --

Graham Wright will join Nathan Buckley to steer the future of Collingwood, but the first time they crossed paths was littered with abuse and profanities.
Their first encounter came in Round 12 at the Gabba in 1993, when everyone appeared to know the then Brisbane youngster would be at the Magpies the following year.

In his 2008 autobiography ‘All I can be,’ Buckley wrote he was shocked by the level of vitriol from certain Magpies that day.

The chief instigator was the man who was appointed the Magpies’ new football boss on Monday.

“The sledging started before the first bounce with Craig Kelly and Graham Wright the most vocal,” Buckley wrote.

“Wrighty was like a broken record; he kept glaring at me and snarling: ‘I f---ing’ hate you!’

“I’d never faced such a consistent and pointed attack on my character and I didn’t know how to take it.


“Just months earlier, I’d made it public knowledge that I really wanted to play for Collingwood, and here was one of their best players abusing me like I’d never been abused before.”

Buckley had averaged 25 disposals a game in his previous seven games going into the match, but the Magpies decided to throw a Gavin Brown tag on him.




That combined with the unrelenting mental barrage ensured a dirty day for the young gun who’d go on to win the first AFL Rising Star award later that year.

“We gave him one of the greatest payouts of all time. Wrighty was a champion sledger and poor Bucks was caught in the crossfire,” said Kelly, who today manages Buckley.

“We were saying: “Who the f--k do you think you are, thinking you can just walk into our club? You’re not welcome!’

“Wrighty did not let up for the whole game.”




In the book, Wright explained why went after Buckley so viciously.

“There was a fair bit of talk floating around that Nathan was going to come to Collingwood and as a playing group we knew a couple of us would have to go,” Wright said.

“Ned (Kelly) and I just let him know we weren’t happy about him wanting to come to Collingwood.

“He actually didn’t say much back.

“In hindsight, it probably wasn’t the smartest thing for us to do.

“Not long after that game, I made an off-the-cuff remark to (then football boss Graeme) ‘Gubby’ Allan that if Buckley came to Collingwood, I would leave.”

Allan flatly replied: “You’ll be leaving then, son.”




Wright didn’t leave Collingwood, at least not until his post-playing days when he joined Brisbane in an opposition analysis and recruiting role from 2004 until 2007.

He then spent 13 years at Hawthorn before arriving home at Collingwood, where he’ll be just down the corridor from his former teammate who he savagely berated the first time he laid eyes on him.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Context is important!!!