..so, you force a succession plan on a proven coach to put in another that's still got to undergo their coaching apprenticeship..?.. ..honestly here, do you believe this would of happened with anyone else other than Buckley..?..
Buckley is no less experienced than what Roos Clarkson Worsfold Thompson Scott and Longmire were when they took the reigns. And Lyon for that matter who is a bees dick of also being a premiership coach.
Picking new blood is the way to win flags these days. If it happens to be a player from your own club, so be it, its not crucial but its not a bad thing either. Each to their own. Theres a few out there, Worsfold, Buckley, Hird/Thompson, Voss even the recently deposed Ratten....its not particularly strange to pick your own people as coaches.
Good luck with going for the "proven" coach. It worked well with Pagan didnt it?