Nathan Buckley says he has nothing but respect for his former boss. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun
THE Magpies' grand plan to replace Mick Malthouse could have been better executed.
PAUL Roos picked his exit date at the Sydney Football Club, groomed his successor and proved himself right as the Swans won the AFL premiership last season.
The other great succession plan - Nathan Buckley replacing Michael Malthouse at Collingwood - has been anything but the work of geniuses.
They were, by Collingwood president Eddie McGuire's grand plan that was short on detail, to be working - excuse the satirical use of the Magpies' promotional catchphrase - "side by side" as coach and coaching director today.
Instead, they are rival coaches with Malthouse at Collingwood's dreaded rival, Carlton.
They meet on Sunday at the MCG for the first time in 13 years as foes in a football contest.
It is everything McGuire did not want.
The three central players in football's messy divorce are each in different places.
Malthouse is clearly wounded. Why? Perhaps he felt forced out of a job just as the fruits of his hard labour in rebuilding the Collingwood list were ripening. At least Roos was able to leave Sydney with all the spoils of his campaign to end the Swans' seven-decade premiership drought.
Perhaps Malthouse felt annoyed in being forced to spend a year out of the game after leaving Collingwood.
Certainly Malthouse took issue with McGuire's pointed comments on exit. McGuire's questions on Malthouse's health and the doubt on the merit of his game-plan clearly stretched the friendship, if not perspective, in how the succession plan came to be.
Now Eddie wants to find peace over dinner with Mick, but can't get his calls to book a date returned.
McGuire clearly became trapped between two agendas. He first hired Malthouse to have the game's best coach at Collingwood. He then "fired" him to keep Buckley from being a foe as a rival coach. The compromise - with a succession plan - was doomed because Malthouse was not finished and Buckley needed to start his career as a senior coach.
Who pushed the latter agenda with McGuire is an intriguing question.
Buckley's image through all this has never been tarnished.
He has always remained respectful of Malthouse, as highlighted while under heat last year when a 1-2 start made his succession seem premature.
Buckley then won 10 games in a row.
Even this week - as the Buckley-Malthouse "duel" has become the script for the Collingwood-Carlton clash - Buckley has kept his dignity, saying he holds nothing but respect for his former boss.
"I understand what took place, he understands what took place," adds Buckley of the Pies' succession act.
"I don't think there's a lot of understanding externally."
But there is a lot of interest.
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