Collingwood have started their 2017 season with a 1-4 win/loss ratio after losing to Essendon on Tuesday. With pressure mounting on coach Nathan Buckley, club president Eddie McGuire has thrown his support behind him to get Collingwood to the finals for the first time since 2013.
On his Triple M morning radio show "The Hot Breakfast", McGuire argued Buckley's importance to the club's future. "Every time I've looked to Nathan Buckley as a player, as a person, as a coach - he has never let me or the Collingwood Football Club down," McGuire said. "There has been no greater servant of the Collingwood Football Club. "There is no better person to have our club's future in his hands than Nathan Buckley." It was late last year that Buckley declared that if Collingwood didn't make finals in 2017, he would lose his coaching job. In order for the club to show some sort of improvement, even if the club does not make finals this year, the team needs to work on their forwards. Last year, Collingwood's forward line was put under the pump after Travis Cloke continuously missed set shots from directly in front. Once Cloke left Collingwood for the Western Bulldogs, pressure has now been placed on forwards Darcy Moore and Jesse White to improve on their set shots, and for captain Scott Pendlebury to improve on his overall ball use. Even if the Magpies don't make finals this year, McGuire stated that he still has belief in Buckley. "Things can turn quickly if you get the right mix in there, but it takes a bit of a build," he said. "There isn't a panic to be had. "We won't turn on our own. We won't decimate people who give to our club day in, day out over tens of years." Collingwood will face another big challenge this weekend, taking on Geelong at the MCG, on Sunday.
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