Paul Roos has declared Melbourne might win the premiership as quickly as subsequent season because the membership continues the hunt for its subsequent senior coach.

Former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley is taken into account the early front-runner for the position after skilled potential candidates reminiscent of John Longmire, Adam Simpson and James Hird formally pulled out of the operating.

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Whereas Melbourne will end this season on the underside half of the ladder, Roos in contrast the Demons’ present standing to that of Collingwood earlier than Craig McRae took over on the finish of 2021. 

McRae’s first season as coach noticed Collingwood rise from seventeenth to fourth earlier than he guided the Pies to a premiership in his second season.

“I feel Melbourne is a special kettle of fish,” he instructed the ABC AFL Day by day podcast.

“I feel they’re manner higher than individuals are giving them credit score for. If you happen to get the precise low season strikes, I am going to go on the file, they might win a flag subsequent 12 months. Not the 12 months after, they might win a flag subsequent 12 months. 

“They have 14-16 premiership gamers on their record proper now. They received a premiership in 2021, they don’t seem to be tremendous outdated, so I feel this can be a completely different one.”

Buckley instructed SEN on Monday that he was “effectively and really on the fence” about throwing his hat within the ring for the Demons job.

He endured a mini-rebuild after first taking up at Collingwood earlier than guiding his facet to the 2018 grand remaining. 

“If I am somebody like a Nathan Buckley, I am not taking this job to resurrect this group. I am taking this job to win a premiership within the subsequent two to 3 years,” Roos stated.

“That is the mandate, for me.”