Collingwood football boss Graham Wright admits he was “surprised” that many in football world believe he’s the person who will largely be making the decision about coach Nathan Buckley’s future.
Buckley, who has coached the side since 2012, remains out of contract at the end of the year, with speculation on his future heating up in previous weeks.
Wright said a range of people at the club would ultimately decide Buckley fate, including CEO Mark Anderson and new president Mark Korda.
“I was as surprised as anyone else that it was thrown up that I was going to be the one making the decision (about Nathan Buckley’s future),” he said on SEN’s Crunch Time.
“I don’t think it’ll be that, it’ll be a group of people involved. Nathan is an experienced coach, an outstanding coach and been a successful coach so I’m really comfortable with where that sits.
“Mark (Korda) has just come on board as the new president, but we also have (CEO) Mark Anderson who has been there a fair while so I would’ve thought everyone, including Nathan, will have a say in that decision.
“I feel comfortable that there’s a great group of people there making the decisions.
“We haven’t even sat down yet and gone through (things yet), it was really clear when I started in February that the week after I started, that Bucks, Mark (Anderson) and I had a conversation where he said he wanted to wait (on making a decision) and thought it was the right thing and we haven’t had a conversation since then.
“I know what’s going on and understand it’s big news from that perspective, but from our point of view we’re preparing week to week to win games and at this stage we haven’t won too many so we have our hands full with that.”