HOW dumb do they think we are?

Why do clubs who sack their coaches increasingly insist on calling their decision “mutual”?

Surely if an AFL club board has the conviction to terminate a coach’s contract, it has the fortitude to punch out a media release that calls a spade a spade.

Gold Coast is the latest club to fire their coach and then turn around and say he was happy to go.

SUNS SACK MCKENNA, BOMBER IN WINGS

Yep, Guy McKenna’s happy to walk away from a nice pay cheque, happy to stop coaching one of the game’s most promising sides and happy to wonder what the heck he’s going to do next.

The Suns’ statement today read: “The chairman of the Gold Coast SUNS John Witheriff and inaugural senior coach Guy McKenna have agreed the time has come to part company.

“McKenna and Witheriff have mutually and respectfully agreed to go their separate ways.”

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And yet the same statement went on to declare McKenna was “naturally disappointed” and “would have preferred to continue as senior coach.”

What the?!?

Adelaide was at it only a couple of weeks ago, “agreeing to part ways” with a visibly shattered Brenton Sanderson.

“The Adelaide Football Club and senior coach Brenton Sanderson have agreed to part ways,” the Crows statement read.

We know “Sando” is a good bloke, but good enough to agree to join the sacked coaches club?

Grant Thomas was sacked by “mutual” agreement back in 2006 and it goes on and on and on.

It’s a bit like the way you used to break up with someone in high school. “It’s not you, it’s me”. Totally ridiculous, mind you, but at that age it seemed to work.