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Yahoo
10-08-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
'All for second chances': AFL world divided over startling James Hird development
AFL fans have had a mixed reaction after Melbourne Demons great David Schwarz urged the club to consider James Hird as its next head coach. On Friday, leading reporter Tom Morris stated Nathan Buckley was the 'hot favourite' if he decides he wants to get back into coaching, while former Sydney Swans mentor John Longmire has ruled himself out of contention. With the Demons on the hunt for a new coach after sacking Simon Goodwin last week, club great Schwarz believes Hird should be interviewed at the very least. Hird coached Essendon from 2011 to 2013, and then again in 2015. However his time in charge of the Bombers is shrouded in controversy due to the supplements scandal. 'I want the next coach to be our next premiership winning coach,' Schwarz said on SEN radio on Sunday. 'I don't want to go to the well four times in the next 10 years. I'm looking at an experienced coach unless someone pops up out of the blue. 'Put it this way - if Garry Lyon put his hand up tomorrow saying he wanted to coach – I'm saying no. I love Gaz but I don't want someone who hasn't had an unbelievable time in footy. 'I think James Hird has been lost to footy. I think he has a great footy mind. I'm a massive fan. He got caught up in something that he has taken the full front of criticism for. Don't tell me he wouldn't come back as a better human being. I am all for second chances. 'I'd love to see James Hird - whether it's Melbourne or any club - I'd love to see him back in the fold in some shape or form. He is too good of a footy person. He's actually a good person. I would love him to get a second chance. Would he get the role as Melbourne senior coach? Probably not but I tell you now, I'd be interviewing him and picking his brain." It's unlikely that Hird would take on a head-coaching role at any other club than his beloved Essendon, although he did have an assistant role at the GWS Giants in 2023. Like Buckley, he's moved into the media and seems comfortable out of the pressure-cooker of coaching. While some agreed with Schwarz that Hird would be a good candidate, others felt the role wouldn't be the right one for him. Not our number one son! Plenty of coaches out there that would be more than happy to take on that job. Leave our Hirdy alone. — RACHELE (@RayeCharles) August 10, 2025 No no no he's coming home❤️🖤 — Parker Dorothy (@ParkerDorothy12) August 10, 2025 It's like Melbourne doesn't remember how they built a premiership team, and are hell bent on pulling a WC as it falls off the cliff. — Marcus Milroy (@marcus_milroy) August 10, 2025 Looking for overnight success — CrowForm $8 (@CrowForm) August 10, 2025 Demons job 'Nathan Buckley's position to lose' On Sunday night, Morris doubled down on his claim about Buckley and declared it's his "position to lose". Buckley was Collingwood coach from 2012 to 2021, narrowly missing out on the 2018 premiership. "There's a board meeting tomorrow where they will meet and discuss the committee to select the next coach," Morris said on Channel 9 program 'Footy Furnace'. "On Wednesday they'll announce that committee and have someone appointed before preliminary final week. I think it's looking likely to be Nathan Buckley. He's interested in the job and they (the Demons) like him, it's just a matter of how it all works." RELATED: Collingwood controversy back in spotlight after Freo skipper incident Sad blow for Dermott Brereton and family after brutal scenes On Saturday, Swans' premiership-winner Longmire ruled himself out of the running. Longmire and former West Coast mentor Adam Simpson were originally thought to be the leading candidates, but it looks like Buckley might have overtaken them. Longmire stepped down last November following the Swans' crushing grand-final loss to Brisbane - his fifth decider in 14 years at the helm. He remained at the Swans, taking up the role of executive director of club performance. It is understood he is not yet ready to return to the coaching fray.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
XRP Ledger ‘Self-Healed' After Brief Downtime
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) was briefly unavailable early Wednesday as a consensus mechanism design led to a temporary halt in network operations. The incident began when the network's consensus process appeared to function, but validations were not being published, causing the network's ledgers to 'drift apart.' In the XRP Ledger, consensus among validators is crucial for updating the ledger with new transactions. If validators cannot agree on which transactions to include in the next ledger version, the network can't move forward. A 'drift' in this context means that while the consensus protocol was technically running, validations (or confirmations of transaction sets) weren't being published. At least one validator operator manually intervened to reset the network's consensus to a previously validated ledger state, although the network seemed to have rectified the problem independently, Ripple CTO David Schwarz said in a X post after the incident. 'It's likely that servers refused to send validations precisely because they knew something was wrong,' Schwarz said. 'And wanted to make sure no server accepted a ledger as fully validated when they couldn't be sure the network would retain and eventually agree on that ledger. 'One possible failure mode for XRPL is if all the validators think something's wrong with the network, all refuse to send any validations, and then there's no chatter to let the network reconverge. This is the 'silent network' failure,' Schwarz added. No assets were at risk during the downtime, with XRP prices largely in line with broader bitcoin and altcoin movements. Sign in to access your portfolio
