Collingwood’s Nathan Buckley will have to wait beyond their final game against Melbourne to learn his AFL coaching fate.

President Eddie McGuire said on Tuesday morning there is no timeline for when they make the call on Buckley.

The Magpies board will have a scheduled meeting on Tuesday night and Geoff Walsh will present the findings of his review into their football operations.

“I don’t know about next Monday but there is no date,” McGuire told TripleM.

“We’ve got a board meeting tonight and we’ll discuss what’s going on.”

Buckley is about to come out of contract and his future has been one of this season’s major stories.

He has been at the helm for six years and this is the fourth season in a row that they have missed the finals.

They are 13th with eight wins and end their season on Saturday against Melbourne.

The report from Walsh, their football manager, is one of three internal reviews at the underperforming club.

There have been several reports in recent weeks that the club is leaning towards a scenario similar to the ones that played out at Richmond last year and Geelong in 2006.

Changes were made after exhaustive reviews, but under-pressure coaches Damien Hardwick and Mark Thompson survived and went on to enjoy much-improved seasons – the Tigers are currently fourth and the Cats won the 2007 flag.

Regardless of whether Buckley stays, a shakeup of their football department is inevitable.

Geelong coach Chris Scott would be surprised if Buckley doesn’t have some inkling of what lies ahead.

“It’s really hard to speculate as to what has actually been discussed, but I would be staggered if Nathan and his superiors hadn’t had discussions all the way through,” Scott said on AFL 360.

“Similar to the way coaches and list managers talk to senior players toward the end of their careers.

“It’s not (a case of) ‘okay now we have to talk about this for the first time’. It’s a process that you work through over a period of time.

“Even though their public position has been ‘we’ll make that decision at the end of the year’, I’d be staggered if they hadn’t had some sort of discussions to give him a bit of a feel for what’s going on.

“That would be a difficult position to be in.”