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This week we make a stand. We MUST go into this week with a team who can and will tackle. If you can't tackle, you're out.

Ins this week: Bartram, MacDonald, Davey, Jetta, Scully

Outs this week: Gysberts, Nicholson, Bate, Strauss, Green (The 'captain', and I use the term very very loosely here, must assume responsibility for the 186 point capitulation and be dropped)

B: Bartram Frawley Rivers

HB: Tapscott Garland MacDonald

C: Scully Moloney © Jones

HF: Howe Watts Sylvia

F: Davey Jurrah Petterd

R: Jamar McKenzie Trengove (VC)

B: Martin Jetta Maric Dunn

Going forward we need a simple model. We're a club at war here, and last week's rout CANNOT EVER HAPPEN AGAIN. When you're at war, you need to identify your best leader to take you into battle on game day. Moloney must take over the captaincy now and continue on through 2012-2013. Trengove is without question the best option for VC. He is a born leader and a gun. His time as captain will come, and the team should earmark him now to take over the captaincy from Beamer after this tumoltuous time. He deserves it.

Scrap the concept of a 'leadership group' IMMEDIATELY. The likes of Jones, Grimes, Watts, Frawley, Jamar and McKenzie all have great potential leadership characteristics, but in these times we must refrain from overcomplicating the model. It clearly hasn't worked up til now and has allowed all the current current leadership group players to hide from their responsibilities That is completely unacceptable. Read Lethal Leigh's article printed today on the AFL website, he is 100% spot on.

The final cog in the wheel is our coach. I would like to start by saying, Todd Viney, what a champion of our footy club. He is exactly the hard-nosed bloke we need in charge over the next minimum 5 weeks this year. Going forward, we need a more authorotarian style coach for this group or at least a coach who demands respect. It needs to be someone who can motivate and demand quality from this team of incredible talent and potential. Self-motivation for this team is non-existent. Average 66 point losses evidence that and then some. This lack of self-motivation and belief is what ultimately cost the tactician coaching style of Dean Bailey his job. Dean would have been better suited to a team with strong leaders ala Geelong and Hawthorn. If Garry can't chase down Malthouse, I would like to see us take a chance with either Choco Williams or even go old school and call on the services of a rejuvenated Denis Pagan. We must have a coach who has tasted premiership success.

CARN THE MIGHTY DEES!!! Now it's there time to show me why I support this club!!

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