Mark Neeld head of development at the Bombers

[Whispering_Jack 30,647]

Forget getting rid of coaches, players, administrators and board members, we should have hired a pest exterminator to get rid of those "white ants" (not to mention the group thinkers). The club would have been much better off doing that.

[Qwerty30 196]

Cale Morton 4

Jack Grimes 14

Addam Maric 21

Jack Watts 1

Sam Blease 17

James Strauss 19

Jamie Bennell 35

Tom Scully 1

Jack Trengove 2

Jordan Gysberts 11

Luke Tapscott 18

Max Gawn 34

Lucas Cook 12

Jeremy Howe 33

Sure Bailey won more games than Neeld, but lets not forget it was an average of 5.5 games per year during his tenure and with drafting like that no coach after Bailey would have stood a chance.

Also trading Jonstone, delisting Yze, White, Miller and force retiring Robertson and McDonald didn't help...

Its a nice batting order even better than Australia's in Abu Dhabi!

The list Bailey took over was exhausted and the cornerstones of the side Neitz, Yze, White., Wheatley and Robbo were largely finished at AFL level. Neitz could not get his body right. White, Yze and Robbo were reduced to cheap kicks in overwhelmed sides.

FWIW, I thought the Club exited those players in a dignified manner. So many experienced players and so little to follow in the list.

Bailey was not helped by some atrocious recruiting 2001 - 2007 where we got so few quality players in that period and did not have the generation of future leaders to cover Neitz.

Junior played a lone hand in an immature list. And IMO we probably only got Junior's retirement wrong by 12 months.

[What 18,810]

Cale Morton 4

Jack Grimes 14

Addam Maric 21

Jack Watts 1

Sam Blease 17

James Strauss 19

Jamie Bennell 35

Tom Scully 1

Jack Trengove 2

Jordan Gysberts 11

Luke Tapscott 18

Max Gawn 34

Lucas Cook 12

Jeremy Howe 33

Sure Bailey won more games than Neeld, but lets not forget it was an average of 5.5 games per year during his tenure and with drafting like that no coach after Bailey would have stood a chance.

Also trading Jonstone, delisting Yze, White, Miller and force retiring Robertson and McDonald didn't help...

if Watts had a different number beside him than 1 he would be long gone from the club too

[Qwerty30 196]

if Watts had a different number beside him than 1 he would be long gone from the club too

If any official is ranking players purely on their draft number then they should be long gone from the club.