21 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

It's going to be difficult with Goody's pay out and Seleyn's wage in the FD soft cap.

And that is where we are screwed. We laugh at the Dockers wrt to their contractual arrangement with Longmuir, but its actually quite brilliant both ways. You are essentially sackable at any point based on your performance and the club isnt held to ransom by long contracts. You perform, you keep your job like any other workplace in the country.

Next contract we set with a new coach should be set with a 2 year guarantee then its a year-by-year proposition. So if you are sacked midway, you get the payout for the rest of the season.

Whoever has been managing contracts for the club also needs to find the door.

51 minutes ago, jaydenh10 said:

can anyone recall the last playing coaching the afl/vfl? would love to know. might be us and max next year

I'd rather Daisy Pearce at this stage

6 hours ago, Adam The God said:

Problem for us is Selwyn is an injury management guy. And our injury list has been brilliant.

What we need is a new fitness coach.

Easy to prevent muscle injuries when they don't train hard enough.

6 hours ago, Adam The God said:

Problem for us is Selwyn is an injury management guy. And our injury list has been brilliant.

What we need is a new fitness coach.

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We were never prepared properly for rounds 1-5 and after that we were playing catch up.

We have to be hard , fit and ready to start well at round 1 not round 6.

Other clubs are prepared , we were most definitely not!

9 hours ago, GS_1905 said:

And that is where we are screwed. We laugh at the Dockers wrt to their contractual arrangement with Longmuir, but its actually quite brilliant both ways. You are essentially sackable at any point based on your performance and the club isnt held to ransom by long contracts. You perform, you keep your job like any other workplace in the country.

Next contract we set with a new coach should be set with a 2 year guarantee then its a year-by-year proposition. So if you are sacked midway, you get the payout for the rest of the season.

Whoever has been managing contracts for the club also needs to find the door.

This has happened a few times with coaches that they are desperate to keep their jobs that they are placed on a staff based contract to rule out the a big payout if it all goes south.

There is precedence of this happening with the Crows and Neil Craig.

2 seasons into this new arrangement he was under pressure to deliver and never did and left mid season with no pay out resulting.

Pretty sure it was after a 100 point belting from the Dees also.

The link between Longmuir and Craig's as coaches is that up until their last contracts they had never won a premiership and had no leverage or skin In the game to place demands on what they want.

Simon would never have accepted a staff based contract after he led the club to the promise land, he would have picked up and coached elsewhere.

While our overall list is quite healthy, we've had numerous players come back from injury interrupted pre-seasons or are coming back from injury last year, it makes up a fair chunk of our best 22. I would include Petracca, Oliver, Lever, McVee, Windsor and Lindsay with Spargo and Tholstrup borderline 22. Selwyn has done well to have these guys playing decent footy again.

The decision to put most of these players straight into the firsts without giving them time to build form in 2s has little to do with Selwyn and more-so the selection committee's rigid view around team structure.

Edited July 28Jul 28 by MrFreeze