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Personally, I see MAJOR moves in the off-season. I think next year will be an off year. This team needs to be rebuilt and that means 3-5 delistings and 2 retirements imo. Thats 7 new players. Plus trades, which I feel as though we will have a strong influence in trading this year, with one major trade to happen I rekon.

In saying that, I can't seeing us being much of a success next, but it rather being a building year, much like Port had last year though we aren't coming off a premiership last year so they were in a better situations as us.

Injuries or not, our list is old, flawed, battered, inexperienced and small all at once. Finishing last will be the biggest blessing in disguise...

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    Do i think next year will be different ? Hell yeah !! lol

    how so and in what manner ? wel lask me again after the coach is named.

    I dont see next year as all doom and gloom at all. We arent a bad team...just not a good team. When fit and running we have much to get excited about. But they would normally being be playing slightly above their weight...at the moment that is.

    Tweak the team, prune here, add there. Juggle it around a bit and give it a good kick up the arse..and you have the makings of a good footy team. Give it another year to jell properly..and we could be quite dangerous

    I dont see us as being also rans at all next year...just not a real mover and shaker...not yet :)

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    All things being equal, 08 should always have been a better year than 07. I can't see any reason why this wouldn't be the case - the old players you mentioned tend to be fringe-types (Brown, Ward, Holland), while many of our younger players will be more experienced in 08 (Bate, Jones, Dunn, et al.).

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    Port have shown that be getting games into the young guys it can bode well for a form reversal.

    I look forward to Dunn becoming a very very good footballer. I think he has some good size and speed to be a bit of an X factor.

    Maybe leave him on wing and let him flourish.

    We can rebound and we must rebound.

    Go Dees......(but not this week, especially if the Tiges get up!!)

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    As I have written elsewhere, I expect a bounce next year - with or without priority picks. The priority pick process is highly overrated and in the draft era, no club has won a flag soon after bottoming out for a couple of years. The Eagles are probably the closest (picking up Judd with a priority pick in 2001) but it still took them until last year to get the flag and they only had the one really bad year. Our real bounce next year will come from having a great coach (Sheedy I hope!), a better run with injuries to key players and natural development from our 19 -22 yo brigade. We are not a Club that can afford an extended run at the bottom to garner quality picks. Our attendances this year indicate this. If we don't rebound next year then as a club we are in real trouble. We need to look to Brisbane and Port as our models for the rebuild- not Hawthorn, they haven't proved anything yet other than thet they know how to cut a deal at trade time!

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    Agree Warren Dean.

    We can not afford to completely re-build.

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