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He no longer has any interest in joining us. Has spoken to 4 clubs, and we are not one of them.

Our trading over the past 3 years has been our own worst enemy. Recruiting bargain basement players during trade week, who weren't the right fit, has hurt us badly. Giving Schache another year was mind boggling. We have a good draft hand this year, and I don't want Tim Lamb anywhere near our picks. Fortunately the Houston trade has fallen through. Jason Taylor is more than capable of handling any trades for pick swaps.

I'm usually one for getting nice new shiny toys, but after our trades over the past 3 years, I'd rather we went through the draft and got a batch of 5-6 kids in the door. I would be more than happy with another couple of kids of the calibre of Windsor and Tholstrup. Watching the Casey team this season being filled with failed recruits from other clubs, and very little junior talent, I have more confidence in Jason Taylor than Tim Lamb/Alan Richardson.

Sicily should be pulling his younger players into line for making twats of themselves. Then he wouldn't have to stand up for them.

Ginnivan deserved his right whack. Good onya Kenny.

So if we had to fly to Brisbane every week to play, you wouldn't see that as being detrimental to their performance? If I had a choice of clubs, the travel time to training would be a factor.

You do realise that Houston has a say in the matter? We are out of the race. End of story.

54 games in 5 seasons. No thanks.

I'd rather these 5 getting extended for a year than Hunter, Hore and JS. Is Jed Adams still under contract?

To be honest, our depth is so poor, we are in no position to be pensioning off the likes of Melksham and T Mac. It's not a slight on these two, but we have noone coming through the ranks to challenge them for a place in the team. It was a no brainer that Melksham and T Mac would be given another year.

List management 101. Replace players who we deemed as flawed and no longer required, with like for like. And we don't need key forward list cloggers like Taberner. We need to see what Jefferson and Fullerton can do.

Taberner and Ross are both 31. I'd rather go for the best state league talent with a hunger to succeed than washed up players like these 2.

`Malcolm Speed was able to shed light on the legal proceedings the club has been involved with. Since neither parties are allowed to comment on proceedings, there has been a lot of misinformation and guesswork by some on Demonland. It was nice to get a clear picture.

You'd imagine that Cerra is on good coin so his trade value is diminished even further. I wouldn't even entertain a future 1st for him.

Speed said that the review shouldn't be made public because it could damage people's reputation. But if changes are made as a result of a review, then any person that loses their job ultimately has their reputation damaged. I think the point he was making is that the review should be brutally honest, regardless of whether wholesale changes occur. For instance, Goodwin could survive the review, but still have brutal feedback conveyed to him without it being public knowledge.

You are kidding. Who do we have as midfielders who can as an inside or outside mid? He's far better than Hunter and Billings.

Jordon was a permanent fixture in our premiership year until he got injured. He was underrated by many on Demonland.

Cheap depth over the past 3 years has only brought us list cloggers, and actually destroyed our depth. We need to stop this nonsense. Either recruit players who we rate as top 20 on our list or go to the draft with our picks.

Dees supporters don't have time for social media because they spend all their time on Demonland.

That's exactly what I'm inferring. Either senior people at the club were ignorant of our deeper problems, or were trying to hide them under the carpet and hoped it went away. It's incompetence regardless. Trac is the wrong person being vilified imo.

The club has been "on the nose" long before that, both on and off the field. From my own point of view, I "unfollowed" our IG becuase the info was either outdated or irrelevant by the time I looked at it. I don't use IG as a source for football info. And I'm an old fuddy duddy, so don't care about fluff pieces.

If that is the case then I'd want a cleanout of senior positions from top to bottom. Roffey has gone, and Pert and Richardson should be next.

Whilst it's not ideal with trade week less than a month away, we can't allow another year to go by without some changes to the Football Department. Brad Green's call for an external review makes me think that there are board members that weren't aligned with the thinking of the Football Department, and that has led to Roffey resigning. It's just my opinion, but I can see Tim Lamb and Alan Richardson being the primary casualties of the review, and Jason Taylor taking on the list management duties in the interim. In addition to Stafford leaving, there may be changes to the assistant coaches, and potentially the high performance team. I can't see Goodwin getting the sack.

You've missed my point. I'm all for recruiting players from the VFL, but not for the reasons you posted. Any recruit should be capable of challenging for senior selection and not be "affordable depth" or "handy at Casey" as you stated.

This has no relevance to the discussion at hand. Players have all sorts of duties that they are expected to perform outside of the playing arena, which aren't written in their contract. Some players may go above and beyond that, others may choose not to. If Petracca is in the latter group, it doesn't justify being vilified by what may amount to .01% of our supporter group. And we're not talking about kids here.