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What role Travy 14 ? HFF? or HBF ? rather a difference in skill and output between Fritsch and Smith at Zhang forward. Also Harmes Vanders and Melkshske in 2020. All are about the same for form in decline. Keep Hunty Who can kick Multiple goals and get an early/ mid 3 Rd rounder fir Mitch.

Vale Blair Campbell Special sympathies to his family and friends .

Sorry Pino your not fit to decide our next big recruit.!! Need better personnel at our Club!!!

Worst fire sale of list cloggers ever!! Would rather give our guys a chance than them! Why would you need a Marley Williams when we already have Lovkhart?

WDEE There is more upside and pace and run With Lockhart Who cares that he didn't get a run in the last few games that's Goody and his selection. Smithy did ok I thought so us improving but BP is too deep for Salem and I reckon the forward line or wing are better spots to Make use of his excellent disposal. Not all the options Are interchangeable and we need a Jetta replacement that's why I like Lockhart and for eg Hore is hard to place and is really a Lever replacement as an interceptor. Hibbo is back this year Was a good one and form and fitness Fine. Riv again I feel is a better HB flanker than a BP. We May have a good selection of mediums but need Petty or if Tom Mac finds form if he isn't poached. I also like Tommo as a third tall and he also improved thus season with specific roles on opp like Cameron. Reckon after Pruess and Hannan go we may have a trade pick we can sneak a Stepho or Polec and maybe get further near a first round draft pick fir a classy runner with good disposal to help our mids and forwards .

Seems like we had Mitch for about 4 years fir ONE BIG GLORIOUS goal that none of us will ever forget. Good luck with the Dogs Mitch and thanks fir the memory.

Move on Dr and Dee3031 we are still living on his marvellous Geelong Semi sealing goal in 2018. Mitch had all season to hit form and didn't succeed and I will Not forgive him fir the last pass to Fritsch in the last quarter at Metricon vs Lions instead of passing to Jack Viney 30 m out on his own OR having a shot himself.!!!

DJ from your and Kents post you are talking salary as a given etc (your figures not MFC) and how the message is being conveyed to Tomand Mamager i am suggesting you're post is far More pointed above what is the real position. Tom is doing what any player would but no luck as yet with any leads. No it's any ones spot from Smith and Tommo But I don't think he will replace Petty as Harrison will play firward or be the CHB from Round1.

W'DEE Take Salem from BP and place in lieu of Melksham at HFF and place Lockhart in the BP to mind the oppos best small!

From memory HF flank and jnrmac Pies dropped back each year when Bucks took over so a status quo is not surprising in membership. While a CEO has Some responsibility for team performance the Head of FD is responsible to him it is too easy to blame Pert for the whole Situation Pert if I recall was at Cwood in 2010 and 2011 when Pies won flag and were runners up. (Perty would be a hero If he could do this within the next 3 years). The side by side campaign would surely be a marketing decision approved by Board or Pert. And submitted by the Marketing Manager, As his Role. It's has been a constant from many D/L Anders that if they didn't want Pert or agree with his appointment to blame every thing on Pert. The reality Perty isn't in the Coaching box when Simon refuses To move players or makes multiple Team changes akin to deck chairs on the Titanic. The more realistic Situation is that nearly all sections of the Club are performing OK with Financial surprisingly us being stable and not needing AFL support. Membership, football Dept and on field Performance definitely need 20/25% Lift fir us to be a serious contender for the flag. That is the challenge for 2021 And beyond with the changes and recruiting currently being undertaken as the first crucial steps.

Don't think either of Kent or DJ are in a factual state of what's gone on. From the Clubs Info released its more like We have a spot but he is facing a lot less Ists opportunity and is free to Look elsewhere for opportunities. At this stage that's what IMO is the status but any scenarios could be possible as of now.

You vastly underrate his feats at Collingwood Re membership and finance .There is no way Pert would have survived over a decade at Pies if he was not efficient snd performing at a good level. It is only a perception that you have and his record foes to belie those thoughts.

Yes it would be exciting if Bakes could develop into a class winger with his skills Pace and potential. Fitness is a key . Let's hope we develop Oscar but also go after Phillips or Polec.

Stefan could also go back into defence maybe as an extra key position defender at CHB.

Tough on Balmey that's 25 years ago and in his early coaching stint. Nearly every one else was either in short Panse or duffle costs at least. At least there are some additions to coaching to be finalised so who knows what May transpire. Changes to Assistants was identified by all and sundry and that's taking place. That is a good start, We are very quick to half glass empty people on this site and often expect a magician to evolve out if a rabbit even if it his first gig. Much responsibility has to be allocated to some players to shape up or ship out and about Half a dozen are in that category that Mahoney seems to be giving a ninth live following some real glimpses, disappointing cameos of inconsistency and real average team roles not being performed or identified to in the game plan which although an improvement is still only when we play well and seem to abandon the moment a modicum if pressure is applied from the opposition. All are under severe pressure in 2021and as we/ I will keep exampling the Cats in 2007 and Tigers a decade later in 2017 displayed there true worth with hassled and pressured coaches so what are we to do In a similar situation With a supposedly inferior list. A 1998 or 2018 response or even better? We await with bated breath fir trade and list movements and the new FD and Coaching appointments to move Mountains in Goody's game plan/s. FGS Burgo no injuries again like this year!

And at a time that at least Pies North and a couple of other lists are in disarray and Fire sales are Bigger than Covid figures in all States. if we lose Pruess and Tommy Mac to GWS and Pies at least a medium/high 3rd rounder for each should get a Phillips Polec or Narkle across the line with a 4th rounder Or future 4 going back!

And West Coast?

What do you mean push him out? Put from goal or out of the team ? or out of the Forward line ? Please don't compare with Melk and is ahead of any of our forwards. Wll straighten up and wrk on his game up become elite .

Didn't you see his last 2 games vs GWS and Bombers where Bailey took care of Haynes and Ridley and kicked 5 goals and missed about 4 gimmes still. his tackling needs more body strength and Bayley has indicated on the website he is getting ready for much more improvement to take his game to a new level in marking and defending and goal accuracy. Talk of him missing is not only premature as our leading goal kicker But disrespectful to his wholehearted efforts in his first 3 years.

Tomlinson IMO is a better interchange than Hore as he is much more versatile. Like the team but Lockhart IMO needs to be given an opportunity to mind the oppositions smalls. We always get burned by the midgets who are too quick!

Didn't Plapp have the mids And the forwards recently ? Since 2018? Agree he seemed fine at Casey as Numero 1, but for the lines not so good I reckon.

You have not done your Maths ITB. We are now better than Bombers and Hawks!!! I used to go season by season like that but it's too unpredictable. You win games and the ladder spot takes care of itself. You don't think there is a mountain full of improvement in our list of Young players from Jacko Kossie Riv Lockhart ? Also a sustainable game plan plus our listers from about 15 to 30 need a reality check. Oh and Brown Phillips and msybe Narkle??

Sorry George then why is there a thought that we may Conjure up pick 9 out of Preuss and our second rounder no23? I thought 23 would be fir Brownie for Norrh!

Because Templeton was banged up and about32 when we lured him. Brownie is only 27/28 and Burgo has tested him I believe for fitness and all the medics are satisfied he has potentially4/5 years ahead.

And I don't remember Carlton or Saints playing in A Prelim Final or winning more games than lost for 3 out of 4 last seasons.