Roost it far

We don’t need a full rebuild but we may need some fresh eyes. We’ll have a better idea in 6-8 weeks

A ruckman’s role around the ground in a fast transition game isn’t the role he once had. His role is to win taps and give our mids first use. He then is used to cover holes to limit the run of our opponents.

Don’t be scared of Tasmania taking all the picks. They’ll trade plenty, that’s an opportunity for us not a hindrance

Not if it’s a Brock McLean draft

If and it’s still an if we’re watching the end of May, which I suspect we are, we need to get games into Adam’s. Our defence is still sound albeit under pressure and not providing great rebound without McVee and Windsor. A defence of Adam’s Petty Howes Windsor Lever McVee Is fine if both Adam’s and Howes develop or are replaced. Adam’s is unknown at AFL level and if he doesn’t make it Turner is currently the replacement leaving us a bit thin up forward unless Jefferson makes it alongside JVR.

If we take Longmire I’m done. He’s finished as a top level coach. There’s a use by date on everything and he’s reached his. Football Director, sure but if we go for a new coach grab the best assistant available.

Viney’s been an excellent player for us, yes the contract is too long but only if the price is exorbitant. Stop belittling his career, he’s a great of the club. Not only has he played his share of cracker games he’s driven standards.

As an option we could take White and Sinemma, trade out The Brand and take Butters. That’s a pretty good result for us.

I’d have a crack at Butters

Any idea if he’s expected to be a highish draft pick?

One thing I truly hate is “honourable “ losses. The ones where you are watching the game and the 3-4 goal margin remains from the Cats initial burst. You sit there and watch as we draw to within 12 points with 10 minutes to go only to see the Cats kick an easy out the back goal. These games are truly grating.

Kolt’s likely to be limited considering his time out. Hopefully he gets a good run at the second half of the season. Having those 5 up and about will make our team so much better.

Does anyone here know anything about Toby Sinema and is he our NGA?

Without Windsor and McVee we don’t currently have the drive and precision off half back making our new game plan even harder to implement. I’m looking forward to having those guys and Lindsay in the one team and in form. I reckon we’ll see some big strides forward. Yes our form is woeful but don’t underestimate the impact the loss of these 2 have had on performance.

Let Goodwin see out the year. Then search through the best assistant’s and then make a decision. I want the next great coach not the last. We need fresh ideas I think but although I’m cooling on Goodwin he deserves the year to see how he manages what’s proving a tough period.

I’ve just switched to dark, I like it!

I’d move Richardson on and see if I could get Adam Simpson in as football Director

I can’t see us trading anyone unless we end up better off. Anyway you look at it The Brand is 2 high draft picks, Oliver is 1 top 15 pick and Kozz is 2 top 20 picks. If they were to all go I’d imagine we’d get picks 6,9,11,12 and 18 but we’d be paying some of the contracts. Of course I’m guessing!

At my rate of posting some of it’s bound to make sense!

We got towelled up by Rowell, he ain’t that fast. Get Kozz and Lindsay in there and see if Rowell runs away from us then.

Trading Petty, no one bar Kane Cornes says we were offered a top 10 pick from Adelaide. At the time he was a top line defender who we were thinking could be moulded into a forward. We have a dearth of quality talls and he’s young and a quality tall. We need him to stay on.

We picked up May, Lever, Hibberd, Langdon and Brown and won a flag. We then gave long contracts to absolute stars of the game in Petracca and Oliver along with Brayshaw. We then kept our high picks and drafted JVR, Windsor, Tholstrup, Langford and Lindsay. We recruited some cheap stop gaps along the way. Our recruiting has been excellent and can people tell me who we should have recruited that was available and would have led to the bank of young talent we now have. You can’t have both. Big stars cost big money and high picks to recruit. Had we gone that way they’d be no young talent and would we be better off??? Injuries cost us the 23 flag, we were Cherry ripe prior to Petty going down followed by Melksham and then Gus. It wasn’t drafting that cost us. You can’t have it all.

Me too although I think they’ll stick with Howes.

I have to disagree with this completely. Grundy was next to useless anywhere but at the ball ups and he wasn’t that good at them either. We rolled the dice and it failed. The team failed in 23 because of some bad injuries and poor kicking. I’m not sure how Max forward helped that.

Why do I get to Wednesday and start thinking we’ll win our next game? Deelusional or maybe not?