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This should be us getting flogged…

So more than ‘goal kicking’ coaching… Youre describing what a forward coach should drive. Stafford needs help or needs to go.

Nothing that holds much Weightman.

Your case being that umpires and misses were the difference and we don’t need to make any changes?

Yes, and he was high when he said it. ‘You can finish second, third, fourth, heck even fifth!’ Quite apt. Quite apt.

He’s on as much as Langdon (~$500k) and he could be playing for half a dozen other teams regularly. It’s best for both parties for him to go.

I believe that was just a paraphrased excerpt of the meeting in Rye…

Personally I prefer @Nudge Where art thou?!

Most of the above salient posts should be in the Ben Brown thread. But our whole forward structure and how we move the ball needs to change. And that change may mean it’s suited to BBB. (I have my doubts with the Gawn FF future ominous for Brown)

Blocked from my end, GNF.

Once was enough. I am not going to delude myself into thinking umpiring was the difference. We need to make changes, my eyes have seen it all season long.

Adem should now withdraw, no newbie coach will have a handicap from the start even if they won it - the spectre of Hird is a ‘board movement’ away.

Hmmm. I hope that is just bluster to avoid looking like you are giving excuses…

With Grundy our forward line becomes Gawn centred. Gawn deep, with TMac/Brown up the ground, a couple of crumbers and the rest lead up forwards otherwise we are too top heavy next to Gawn: Spargo McDonald JVR Fritsch Gawn Pickett Melksham/Medium forward on bench.

I don’t agree with it, I just agree with @old55 that the Grundy recruitment (or equivalent ruck) means Gawn is nearing the end and we are moving him to FF for his dotage. And that we need to then construct a forward line around that.

Maybe with Gawn anchored to the square we won’t be able to fit another KPF in other than a CHF (JVR, TMac, Brown) and the rest have to be speedy pressure forwards or medium talls that can pressure too.

What are his dimensions?

Yeah, it has to be the Max is nearly done. Such a shame. Now we have to try and fashion a forward line with Gawn in the square. BBB can’t play with that then. We will have to stop flooding back ANB and Spargo (or the people who play their roles) so deep as Gawn can’t be up that high and run back into space. I would actually prefer to not flood so far back from the forward line so that I will like. I hope it means more leading at the footy from JVR and Fritsch INSIDE the 50.

All draftees get an automatic 2 year contract. For a supposed Melksham replacement with whatever pick, it will mean that we have to keep them past next year, and we probably would want to. Our names next year for delisting are not very many at all, and the ones you think may be going, may have already gone (Tomlinson). So it begins to make sense to give Melksham another year to space out the delistings and the number of kids we want to develop in set 2 year contracts.

Now Tim, what layzie meant by that is that respectfully disagrees with some of the decisions you have made.

Thanks to @Watson11 for those grapahs above. Pretty obvious our output didn’t even sustain let alone improve. I hope the FD and High Performance team have some learnings out of this year. But, primarily, I just want our banged up stars to get a break, get healthy, and have a strong pre-season. The rest can flow from that.

@Nasher see, this is the kind of client I am talking about… #ICTlyf

Lovely. Of your ‘Dumps’ - J SMith has got another two years just a couple weeks ago, D SMith is on the rookie list, and Spargo and Tomlinson have 3 and 1 years left respectively so have to be traded. And for Ben Brown to be ‘retired’ it will cost $1m for the final two years left on his contract. So unless you know something we don’t, I think we can try to be respectful to people.

Yes, they will be in the same flooded pack area to try to overwhelm in the air. Getting excited that our Forward Pocket (which is where a 2nd ruck spends most their time) will be competing for kick outs is baffling to me. If they do this, they only way it makes sense is if we now consider Gawn more of a forward than ruck. Unprecedented surely for a AA ruck to be shunted off to the forward line. And he is a terrible shot for goal. I don’t understand this I’m sorry and certainly not for the mooted $700k and laughable first round pick.