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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.

I just can’t agree that is where footy is going. We have an amazing group of tall defenders and we want one of our ruckmen to sit with them? And where is the extra number coming from? The forward line. So that is then us playing a man short up front. I want to embrace this, I just don’t see the benefit outside of Gawn insurance, and I think that is such a pathetic way to spend some of the draft capital we get from the LJ trade.

Maybe, although name the top 5 performing forwards this year and he might be on it after playing like 8 games… Plus we need to spread out our delistings for the year after what I can see on the contracts page.

That was even a concern?!

Well he is a very important player!!

Trades, Werridee. Jackson gone, if Bedford doesn’t sign a contract he will be traded, Adam T needs to go somewhere. Also yes I think Rosman should be delisted.

Yes, this fascination to make our AA ruckman a forward is lost on me, I can understand him training his replacement but Grundy is only a year younger. We should either target a young developing ruckman who can also get better as a target or a forward who can ruck. I don’t understand investing in another established ruckman in their last 4 years of AFL footy.

Thanks

You’d hope so, and also don’t we have to release the players after like the Wednesday after your last game or something? Thought I read that somewhere

It’s a gameplan put together by the coaching staff obviously with Goodwin as the final say so. And I am sure they will try to adopt something closer to Sydney and be a bit more enterprising and expansive. Im talking about a ball movement coach specifically charged with implementing it. Went to a coaching conference about 10 years ago and had a presentation from the Bombers ball movement coach and he described his role as the person responsible to be able to talk to any player and talk them through how their role would complement. Also would be good to get some fresh ideas.

Well said, Bing. When Rd 1 came around it was amazing how sluggish both teams seemed to me, and how proppy some were after a concentrated pre -season where bodies perhaps didn’t recover. Then Salem came in, had one short kick and hobbled off ONLY TO COME BACK ON and then the annus horribilis began and some of the decisions on players ‘backing up’ seemed to make it worse, so I do think they need to review that management and whether they really did need to smash some of our best players through periods of the season.