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Surely we can get some dodgy Slurpee sponsorships for the players we're keen on trading in.

We can call it the 7/11 Centre

So Pert's been kicked out (wasn't the whole Caufield plan his idea?) and we can't have Guerra looking at it until he officially starts in three months time and also the business case has been pushed back until at least the end of the year and we have no idea who is actually going to pay for the damn thing? Is that about it for recent developments? I'm not brimming with confidence about this.

Off the top of my head there's Cameron Bruce at Brisbane, Justin Leppitsch and Hayden Skipworth at Collingwood both highly rated, Steven King and Nigel Lappin at Geelong. Craig Jennings at GWS would be an ironic replacement. Plenty of talent out there tbh.

Swans looked completely reinvented in 2021. One of the first teams that realised the ball movement was about to become far easier. Geelong, Collingwood and Brisbane would all follow suit the next year. Simpson has very similar philosophies to Goodwin as a coach it sounds like.

The midfield looked far better when Viney was out of the side. Also reckon we looked a lot more balanced in that game against Gold Coast last year when both Oliver and Petracca weren't playing. Basically we can't play all three in the midfield, and we are wasting guys like Windsor and Langford by prioritising the old guard. I think Goodwin should really drop one of Viney or Oliver but highly doubt he does.

West coast are a mess and that job was a poisoned chalice. You're basically agreeing to 5 years of pain before likely being sacked when all the hard work is done. There are plenty of good assistants around. One we should certainly look at is Brisbane's midfield coach Cameron Bruce.

I don't think we should trade Petracca specifically. But I do think we need to seriously look at our list and how we're going to actually mount our next flag tilt. Don't think we can rely on Trac, Oliver and Viney to be the ones kicking the ball inside 50 any more. Gotta find a way to start giving the younger players more responsibility. Definitely need to make some hard list decisions with some senior players at years end.

Not sure about decent form, he's been well down this year. A 30 year old down on form with a massive tail on his contract? We won't get much imo.

I'm sort of confused by this reasoning. If the forwards don't trust the mids and the mids don't know how to kick it to the forwards then it speaks to a complete systemic disfunction on the field and essentially players going into self-preservation mode. We don't make excuses like that in other areas of the ground. Going against the team rules with regards to positioning or decision making is the kind of thing that gets players dragged or dropped.

This is it. The club admitted we underperformed last year. Reaffirmed finals as the expectation and argued that the changes we made would take us there. We are now more than half way through the year and sit at 5-9. The chances of us catching fire on the run home seem miniscule right now. So does the club say they missed the mark with their expectations? Or do they admit that we have failed to get the most out of ourselves?

He had to have an HIA that took him off the ground when he was on fire. If he was staging it backfired anyway. Brereton is just a complete moron.

Petracca is definitely (and understandably) more worried about contact than he used to be. I've noticed him pull out of a number of contests this year, his injury is still in his mind. Completely understandable but it does make him a lesser player unfortunately.

Who are you talking about? We have drafted midfielders and half backs and traded in players who couldn't get a game at their previous clubs. The only real forward we have brought in is an injury prone McAdam who was never that great to begin with.

What's your point? That changing coaches must be always successful to be worth it? All you need to do is ask whether our team should be performing better than they are, if not why not? In my view many of our issues are system based. Issues that have been present for a while and that Goodwin has not been able to fix. Therefore, changing coach is the correct call. On your list management point. Teams make list changes every single year. But a senior coach has a major say in their vision for the list. So Goodwin has had a massive say in our list build.