KozzyCan

Plenty of good examples. Craig Macrae took Collingwood from second last to a prelim and a flag the following year. Luke Beveridge took the Dogs from bottom 6 to finals in his first year and a flag the following year. Ken Hinkley took Port from a bottom four side to finals in his first year and a Prelim the year after. Adam Simpson took West Coast from 13th to 9th and then a Grand Final in the following year. Coaches aren't everything but they're a pretty important piece of the puzzle.

Maybe it is wasted but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy for us to secure. So far the MRC have not really been particularly enthusiastic towards the project and as a major stakeholder in the area that makes things more difficult to navigate. The fact that we're having to work out a new spot to put our training facility because the first choice was disrupted by the Mt Scopus sale is not encouraging.

We're trying to build a training ground in the middle of a horse racing track. Of course it's contentious.

Caufield has certainly not been in the works for a decade. Every chance the project gets undone by NIMBYs unfortunately. That's the risk we've taken by trying to build this in such a contentious space.

Their system just looked much better.

It's an area of the ground we have never really shown any respect to or tried to fix. List management and coaches both to blame.

Gawn, Petracca and Fritsch have all seemed to have gotten significantly worse. Not that Gawn and Trac were ever great but they'd generally be a 50/50 chance. This year they seem closer to 70/30. Fritsch used to never miss now he misses about half the time he goes for goal. These three probably get between 5-10 shots between them every week.

We'd be lucky to get a second rounder back tbh. Think we might just have to cut our losses at this point even if we have to pay some of his contract. We had an opportunity to get a first rounder back the past couple of years but we stuck fat. It will hurt a little but not as much as persisting with the same tired old formula. The team needs to move on and think about our long term future.

It's not all or nothing. But we need to start transitioning into the next era.

I know he won't and I'd keep him as he is a leader and we have very few of those. Would move on Oliver ahead of Petracca. Petracca has a higher ceiling and if all else fails can play as a forward. Oliver and Viney do the same thing.

I don't think Goodwin would see it as a promotion. Only way it could work is if Goodwin put his hand up and said he needed to get out of the coaches box. If we asked him to do it I think he'd be insulted. Imo a new coach would need clear air and having the old coach hanging around wouldn't do them any favours.

Has this ever happened? I think it would be a disaster. We'd be better off paying him to sit at home than have his spectre hanging around the club while the new coach is trying to make his mark. Goodwin absolutely wants to be coach, demoting him and giving his job to someone else would be culturally toxic imo.

It's no surprise that our midfield balance looked off again with Viney coming back in the side. We really need to make a hard call and trade out one of him, Oliver or Trac and get some better ball users in there.

Watching port go forward with players free all over the place and leads to kick to compared to us where we have a crowded mess and every player running to the same spot was stark.

It just astonishes me we can't get our forward entries and structure right. As soon as we get it within 70m of goal we just play dumb football. Petracca's kick to Melksham summed up our issues in that part of the ground.

Yeah basically if Kozzy wants to go home and a WA team is willing to take on his money then they would obviously value him highly enough that we're going to get a very good ROI.

It could be true but I wouldn't be putting too much stock in Schwarz's mail.

Did you watch the chat Whateley had with Simmo? He specifically pointed out that he's far more than a small forward.

He posted the second half of the 64 GF the other day:

Fantrastic work by the club.

Fantastic work by the club if this gets done. Genuinely could become a top 5 player in the comp imo.

He hasn't been the same since his foot injury unfortunately.

Nice fanfic OP. May has always loved to have a crack at others when he thinks they've let down the team. You've got Disco comforting Max and trying to push May away. Pretty obvious he was giving Gawn some feedback and Max didn't want to hear it. May is just a hothead and really should have waited until they were in the rooms to bring it up but I reckon both of them got over it pretty quickly.

Poor entries and shots at goal kill us once again.

No one would even be talking about this if she hadn't brought it up on her show and basically no one has touched it since. It was sensationalised headline grabbing stuff to pump up the ratings on her new show.