KozzyCan

Hawks are such a great team to watch.

Plus I heard he did a terrible job on Clayton's lawn.

I don't mind the idea as Hinkley seems like a great people person. Seems to have good managerial skills. Not sure why some would bring up his finals record. Footy boss is a fairly different role to a coach. Take Balme, who was an average coach but probably the best footy boss the game has seen.

Even if it didn't, surely if a player gets themselves banned their contract is voided.

Oliver was injured for half the season last year when we hit our best patch of form. He came back for finals and played well but we lost both games anyway. It's a team game. There's more to it than just one player.

Trade rumours are a bit of fun imo. No need to get too worked up over them. Not much else to talk about at this stage of the year except how jealous we are of the teams playing finals.

Pretty funny if Tyson was getting pushed out because we were chasing the bloke who got selected with the pick we traded him in for.

He's working with a midfield of Dangerfield and a bunch of nobodies and absolutely destroyed one with JHF, Rozee, Butters, Wines and Boak. He is a master.

More collateral damage of trade speculation 😢

The way some infantilise him on here is a bit much.

Do people actually believe there are fake supporters in this site trying to talk down the trade value of our players? That's pretty funny.

She popped up plenty of times in 2021 and 2022. Disappeared when things started to go awry late last year.

Being the "Collateral damage" of trade speculation? Give me a spell.

Lol they're not going to sack a gun player because of a bump that went wrong. If they trade him it will be because they will get overs.

Not great list management from us if we left ourselves in a spot where we couldn't attract anything that could have made us better. If you want to chase dynasties you have to add to what you already have. See Richmond with Lynch and Hawthorn with Lake and Frawley. We've lost a lot more than we've added over the past few years.

Is there a massive disconnect between Lamb and Goodwin? All of the players we've recruited since the flag either can't get a game or are off the list altogether.

Call me a cynic but Caro's piece on Monday was a massive tonal shift from the line the club has gone with over the past 12 months. That info felt like it came straight from the board and probably Roffey herself. One week ago there was no chance of an independent review, our issues were just isolated incidents, best culture in 40 years etc. By Monday the club was strongly considering a review and Roffey was planning her exit. Only after the conclusion of the mess of the last few weeks did we learn of the Steve Smith approach and the possibility that he may be the club's next president. It's all a bit convenient. That being said at the end of the day I'm not really fussed if the right outcome is reached.

The players will be fine. They are professionals and don't look at things with the same eyes that supporters do. Players explore their value on their market all the time, this one just got a bit out of control. Once pre-season starts it will be water under the bridge and if it leads to the meaningful change that a lot of the players seem to be expressing a desire for then they will probably be even happier for it.

Ralph said OTC yesterday that Kozzy would like to have more indigenous players on the list. I remember last year there were reports we were courting Liam Henry with that being a bit of a motivator. Not sure why it fell through.

I think we agree!

Reckon if you dug a little bit you'd find a clip of Hutchy calling for the league to get more mature and not be afraid of players requesting trades in-season.

Same age. Same super contribution...

Chol, Ginnivan and D'Ambrosio. Hawks did very well last trade period and gave up not much.

That's kind of the point I'm getting at.

Morris was starting out at that stage not many would have really heard of him. He also worked for the club. So a bit different. Would be like if Ben Gibson or Matt Burgan had revealed club secrets. Not surprised someone let their guard down in that scenario. Very different when the club is under fire from all directions and every journo in the state is looking for a quote. Was a time where the club needed to circle the wagons and sort things out behind closed doors. Instead we saw new information getting leaked every day from different sections of the club. Was a very disappointing episode for the club imo.