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Petracca to Gold Coast for Flanders and a first rd pick most likely 13 or 16, cant see them giving 6 Mcvee and our second rd to freo for freo first round May to dogs for future 3rd Spargo end of second rd compo to st kilda for heath. Take 2 first rounders in the draft, White and NGA pick late or rookie.

They dont look because they don't have the skill to hit the kick. Our mids especially are great contested ball winners, just cant hit targets consistently by foot. Kick to a contest counts as an effective position miss a hit up target doesn't. Agree our coach backed to same players, not much down at Casey to bring in. We have gone to the draft grabbed some young mids, hopefully they can kick

We didnt break their kicking, we designed a game plan to their kicking ability. Kick long to a contest get numbers to the contest win the ball at the contest. Issue is game is all about maintaining possession now, it is all about hitting that 25 to 35m kick, we just dont have enough players capable of doing this consistently.

Goodwin has always spoken really well. The end of the day the premiership window was slammed shut last year, we tried to keep it open but nothing worked. Do you back Goodwin for 5 odd years to rebuild or make a break, the board went for fresh start. Now onto the playing group, the coach has gone, some calls need to be made on the group that played in the premiership.

I reckon there could be a couple of clubs looking for coaches, Carlton will be one

Oliver has to go for both player and club. We will cop some salary but we need to free up the rest. Jvr, love to trade him but has lost any value Sparrow can we con a second round pick out of Adelaide will be in the 40s. Need to keep Petracca. The other that I would throw out there to see what offers you get is Bailey Fritsch. No point talking about who to target if we cant clear cap space

We brought players in that suited the game style at that time, cant complain got us a flag. Issue is the game has evolved back to a highly skilful game and the boys that delivered us the flag dont have the foot skills to make us a threat. We arent geelong that just keep evolving and attracting players that allow them to evolve, we are like recent flag winners Richmond and west coast. Richmond has accepted the pain, traded players that are good but really wont help them to win a flag, loaded up with top end picks to evolve. Do we have the guts to do the same, we will not go forward with our current senior players.

Looks very similar to the dark times pre Roos and Jackson. The older players just look defeated. We have been able to mask our skill inefficiencies by pressure and contested ball, worked for a few seasons but the game evolved to a possession game and we just cant keep the footy. Our back 6 was the best in the comp, now the ball is coming in so fast they are being exposed. Unfortunately a lot more pain coming, May and Gawn are looking like players that are coming to the end, Petracca wont hang around, Kossie the same. All good runs come to an end, Richmond, West Coast and now Melbourne, shame we couldn't win another flag with this group.

Essendon get the 4 points and most likely a top 2 draft pick from Melbourne. Time to take the shackles off and let the boys play, one on one accountability, stop giving an out number up forward, we cant hit targets. We are trying to play a style our team doesn't have the skill to execute

We are trying to play a possession game, short 25 to 30m kicks, issue is we hit 2 miss the third everyone is out of position and the fast break the other way happens. We dont have good enough kicks to play this way, Viney, Langdon, Petracca, Oliver are all terrible kicks, they are your main ball winners.

Really, if you cant hit that last kick inside 50m no forward will be effective. The GWS tsunami requires players getting behind the footy, get the turnover and then run forward in waves. Teams now score from stoppage or from turnovers usually in there defensive half. I love seeing this change, means you have to get elite ball users in your team. The change is happening, clubs now will look at elite kicks and back their conditioning staff to get their fitness up.

The game opens up and is enjoyable to watch when players become fatigued and can't work as hard defensively. Shorter quarters less fatigue more defensive slogs.

Outside of Richmond. North and West Coast, I think all other clubs have the potential to finish in the top 8, even North and West Coast won't be to far off. Not to many years you would say 15 clubs are a genuine top 8 contender.

There is no doubt that the 2025 season is going to be the most even comp we have seen. The last couple of years we have seen the gap get closer from top to bottom. All about early wins, get the confidence, win the close games and finish strong. It will be interesting to see the so called experts top 8, most will have us 10th or below and Collingwood top 6, I think it will be other way around.

Our game plan was based around winning the contested ball, mainly at stoppages. We backed ourselves in to win the contested ball and when that stopped happening we couldn't set up aggressively behind the footy and the ball just exited our forward 50 at a rapid rate. Lot of factors our 2 main big body mids had injuries, unfit, issues, was viney and second string mids at the contest. If Oliver and Petracca stay fit, May, Lever, Petty stay fit and the young talent improves no reason why we can't rebound quickly