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If he lands de goey we keep him if not ensure we keep it quiet till after trade period so players don't walk out

Yze would be mad to take this job. Expect to see St Kilda, Hawthorn and North prop up the ladder for the next few years

There is no question that if we can bring that intensity and dare back we can win it again. We lost our way mid year, injury, stubborn coach and our players looked cooked this year. Our mids have two of the best tap ruckman in the comp, we need to become less predictable with our ruck taps and win back that dominance in clearance work.

Smith May Petty Bowie Lever Salem Hunter Brayshaw Langdon Petracca TMac Fritsch Grundy JVR Kosie Gawn, Oliver, Viney Jordon, Harmes, Sparrow, Rivers

The club pushed out a 4 time premiership coach, it wasn't a transition bit like Collingwood Mick wasn't onboard with the Buckley transition it was board driven that Buckley would coach somewhere else, same with Hawthorn they wanted Mitchell and didn't want him coaching somewhere else.

If he picks Freo, they need to trade Lobb to get the pick. You would be picking Freo, they are building a got list

We will hopefully have a fit TMac, B Brown couldn't be as bad as he was this year, Dutchy at Casey that a full preseason will be great, don't forget our WA draft picks didn't get over till after Christmas. I think if Weiderman is out Bruce is on the way in. Hoping Petty is still in our back 6 he is vital down there and these other blokes can hold down the kpf spots.

Bedford new nickname Steak knives

I know just nice to dream that we could turn the Jackson trade into a top 5 pick this year. Plus a future 1st, maybe we get a future 3rd back instead of their future second. It might depend on where we see Brown fall as a FS next year.

Be nice to throw 13 and Bedford at GWS for pick 3. Add in the future second rd from North swap with GWS future second.

Could be a good swap Tomlinson for Bruce. We need a KPF and the need a KPD. Be similar money

The issue clubs face is free agency. If there is any chance of losing a player it is better to trade then lose to free agency. Sometimes to clubs stop trying to keep a player as they know the player wants to go and it then becomes getting the best trade.

Trading Jeremy Howe

Agree we lack pure leg speed, but that wasn't the issue this season, it was slow, predictable ball movement with no dare. Last year we hit the daring kick from half back, this year down the line

No, I think we want that pick 21ish to on trade to Collingwood, it will be more what pick we need to add to the deal to get it done. I reckon gws want our second rd pick and we are offering the third round

With the players leaving GWS they are going to have a pretty strong hand in both r1 one of 2022 and 23 draft. Not sure if they have any academy plays this year. We might get a responsible pick with Bedford and a pick swap.

What will we get after 3rd round pick 51ish

You can stamp your feet all you want, unless we get state and federal money nothing will happen. The club would have had many meetings and submissions, unfortunately giving more money to the Olympic Park/mcg precinct isn't a high priority when you have a health and education crisis in most states of Australia. Sorry, would love to see our club get millions like other clubs but at this time there is bigger priorities

They certainly gave up on this season very easily and early. No question that they were completely under prepared for the season. They will fix this, WCE expect to win and will do what is needed.

West Coast don't stay down for long. If they can get their list healthy they still have some really good players.

The fact we changed our forward set up to not play him late in the year you don't blame him. He is now 4th choice kpf at melb.

What ever happened to the Collingwood report. Do a report then lift the carpet and sweep the issue under it. Same will happen here, a few statements for Hawthorn, the AFL and some of the people involved then GF, Trade week and all is forgotten.

Depends which angle you are looking at. Participation is up on the back of increase female participation, take that out and it shows the real health. Boys participation is dropping, the local clubs with money dominate. You have so many teenage boys dropping out of the game, It is something like only 30% will stay in the game to play u18s. Around 70% will drop off between u13s and 18s. The conversion from Auskick to junior footy is also very low. More and more local clubs will fold over the next 10 to 15 years due to the lack of players available and not having the finances to bring players in. The AFL knows this that is why they committed money to grassroots footy, not enough and still is targeting female participation.

Was that blind faith from the coach. Chandler and Bedfords form in the VFL warranted more games then they had. I think they should have been given a good run at it. ANB and Spargo to their defense were pushing so high up the ground bloody hard to work back. That was an issue we didn't look to control the footy across half back, change angles to open the space up but also give time for our forwards to work back. We rarely looked inboard just down the line.

Small forwards is something we have an over supply off. I reckon they got lazy and looked for the easy goal over the back rather than hitting the front and square spot. We went past the contest, it happened all the time I first thought it was timing then later in the season it was more looking for the easy kick. Looks great running into the open goal, looks even better a front and square snap