whatwhat say what

He also indicated that appointing the two Jacks was a mistake, and that there is no one on our list like Hodge who leads both on and off the field.

Also said that the club would no longer leak like a sieve to the media - used the example of no one knowing Neeld was being fired on Monday as the example.

Very, very impressive interview.

ABC News are running an excerpt from it in their news bulletins already!

ouch, parko has said our list is bereft of talent - maybe 8 or 9 players on our list would make the other sides in the competition.

pretty incredible.

to sum it up:

- the club has been all-spin, no action for too long

- this rebuild is genuine not spin

- we have been a drag on the competition for a long time

- we have no leaders in our club

- players have a belief that they are 'wasting their careers' at the dees

- our players need to understand that pj is pushing to undergo massive change and they need to be part of that

- our staff are young and inexperienced (football, admin, both? it wasn't made clear)

- if we are unable to interview prospective coaches due to their current engagement at their own clubs, so be it - it doesn't change the basic planning that needs to take place

- pj is in regular contact with the afl but they are NOT 'driving the car'

- the afl is now the major financier of the club

- they will have a say on the board

- they are backing pj's plan for the dees

pretty full on, i've gotta say.

everyone on the aunty panel basically says the dees are in good hands.

neeld has already had approaches for 2014 according to parko.

parko is still a season ticket holder for the dees, and says neil craig has a clear vision for the remainder of the season.

love Nate Jones but I don't think we'll go anywhere while he's our best mid. We should be aiming to have him ranked about 4th in a heavily reinforced midfield. Within 2 years

couldn't agree more.

would he be the best midfield in any other team in the competition? i would strong doubt it.

but he's the sort of bloke you know will die trying, and he very well might be our 'heart & soul' player.

B: Terlich - Frawley - Garland
HB: Grimes - McDonald - GAP
C: Trengove - N Jones - Howe
HF: GAP - Hogan - GAP
F: Clark - Dawes - GAP
Foll: Gawn - GAP - Viney
I/C: Toumpas (?) - Stretch (?) - GAP

Sub: GAP

others: Tapscott?, Evans?, M. Jones?, Kent ?, McKenzie?, Barry?, Taggert?, Tynan?, Lovett?

we need a quick and skilled half-back flanker (think Shaw) which Toumpas very well may become, a hard nut ruck rover with breakaway pace (Thomas would be perfect, but Aish or Dunstan might fill this role), a livewire half-forward or two. a small forward, and quality depth on the bench.

whoever we pick up with our first three draft selections (presumably three inside 20 or so) should add midfield depth and class (aish, dunstan, etc.), or potentially another vital forward (e.g. boyd), although shoe-horning them in might be tricky - but you always want top quality class, so if he's best available, take him.

yeah, read that with interest this morning.

not sure about the forward line, and in the paper she had dawes listed on the bench and at full forward.

i can see clark forward, gawn in the ruck, howe up on the wing, watts gone, blease gone, sylvia gone.

she also left off billy stretch and jake lovett, and as well we know, they're going to be the best father-son selections since baby judas and ol' man fletcher.

bring that on.

so that's three midfielders - two inside, one outside - from our 80s forefathers.

geelong had, what, a key forward, a key back, and a couple of mids?

how old are the ox's kids?

such a shame lyon's boys don't show this sort of talent!

dollars also called for gerard, not greg, to lead the panel that appoints the next coach.

spoke very well, but came across as completely delusional.

roos says he has no burning desire to coach.

didn't say he wasn't INTERESTED in coaching tho...

he is bona fide insane. a nightmare to deal with. sets up factions.

big no for mine.

awesome.

would love to build a father-son dynasty like the cats.

eade has said that yeah, he's interested.

they didn't even ask bomber.

details?

Any clues?

an egm would make sense. i guess the key is having an understanding of what has been presented to the afl.

as members we deserve to know what that is.

at the moment, has there been any detail of the plan released?

same goes for jeff.

words are fine, but do they have any substance?

all we've got at this point is him saying he 'wants the job' without any indication as to what he would intend to put in place.

governance is all i can recall.

and...?

initially i was on the whole 'he's doing this for himself' trip.

my 'thources' have, like caro's, indicated that there's no one who has gone to him as a solution to be the next president of the mfc. so i'm hesitant to believe him.

but i'm prepared to wait and see what his purported ticket is.

if it doesn't materialise by tuesday - late on monday on footy classified, perhaps? - as promised then i think i'll move back into this being all about jeff mode.

agreed with sweet puff.

we should absolutely be throwing big bikkies at daisy thomas as a free agent, at taylor adams to hold out for the psd rather than re-contracting with gws.

then if we are so poor that we finish stone motherless, it's got to be best available with pick #1, and best available with pick #2 (if we are granted a priority pick), and best available with pick #20, and so on and so forth.

i look back at the 09 draft where we had the opportunity to get luke ball in with pick #18 instead of luke tapscott, and just shake my head. i understand that he only wanted to go to collingwood but, quite frankly, tough. he'd be our captain now, i believe.

boyd is also reportedly adept at tap work.

he can play dual positions.

but in an ideal world we're going to go on an 11 game winning streak, sneak into the finals, and onto premiership glory, right? right!

Footscray will be hoping he slips down the pecking order.

aish should be a top three pick. it'll just depend upon where we finish as to whether or not we have first dibs at him.

he's a gun.

Campaign by other clubs has begun in earnest on today's radio broadcasts - every club person I've ears about us is arguing that we don't deserve one.

Gonna be interesting to see how this plays out.

Semantics.

Deserve, require, are deserving of - it all comes down to seven consecutive years of abject on-field failure.

The AFL Commission has made a rod for its own back by not codifying what 'earns' qualification status for a priority pick.

If seven consecutive years rooted in the bottom half of the ladder doesn't qualify for a pick, then what does? A Richmond-esque 10 years? If so we could be back begging in three years time!

Seven years of abject failure with a winning percentage of less than 23% would be, I would have thought, the very definition of a side that's deserving of a priority pick.