Fat Tony

Langford is very classy but his lack of pace means he needs to get incredibly strong to be a good AFL player. He needs to lock himself in the weight room over summer.

Time to deploy Windsor in the midfield. We need some breakaway speed and he hasn’t worked that well off half back. Viney as sub.

The original deal was to 2025. He is now signed for 3 more years.

Viney still had a year to run at the end of last season.

Can't believe anyone would be advocating for TMac to be dropped. He has had a Wheelo player rating of 13.1 this season, which is 3rd in the side. He should play on Cameron this week. Petty or May need to be reassigned or dropped. Pickett, Windsor, Lever and Turner must all come into the side. Lindsay obviously out. I would drop Johnson, Fritsch and Howes. Petty to be sub or play forward.

There have just been a handful of seven-year contracts that have been good for the signing club. I didn't argue that they were the wrong call at the time. I just said that the Petracca and Oliver contracts only made sense to give us a chance from 2022-2024 and we are now paying the price.

Our list is hamstrung by bad, long-term contracts to Oliver, Petracca and Viney. Oliver and Viney can only play midfield and these players are now too slow and poorly skilled to take us to the top of the mountain again. The Petracca and Oliver contracts were the price of doing business to compete from 2022-2024. The Viney extension was just dumb. None of these players are tradable without eating significantly into our salary cap. We also have limited draft capital so we are going to have to nail the back end of the draft to give ourselves a chance to bounce back.

Geelong don’t play like that at all. They play a fast ball movement game in straight lines. We don’t have the list to play a possession game. Bowey and McVee and the only defenders with the kicking skills required to play that way. All our key unskilled players are on big money, long contracts and are in decline. This is a problem without a clear solution.

We don’t have foot skills to execute such a plan.

You don’t start a rebuild after 3 games. All our best young players are already playing AFL and we’ve locked in all our veterans on long term deals. We fight to try to win every week.

We clearly don’t have the foot skills to chip the ball around in the backline. May, Rivers, Lever, Petty, Oliver, Viney and Langdon can’t maintain possession and will turn it over. I know kicking down the line to Max isn’t a modern way forward but we don’t have the list profile to play any other method.

I hate to say this, the decision to extend Viney was a shocker. 3 games into the season and it’s hard to see any of our 3 gun midfielders giving value from their contracts.

I agree we are limited with options. I would have added Laurie, K Brown or retained Woewodin for better balance, but I fully understand the selection decisions given the outs. Our emergencies are Turner, Howes and Mentha.

Fritch and Melksham really play as small key position players. I don't think this line up puts enough emphasis on applying pressure.

We look too top heavy again.