Adam The God

At least it's not [censored] Collingwood or [censored] Hawthorn. And Geelong are still 3 flags behind us.

I'd want the deal to keep our future 1st out of it. Either the deal gets done in another way or we keep Trac.

Not very cool at all.

It's always about context. If we'd just come off two straight set exits and hadn't won a flag for over 25 years, and we saw Trac as a missing piece to our midfield and forward half, we might be more aggressive in our thinking. Trac will give them 4 more years or more of quality service, but for us, we already have Clarry and Viney to bull it up. If Trac is agitating for a move, then we ask for Thilthorpe or Rachele and another pick, and we move on.

The pick could land us another small forward that could add to a mosquito fleet around Fritta, JVR and say Mihocek/Melksham. Players like Lachy Dovaston and/or Latrelle Sumner-Pickett. We're not getting Thilthorpe, but we might get a Victorian who we showed interest in last off season, in Rachele. The thing we've lacked, aside from aggressive ball movement, is x factor, ground level forward half players that can hit the scoreboard. If we're going to play aggressive game, we'll need small forwards who can make something out of dirty entries. And knowing some of the kickers in our team, there'll be plenty of dirty entries. Collingwood and Geelong have shown over a number of years now that dirty entries are just as dangerous as perfectly directed entries.

Rachele's goal return: 2022 - 17.11 2023 - 23.25 2024 - 30.17 2025 - 27.15 After Fritta and Kozzy, he'd be comfortably our next consistently highest over that period. He'd walk straight into our forwardline. He's the perfect sort of player for our new King ping™, defensive half slingshot game. If you want to play quickly, you need guys that can get it done on the ground and know where the goals are. He'd be huge.

This is the one and they pay 1mill pa of Trac's contract.

Have you labelled our list manager a "moron" or repeatedly said McAdams is unfit? If not, you're in the clear.

Some pathetic posts on here.

I'd have Rachele as my number one target.

Brilliant article. Thanks mate. Makes me very excited if Lappin is indeed a chance to be at the MFC.

Yeah, that's been talked about a bit on here. Also the fact that Scarlett has a little reputation for being a bit difficult to work with.

I don't love his ball use, but I like his game sense and agility from the tiny bit Ive seen. If we could somehow get him and Rachelle for Trac, our forwardline would be transformed. Particularly with Mihocek too.

Not sure this applies at Geelong...

Williams was allegedly one of the higher paid development coaches in the league. So more money, different environment to challenge yourself, with your mate King. Might be enough.

I coached Greeves in juniors and have followed him over the past 12 months. Seems very outside to me. I'd have similar questions over him that there were over Smillie last year. Nice kick and a good mark, but a little outside. And you either have it on the inside or you don't.

Surely he'd replace the vacant head of development role vacated by Mark Williams.

Clarry's last few games, from about Round 20 were getting back to his extraction standard and his ability to wrack up possessions and tackles, which is not surprisingly linked with fitness. If he has another uninterrupted pre season, Clarry will be back IMO. Bookmark it.

Could he have meant King was off to Melbourne and not Lappin and worded it poorly? Mooney isn't the most articulate bloke...

I think we clearly wanted someone with both. Guerra made the point, as have other commentators, that King is an excellent tactician. These are both skills that were Goody's too. The key difference is the baggage and shared history that Goody had with the senior players. I think one of the key drivers of long term success for a coach is the approach of delegating. King's experience at Geelong is one where Scott really delegates and lets his line coaches do the hard yards during the week. But King's vast experience in multiple settings with different coaching approaches will hold him in great stead. It appears to me that Goody was a great delegater in his first few years around the Jennings era, then something happened there, which I think saw Goody start to take a more controlling approach within the FD. He also placed a lot of trust in those experienced players. The key to Scott's term as Geelong coach and Clarkson's at Hawthorn is delegation. I think a strong head of footy that can play ying to the senior coaches yang, enables list management to move on ageing stars at the right time. Mind you, I don't think Clarkson got that right at all. I suspect it could have been because he lost his trusted head of footy in Fagan that held things together.

I wonder if that means Adelaide have said no to Rachelle or he has.

He's precisely the player we miss in our forward half and would be brilliant with faster ball movement. X factor and goal sense. Tick. Cultural question marks though.

Yeah, I love Tom Morris too. He's fantastic.

I don't mind the overpaying, I think we just made the wrong pick. But it is what it is.

But you'd agree that Kolt is not of the Langford, Lindsay and even Windsor class?