Adam The God

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.

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.

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 think it was made before King's appointment.

Again, King is not the only list management decision maker. Nor should he be.

It does, but I think you'll find this decision was made before King was appointed. King has obviously signed off on it, but as he said in his presser, he'll trust those already on the ground at the MFC to have the knowledge base and history with May. Have loved watching him play, but he brings baggage that we can do without now.

I really think you've got to decouple list management decisions from the coaching appointment. Sure, the coach will have a say, but list management decisions should be made with the mid to long term view in mind. This is why we've been able to make decisions prior to King's selection. I'm sure in consultation with King, we will also up or curtail our pursuit of certain players depending on the game style we want to play next year and beyond. But list management decisions like May for example, King has already signalled he'll rightly lean on those who are already at the club to make the best decisions on personnel that they have intimate knowledge and dealings with.

Me.

Maybe St Kilda will need to trade King. 😉 I know he's struggled to get on the park, but he'd be handy.

Good mates with Blake Howes. They'll be happy. Pity it doesn't sound like we'll get their other mate Windhager over the line.

Do you? You don't seem to. Disappeared when we won the flag too. You must have been off supporting us I suppose.