Adam The God

The problem is, we're not going to get our new coach in now. We have to wait until the end of the year.

We tried that last year. Bartel chose Caulfield Grammar instead...

I think there is a valid argument to be made that Goody has lost the players. Not only do we look completely confused for most of the games, our pressure ratings are appalling. There's no way he survives to 2026 and there should be huge question marks on Radford, Jones, Williams and Chaplin (and Richardson) too. I think we're in for a big clean out.

So then you target those two in the trade market, ala Lever and May. Or you play a medium back. Or play White back and bring in a cheap ruck alternative.

I think it's likely Trac and Clarry will go, but good calls on Sinnema, White and Prasad. Also, if we could add some FAs or trades like .ay, Lever and Langdon previously, we're well set up for the future.

Really good post this mate. It's a very solid 22. I'd argue Spargo needs to have a proper pre season. At his best, he's easily in our best 22, bit he's too inconsistent as a result of not getting proper pre seasons. I also think that Langdon could play a role well into his 30s like Sidebottom has. Incredible runner, still. FB: **** Petty 25 AMW 21 HB: McVee 21 Adams 20 Bowey 22 C: Windsor 19 Langford 19 Lindsay 18 HF: Chandler 25 Van Rooyen 21 Tholstrup 19 FF: **** Jefferson 21 Disco 23 R: **** Rivers 23 Kozzi 23 I: Langdon 29 **** **** **** If Kozzy goes though, we look to turn him into two top 10 picks and add to our midfield and forwardline ideally with each pick.

At this stage, I'm keeping TMac...

We do probably need more Pep Guardiola. If you can't hit basic targets, you don't get a game. A few of our guys might be in trouble with that philosophy.

It's about the angled kicks or the short kicks into the hole up the field, and then going quickly when the time is right. I know 4 weeks is a long time in football, but did anyone watch Round 1? It was all on display there.

Crazy how much skinnier and trimmer he looks in those photos.

And my understanding is we don't have a ball movement coach amongst our ranks. A bad oversight that.

I've said this multiple times. Trac forward, Viney forward and Oliver defensive mid with a focus on intercept game ala 2021-2023. I implied this in my previous post... long down the line is hopeless. What we need is Max to impact stoppage. Yes and no, and this is my point. We are strong at creating turnovers (particularly in the corridor), but our decision making and ball use is not good enough. Improve ball use and our fortunes turn.

This is where I sit too

As much as I'm p'ed off about our reverting to the long down the line strategy and already going away from the short kicking game at the back, it's reasonably clear that this is on our senior players in Viney, Trac, Clarry and even Max. Our ball use when we turn it over (where we are often creating more than enough turnovers to win games), is solely on the shoulders of these guys who are being asked to make better decisions with the footy in hand, and so far, they're incapable of delivering. Sure, there's very ordinary forward craft in our front half, but the Geelong game was a very good example again of sometimee having 3 or 4 free forwards to kick to, and instead we pick out a nest of Cats. We've done this every week. We need to find roles for those three mids that maximise their strengths and minimise their weaknesses. Their strength in the stoppages has disappeared in the last three weeks after a flying start against GWS. We need to get back to winning stoppage, but we need receivers for them to give to, or half forwards or CHFs that lead up at the play to give them easier options. And our leaders need to lead and understand their limitations. Our season and Goody's future hinges on Max finding form and better ball use from Viney, Trac and Clarry.

I didn't know this. That's actually huge and something we can hang our hat on. Where did you read this?

How do you figure that? If we want him gone, maybe, but he has a large contract with us. We hold the power.

I hope we see Adams in the next 8 weeks. With injury comes opportunity for others.

Unlike Dangerfield, Langford is a beautiful kick. Pros and cons.

No, you need balance in your midfield. The guys that can win it in the contest (Langford) and the guys who burst from the contest (Windsor).

Go on...

Agree. Fortunately, we would still have 10 or so premiership players on the list even if we trade out those aforementioned players. And we're, I'd argue, 2-3 years into a list reset already having got 4 very good young players into the club. We're not starting from ground zero (ala 2012-2013).

Sure, but the majority of very good players come from that top 20, so IMV our strategy is still better than quantity over quality. Of course, we could be more aggressive in our trading too. End of this year we could trade out Clarry/Trac, Kozzy and Fritta and give ourselves 5-6 first round picks. I don't advocate it necessarily, but there's only so much you can do with your recruiting and the picks you have at your disposal.

Longmire is done. He'd be a good head of footy though.

If that happens, it's quite ironic that our current situation may look a little different if we'd just traded Clarry at the end of 2023 when he allegedly put his team mates offside.

ie most coaches don't survive long, neither do recent Liberal leaders...