DeeSpencer

I don't think we should worry about the interim aspect of the President. Smith is on the board. Green is staying on as a football director. They're just changing the titles around. It's a Smith-Green ticket no matter which way they arrange it. The new CEO has to start before they hire a new coach tho. And they have to clarify the rest of the footy department changes. Sacking a coach is one thing, hiring the new guy without full club alignment is another.

The only alternative is to tell Goody the moment he walks in the door, but then he doesn’t have time to tell his family or prepare for the day. The fact the 2 main journos had the story at exactly the same time tells me it wasn’t an unforeseen leak.

West Coast traded and drafted their list in to oblivion so that would be a bold call. You’d think Adrian Hickmott would be the odds on favourite if Simmo took the GM job.

I for one am shocked that Tom Fullarton and Shane McAdam weren’t the answers.

This bloke better be good because we’ve really created a mess not hiring one of the 7 billion people who was actually able to take the job

I like the Hickmott inclusion. He looks quite gruff but watching him do some media he has a gentler style that seems very supportive (He’ll get hammered if the team sucks but that’s true of any coach). Hawthorn have a very deep best 22 but they’re also the team that is doing more with less in terms of star players. Especially last year. That’s good coaching.

Does Jaymie Graham have some kind of magical ability? Is he a healer? A shaman?

Easy to not concede when you go slow and long down the line constantly. Our ball movement out of the backline this year has been so far improved of the last couple. Our best since 2021 I think. It’s the bad turnovers from our mids and half forwards that we haven’t fixed.

God no. It’s been so refreshing to see our backline actually put some speed on the ball this year. We don’t need the human handbrake back

Bucks wasn’t! Longmire I suspect isn’t interested but I’d gladly talk to him. Simpson is the one who’s had his reputation rehabbed by tv. He was a great coach but covid ruined his team and him. I’d be very thorough to work out if 360 Simmo is more like the premiership coach or if the current eagles are still dealing with how bad things were at the end of his time.

We’re in a world of trouble if they found a coach in a week. Looks to me like they made their mind up after that board meeting then decided to wait for the right time. Whether it was going to get out or some other factor they decided now rather than the end of the year

Adelaide head of coaching this year who was a long time Brisbane assistant before that. He’d be a very Fagan style appointment

Midfield can’t run or hit a target Key forwards don’t exist Key backs ageing Forward flanker talent completely ordinary Yet it’s the coach? The List management has been abysmal and the general leadership at the club just a disaster. It’s not a bad time for a fresh start but very quickly next season it will be evident the coach wasn’t the problem

I’d definitely interview Hinkley and Longmire. Wouldn’t even bother with Buckley We’ll want to chat to Danny Daly. Scott Burns, Murray Davis, Hayden Skipworth, James Rahilly, Steven King, Brendon Lade, Matty Egan, Cam Bruce, Mark McVeigh, David Hale, Adrian Hickmott

Fitness guys and assistants run what little of the program they do before summer these days. The biggest benefit is list management, but we’ve got all of September to get a coach before our high stakes pursuit of Wade Derksen

Not getting through to the end of the season or notice before the last round seems particularly poor. Goodwin wasn’t perfect, but can’t help but think the club as a whole is worse.

Some people just don't like the reality bus. In a few weeks they'll be wondering why it moves faster that Culley

I'd suggest there seems to be some positivity towards him from the footy club but a mature age pick up who took all year to crack a senior game doesn't seem like an automatic re-sign based on one solid AFL game. I have no idea what the club is really thinking with Culley or AMW, Spargo, Henderson, Woey, Kynan Brown, Sestan and Verrall or Tommy Campbell for that matter. The only thing Culley has shown that those guys haven't is beating up on a hapless West Coast team

He took a nice contested mark with a free run and jump at it against who knows and who cares from the Eagles, one other nice goal and otherwise had 13 touches that were largely unremarkable. If he doesn't show more over the next 3 weeks we shouldn't be seduced by this nice story and delist him too. Poor list management is adding Culley and costing ourselves a mid season draft pick slot. We could've had Archie May who looks a genuine key forward talent.

If he was quick he wouldn’t have been delisted from the worst list in the comp. Pump the brakes.

I wouldn’t mind having a look at him as a back up ruck option if he has some aerial ability competing against talls. That way we could pick Jeffo instead of JVR. It would also give him another string to his bow and give us a different look at stoppages.

Jay Z makes up 90% of his trade stories but is also our journo of choice. The club might be part of this story. The question is which key forward? Gunston clearly not. Dear they aren’t trading. Ramsden I’m not convinced is good. Mitch Lewis - nearly 8 years on a list. 72 games. 9 games a year. Chol - Will be 29 next year. Runs very hot and cold. I’d take either of them, but they’re stop gaps. If we’re trading Tracc and going for a deeper rebuild we need picks rather than overpaying just to claim we landed a tall forward.

It doesn’t really matter. Members paid for more than enough tickets even if the didn’t turn up. Crowd was big enough to pay for the food and drinks, toilets etc. No level 3 cleaning bill and probably about a 5 minute job to clean up level 2. All things considered probably a decent result for what is never going to be a profitable home game for us. Hopefully we can get 35-40k next week.

Brisbane have other plans and Sydney might do as well if you believe the JUH rumours. Even the bottom 6 have at least one quality veteran. It’s really only us. I’m sure the Pies know it and are going to only offer what they need.

16k, according to the North Korean stats bureau