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As for positions I'd take the following setup. When the ball is in dispute and you are defensive side of the ball find your opponent. If you are on the attacking side work into a position to receive the ball. If you are around the ball then go hard at it. When the opposition has the ball - find your opponent. If you are in the forward line or midfield stick defensive and corridor side of said opponent to form a type of zone formation that makes the opposition attempt dangerous kicks or play wide. But above all find your opponent to slow down play. When in defense move quickly with confidence if the target is open. Otherwise use patience to hold play. Switch if available otherwise long down the line is reasonable. Don''t overthink it and trust your instincts and skills when a target is open. When we have the ball run hard and lead for the ball. If a player is leading to open space you should double back and lead on a different angle to protect that space. Particularly on the MCG with wide and deep wings their is plenty of room to get the ball up the line. So work hard and get open. If you watch finals for most of the last decade they are rarely influenced by a particular game plan. Obviously skill and ball winning go a very long way but in sense of game plan. Both teams usually do the same thing. They man up like crazy putting pressure on the opposition. Good teams have the ability to provide pressure forward whilst also stopping outlets. Right now I'd gladly just be able to stop a team scoring at will. Then they back their instincts and skill and kick and handball to whatever option they can find. So its time for a simple game plan and for focus to be diverted to the basics of football. Ball winning, application of pressure and skill.

Our board is stacked with top quality successful people. I don't see how replacing McLardy with someone similar makes no difference to me. I see McLardy only growing with the tribulations we are suffering as long as he gets united support. What we need is consistent and quality football advice to the board. If we can combine that with continued financial success and growth of the club we will get somewhere. Pretty much the role of the board should be to keep making money and learn to spend it wisely. Our board can do the first of that, I'm not sure they can do the second part.

Willing to bite in order to change from the all the other tactics. Yes. Why not. What harm does it achieve. But I certainly agree there has to be standards on the gloves. Wearing NFL receiver gloves is not acceptable. Gloves that provide comfort/structure for injuries but not an unfair advantage I'm find with.

I hope at the end of the day that the resolve he makes is to continue to support the current football department and board and to empower the other ex players to do the same. If that's not the case then I'd like to see him run for a spot on the board. At the moment our entire board is commercial people with the exception of Greg Healy who is both a commercial and football mind. To me it makes sense to have an expanded football presence on the board. That way instead of Gary in one second out the next Lyon we have a sustained football presence. I want to current coach to be supported by the board and if it does come to the case we need a new coach I want that person to be chosen by the board. I look at Jason Dunstall at Hawthorn who appointed Clarkson then defended him against criticism and continued to support him. We talk about unity at this club as the underlying problem. No unity, no trust, no culture. So I'm all for Ox helping to rally the troops behind the current football department or getting on the board and therefore presenting a united group to shape the changes to the department.

We can attempt to get the AFL to campaign for Brian Cook but I don't see it happening. We need to look at whoever is number 2 at Geelong/Hawthorn/West Coast/Sydney. Even a club like Richmond have made terrific strides in the last few years and I don't think Brendan Gale has done it all by himself. Someone at a less successful club could actually have more understanding of our challenges. No more big names from strange places. We need people involved in successful football or football related areas with strong commercial backgrounds. Adrian Anderson is an interesting name and with pull at the AFL office could be handy. Except I doubt he was exactly best mates with Gil McLaughlin who will be running the game pretty soon. We could even appoint a woman. Geelong's current temporary CEO whilst Cook is away is a woman. That would shake up the boys club image a bit.

Woey is undoubtedly qualified as an AFL midfield coach and Junior is qualified as a midfield development coach. I don't think it would be jobs for the boys as they aren't Neeld's boys. Leigh Brown is Neeld's boy. So are the rest of these no name coaches we have responsible for the development of our players. I love what the bulldogs have done by getting in Scarlett and Mooney to do some part time work with their talls at either end of the ground. If I was a bulldog young key position player I'd love that I'm getting coaching from absolute top line players who had success. And came from an amazing culture at that. Neeld's highly structured game plan and teaching methods probably work wonders if you have the cattle, but we are miles short. We need guys who can teach the very basics and apply a confidence to the players. I don't think there is a coaching panel in any other team that has as little AFL experience as ours and I think it shows.

Because largely he's not even close to a proper AFL midfielder. I've never seen him win clearances or rack up tackle numbers and when I think Colin Sylvia I've never thought of a guy pushing back to help the half back flankers or working his butt off to get to the wing. I think Bailey gave him a few games on a HBF back in 08 or 09 and he wasn't too bad. I'd do it again. Our midfield is barely salvagable for the whole season but our backline has some tools in place if we give it Sylvia we could at least stop the rampage of other teams and use the ball out of the backline well enough to maintain possession. Neeld could get off his high horse defensive style which isn't working at all and adopt a Hawthorn like plan to slow down ball movement and take care of the ball. At least that way some guys would get practice in using the footy.

Comparing him to Viney is harsh. Viney is a bull who just gets low and moves in hard. Toumpas has shown some athleticism in his movement. But I agree he needs to build strength. It wouldn't surprise me if he gets 25+ touches in a winning Casey team but can only get 10 in the AFL. VFL or the sub this week for Toumpas. Replace him with Evans and/or Kent.

True, but I doubt Cameron has much stake. In fact if they are clever enough BC3 aren't risking too much. Their bread and butter clients are people who go in 5,000 for a 10% share or less I would think. There's every chance one if not both of these horses are good enough to get them some serious advertising. As for the 5 million outlay this colt is so expensive and such a risky investment that one individual was priced out. So these guys have a group of their non core investors to buy him. Usually syndicators buy horses them have to sell them. Here they've taken an aggressive approach and formed a powerful team of investors to buy the horse. Could work very nicely.

FB: Garland Frawley Pedersen HB: Terlich McDonald Grimes C: Evans Jones M. Jones HF: Howe Clark Byrnes FF: Davey Gawn Blease Foll: Jamar Viney McKenzie Int: Trengove Watts Tapscott S: Toumpas In: Pedersen, McKenzie, Evans, Gawn, Tapscott Out: Gillies, Nicholson, Rodan, Sellar, Sylvia AIMS: 1. Fortify the backline, thats where most of our action happens - Pederesen, Grimes down there helps 2. Get some ruck ascendency by playing Gawn along with Jamar, it takes run from the forward line but we can't get slaughtered in the ruck. Trial Evans on a wing 3. Some forward pressure in the forward line - Tapscott, Blease, Byrnes, Davey please help! 4. Midfield can not be saved. Shuffle the deck chairs and hope Trengove and Evans can do something 5. Give poor Jimmy Toumpas a break before we cook him.

McLardy wasn't great but remember he is the President and not necessarily a strong media performer by definition. He's made a big call here and hopefully its a good one. Now lets hope he's tough enough to attract and appoint a strong CEO. Someone with an understanding of football but an understanding of boundaries. And someone who isn't afraid to make tough decisions.

Yeah was waiting for Caro to jump in with a bit of why did you sack him? That would of being the ultimate. Crazy questions, the best one was about the Geelong business.

WHATS HE DONE RIGHT! WE SUCK HE's THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE The highest power at the club. It should be his responsibility for setting the culture and the culture is screwed. If he didn't learn that in 2011 he didn't deserve another chance.

He's brought props. Haha Last every whiteboard wednesday coming up here

If we when then we should sack the players as well!

7 touches and 1 tackle on the weekend. Whilst Viney and grimes at least got to 3 tackles each and jones got 25 touches despite a tag. I know Sylvia isn't a pure midfielder. Nor is he a speed machine or 6'6 and capable of taking contested marks but he should be fit, he has the physical size and enough speed to stick some tackles at least. With our defense getting torched you'd think he and the team would benefit from a run on the half back flank. Getting rid of Moloney, Petterd and Martin, without being a particularly wrong move has really not helped. I don't think adding Sylvia would help either. Lets spend the next 20 matches be they Afl or VFL trying to make him better. That's what coaches should do

I think he's saying that we actively shipped off Morton, Martin and Gysberts. The rest were delisted. It's not like we had a long line of young players all asking to be traded (yet).

What I hate about this whole thing is how hidden and full of innuendo it all is. We need to here from past players (BRAD GREEN PLEASE) and current players and Cameron Schwab and have the whole 2011 Geelong issue sorted. Not just rumblings of discontent and so forth. At the moment it kills me as a supporter that I just have no idea who to believe in all of this. No doubt Neeld has to improve as a coach, no doubt the players have been insipid. We don't need this speculation on top. Open up this issue and put it to bed one way or another. It's why I wish we fought the tanking case and partly why I wouldn't mind Schwab to get the sack now because we can't live with this uncertainty.

Just like the year before when we needed pace and skill so we reached for Blease and Strauss. And the pick after Gysberts who do we go for, Tapscott, because apparently we dont need height any more we need strong blokes. The way Predergasts picks came out was almost like he was trying to draft the perfect balanced team when best available would of served us much better. That said I have no faith at all in our development and even if we picked the eyes out of the draft they wouldn't be the players they are at their current clubs.

I would think they would but it's only flu shot time now, plus it only prevents against 3 strains of the flu anyway.

We know Watts was ill and you know of footy clubs that if one player is sick often more are. Does little to excuse their performance because we had plenty of guys at Casey who were obviously fit.

The running seems ok. But with ball in hand it's sloppy and repetitive. Too many drills practice the same things without enough pressure or physicality. Even the way the start the warm up each session is monotonous and largely wasted. Collingwood always look sharper, more creative and more skilled. We obviously can't get any worse but we will slightly improve as the season goes on as our benefit from game time is much even than casey

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Out: gillies, Nicholson, sellar, rodan In: pedersen, mckenzie, gawn, tapscott Toumpas as sub. Time for 2 rucks. Sellar does nothing forward or in ruck may as well go for 2 rucks and get some experience for gawn. Tempted to drop jamar but some help and competition might inspire him. Pedersen for gillies is a no brainer. Same with mckenzie for Nicholson. Tapscott needs to come back but really it's a competition between Rodan, Byrnes, trengove and blease and to who gets the chop. Kent and Evans for toumpas isn't unreasonable either but I think toumpy can play well as sub