DeeSpencer

Have to assume we aren’t getting Max Heath or any other ready to go number 2 then.

See the earlier reply. But it comes down to giving up 2 second rounders in a deep draft to get a nice player but not a difference maker a year early.

Lindsay’s fine, he should be a long term very good contributor. Odds are we finish 14th, worse case scenario after academies should be pick 8-10 and a similar player to Xavier. For that we gave up picks 28, 40, 54 and 65 in last years draft. The last 2 don’t mean much, but the first 2 were really useful picks in a deep draft. The kind of picks we need so our list doesn’t have 25 afl level players and a dozen list cloggers.

He’s the GM, whilst the list manager evaluates, scouts the talent, works on the contracts the overall list strategy should come from the GM and coach together.

Richo was a great development coach who was hired under the old footy cap to director of coaching. He fell in to the head of footy role when Covid took the cash out of the footy department. I think he’s probably still a valuable contributor in a hands on role but he’s never struck me as a great strategic mind suited to the GM role. How many smart moves have we made? Our contracts seem to have big cap escalators. We haven’t traded anyone of quality in. Haven’t sold high on anyone out. Haven’t made any smart draft moves (the Lindsay pick last year is now shaping as a total dumb move). Assistant coach hires? It’s pretty easy to say we need a new strategic voice to complement Richo. Especially with a non football CEO.

If father sons stay they’re about to hit the jackpot. Moir, Cooper Lord, Oli Hollands, Cowan can play. I really like HOF, shame he’s done his knee. It’s not a great list tho. We’re ahead in rebuilding the list to a new game plan.

But thanks the academy, free agency etc they’ll never have to. Mark Neeld could coach Sydney to 8-10 wins.

They have more money, influence and have an easier time recruiting but are more systemically messy. List wise it’s pretty similar. If (and it’s a big if) our board and admin can settle down for a while we can get back well ahead of them. But for now coaches might take the money, facilities and proven footy admin in Graham Wright at Carlton

As if. Try North, St Kilda, the expansion teams when not stuffed full of free picks or even Freo. Demtriou cracked it at Roos ball, even since then they’ve been spoiled with advantages and had a very easy path to success.

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.