DeeSpencer

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

Windsor looking comfortable on ball was the highlight to me. Ball use still shaky and hasn’t looked as quick or as clean as last year at any time this year but he made some great decisions out of traffic and was a defensive speed presence that we need in there. Backline is playing pretty solid footy, good both ways when they get some up field pressure. 22 tackles in forward 50, the eagles give you a chance but the boys rolled up their sleeves today

Culley was a step behind the play, positioned himself in strange spots and got in the way in the air most of the time. He was fighting a nil all draw with Clay Hall and losing to Chesser (who we’d have to be in to). But the ability to float forward and take one good and one great mark is a good tool in the bag. (Please take Langford to specsavers because he continues to get first hands on so many similar marks and then drops them). 3 more weeks to earn a contract extension for mine, I’m not there yet.

Disagree, he’s been excellent down back and Collingwood know how to improve players and slot them in to roles. Hes exactly what they need and they’ll spread money over the 4 years. They’re maximising their window. We might be able to get Mihocek with 2 but his body has been through the absolute wars. Assuming we can get Derksen and hopefully a back up ruck I’d rather back in our young guys. If that means living through more Melk and Petty then so be it but we don’t need short term stop gaps.

Never seen a bigger reach. We won a flag with the same set up.

Need height down back but not sure we’ve got any that will actually stop them. It would be Adams for Howes and he’d have to play on Naughton and let Disco intercept. We probably just go Disco on Naughton and hope Howes and Rivers can offer some chop out. Can’t do much for the midfield. Not sure there’s any need to swap the starting small forwards. JVR isn’t going well but not sure this is a Jeffo game. I’d go Lindsay sub again and have Sharp at Casey because he needs full games.

And how many have put together AFL level form in the VFL? Answer = 0. Adams is closest but he doesn't consistently intercept or insert himself in to play. There's time for him to earn a debut this year still but no rush to just give it to him when he needs to go up another gear to show he's really ready. Sestan got close, got injured. Mentha has some traits but isn't consistently impacting, no need to rush him. Kentfield has great traits, spent him summer in hospital, goes in and out of games as you'd expect from a teenager with no endurance base. Verrall isn't even a number 1 ruck at Casey yet, which is fine for a 21 year old.