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Showed some good signs early in the season, then reverted to the same inconsistency that he showed in previous seasons. Another who is going to need to lift in a big way to play senior football in 2024 given our recruiting.

Ordinary footballer who would have been well advised to look for another club in the off season given the ridiculous number of small & medium forwards we currently have on our list. Doesn't win enough of his own football, doesn't kick enough goals, doesn't apply enough defensive pressure - it's a bad combination for a guy who is coming into his 7th season.

Harry is already a super defender, and he looks capable of becoming a very good forward as well. That is potentially a great problem for the club to have if (a) he can get his body right and (b) he is prepared to sign a long term contract to stay here.

Super debut season for Jacob, despite a couple of costly brain fades. You don't want him to lose his passion or his attack on the contest but, if he can eliminate the really dumb acts from his game, he is going to be a very good player for this club over the next decade.

Amazing player, who has been consistently excellent over the past three years (aside from his recent injury). You can just about guarantee another 50 goal plus season if he is available for 20 games or more, and you can't say that about too many players.

If he can't get his body right this year, then we have some tough decisions to make. He has missed far too much football or otherwise played well below his ability far too often over the last few years. Undoubtedly he is a very good player at his best, but he is not good enough to carry indefinitely at reduced capacity.

As I've said before, Jake is being squeezed into a small defender role that just doesn't suit him. His disposal and decision making out of defence is great, but he is too often exposed defensively against good sides. Hopefully Goodwin is prepared to give him a run on a wing or at half forward over the pre season and we can see what he looks like in a different role.

Tom has all the attributes to be a very good player, but is a rung or two below that level at present. He has too many periods in games where he just goes completely missing, and then you find he has only had 12 or 15 touches for the match. He has to be getting 20 plus touches on a regular basis, otherwise others will just go past him.

Really poor season from Ed, and his drop off from the early part of 2022 has been astonishing. Now that we have some depth in the wing position, I hope he is really made to earn his games in 2024. Gifting him games, as was the case for much of 2023, is getting us nowhere.

Players missing training sessions and leaving camp early; players being rescued from surfing mishaps; members upset at not being notified of events before they happen and others upset about the lack of coverage from the camp. Sounds like business as usual for the club over the past four months.

I've seen some stuff posted by GWS on Facebook and it is light years ahead of anything that we do. Our communications are, at best, the absolute bare minimum.

Played some outstanding games in tough circumstances late in the season, then was injured when finals beckoned. I still think we should have tapped him on the shoulder at year, particularly given that we have since significantly strengthened our depth of mid-sized forwards, but I can also see why the club has kept him around.

Criminally underused by Goodwin & co. He should have played games when Oliver was missing, particularly ahead of Jordon. I love that he always maintained his standards at Casey, and didn't drop his bundle when it was clear that senior games weren't coming. Hopefully his recovery from injury goes well and he is back playing footy again soon.

Looks a long way from senior selection, which is fine as a long term key position prospect, but there are some serious Weideman vibes about Jefferson. Let's hope he develops the intensity and competitiveness that Weideman was never able to show, because otherwise he will struggle to deliver upon his potential.

Always looked to be an odd selection as a supplemental draft selection given that he didn't add anything that we didn't already have plenty of. Injuries obviously limited his chances even further, but was always long odds to get a second year on the list.

As a kid from my local area, I'm very keen to see Blake make it as an AFL footballer. That said, uncertainty about his best position, some injury and development concerns, and perhaps a lack of urgency in his play mean that he still has a fair way to go to be pushing for senior selection in the early rounds.

Four ACLs between our first four draft picks is a real concern, particularly given that one of those has barely started working through her second ACL. Losing four best 21 players, and replacing them with a group that hasn't played a lot of football in recent years doesn't bode well for our depth next season. Nevertheless, hopefully we have added some serious talent to the list who will help take the team back into premiership contention in coming years.

Hard not to think that we have been royally shafted on this. Bulldogs get three first round picks out of the deal and we slide up the order slightly.

Given that Lily Johnson was pick 80 in the draft just over 12 months ago, I can't see that she would have any trade value. We definitely should be expecting something decent for losing two players, one of whom is clearly in our best team.

The AFL website is reporting that we still trying to finalise deals to trade out Charlotte Wilson and trade in Lily Johnson, as well as the Maddie Gay deal. Hopefully we hold firm on all of these., particularly Gay. https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/1071859/where-trade-periods-biggest-deals-sit-ahead-of-deadline-day

Story in the Herald Sun this morning suggesting that Melbourne and Essendon are a long way apart on determining a value for Maddie Gay. My best guess is that we will swap first round picks (their 13 for our 19) with possibly a later pick coming to us as a sweetener.

Other than hit outs, I'm really not sure what Grundy brought to the table this year. 5.9 kicks, 2.7 marks and 0.6 goals a game is not a great contribution from a player aspiring to be a number one ruck, let alone a 29 year old being paid $900K a year. I'm sure Grundy is a nice bloke and did his bit behind the scenes, but most people could see 12 months ago that this wasn't going to work. We're now a further 12 months down the track and no closer to having Gawn's replacement in place to learn off the great man before he heads off into the sunset. That said, and only Goodwin and Grundy really know what went on, to not have played him in the semi final was criminally dumb. Schache is nobody's idea of an AFL footballer, including his own coach by the looks of it.

Hibberd has been a wonderful servant of the club since crossing prior to the 2017 season - can't ask much more than a premiership and an All Australian from him. I don't blame him for playing on after 2021 given the late start to his career, but his body has increasingly let him down and the club probably should have given a nudge at the end of 2022. Good luck to Hibbo for the next stage of his life.

I was certainly disappointed to see Harmes go. Clearly he had some off field issues this year that affected his on field performance, and the coach lost confidence in him pretty quickly. I think his best football is still good enough to play quality football at AFL level, and I am concerned about our midfield depth, but I don't blame him for wanting a change of scenery.

Massive call on a personal / family level to move to WA, rather than taking up one of the available jobs in Victoria. Maybe she wasn't offered it, but I would have had Hawthorn as a far more attractive proposition for a first time coach than West Coast. Good luck to Daisy - she'll need it.