Diamond_Jim

not a bad idea. It would most likely involve a payout to Misson. The fitness coach is within the soft salary cap so it could be expensive. A club is allowed to exceed the cap but for every dollar by which the cap is exceeded the club has to pay a dollar to the AFL

In their defence how would any coach make this gameplan work. At its core it crowds the forward line and thins your defensive line. Had Gunston kicked straight we would have lost v Hawthorn and against Geelong we couldn't kick a score in that first half for love or money.

my plan was to introduce the main changes post bye. If somehow we are still in at that time ...okay review. Step 1 is a new gameplan at Casey

financially we cannot deal with a rebuild. That would be the third or fourth in a row. The football department have the rest of this season to show what they can do. We have five or six players who are potentially elite. The challenge is to leverage a gameplan around those players

not a rebuild but a redesign of the gameplan and strategies

2019 is over..... to say otherwise is to don the rose coloured glasses that have dogged this team for the last fifteen odd years. Ok... the coach is going nowhere but perhaps some outside mentoring would help in this regard. First step for me is to change the Casey gameplan to emphasise skills and possession. It's an easy one. Then post bye we introduce it at senior level with input from the youth who have become used to it at Casey level. Develop a few trick plays using Gawn and Oliver. Let Weideman show us if he has the goods in the forward department in an uncrowded forward line. Then comes the hard part. Play Petty, Stretch and one or two others for a run of five games. Results and ladder position are irrelevant as long as there is a plan that can be used to win games in 2020.

ah... perhaps we could redesign ourselves as an expansion team and get the draft picks.. wait we have already tried that

the trouble is that this feels so familiar it doesn't even worry me anymore. More worried that my second team GWS .... lost

Season on the line.. third quarter.... 5goals to nil... coaching masterpiece

Perhaps Goodwin needs a run at Casey

30 hit outs to 6....gameplan... anyone

6 inside 50's for the Saints and 4 goals 1 Do we have a defence ?

the Weed, TomMac and Melksham... not a touch between them as yet and first quarter is half over

and they're not even very good at it. From the AFL site... That goal to Tim Membrey was just St Kilda''s 3rd goal this season launched from their defensive 50.They are ranked 18th in the competition at launching scores from this zone.

gameplan

Hogan playing okay against GWS.... Freo not looking like easy beats

was commenting on your contention that we could be considered contenders not on whether we will beat the Saints. Actually I believe we should win today but we need an enormous amount more before we can be considered potential finalists let alone contenders.

22 games actually and we did lose three straight including by around 90 points to one of them.Hardly contender material

not sure anyone considers ourselves as contenders based on the last five weeks

what dig... it's just an article on the Saints and has a throw away comment about how in 2016/7 they were seen on similar trajectories. It hardly mentions Melbourne. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/saints-making-progress-in-rivalry-with-demons-20190419-p51fni.html

nah... all teams find their one off accuracy for the season against us... vide Geelong 16:4 for the Saints

thanks but at $500k.... he's far from a gun gun forwards start at around $700k and then there is the term ???

The Birds of Tokyo at an Anzac day game............

respect where it is due. Port may not have got the reward on the scoreboard but that was a great first quarter. Lost count of the contested marks

was ready to watch that game if it got interesting scorewise but like last night it was a slow moving train wreck. Let's hope the game in the west is a little closer. Other than Hawthorn v Geelong on Monday it really is a lacklustre round of football from a match up viewpoint.