Ted Lasso

Paul Guerra is a massive Essendon guy, nearly joined their board multiple times and a huge footy fan. He hasn’t played at the top level but it’s not like we plucked this guy out of Antarctica. He knows enough and will bring far more commercially than others. This is key when we also have to assess a new home ground and a poor crowds. FD decisions are made by a team, not by one person and it might actually help to take some emotion out of it and just make sound business decisions about an employees performance vs expectations

Sean Darcy got dominated by Gawn today to such an extent that he Might wake up in cold sweats dreaming of max grabbing it out of the ruck

Our forward line does look a lot more capable of at least applying ground level pressure and some spark this week

My guess is the club has landed on Nicholson and they’re just verifying before announcing

I think a Cameron Bruce and Adam Simpson as senior assistant combo could be very effective

Leppa would be a really good target to replace richo as gm

I’ve never seen a club that makes life harder on itself. How many times since 2021 can you remember a Melbourne forward leading in good patterns and being hit on the chest by a player lowering their eyes? I’d wager Brisbane have done that more in 2025 already than we have in total since 2021

I would personally prefer John Longmire, Adam Simpson or Ken Hinkley over Bevo. All three while not perfect consistently put out teams that can compete and contend, play attractive styles and have experienced big finals. John Longmire would have been head hunted by multiple teams if he didn’t stand down imo

We are 0-5 We can’t defend or attack Our game plan is unwatchable and the players don’t look like they want to be there We know the talent level is there, an interim coach releasing the shackles and telling them to have fun and play attacking footy will if nothing else at least make us better to watch

We don’t even have a CEO or permanent president in place. The decision making of the club isn’t in place, we need a good experienced CEO in place asap to guide us through this mess

Pretty hard to defend this. We are terrible to watch. If you’re gunna lose just have a crack through the middle and try and make it at least fun to watch

Love our Jordan Dawson clone

Just watching the incident I reckon we’re in for some bad news which is a real shame.

I think of how people like Kingsley, McRae and Mitchell have totally transformed seemingly terrible teams into contenders quite quickly and think maybe a new voice is an option worth considering. skipworth at the filth has huge wraps, Corey Enright looks a future senior coach to me and Chris Newman always seems to be in the mix

Really looking forward to seeing Langford and Lindsay again

Fair enough on the specifics, generally though he's just establishing a position of strength for potential future negotiations which is fine, and also letting Kozzie and his management know how highly he's valued. big picture it's unlikely to change anything but the outcome, but Kozzie is contracted and i certainly wouldn't be accepting any deal that isn't really good for us.

I definitely see what you're thinking picket, but i think the club has Caleb Windsor in mind to do exactly this, dash off half back

Lever May Hore Windsor TMac Salem Langdon Oliver Billings Fritsch Turner Sparrow Sharp Van Rooyen Chandler Gawn Viney Petracca Rivers, Lindsay, Langford, Petty, Bowey (Sub)

Assuming they are going to bring in the rule we can trade 2 years in advance for draft picks, probably a 25,26 and 27 first rounder for a fully fit and in form Petracca. we'd probably be asking for players, or 25/26 draft assets though to mitigate any impact caused by Tassie.

He's a contracted top 5 player in the comp. if they want him, they will have to pay our asking price, or he'll stay a demon, end of story. Why on earth would we accept less than the typical asking price of a super star player? It would clearly be the clubs preference to keep him, that's why we signed him to a long term deal, to grant leverage in exactly this scenario.

I honestly think our new draftee at pick 70 odd is a real chance to play a few games this year, he's got a real presence and aggression about him, and if he goes into the ruck JVR can stay forward as well.

If Petracca did decide he wanted out at years end, you couldn't be more certain of anything other than the MFC will be making an enormous offer to Harley Reid and sending the picks from a Trac trade to the WCE to get it done.

The obvious ones are Clarry, Trac and Kozzie. Ideally we'd love to keep all three long term, but if we can't, it's in our best interests for all 3 to have massive years, help us win a flag and then put their trade currency at an absolute premium either way From the lesser known players, we really need Van Rooyen to take a big step and become a premier power forward in the league, Jefferson to push into the team and play a big role and guys like Sparrow, Chandler, Howes, Spargo to go from being role players to the next level up in their respective roles.

Love a key forward who scares the living daylights out of opposition teams without even having to touch the ball!

Langford looks so good! outside of an injury, i can't see any way he's not playing regular footy next year.