Ted Lasso

West Coast are obviously thinking potentially Bo Allen, Liam Baker and Matt Owies > Pick 3. It's not a ridiculous notion but i wouldn't have done this trade personally.

It's probably the first time in their careers that Trac and Clarry have had high end midfield talent at their own level come into the club through the draft, i suspect they'll quickly become big brother figures and mentors for these young guys.

Pick 5 will in theory be an A grade mid, essentially a Gus replacement, any of Smith, O'Sullivan, Langford, Lalor, Draiper, Smillie would make an immediate impact for us next year. Pick 9 is interesting, we could go tall and grab someone like Armstrong or Tauru or another mid like Reid, Lindsay, Travaglia

The top 10 in this draft just became even more interesting. Expectation is the Saints will take 2 mids with 7/8 North could look to swap their pick potentially. would the Saints swap 7/8 for 2 and something else? North would then get Armstrong and Tauru and the Saints get a top end midfield talent in the door. So much to play out between now and the draft

Langford and Travaglia or Reid would be an incredible result. If Armstrong made it to 9, which he won't i'd probably snap him up.

I think it's worth noting that 13 in THIS draft is seen by most experts as being the quality of a top 5-6 pick in some other drafts, which is why we would be willing to give up what potentially looks like overs on the surface. 5 and 13 will very likely be two very very handy players for a long time, and we already have a nice little core of young talent building. Jason Taylor is consistently the best asset this club has had for the last number of years.

Our offer is clearly the best on the table, they get a strong second round pick now, and a future first that could be as high as 4-5 Of those offers, ours is the best by a distance in my opinion

Do you have a preference and or inkling as to who might slip through to us? they're all very very handy players, I can't see Adelaide passing on the S.A boy in Draper, a trade at the top end would complicate things further potentially.

It depends on how you rate the talent. I would say the top 4 live selections (Not including Ashcroft) are very clearly the top 4 in Smith, Lalor, Langford, O'Sullivan. we could easily miss all four of them as it stands, so the value is, we potentially get access to a significantly better player, as well as an additional pick in the 20's in THIS draft which is loaded with talent, all for the price of backing ourselves to improve in 2025 which we should.

North are very open to sliding back so my proposition would be 2 and 22 for our 5 and future first. Assuming we make the 8 next year we could guess that would make it something like 5 and 13 for 2 and 22 which feels reasonably fair in general.

From "Best culture in 40 years" to "No stone unturned in review" all within 12 months... - A Gary Pert story.

Pick 16 for Kozzie is a joke.

In my opinion the Saints are simply trying to put pressure on the AFL to make sure the Battle compensation is pick 8.

It would be really unusual that Pert is doing that and not Tim Lamb though given TL is our list manager. It's also odd that this is going on when the reviews aren't finished yet, it feels a little to me like CO is being scapegoated as the source of all of our problems and it's not difficult to see they're a lot deeper than any one player, or even any of the players.

"After i have reviewed my own performance and swept all failings under the rug, i have concluded we have the greatest culture in AFL history and i've signed an extension for 20 more years"

If this is true, Gary Pert should resign. best culture in 40 years and the CEO has to step in and perform the list managers role for him.

Outside of Max Holmes, there is nothing Geelong can really offer that i'd seriously look at. I'd rather back Clarry in to return to his best form with a full pre-season

Hate this.

How on earth do Geelong offer anything that the MFC don't laugh at? Clarry clearly wouldn't fetch the sort of return he would have in 2021, but he's still worth well and truely more than 1 first round pick i would have thought. I'd wanna see Sam Dekonning and a draft pick or i would just back him in to get back to his best after a full pre-season.

Love this move, would Stuie take up the mids Dazzle?

Kate?

The Pies 2010/2011 game plan really paved the way for the Hawks defensive structure so i would say that he was very good in that space, and man managers, Dale Thomas left Collingwood to go and play under him so he at least clearly liked him a lot.

So he won 3 premierships, coached a number of grand finals and deep finals runs at multiple clubs and is generally accepted to be one of the better coaches the game has ever seen? Goody is a very good coach, perhaps in time he will reach the level of Malthouse, but he's a long way off as it stands.

Our 2021 campaign was as dominant or more dominant than the Cats in 22, the Pies in 23 or the Swans in 24. We were clearly the best team all season, i don't think any other coach would have felt they'd have beaten us, especially in the form we found in the finals. I don't believe it would have mattered if it was full length quarters, or played in Melbourne or whatever else, You could perhaps argue that given the difficulty of the circumstances it's possibly the most impressive Premiership campaign in a really long time.

Most coaches are either unbelievable people managers ala "Ted Lasso" or they have incredible tactical nous and game sense and see trends ahead of time ala "Nathan Shelly" but rarely both. The best coaches that go down as all time greats like Clarko, Dimma, Scott, Sheedy, Malthouse, Matthews and the list goes on, are a combination of the two. The Cats players would crawl over broken glass for Chris Scott, but i am supremely confident they'll win this flag because Chris Scott with a healthy list, and time to plan is virtually unbeatable.