Ted Lasso

Oh dear..

It would be crazy to sack Neeld without having a better replacement locked in, another untried coach would just continue the cycle most likely.

It would have been amusing to see the faces of some of the interviewers after his responses, just shut them down

If scully got subbed for lack of form during this game my year would be made!

Trengove is the big one, i am pretty happy with what he does with the ball and how hard he works but too often he has 15-20 touches, we kinda need him winning 25 + consistantly and he is a goal kicking marking midfielder with good pace. Tapscott is another who could be anything or nothing depending on how he is managed in my opinion.

I agree, hard to see it being as bad as people say

If they turned around and got Mark Williams agreeing to coach us and we beat GWS by 10 goals, would they re think it or has neeld done his dash?

The kids on huge dollars and doing nothing, Kevin sheedy has to say he will be a star because if he isn't, they have wasted the salary they could have used on basically anyone in the AFL on a kid who really had done nothing to prove he was worth it Also handed melbourne some very useful compo picks.

We should win, and potentially start building towards a respectable season

Dawes and clark were convinced to come here, we have cap room and there are plenty of money hungry players out there.

you would think if those two intended on leaving for big money they would pull their fingers out and have All Australian years and get considerable pay rise offers, right now i wouldn't really be that fussed if they left, sylvia played well against the eagles but has one good game every 10 and frawley just doesn't look interested If we are going to pull the club out of the hole it's in we need good characters, not people who aren't interested in anything more than the pay cheque

B N Jetta Pederson Garland HB Grimes McDonald Terlich C Watts M jones Bail HF Tapscott Frawley Trengove F Howe Clark Davey R Jamar Viney N jones I/c Blease Gawn Sylvia Sub evans why not throw things around abit, tell jack watts to back himself to do more damage than his opponent can the other way, his size alone drifting forward should scare his opponent into watching him closely and if he floats back and intercepts bonus, his strength is he reads the play well and he's athletic, lets throw him on a wing and see how he goes, with patton out mcdonald can play on cameron and frawley could be tried in the forward line, tall strong body who could come into the middle from centre half forward

we lose by 100 points each week atm, why the hell not throw it all around and see who can do what before neeld shows the door to the half of the list he missed in last years cleanout

How do you think he'd go in the ruck?

If we got a coach like sheedy or Williams we could at the very least say " okay the problem isn't the dodgey coaches."

If we offered Thomas and Carazzo big dollars each, possibly the captaincy to Carazzo, would we be any chance?

It's amazing how much of this is based on the first three rounds, i thought he would be All Australian this year on the half back flank based on last year and i still think he can have a big impact playing there, probably best to leave any decisions on watts til the end of the year. One would hope this young man would want to repay the faith we have already put in him.

I'd expect most clubs have better ball users out of the back half than us so probably up forward

Neil Craig at Melbourne and a pay rise might be worth considering, couldn't hurt to ask! hopefully Neeld and Brown can play a role in convincing Thomas to move down the road

Take that back, he's a free agent... but that sort of player anyway.

If we were to entertain the idea of Trading Jack watts ( i hope we don't because he is only 22 and i thought he showed how good he can be in patches last year and this pre season) What would be a suitable trade? maybe to St Kilda for Nick dal santo who is out of contract? an elite midfielder with fantastic disposal who would thrill clark, dawes and hogan and be able to teach our younger mids alot a successful player at a strong club ( just what mark neeld likes )

Van Berlo and Thomas would be great additions to our Midfield but i imagine we would have to pay significant $ to convince them to come here.

Might well be Mark Neelds last game as coach if we get beaten easily.

Damien Barrett clearly doesn't like us and he makes no secret of it, as mark neeld said, jack watts was ill as well as out of form and that's why he was subbed, he is a confidence player who was feeling like crap and getting destroyed on the field, makes no sense to leave him out there.

I really hope kent gets a run! reckon he will prove to be an absolute steal of this draft