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Lots to play out here, if dimma is sacked they'll be going to the draft i reckon

Oh definitely but it's different at the same time, he's on an AFL list playing footy for a living, got to make the most of that it's not like he's working in a factory that's about to close down that he doesn't give a [censored] about

As he should, he's getting paid bloody good money as are just about all AFL players.

The hard thing is the only role i can see Trengove playing well given his speed is inside midfielder so he's competing with Jones, Oliver, Tyson, Viney, Brayshaw, Petracca Vince and so on. I suspect another club would give him a shot as a rookie if we did cut him.

I think it's just the wording, i spoke to Macca at training a while back and he said he wasn't sure exactly how it would look but Goodwin would be doing a lot of the senior coaching duties in the back end of the year, they definitely had a conversation about Goodwin controlling things from the box which Goody declined, no need to rush things.

I'm not sure posters appreciate how much Goody is doing this year, 1. Roosy spoke to Goody about him taking the box and Roosy on the bench, goody declined. 2. Goodwin takes 90% of trainings and meetings now, he is doing all the recruiting and list management stuff he's effectively the senior coach. Roosy is really just the match day coach and a senior assistant at the minute and that's why i am really comfy with where we're at with Goody

I reckon given where the list is at we will retain one of Trenners or Grimes, i suspect it'll be Trengove, maybe as a rookie

Agree'd it's a huge risk, they've been totally disconnected from the system for 12 months. Surely that alone drops the value, if Hibberd is normally worth a second rounder, surely that drops his value again, he's missed a year of training with elite coaches and that AFL structure, that's gotta be a huge set back.

I'd think Hibberd coming on board means Salem and Melksham play wing more so which is a huge plus better skills all over the ground

Yeah, updates would be hugely appreciated.

Biggest weakness is he has no right foot and teams target this in his game, but he can be extremely damaging if given time and space.

I'd do T'mac, O'mac and our second rounder for Hurley and Hibberd. Doddario would want Hogan, Brayshaw, Petracca, our 2017 first rounder and Goodwin as coach

We desperately need both Mcdonalds going forward in my opinion.

Rance won't leave Richmond, he's just signed a long term deal, no doubt he's frustrated by how they're going but he aint going anywhere.

Just does exactly what the coaches tell him to do, doesn't sook if he gets dropped just goes back, works on what he's told and it reflects in his game. he's our Issac Smith

I think that's absolutely why we chased him, because we knew we could back him in for three years, even if it looked ugly we'd have a platform to build from when he left, It's why i find it interesting the comparision to the Saints, it's like comparing the Lions to say the Tigers, the Saints had a lot of finals performers, we had nothing, basically no culture, no leadership, no talent coming through, 2 wins at 58% possibly the worst side of all time. withing three years to be looking at between 8-10 wins and one of the best young lists in the game is an amazing turn around, and to be honest, i think we're ahead of what our win-loss suggests, we have dropped multiple games we should have won.

I reckon if we're going to RJAY it'll be this week games against Port, Blues and Cats i reckon will be seen as very winnable ( i say cats because we beat them last year and we seem to be good at beating the sides we've beaten and they're pretty inconsistent )

I'm not sure it is that great an unknown to be honest, i mean he's been there for two years, no doubt pulling strings, we're playing his game style and leaving out Garlo and Dunn to play kids. I think it'll be very seamless

He's an absolute jet, not to many defenders wouldn't have nightmares about playing him, and the scary part is when the Suns aren't a basket case he's going to get far better supply than he is now and put daylight between himself and any other key forward in the game. I thought T'mac was about the only reason he didn't blow the game apart today.

I love the way Watts owns the big moment, not unlike Jimmy Bartel or Shaun Burgoyne but i am not sure making him a leader is a great plan, i want to see him re-produce this form for at least another year. Nev Jetta i think will be in the leadership group next year. if Dion Prestia comes to the club i would have thought he'd also find himself in there.

Both at seasons end surely

i find the lack of noise around this to be a good sign, but really strange, when both Tom and his brother are OOC, that's a huge part of our planning for the next decade and there is little to no noise in the media about them being unsigned.

So you think they're going to let two of their brightest young talents walk for less than first round picks? or they're going to lose the two existing top 10 picks they hold? They'll definitely get one for Prestia ( unless he comes to us ) and even with O'meara's injury if he went to the Hawks for example i expect they'd want at least pick 18 but depending on who he goes to that pick might become even earlier

I suspect the Suns will go to the draft with at least 4 first round if not top 10 picks. they currently have 4 and 9 should get a first rounder for both Prestia and O'meara unless Prestia comes to us Not a bad place to start a re-build 4 top 10 picks at least

An interesting stat to throw at you is when we win games this year we average around 45 points scored as a result of intercept turnover, meaning it's accounting for around 40% of our winning scores, Tom is by a mile our best intercept player, so i'd argue that for us to win we need Tom and we need him playing well with this game plan.