Ted Lasso

T&w Our coach is on 1.5 mil a year I would be willing to say Goodwin and mcartney would be doing alright As well Not all that underfunded these days

I find it a little bit amusing for a club that was so determined for the " truth to come out " they haven't been in a hurry to release it. for me it should be as simple as no records = guilty.

I think the doggies are on basically the path Roos wants to take us on, he's building the basis of the plan on contest, defense and aggression, which is very similar to what i feel Mcartney was doing at the dogs, so when he left they were pretty good in that area and now Beveridge has added the attacking side of things to the plan and they look fantastic i think we're doing the same thing, Roos is setting the core values of the team and what we want to build around as a foundation and Goodwin will bring more attacking flair to layer on top of it.

A couple of the points i'd make about the selection process is 1. was the club concerned about their image due to previous stuff ups in the draft, took Toumpas because he was more highly rated and by extension seen as a safer choice despite possibly prefering Wines as a player? if we took Wines when a more highly rated player was available and he didn't come on it'd be seen as MFC making the same mistakes and not learning from them? same principal as we couldn't take a chance on an untried coach after Neeld, couldn't take risks 2. was Toumpas slipping through to pick 4 by design, as good as Hogan is i believe, 3, 13 and whatever we paid to get him was overs, was a handshake deal to see Toumpas slide past GWS part of the deal? 3. was the recruiting staff overruled by Mark Neeld who clearly rated Toumpas, publicly we were linked to Wines all year, so no doubt he was choice number 2 but i'd love to know if Todd, or Neeld pushed the case for Toumpas over Wines point three is highlighted by our recruiting since Neeld left, we have taken Christian Salem, Angus Brayshaw, Christian Petracca, Neil Bullen, Vandenberg, Newton all of which are quality inside players, hard at it and very good tacklers, Kennedy-Harris and Stretch have been bought in at later picks to provide speed but the fundamental approach to recruit ball winners has totally changed

Missed my point totally mate, Todd knew Ollie for many years before the draft, best friends with Jack and the way he is going at AFL level i seriously doubt would surprise him, and then you have Jake Stringer, Jackson McRrae, Troy Menzel, Sam Mayes all very talented young players even Brodie Grundy would have been a good selection i'm curious why Toump is the one he chose, remember between Taylor and Todd they have hardly missed a selection, even Matt Jones, Terlich and the mature age guys have made an impact, but Toump is really struggling to impact games, i'd love to know the reason why they didn't pick Wines, the club themselves said publicly they were excited by the prospect of setting up the engine room for the next decade with Viney, Wines and Jones i argued against this move because i had and still have concerns that our midfield is too one paced and we lack outside class in a big way, and i still have faith the Toump will make it as a player under the guidance of Roos, Mcartney and Goodwin but i'd love to know the reason for the selection because i'm sure it wasn't what the media draft experts thought that made the decision for todd.

Was it Rory Sloane who we told we'd draft then took Jamie Bennell instead?

Is he wrong? you can't seriously think they wouldn't be far more concerned about this situation if they were about to play Freo and Sydney? Melbourne is in the process of winning some respect now, we were lucky to not be beaten by 100 plus points on the weekend though, and Hawthorn are as good or better than the dockers

God if not wines, why not McRae or stringer?

To be fair to jack when we get smashed in possession by well over 100 and have far less inside 50s that the opposition it's probably pretty tough going for a forward

Would have fathers blood stretch as the sub

Leadership written all over this bloke, future captain potentially

Ollie wines, and then obviously a string of recruiting decisions during the Bailey/ pender era that I feel we got wrong But taking Toumpas who is going okay at casey over a bloke dominating at afl level, born leader and best mates with jack Viney I think is already coming back to bite us hard.

I think freo are just a seriously good team, we had lapses and they made us pay but considering the outs we have I thought most of the game we were fairly competitive and if we took our opportunities and used the ball a bit better we could have won. I don't think that last quarter lapse would have happened if we felt we could win

I can't stand essendope supporters! They seriously think they are innocent

Did the toump get a touch?

6: Tom McDonald 5: Angus brayshaw 4: Daniel cross 3: jeff Garlett 2: Aaron vandenberg 1: Lynden Dunn

nat Fyfe is a freak

Brayshaw should be in the banner in place of watts

Can anyone confirm that we are still at the g and not on the bus home?

Can't question the blokes effort, contested ball machine.

Tom McDonald has been fantastic considering the weight of inside 50's

Watts conserving energy for finals

Need a leader to settle us down, we are shaken

Grimes and Mckenzie still can't kick

He'd wanna get himself into the game, can't defend this effort