Ted Lasso

I also have money on us, based on the off chance that i would find money and take it as a sign haha. But i do think we can win, i think North will come very very hard at us early on and try and blow the game apart, if we're able to hold our nerve it will be game on, looking for a big game from Jones, dawes, howe and Watts and some more improvement from Trenners and Grimes

Disagree on that one, i think he will coach us, i'd be guessing his odds would be sitting around 50% at the minute, but this is a bloke who ( reading between the lines abit here ) probably wouldn't mind coaching again, he isn't jumping out of his seat to do it but he is looking at his options, we have a huge AFL backed offer for him, we aren't as bad as many people think and turning us around would be worth as much as a flag in terms of respect, so i think we have a pretty strong case, having said that if our bid for Paul does happen to fail, i think Eade, Craig and Choco get a sniff then, remember of the four big name coaches, Eade is the only one who has said publicly that he actually wants to coach again...

The thing that i have found interesting is that this year a point was made by coaches and people out of the club that we were not going to have any expectations over our draft picks and just let them play, for some reason we have this weird idea that Toumpas who has played what 8? games should be able to do what he did against Geelong week in week out, we know his best game this year was very good, so even if he doesn't play that well for the rest of the season, he has shown me enough that i am convinced he is going to be a very VERY good player for us.

I'm curious to see how much playing in darwin last week holds us back this week, half expecting a fairly sluggish game from our boys.

please lock him up for 4 -5years

I consider them a top 6 team, i know their ladder position doesn't reflect that but they lose close ones far too much, the quality is there

Wait and see, i am thinking we will get done by the flat track bullies, but if they are thinking ahead and not 100% in it we might give them a scare

Correct, but in all honesty i found the 50 dollars so i am taking it as a sign

the other thing to consider is the bombers have been a stronger team, better supply and delivery to hurley than watts could get

looking at it like that mine would be Mathews Bomba Roos Williams Worsfold Eade Burns Ayres Knights Sheedy

I think Neeld was right in expressing the importance of defensive play so strongly, but not every group is a Collingwood, i think we're much more suited to a Geelong style of play but are building a Brisbane early 2000's style lineup, Craig has come in and let the players back their talents in and they seem to be really enjoying their football, not sure if it's a solution but it seems to have blokes like Watts wanting to stay Demons which i am sure was a big part of his job when he became caretaker

I really hope we are able to hold on to Watts, i'm not sure how likely that is but if we could keep him i would be stoked

Right now, Watts by a mile.

Maybe the kid just doesn't have what it takes?

Yeah, the team has shown some real character, which is fantastic to see

The answer to that is that he wouldn't, he simply wouldn't go on if it was going to do 1% damage to his chances on signing target #1 either there is more to this, or the coaching situation will not be bought up at all.

In all honesty we should be playing like this, have we improved or has craig bought up back to Acceptable? remember Craig has had no chance to implement his own game plan or idea's he would need a full pre season to do that, he has the advantage of the players loving him but is otherwise on level pegging with other candidates in my opinion having said that i love the positive feeling at the moment

For me he is a close second to Roos, they have similar sorts of records, but Roos had a hand in the great culture at the swans and that is exactly what we want/need, having said that if it were announced tomorrow we were going to be coached by any of the big four, Roos, choco, eade or craig i would not be at all unhappy with any of the above and i am very confident we will get one of them.

i imagine he will ask the question, if only for a laugh

slapped 50 on us just in case going to be a very nice day if we get up

personally i think its all been a stunt to shift the spotlight, its always been all about Roos for us, no more settling for second best

choco to me is clearly the best option behimd Roos, surely the AFL will realise that

Barrett is just a [censored].

well done neil craig for showing faith in toumpas and kent!

i think.basically everyone rated toumpas higher, most had him top two all year and wines from 5-10