Ted Lasso

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.

I think every game plan has a natural life cycle, we will find out a huge amount about Sam Mitchell in 12 months time, because every club is going to spend the entire off season poking holes in his game plan. if it's not bulletproof, they can come back to the pack really quickly. we saw this in 2018

I've landed on my top 3 in order of preference 1. Finn O'Sullivan (Will be gone) 2. Harvey Langford (Gun, probably will be gone 3. Jagga Smith (either goes pick 1, or likely slips through)

I agree that some supporters are absolutely needlessly negative about everything, but there are certain posters on here that just cannot handle any sort of criticism of the club valid or otherwise. Demonland is a wonderful forum with both extremes and both can be equally good at derailing an otherwise good discussion with baseless, emotional dribble.

I reckon there would be clubs that would have Sam Lalor at 1, it's a weird draft that is so even. i reckon there is a clear top 6 though, the nice part is we will get one of those and they're all mids.

So probably a Josh Schache replacement depth wise with the hope he can develop and surprise us?

Is he any good? i know nothing about this guy or why we might be interested.

Why are you friends with a Saints fan?

I am amazed that North Melbourne aren't at least publicly linked to Armstrong, pairing him with Larkey sets up their key forwards long term

Damo is wrong about this, Houston will unbalance further and already unbalanced defense, if you've got Saad and Houston and to a lesser extend Newman all down back together what you've got is 3 attacking half backs who aren't great one on one and don't contribute strongly to the teams defensive structure, i think as good a player as he is, someone like Judd McVee for example is what Carlton need, not Dan Houston

Going to Fremantle.

I listed home and away and finals games seperately deliberately, i think that's where the confusion has come from. the figures i have provided at the top are just the home and away games. Didn't conveniently forget anything, i was making a point that he has a very strong coaching record, particularly over recent years and sacking him would be a bad move.

And there were obvious reasons in both finals series we didn't get a win, we did bloody well to get as close as we did in all 4 games though. would you sack a premiership coach 2 years after a premiership because we lost a semi final by a couple of points?

Sure, win percentage is still 63% and very solid against any other AFL team. The only arguement you could make against Goody is that we should have won at least 1 more premiership between 21-24 but that's a huge ask for any coach given Chris Scott has an insane coaching record and only has 2 flags in a much longer period of time, and one he basically inherited off Bomber Thompson as well.

I really don't understand the calls to move Goody on, from 2021 - 2024 our record is Wins: 60 - 66% Losses: 29 ( 12 of those this year) Draws: 1 Finals Wins 3 Losses 4 Premierships 1. In terms of pure football performance, that's a record that puts us right up the pointy end of the competition in that period, and you could argue we underperformed losing 4 close finals in that time. The grass isn't always greener

Does basically everything to a really high level, as close to a sure thing as a draft prospect can get i would say.

No, 5 is wayyyyyyyy too much for Cerra. i doubt he'd fit where we are at now to be honest.

It might not be a direct swap, but i've seen other suggest a Tomlinson - Membrey swap, this seems to make some sense as to not dilute the Saints free agency compensation, i wonder if they'd go for that.

I could definitely see North trading their future first round to a team for a selection this year to get Trainor and keep pick 2 for perhaps Langford or O'Sullivan

A clearance machine who is effectively going to be an Angus Brayshaw replacement who's also a beautiful long left foot kick. love his work.