Ted Lasso

Could we delist sellar and re-draft him on 1,000,000 a year?

Gary ablett jr would look alright in Red and Blue i reckon

That is kinda the point though isn't it? there are alot of forms of leadership, Trenners is captain of a struggling team and a team that at times this year has lacked effort, he sets an example with effort, he works bloody hard and tackles very well, i would consider that a measure of on field leadership

so a pick around 20-25 would be a fair swap then? it seems as though the draft pool isn't very strong so these sort of trades would be worth seriously considering

Speaking of high draft picks, any word on Watts re-signing? he said it would all happen when his manager got back to Australia but still no word

Neeld was never more than an assistant coach punching above his weight, but there is clearly an issue of some sort that has caused the loss of zip

But how do we know he would be the best of those coaches in terms of changing culture? yeah sydney have a great culture, but they also had Lyon and longmire there who would have all had a serious influence in that, not at all saying Roos is overrated, but i think Choco would get people excited, and get us up and firing again, eade has a fantastic track record with getting the most out of players,

Can't see them giving up Sloane, but they would have to seriously consider moving Vince on if a good offer came and I think he would add a bit to a team like us.

I agree, he has lost that zip and isn't the same player, the captaincy i think was a mistake, Garland might be a better option and Viney in a few years after that, but IF he gets a full pre season and still lacks the ability to impact games, it'll start to get very concerning, he is getting his 20 touches and tackling well, but if he can add 5-10 touches a game to that he will be a fair player, he averaged 14 in his first 6 games back and now averages 20 so maybe by seasons end 25 a game would be a good aim?

I'm just interested on thoughts, but why would Paul Roos be a better get than say a Choco or an Eade who we would have to pay half as much money?

Yeah totally agree, will be a very good quality player if he is able to do that, but i still think he has the capacity to become a good mid if the club chooses to go down that path

I think trenners is doing alright, not great but he is in our best 22 for a few reasons, Next years coach with a bit more experience will be able to identify better the strengths of the players, and build a game plan from scratch that plays to the overall strength of the core group, i think this was Neeld's biggest fault, we aren't Collingwood, that plan won them a flag but we are 40+ totally different blokes, trying to find our feet, i think a more geelong like style suits us better, all things considered we did about what most would have hoped and expected against the Lions, would have been nice to win, but they are probably a better side in a few ways and deserved the result.

He was a pick number 4, hopefully west coast is the right place for him to start to play some good footy

Would he be worth a late first round pick? Wwuld think he would add a stronger body to our midfield and is a pretty handy player Crows would have to consider the offer to gain a place in the top of the draft.

We need to seriously consider offering the job to Neil Craig, even if Roos does turn out to be interested, he has guys like frawley and watts playing some fantastic football, and he has the boys seemingly happy about playing footy again

Poor game but give the young man the benefit of the doubt, he played very well against Geelong in horrid conditions not a week ago, and he looked pretty crook on the bench, weren't we talking at the start of the year about managing expectations on our young players? haha

dom barry and sam blease would be okay in that sense i think, but i think they're gunna be more handy as outside mids, maybe recruit a dayle garlett who wouldn't take a high pick i'd imagine and rotate a few blokes through there? blease dawes watts barry clark hogan setting the forward line up next year if everyone is fit is going to be a fantastic problem to have

what sort of player comparisons would you make for Aish and Scharenberg? from what i have seen Aish is maybe a little bit like a dayne beams and scharenberg abit like a sam fisher as a defender but could probably become a Mundy type player and really add something as a mid

Totally agree and luke ball has come back to be a gun player, the other thing people need to consider is the stress fracture, the pain from that can hang around for a long time, so when you add up all of the factors that would be holding him back, OP stress fracture playing in a poor side pressure of being captain too young and of a poor side drug saga (less of a concern but i'm sure he was worried about it) and he is still averaging 20 touches over the last month, he can turn the ball over but in general he is okay with ball in hand, and he is our best defensive mid in terms of tackles and pressure around the stoppages, i know that's a hard thing to see when we are well beaten, but it's the same sort of strength alot of the sydney players seem to develop

if we get a pp him and aish would be nice

I'd say tonights result reflects where we are at, we probably have one of the better defenses going around but it's put under way too much stress, and we will have a very handy forward line next year but we lack a midfield and overall skill and polish, a good trade period and a pre season focus on skills and decision making rather than just getting our fitness up to scratch and i reckon we'll be alright

It's hard to say, fitz started well and then they tightened up on him abit, i'd say they're fighting it out for the 3rd forward spot next year though

He is alot like trenners in that he is great at the defensive side of things and the next step will come from adding more offensive potency, would love to see him become a 40-50 goal a year forward

Anyone but Neeld! but we really need to get a midfield somehow, maybe look at trading some underperformers.

I would have thought Dawes would be more worthy than Trengove of this weeks demonland hanging? 500k a year and he was shown up bigtime by fitz today, granted he has played some good games this year for us and his leadership has been impressive but we are paying him alot of money so he really should be showing abit more touch.