Ted Lasso

With some people that's fine, what i am saying is we are a genuine mess right now and we need to bring people to the club who have the character to guide us out of it, no use fighting tooth and nail for blokes who have no interest in being here, look at a Nathan jones, doesn't lack confidence or character.

Yeah i agree, who else is out of contract, terlich, matt jones, Gawn? we gave the first two their crack at AFL and Gawn we have been loyal and paitent with, reckon Col might chase a flag and that's probably fair enough but i reckon we will manage to hang on to the other two

I think you're dead right mate, Terlich has no issue with skills from what i have seen, he makes the odd bad decision but i think that's more to do with having one or two bad options ahead of him and nothing else.

It's a measure of character, let's be honest we don't want blokes who are going to have a sook and jump ship because it's too hard, we want blokes like Grimes, Jones, Trengove and viney who are going to work hard and have a genuine crack at turning things around.

We have three players who would all be in our best 10 players without a doubt, all could become significantly better than what they are, Frawley has been a much better player than he is so we need to sell these three guys a vision of a better future or we will lose them and noone could blame them for walking in this situation, i think we should move Neeld on, get craig or viney taking over and start a campaign to sign a big name coach, waiting is weighing the risk of a player walkout against the risk of not gaining anything from games we may gain nothing from anyway.

if we get a priority, do we dangle one pick and give teams like Carlton and the crows a sniff of boyd? i personally can't see the harm if we were to get a really good offer for one of the picks

Carlton and Freo are certainly keen from what i have heard, not sure who the other six would be, North were in the mix last year weren't they?

Thanks for this mate, how was Toumpas?

I reckon more than 50% of players would show a similar stat to that though, i think watts will be a good player, for me it's keep chippa at all costs, watts second priority sylvia third, if we can keep 2 of those three that's acceptable but it will be an up hill battle.

the publics opinion seems to be more sympathetic lately

Luke Tapscott knocking balantyne into next year would be alright.

What picks could we realistically hope to get, assuming we don't win a heap more games this year, a priority of 2 and 3 or something?

I think a premiership coach would be able to sell that a little bit better than the current coaching group, but i do believe we are on the right track in terms of building a list providing we can keep it together.

I see your point, but i think losing him would be a disaster, we need to place an offer he can't refuse infront of him and if he still wants to leave maybe we can work out some sort of trade at the end of the year so we get something of value for him.

Billings would be my number one pick, sorta bloke who can kick long and accurate would be a great asset kicking to our talls, very good player crouch or dunstan if we get a priority, both are hard at it physical midfielders, Crouch is a ball magnet and clearance machine.

I would have thought we would get a late first round early second round pick for him, he may be considered more valuable given he is one of the few experienced players at our club.

Hearing gary ablett signed with the dees would still upset me coming from damien Barrett.. cannot stand him.

Looks better down back, but do freo have a matchup for him?

So you would be unhappy if contract extensions were announced for this reason? haha

Some good news now announce contract extensions to Sylvia and Frawley and it will be a good day

They need to sit him down and say you're our most important player, here is a long term contract where you will be paid accordingly, if we locked him up for 4-5 years that would be bigger than bringing Dale Thomas to the club at the end of the year.

Col would be insane to start talks at this point, he has no idea what the structure or coaches are going to be like next year, our club is more of an unknown than any of the new clubs.

I'd be shocked if he wasn't over it by now.

Wait and see what Chip wants to do, but this season we should throw a big long term contract infront of him and do absolutely everything we can to convince him to stay

a win. and mark of the year from jeremy howe would be okay too