Ted Lasso

My opinion is we back trenners, jones, grimes and viney as our inside mids thomas and lecras i think would play as outside mids with us, we don't have the depth to play LeCras as a small forward full time, i actually think Carazzo would be an alright target also.

His brain fades concern me, last week one act of frustration in a game already lost and boom, he misses the next three, Richmond, Fremantle, Hawthorn

Edge col out the door and throw a big contract at Thomas and lecras

If we had have drafted Nic nat, he would have decided he was home sick and left by now anyway, hopefully we leave jack watts up forward and keep him on next year, a forward line of Howe Hogan Watts Dawes Clark Blease looks pretty good to me.

For me Col, frawley and Gawn are the priority, Gawn will be the easiest to convince of all three i imagine but if we could get all three it would be huge, and great for the young players to see blokes aren't just going to jump ship first chance they get.

It drives me nuts, they get half their kicks because of a borderline cheating tactic! if it was any other player or family people would be up in arms about it.

Haha would be nice but i have a feeling North rate zeibs higher than anyone else on their list, can't see them letting him go anywhere anytime soon

3 things that i think would make Jack Trengove and elite mid 1. get his pace back 2.push his average touches above 22 per game 3. back in his talent and show more attacking flair

Our list on the whole is okay, some of the decisions have been shocking however, Dawes and Byrnes i can understand, the others i just shake my head at, there is plenty of upside to our list though, the right people will know how to make it shine.

I didn't realise that either until today 3 for pederson 2 for rodan 2 for byrnes and 1 for gillies Byrnes to me was the only acceptable choice of the whole lot :/

Absolutely but it's still not fair, if he played for Geelong he still wouldn't have been risked i don't think, it's the sad reality of where we are at plus some level of poor management as much as i'm sure Trenners was beating the door down to play

At least he was on a one year contract, 3 years for pederson is shocking.

Never expected it would, the second he did a stress fracture i knew we could almost rule this year out as a potential break out year

No disrespect mate but i totally disagree, i think he's our best defensive midfielder at this stage by an absolute mile, and he is underdone, give him a good run at this pre season with no injuries and get abit of zip back and he could well have a very good year next year and beyond, he is all class

In some area's but i think we top them in others, recruit a couple of mids and i would happily say we would top them in terms of lists.

Head of the football department is vital, not something we can chance, maybe he would be better as a forward development coach or something, could think of much worse influences working with clark, dawes and hogan, possibly watts if he plays forward.

I agree, we need our best team on the park for a stretch of games, a break out year from 2-3 blokes and abit of confidence back and things could turn quickly. Just look at Port.

I can't see Gawn going anywhere we have put alot of faith in him considering all our injuries, a contract extension to chip would be massive but obviously not a priority at this stage.

If he walks he is well within his rights to do so but it's vital we replace him with someone of similar experience as it will free up cap room, maybe a Nick Dal Santo

I think Neeld wants us to be Collingwood, and it doesn't suit our list so it's not working on any level. we look much better with a geelong style plan

After one off season our list looks more like a spud farm than an AFL list, some of the players we have signed is an absolute joke.

Rumour or confirmed?

More simple, don't pay a bloke 1.5 million dollars a year at least when we don't even know for sure he'd be a good mid? haha 1.5 would get us 2-3 very good quality mids.

Barrett will use any excuse to have a dig at us, he's just a [censored], simple as that

It will be a real test of the senior players to see if they're willing to protect the younger kids abit, dawes should get right up him if he goes near jimmy