Ted Lasso

More on field leadership and experience, finals experience down back, would release Salem further up the ground which helps as well. certainly worth consideration if the price is right

Trac averaged 20 touches and a goal this year, was in the top 5 general forwards in the league, not a bad effort in a team that couldn't score and finished 17. Petracca is a very good AFL player with the potential to make the jump to being a superstar and it's not far off. I wouldn't be trading him under any circumstances.

This is the strangest whisper because everyone has heard it but no one seems to be able to confirm it. For what it's worth i hope it's true. a bit of red and blue is a good thing, he's a super smart guy and a few years of Hawks knowledge to pass on won't hurt either.

He's a beautiful kick, doesn't rely on speed, i'd be comfortable offering him 3 years, we need the experience and his kicking would be very handy.

It's always a tricky one to work out, you're really weighing up one player vs 2-3 but is that one likely to be a star. guys like Ash, Serong and Young i think will be very good players, but i'm not sure if they're future superstars we may get someone like Kemp to slide through to pick 11 given his injury, so realistically we're weighing up Lachie Ash potentially who i think is the best player outside of the top 2 in the draft and very much what we need. and a combination of Dylan Stephens - very good outside midfielder, reminds me a bit of Polec - SA lad so Port may be keen the pick before. Cody Weightman - talented but raw small forward who can do some pretty incredible things at times, and fills a need and someone like Jye Caldwell or Ian Hill potentially. guys like Flanders won't be there at those picks of the Giants so a few of the players that would really appeal are likely to be gone. In conclusion, i would be reasonably comfortable either way though splitting the pick gives us the chance to add two very talented outside mids (i prefer Ian Hill from the Giants as steak knives) and a very talented small forward, or keeping it and grabbing someone like Lachie Ash gives us a talented outside midfielder to complement Ed Langdon on the opposite wing and add to the core of top end talent we have.

God if only we could be like that on and off the field.

If it were up to me i would strip jack of the captaincy and let him focus on becoming the best player he can be, and ask him to play on the oppositions best player each week and keep them accountable around stoppage, almost be a defensive specialist in the midfield rotation.

I have it on good authority wise that David Teague has changed his mind about the Blues job and will be joining us as a development coach.

I've heard a whisper that Goodwin favors Max Gawn so we better trade him to get some value.

really like Caldwell. would happily do 11, 13 and Caldwell for 3 even Bobby Hill looks a good player.

My issue with Viney is he actually upsets the midfield set up quite a bit, some mids make the guys around them better, Viney has the opposite effect. he attacks the ball hard but other than that and a burst of speed doesn't offer much. at least up forward he could chase and tackle and pressure. our midfield mix looks so much better when it's Brayshaw, Oliver and Harmes, and Petracca rotating through.

I'd go with assuming a few trades and stuff Neville Jetta Steven May Jake Lever Michael Hibberd Sam Frost Christian Salem Ed Langdon Clayton oliver Issac Smith Jake Melksham Tom McDonald James Harmes Bailey Fritsch Sam Weideman Jack Viney Max Gawn Christian Petracca Angus Brayshaw Nathan Jones, Lachie Ash, Karl Amon, Aaron Vandenberg

He's actually got a great record as an assistant coach and is incredibly highly rated which is why the moment he had more offers than he knew what to do with. some people just aren't meant to be senior coaches, but we're extremely lucky to have someone with his football brain and experience at the club, and i have more confidence knowing he's there.

Nope. if we tried it he'd be lining up for another team. he was never staying there.

I can't believe we're seriously arguing Jake Levers quality as a player. he was one of the best intercept defenders in his first two years, something not many players do, he's got all the attributes to be a future AFL captain and a champion of the club and he's coming off a serious injury. He and Steven May with a full pre season are going to play some great footy next year an make a lot of doubters eat their words in my opinion. FWIW i think he played well in the 2017 grand final and was one of the few players from the crows who could hold his head high, a very good effort considering the crows were treating him like rubbish and he was heading tot he exit.

One of the big concerns i have is now on field i feel like with no Lewis, Vince and Jones likely to spend time at casey this year, we've given ourselves a void of onfield leadership.

This, combined with us staring down the barrel of a fairly significant financial loss this year, as well as the high likelyhood of staff member turn over as a result of the review. I suspect we'll be asking for funding to help keep the facility plan in motion, as well as exemption from any financial penalty for breaching the soft cap on staff if we turn over a good number of them.

There was talk his old man might be in line for the CEO position at the dockers which is why people i think thought Gus might head over that way. though it now sounds like he will be taking up a position at NORF as the CEO there so i don't think the temptation to go to Perth would be huge.

No, i think we would get band 3 compensation, he'd be offered minimum 3 years on probably 600k because they need to fill their cap, he's captain of the club and our ladder position. we'd probably argue for band 2 and get pushed back to 3 which would be the pick immediately after our second rounder.

Anyone else think there would be a temptation to nudge Nathan Jones out the door and up to the Suns? we'd likely get pick 21 as compensation and he's likely got one year of average football left in him, he's been a champion of the club but part of me feels this is the type of decision a really good club would take the emotion out of.

I suspect what we are asking for is support to pay out and make changes in the football department based on what the review shows. i think this would include Simon Goodwin incase we don't move up next year and a change needs to be made

to explain what i heard was the Suns want more than just the Blues first pick, and he was the steak knives they had asked for.

I think Brayshaws form did start to trend upwards in the last 3-4 games with more centre bounce time. it's pretty clear that is his best position.

Thoughts on Zac Fisher? i think he's got a lot of the attributes we're looking for. i've heard the Blues are potentially open to including him in trade packages to land jack Martin. i wonder if we could get involved in that and get him to the club.

Kerr from the blues officially delisted, this is someone i would consider as a delisted free agent or a rookie, he's big and strong, has a good set of hands and has a real presence around the ground. considering he'd come for nothing i think we could do a lot worse than roll the dice on this kid for a year or 2