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Ratts is at Hawthorn this season, he'd be just continuing on. Ah that sucks about Simmo. Seems everytime we ask something like this happens. Clarkson was the same, we were up for a coach and he was taking a year off.

Dow was good last season and dropping him for finals was a mistake as he offered a point of difference. A fit Dow would have been good this season for us as well. But he had no trade value. That was our fault for not playing him when we really should have been. Hewett has no trade value...

It's true, our outside game isn't great and we have been caught with the game becoming more outside. We haven't got the players to play the way we want and need to play at the level we want to be at. Blame recruiting and the direction the coaching group has been giving list management...

Geelong are always willing to give older talented players a go. Sometimes they work out and sometimes they don't. Higgins and Dahlhaus were on their list and failed in their last premiership season. Didn't stop them winning it. They won't be too worried if Martin fails or not.

They are one of the best in the game. We haven't touched the onball group. Our onball group, we never run the ball from stoppage, not since we got rid of Dow. We never run opposition players down, well Walsh does but the rest can't and don't. The best teams in the game close on you or the...

Yep, what comes in needs to benefit us compared to what goes out. That is also another reason to trade them. They have value and we should be able to lose them and still improve next season. We need players, we have an excess of certain types. We lack trade/draft currency. I'm hoping we...

Our plan should be that we have moved on from Kennedy and Hewett by 2026. I'm hoping that Lord becomes one of the types we need, his two games were very impressive to me. I'm also hoping the same for Ben Camporeale. In the meantime we also need to recruit a mature onball player of the right...

Kennedy trade makes a lot of sense to me. We have a glut of slow onballers. He would have more trade value than Hewett. We need draft and trade capital. And as I have said for three seasons now, our midfield needs a mini rebuild.

I'm glad you see it as well. Been mentioning our flat footedness for years. Stand and wrestle is a horrible tactic. Been wanting a new midfield coach for a long time.

It's also about where his trust is in his assistant. I look at them and their history doesn't excite me. They mostly seem to be from failed clubs. Clarkson when he was coaching Hawthorn and winning flags, it was well known he was the manager and enforcer but he left a lot up to his...

I'm fairly happy to be drafting Ben Camporeale. He moves fairly well, is a nice size, wins plenty of the ball but he also tackles really well and quite prolifically. Has an outside game as well which are all traits needed in our side. He could just be the modern day inside midfielder we are...

Voss is a very much no BS coach, driving effort and high standards. Which makes him the right coach. As a pure coach, he's not great. The ideas coming out of our coaching group are rubbish. Some of the moves and team selection over the last few seasons are rubbish. Kennedy and Cerra playing...

Priority and traits 1. Fast mids. Nothing changes until we fix our midfield. We have recruited too much on possession numbers. That's good, we need to pick on that but also closing speed and tackling. Do they carry the ball? Do they get involved in running chains? Do they tackle well and...

I'm all for it, midfield needs a rebuild and has for 3 years now. Part of that rebuild would see Hewett and Kennedy pushed out as either trades or reserve midfielders. I would suggest one stays on as a fringe or reserve mid. Trading Hewett and Kennedy is probably unrealistic as maybe one...

Onball group and small forwards are the biggest needs. Fix that and we beat Brisbane and a whole heap of the other sides who beat us at the back half of this season. Add Houston to halfback and a key position defender and Brisbane still torch us and we still limp into finals. Maybe we...

This really worked out well in the back end of this season. Young was good. Not sure we can go through a season and be happy with Young, but I am saying don't write him off. Young was better than Weitering in the final we got hammered in.

Cheers. Just to elaborate more on this for everyone so they understand these list management tactics. Bottom teams like where we were, like where North have been and still are, like where Richmond are and are going. Those clubs need to find players and they can grossly over pay. They need...

He would have been heavily front loaded wouldn't he? Our list was poor at the time, we had to find avenues to spend on to reach our minimum player payments. I am assuming his contract was likely part of it. An AFL club with a weak list is a bit like a business with a tax problem. You have...

Moir is a genuine half forward flanker who can rest forward and have an impact there. Jack Martin like. He's a ground level and aerial player. Silvagni will IMO be the ultimate utility. No set position. Part time forward, part time defender, part time ruck. He will play a lot of games in...

I've been wanting this. Get his shoulder right and try and turn him into a Jack Viney type. Quick agile hard nut who applies good pressure, tackline and some evasiveness. Smaller mids are in and have been for a long time now. Go through the premiers of the last 10 years and they are there...

It's amazing how often the really good small forwards are taken late in the draft. I think it's common for players who are genuine forwards to not be rated or picked up by recruiters. I think a lot of prominent people in the industry, and our coach and recruiters could be some of them...

List wise we are in a similar spot to Geelong the few years leading up to 2022. They lacked burst in the middle and genuine forwards. Were able to bring in Dangerfield, Smith, Rohan and Stengle as well as a few through the draft. They also brought in Higgins and Dahlhaus who didn't make their...

Bring in a group of good small forwards and hire Eddie Betts as a specialist coach. He seemed to get things going well at Geelong. He'd even be good for our tall guys as well.

The plan around losing Owies will be that Kemp or possibly Silvagni go forward and replace him in the third marking forward role and that we also bring in some genuine small forwards as well. This way we don't really lose we just gain.

Always thought he was a bit of a Kade Simpson type. If he can be as good and play as hard as Simpson we will be happy.

Curnow, McKay and Moir are the only forwards on our list I rate. The rest aren't much chop, good VFL level footballers. Kemp if he is played there looks like he has some talent and we know Silvagni does as well. They fit into the list as genuine forwards but I am unsure where their level will...

Chances Lewis Young can add some size and strength to his frame and hold down CHB next season while Weitering has more freedom? I don't think it's out of the equation. This worked for us in the remaining few games including the final against The Lions. It's a different role to what we have...

Great stuff, exactly what I want to hear. Chasing appropriate players and making really solid decisions. If we can land some of these names and they perform as we hope they will then that will make an impact for us.

We need to trade aggressively but not for the sake of it. We need something really impactful coming back our way. There are a lot of players I'd offer but the return has to be what we need at the quality we want.

I'm not sure about that. He had some good games.