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This sounds familiar. This would be good if it ever happens.

He looked to move better when he was at Fremantle.

Cerra is the only onballer and he doesn't offer what we need. His intensity, pace and tackle numbers aren't as good as the couple of games we got out of Lord. Has not performed.

We don't desperately need Houston. Our midfield is the biggest problem along with the lack of small/medium forwards. That needs to be front and centre when it comes to list management. If the speed, intensity, tackling pressure and outside game doesn't improve in our onball group we will...

Yes. Coach asks for what types he wants. List management determines who those individuals are. You can't have a person directing a team, game plan and controlling who is played and who isn't and for them to have no control over the makeup of the list. If Voss asks for a mature ruckman...

It's up to the coach to direct list management. That's my worry about our coaching. I think we have been oblivious to our midfield issues for the last 3 years. I feel our coach has been giving really poor direction towards our list management. It's pretty much the coaches job to build the...

Are we just drafting the wrong types of onballers? None of them tick the box we need. I think Lord does in a lot of ways, but we dropped him which was f***ing stupid and puts a lot of doubt over our coaching group in my opinion. Or maybe we aren't pushing hard enough to play quicker players...

SOS had his failures. I have known our midfield has problems for 3 seasons now. What has Austin done to fix that? If it's the coach thinking he has a team and midfield good enough to win a flag he is as bad as Ratten was. That was one of the things that brought him undone IMO. Is the...

Team desperate for onballer speed trades Dow then trades Carroll and makes 0 changes to the onball group. Brings in an old key defender and a half back flanker instead. Camporeale's in the draft. Can see it now. I get the feeling that what happens this trade/draft period will very heavily...

I wonder what the weakest areas of our development are? Do we give less opportunity to young players to play senior football? Leave them in the VFL despite decent form. Do we not give young players good opportunities when playing senior football? Play players in wrong positions. Not give...

It's been on display for three seasons, it's just that there are still a lot of other clubs which have not caught up to speed yet and we have enough top end talent in the side to carry us so it has not been so obvious. In many ways I am glad it was so obvious, it really does stamp the issue on...

Probably not an unusual amount of failures for any club. The issue is that all the faster midfielders we have drafted have failed. Boekhorst, Smedts, Fisher, Dow, SPS, Stocker, Lang, Garlett, Cuningham, Polson, Gibbons, O'Brien, Fogarty, Durdin, Ramsay, Honey, Philp, Carroll. All quicker...

Yep, add a gun halfback and fullback to our side and we still get smashed by Brisbane, Sydney, Hawthorn etc. It may help with some of our narrower losses. You can't get beaten around the middle of the ground and struggle to move the ball in the middle of the ground and struggle to apply...

Up there with Cripps having to hire a running coach and sending Lance to fat camp. If you find your players keep having to outsource to get properly fit, then your fitness staff aren't up to it. We have been lacking for a long time.

I would actually love to see him played in the middle. Jack Viney type. Short, agile. If his tackling and his attack on the footy came up to scratch then he adds heaps. A few years ago he would go into the middle and make things happen, real impact player. Then the coach stopped doing it...

Genuine half forward flank who can rest forward pocket and still impact. Think Jack Martin end of last season. Kemp is a tall forward pocket or mobile CHF with the two keys playing deep same as Silvagni.

Moir will kick more goals and set more up next year if given a go than Cottrell, Durdin, Fogarty and Fantasia. I hope we don't become too obsessed with meeting fitness goals and his youth and use that as an excuse to play "experienced players" and guys with "good running patterns". I'm super...

2022 when Durdin was playing well he played a little through the middle and played well then for some unknown reason Voss stopped doing it. He also used to play high half forward and did that well too but again, Voss stopped doing it. Motlop positions himself pretty well around the ground in...

He typically plays the plus 1 role, extra midfielder and is reasonable at it. I think he should be a part of our midfield rebuild and go on the ball although I am not convinced he is the player with the traits to really make a difference in there. Moir doesn't have much competition, should...

In my time playing footy, I have been a really good kick, something I can say though, no matter how good you can kick, you are only as good as your targets. Our "bad kicking" problem isn't all it's made out to be. A lot of our targets up field are covered. Mostly because many have really...

Fogarty Williams and Elijah aren't genuine forwards. Considering the names unmentioned, Cottrell is even worse. Motlop to me is more of a midfield who is too unfit to play there and has been typecast as a forward. The moment I first saw Motlop play I thought mid. E Hollands just doesn't...

Part of it, they still love relishing in their Big club status. It makes them money and the big crowds and big club mantra helps attract players. They just use it well. It's a gift, not a curse. It's kept us relevant and kept us above clubs like North who don't have that crutch to support...

Yep, reputation is massive in business and this sport is a big business. We have a lot of work to do fixing our rep. This is one, it's hard. The other is the coach sacking thing. Attracting players for success and not money and attracting top coaching prospects are a real problem at this...

Has not held Collingwood or Richmond back. We would be worse than North Melbourne if it was not for that.

Righto, explain how Sydney, Hawthorn and Collingwood are much the same then? Those factors are most definitely true but what I said carries as much weight if not more. Geelong have been the best team in the game for 35 years and this is their reward. Everyone expects their next grand final...

I really like the look of Ben Comporeale. Think he might be what we are after. Clean, moves well and tackles well. Chad Warner, really big fan of his, sort of player we could really do with. Gun.

There are many reasons to want to go to Geelong and those are just some of them. Location and lifestyle are part of it. Fact is that there have been 4 standout teams in the competition for the last 25 years. Geelong, Collingwood, Sydney and Hawthorn. Over that period they haven't missed...

Geelong's reward for being the best team in the game for the last 35 years. Players want to go there for good reason.

I think best 22 we probably were ok on paper and not too many holes. A fit Marchbank at CHB, the one we saw at the end of 2023 and Docherty on the ball and we probably aren't too far off it. Injuries hurt but that wasn't the main story. The game has changed, opposition teams are going past us...

And Sydney earlier. Get the ball out wide into space, make it a running game. Tackle like hell if the ball is held in close. We should have been figured out earlier really. Thing is, game has changed in the last few seasons. Rolling maul out. Running, direct, fast paced in. Collingwood...