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I miss those pies....

Given the outs we had, the dead man walking coach, and dead rubber status of the game for us, I mentioned (half in jest) to the missus before the game that we'd be lucky to kick more than 6 goals. I then spent most of the second half actually laughing at how bad we were. In over 40 years as...

Tough to accurately judge SOS's strike rate given the horrid coaching and development the blokes he recruited have had. Yet another symptom of the utter dysfunction that our footy dept has been in for quite some time.

Exactly the type of thing we should be avoiding doing moving forward... A great servant of the club, and a cracking bloke, but I'm from the Sir Alex Ferguson school of removing sentimentality from these decisions.

No issue with any of those going due to age/injury/ability with the possible exception of Newman. I think there's a player there but his issues seem to be between the ears. A decent coaching group might get the best out of him. Wouldn't be surprised if his papers are stamped though as we have...

Plenty of blokes ahead of them in Teague's pecking order haven't deserved their spots. A good coach would have standards that are applied universally.

The say the coaching group and match committee have mismanaged the careers of the likes of LOB, Dow and Kennedy would be understating it. Our player development is the worst in the league by quite a margin and luckily for these blokes Teague's favourites went down with injury and when given a...

Playing country league footy as a kid while I was playing Under 16s in the morning, I used to back up and play reserve grade for the big blokes when they were short on numbers. If they were really short on numbers, they'd ask a recently "retired" club favourite to pull the jumper back on (which...

They'd be mad no to. Someone has to sort out that rabble. Plenty of decent coaches out there would be willing to sort out ours....

No issue with this. He'd be the only bloke in the place with any clue of what success looks like so if he didn't rate one or more of his troops, so be it.

Sh*t just got interesting....

Don't really see the point of 300 as a major milestone if your last 50 aren't adding anything to the side. In his day the kid was a beauty, but that day was a decade ago. I suspect my lasting memory of him will be of him being carried to an arbitrary game number which is largely symbollic of...

3 or those 4 will be an immediate upgrade based on that they've shown they can actually do the top job and maximise the talent at their disposal. Leppa would be another appointment based on potential and I hope we take a different approach this time around.

X1000. All we can hope is that the decision makers at the club arrive at the same view some of us have had for some time. We need footy dept leadership and coaching that has proven capability. We've been banking on potential and it hasn't delivered. Lloyd and Teague both need to go and be...

Forward structure and personnel issues aside, the story of the day is we gave up 18 goals to the bottom side. We are as conditional of a side as there is. Zero leadership and/or accountability. Papers must be stamped on the coach and a number of players.

Teague's glaring deficiencies aside, where are our on-field leaders?

Spot on, Soap. My brain spends most time during games thinking about what we could be with a good coaching crew. I can't recall a single game under DT where I think we've overachieved (maybe Geelong last year) but plenty where we"ve either underachieved or made par. A Clarko, Pyke or Lyon...

Any win against the old enemy should be celebrated.... After underperforming for 2.5 quarters we managed to pull together some semblance of a forward structure and ran over the top. Talent got us there despite it looking grim in patches. You could say the same for every win this year. Walshy...

Like the last two matches, we didn't learn much more about where we are at. Poor skill execution let us down, but we controlled the game in patches but were ultimately killed by turnovers but a more polished outfit. The late outs were tough, but we are entirely predictable at this point...

Couple of scrappy wins against middle of the road sides but don't think we've learnt a whole lot more about DT so opinions won't sway much based on those games. We've looked great in patches and bog ordinary in others, but done enough to get over the line. Next week is a different challenge...

The last two weeks were good, gritty wins but next week will tells us far more about where we are at. We've shown all season we can knock off poor and middle-of-the-pack sides, but can we beat a good side? Teague & co made some long overdue personnel and role tweaks in the last couple of...

Bloke can play and is now showing his talent and spirit when given opportunity, like a couple of others. Bam Bam may lack pace but offers so many other attributes. Arguably the most criminally overlooked player on our list. Hope he goes on with it now and forces our hand before someone else...

Gritty result. Walsh keeps willing himsef to the right spots and dragging the team with him. Stocker has quickly become a favourite of mine and Paddy Dow is finally showing the rewards of opportunity. I've sung the praises of JSOS before for all the things we saw again tonight in a match...

Totally agree. You’d think the footy boss, CEO or director of Footy would overrule. There is no experienced hand with any level of success aside from Russell, in that footy dept. The previous regime ensured Neil Craig was on hand to guide Bolts and looked what happened as soon as he left...

Spot on. Exactly the reasons why I want him. My expectations are fairly tempered in terms of the ultimate success, but I think 3-4 years under Lyon and a bit of luck with a fit list would at a minimum allow us to compete at the top end.

I appreciate there is a percentage of Baggers who want to see Teague retained, but I don't see whatever they are seeing over the last couple of years in the job that demonstrate he's up to it. He seems like a wonderful assistant to put an arm around a player when needed but I haven't seen any...

Bang on. I don't think we know what we have in terms of cattle right now, and won't until there's someone in the coaches chair who actually knows what they're doing and can instill a viable game plan that players undersand and can follow. Both internally and externally, evaluating this playing...

AR could be the best strength and conditioning coach there is out there (and may well be), but if he's not part of a cohesive coaching and development unit any benefits could be largely wasted. I suspect this is true for both AR and the entire Footy Department based on the mixed messages and...

Again, a good scrappy win today but DT's first answer at the presser is confounding: "You can't expect to play like all the time" in response to our second quarter. Umm, actually you can if you set that as the standard. They may not always hit the mark, but you at least have a high standard...

A solid win after a (rightfully) tough week for the playing group and coaches. Second quarter had some inspired and dynamic footy but it’s almost as if they were coached into a near loss. Sometimes less is more when things are clicking. I understand the Curnow move onto Laird after half time...