They also had a the conviction and bravery to "sell from the top". Ie. Cash out Bolton, Baker, etc once it was clear they wanted to rebuild.
The Blues NEVER sacrifice a big name. We still think, 1980s style, that somehow we can hoard the "best" players and attract the other "best" players from...
So if he's cooked... he should make moves, try stuff on the way out.
If he's actually coaching "OK" and the club think he can be salvaged - or at the very least that the PLAYERS are the core problem - why isn't he tearing the players apart, dropping people for intent/effort, throwing the...
Given Voss is clearly a dead man walking, I don't understand why we wouldn't see some interesting moves and changes (and haven't already).
Play Cripps at full forward and tell Hewett, Walsh and Smith to figure it out in the middle.
Drop McKay - actually make a statement.
Rotate Cowan through...
Tricky week for trades I reckon.
Retschko is the obvious rookie on the bubble, but outside that there's not many really obvious calls.
The big rucks are all insanely expensive. Jackson looks pretty damn great, though.
A few ~$600k players gonna be bargains soon - Callaghan, Richards...
Never a bad time to get Trac. With Sheezel is the clear-cut best forward. Be too cute and he'll drop 140 on ya.
Big step back from there to Pickett and Miller, probably.
Then it's a crapshoot. Some combo of Flanders, McInerney, Bailey, Hornet, Rachele and possibly some KPFs (Treacy, etc)...
Yeh it's tough to figure who to hold, who to fold.
Blamires scoring pretty consistently, low BE, has DPP -> keep
Jagga's BE is creeping up, but anyone with eyes can see the scoring power there, and he's just as likely to string together a few 90+ - especially if the Blues stop utterly sucking...
Just dead potato rookie Watkins to new, exciting, can’t-fail rookie Angry Anderson.
Decided to give all of Jerong, Jaques, Sellwood, Grlj, etc another week to grow or reveal themselves as the one to go.
3/3 last night beat their BEs nicely.
I don’t have the Bont, I can’t afford the Bont, yet I still love watching him fricken dominate on one leg. Anyone arguing he’s not the best in the league needs to take a long, hard look at themselves.
Yes, our list is also woefully unskilled for 2026 football.
We missed all the signs, misread the trends, under-valued certain attributes and wound up an unholy mess.
So, you know, GW has some work to do.
Coach: dinosaur.
List: poor.
Mentality: broken.
Processes: diabolical.
Brains need to be in the box. It's a total bonus if there's some on the field.
Quick, effective decision-making on-field is primarily structure, roles, drills, repetition which leads to instinctual, reflex actions. Ie. Coaching.
FWIW, I'm not laying the blame for the Hollands debacle at Wright's feet. But I am expecting him to be asking the hard questions and driving to address the failings that allowed the situation to occur. As a pro, I expect him to straight-bat to the media and not offer tons, but he'll know this is...