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JohnnyDrama1

JohnnyDrama1

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Let me rephrase:
Individual achievements?
Who will break into the team?
Who will become an A grader?
Who needs to go?
Who should we recruit?
Coaching setup?
Fixture?
General discussion encouraged
 
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What to look forward to? Z Merrett, Heppell, Daniher, Carlisle
Who will improve? Z Merrett again
Who needs to go? Jetta, Steinberg
Who should we recruit? Mids with pace e.g. an 18 yo C Judd, a quick winger or two (B Hill style - G Rohan maybe?)
Coaching setup? As many of them as we can. Hird & Thompson, maybe piss Craig off cos he seems like a bit of a douche.
Fixture? We know there'll be back ups Coll, Carl & Rich. Other two maybe Port & StK. Whatever just don't waste one of our 4 MCG home games on Melbourne again. Give me Hawthorn or Geelong instead.
 
Individual achievements? Heppell for Brownlow
Who will break into the team? Kavangh, Browne, Ashby, Aylett
Who will become an A grader? Heppell (already is IMO)
Who needs to go? Jetta, DVU, Hardingham
Who should we recruit? Travis Varcoe
Coaching setup? Bomber as coach
Fixture? Not too bad a start to the season please.
 

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Individual achievements? Daniher and Carlisle to hopefully kick 40+ goals each, Heppell a top 3 brownlow finish
Who will break into the team? Dalgleish, our first draft pick, Gleeson
Who will become an A grader? Myers, Hurley (if he isn't already),
Who needs to go? Thurlow, Van Unen, Hardingham
Who should we recruit? A winger, a small fwd, another inside mid, a 3rd tall defender. (Rohan, Garlett, T Mitchell, Plowman or draft picks)
Coaching setup? KEEP BOMBER AT THE CLUB
Fixture? Freo in Melbourne for once, Hawthorn and Geelong at MCG
 
Let me rephrase:
Individual achievements? I don't really care for all-aus. M Hurley may manage to win the bnf though.
Who will break into the team? Kav (if he gets through the pre-season) and Fantasia. (I already consider Gleeson in our best 22).
Who will become an A grader? Carlisle the forward. Hurley the back.
Who needs to go? I'm not that dirty on anyone. Melksham needs to lift exponentially. His disposal is let down by his decision making a lot of the time. DVU is unlucky in a sense. We have a few players of his style. Hardingham has talent but drifts out of games too often. Dell'olio is stiff, but unless he can manage to influence the game more outside of scoring shots, he's probably done.
Who should we recruit? A quick inside mid. Another kpf. A ruckman or two. A mid who is equal parts forward.
Coaching setup? Hirdy senior coach. Bomber working in some capacity at the club in a mentoring role. Snag blake caracella?
Fixture? Will be ****ed. Afl aren't happy with us. That's one of the many ways they'll get us.
 
Individual achievements? Daniher to kick 40+ goals would be awesome.
Who will break into the team? Gleeson
Who will become an A grader? Myers, Colyer (confidence into next year will be peaking. If he can play like he did last night for four quarters, we're looking good. Hoping he trains a lot with Chappy)
Who needs to go? If he's playing under suffrance, Ryder. If we can find a hardnut who's more consistent, Howlett.
Who should we recruit? A seasoned key forward or key forward on their way would be awesome. The latter, thinking post-Fletch... or a key defender and leave Carlisle forward. A gun mid... maybe a young gun mid. I'd rather Ryder stayed but if he moves it presents opportunities as well.
Coaching setup?
Fixture?
 
carnthedons said:
What to look forward to? Z Merrett, Heppell, Daniher, Carlisle
Who will improve? Z Merrett again
Who needs to go? Jetta, Steinberg
Who should we recruit? Mids with pace e.g. an 18 yo C Judd, a quick winger or two (B Hill style - G Rohan maybe?)
Coaching setup? As many of them as we can. Hird & Thompson, maybe piss Craig off cos he seems like a bit of a douche.
Fixture? We know there'll be back ups Coll, Carl & Rich. Other two maybe Port & StK. Whatever just don't waste one of our 4 MCG home games on Melbourne again. Give me Hawthorn or Geelong instead.
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What do you base that on?
 
ghostdog said:
Individual achievements? Daniher to kick 40+ goals would be awesome.
Who will break into the team? Gleeson
Who will become an A grader? Myers, Colyer (confidence into next year will be peaking. If he can play like he did last night for four quarters, we're looking good. Hoping he trains a lot with Chappy)
Who needs to go? If he's playing under suffrance, Ryder. If we can find a hardnut who's more consistent, Howlett.
Who should we recruit? A seasoned key forward or key forward on their way would be awesome. The latter, thinking post-Fletch... or a key defender and leave Carlisle forward. A gun mid... maybe a young gun mid. I'd rather Ryder stayed but if he moves it presents opportunities as well.
Coaching setup?
Fixture?
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Agree. Think Daniher and Carlisle are a great combination for the future. But a mid sized lead up forward (Gunston type) would be perfect.
 
ghostdog said:
Butcher?
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Possibly. His really nothing special at all. Has done absolutely **** all since his first year. Tomlinson and Jaksch from GWS were both really high touted youngsters but would take a few years to develop. Goldsack would be almost perfect (and is unrestricted free agent) but would be hard to convince as were Collingwood's rival and there were rumours going around he had accepted an offer at Port worth up to 400k a year
 
Reason I say Butcher is only because he was highly touted to begin with and doesn't seem to be getting the opportunities. Might be cheap and have a point to prove. Ambrose then provides decent depth, or vice versa. Wouldn't mind Goldsack as a big game player. I thought GWS were keen to keep Tomlinson?
 

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ghostdog said:
Reason I say Butcher is only because he was highly touted to begin with and doesn't seem to be getting the opportunities. Might be cheap and have a point to prove. Ambrose then provides decent depth, or vice versa. Wouldn't mind Goldsack as a big game player. I thought GWS were keen to keep Tomlinson?
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Yeah not too sure. You make a point on Butcher, it really depends how the club view Ambrose. Would love to get Goldsack
 
Drafted with pick #8 in 2009. Only played 23 games over the last 4 years... not sure why. Can't break into the 22? Starved of opportunities at the very least. Could be a very cheap gem.
 
Bunk Moreland said:
- Bomber and Hird coaching
- ASADA bullshit must end by round 1. Two years is enough to sort this out
- Heppell to be our no.1 mid
- Daniher a consistent, quality season
- Carlisle to take the next step
- make or break years for Melksham, Hardingham,
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We made finals this year without much from either of these two. I'd be inclined to trade both.
 

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Individual achievements? Heppell, Watson, Hooker, Hibberd possible AA's with other guys like Zaharakis, Hurley, Ryder, Baguley, Carlisle a lower chance.

Who will break into the team? I reckon Fantasia is a good chance he seems to be well liked by the coaches and small forward is a position we lack in. Jackson Merrett/Melksham/Kommer could re-break into the team.

Who will become an A grader? Zaharakis + maybe Hurley/Carlisle.

Who needs to go? Hardingham, Dellolio, Jetta - probably just taking up a list space without any real prospects of playing many matches.

Who should we recruit? A journey ruckman or preferably a forward/ruck. Our best talls are good but we lack depth so more in this area would be good.

Coaching setup? Don't know what I want but I'd love to have Hird coaching with Bomber still at Essendon in some capacity.

Fixture? Our fixture is pretty static because of our double matches vs Collingwood, Carlton and often Richmond. Would be nice to play North Melbourne twice for a change. Also would be nice to play a home game against Melbourne at bloody Etihad!
 
In an ideal world....
Our 2015 lineup would look something like....
FB: Baguley Hooker X
HB: Hibberd Hurley Ashby
C: Zaharakis Watson X
HF: Chapman Daniher Colyer
FF: X Carlisle Merrett
Followers: Ryder, Goddard, Heppell
Interchange: Myers, Gleeson, Hocking, Stanton
with Bellchambers, Ambrose, Fletcher all easily slotting into that team as well.
X = Players need to recruit (Third tall defender, Wingman, Third tall forward[small forward and extra mid aren't as crucial at this stage IMO])
 
I hope Jackson Merret has a break out season next year.
 
Eliminate the ASADA issue, superglue Hird to the coaches chair, get the list fit, bring in a couple more good kids and go again
 

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