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I also notice that we played with a bit more freedom, and had more pace around the ball, which allowed us to have more time and not have to graft as much.  I kind of feel like it's not necessarily all about Walsh's back, but about how taxing our game is because every single contest is a graft, and we just don't have the energy to go when we need to.

Seeing the likes of Cuningham and Honey reminds me that we never looked to replace the speed of players like this, even though Honey was a bust ultimately. 

Although I don't think trading out Kennedy and Owies was a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, what we did do was lose two player who invariably made good decisions and found players in space.

Every move we have made seems to have hurt us more.  We tweaked the game plan to become more defensive, but the end result is we have no attacking ability, and it doesn't take much for the defence to fall apart.

Can Wright get the coaches to make enough changes to allow the likes of Walsh to play with freedom again, and convince him to stay?