Rix works well in packs with bodywork, something a few people on this forum don't know much about the value of, he brings the ball to the ground and also contests and works hard..something coaches value highly, its a pity some of our onballers don't get in there and get the ball at ground level a bi...

I hope the possible new board don't start wheeling out 5-year plan claptrap. It's odd to think RB who is a successfull squillionaire businessman, won't be able to pull out a few sponsors, I'm sure he would have no problems. As for having sponsors who won't come on board while RB is there..sounds lik...

Maybe ask him next time to detail where he's going to finance what he and the challenging board has promised, as well as making sure we don't go back into major debt. I'm sure every president and board has promised to do everything they can for the club over the last few decades, and these include s...

Don't forget, this is AFL and anything can happen suddenly -out of left field and contrary to what people may be thinking or have even said on any particular day....you never know...

Poor old CJones, get real guys..go and break a collar bone, let it heal a bit and see how confident you are a couple of months later smashing into packs as a small player..Jones will do well for us in 2008. Showed promising form pre-injury, tackled better than some of our much vaunted middle size pl...

Yeah you can pick up a house for $200K in Melbourne, but it'll cost you another $200k in petrol to commute to the city.

Well we have a need for a class game-breaking onballer, one of the players we need to go the next step. Whatever it takes.

Regardless of who got in the pointless team of the year..would you as a coach not want Reiwoldt in your team..nah he's not much chop. I suppose on the open market, some of those Cat players are worth more -don't think so. Don't worry about it guys, we'll come back stronger next season, as long as th...

And under Westaway in 2008 if we finish 9th or worse, what's it going to be..Sack The Coach..Sack the CEO..Sack the players. Really this is no magic wand and it still stinks of ego strutting to me.

He will be an important player for us over the next few years..just needs a good pre-season and confidence after his bad shoulder injury which according to some on this forum, you should be able to immediately recover from and get back to top form. Looking forward to 2008.

If we can get a midfielder or onballer who can get first hands on ball centre bounces and around packs, and has top skills then I would be after that player. Fitness can be sorted as in preseason. I'm sure many Freo players would love to leave Freo. who are an undisciplined rabble.

Accountability is the word used around this challenge to the board, but in the end, the results on the field will speak over all else. The current board have done a great job financially which is what the AFL wants and really for on-field success, we need stability, and although Butters rubs people ...

I reckon Goose should be tried at FF -he's got the right size and can take a good grab. He played some good games in defence but as others here have said, don't go on 2004/5 form, its all in the past -the future starts in the upcoming pre-season.

I've written off Ball, XClarke and Hammill due to being injury-prone players who's bodies can't sustain the physical standard to play at the level required over a full season, so I need to see another midfielder, and a couple of half forwards coming into the team.

OK, using some of the logic here -next year we win the flag because Harvs and co will still be there and these corporate cronies have managed to run or be involved in a few large companies UNLIKE any board members and Presidents we've had in the past, this will guarantee the flag..so if it doens't h...

Dunno about all this, but in my personal and business life, I don't do the next thing until I clear my debts and that doesn't happen overnight. As Butters and his crowd finally got the debt sorted this year, I expect it would take a few years to start building the next phase. I don't want to see the...

Now we have a coach who seems to put greater emphasis on development, Goose may take the next step in 2008.

Just remember that this club has gone through a lot of boards over the years, all promising one thing or another, and generally saying they won't put put up with poor performances etc etc etc. It is convenient for a lot of business and legal types to get onto boards, but pretty rarely do they all ge...

Quite frankly, the FF group have a group of well-known ex players, lawyers, businessmen, but absolutley no credibilty as a potential functioning board and I suspect if they did get in, then cracks would appear quite quickly, as yet again, much of this is ego driven and about personalities. Getting b...

Re the current challenge and their initiatives..I just feel I've heard it all before and I don't think they are any different to any other bloody football club board. After all, once we got players back from injury and starting to get back to form, we were the third best performing team in the secon...

It's good to know that winning a flag is as easy as having a board with a vision..looking forward to our flag in 2008!!

Sorry debt is debt..don't listen to good or bad debt waffle which the financial planning/ banking/ investment sector have wheeled out especially in recent times..supposed good debt exists purely to service greed and sustain the financial sector whilst bad debt is ...debt.

Lets say the new challengers got elected and RB and board were ousted..and the following scenario is we finish 9th again in 2008 or worse and similar the following year. Now who do we blame -clearly not the new Pres and board who have a vision for the future and elite training facilities and don't d...

It makes business sense to lease out elite training facilities rather that go out and build something, so the challengers may need to put a better case forward for that point.

Yeah sure. tsk tsk