Hoping that he gets into peak condition, plays on the wing and the game plan utilises his weapons effectively. That definitely wasn't happening with Ratts

I wonder if this is a product of Lyon's four hour meeting.

Lienert is a bit unlucky but realistically he was a one year cover for Coffield. Could certainly do a reasonable job for another side, but that's two years in a row that he's been delisted now.

MIxed feelings for me. On one hand, it seems like we've been in cruise control doing 95km when the speed limit is 100 for the past 10 years. RL will get us going over the speed limit so we'll pass some others but we could crash and burn as well. I also don't like the guy. I hate the way he left and ...

Glad that he's going to be around next year but unless Ross has seriously changed his ways I'm not sure Bytel will get much of a chance.

Banger9798 wrote: ↑Wed 12 Oct 2022 10:22pm So our improvement will come from having injured players come back?

That's their plan?

Brilliant strategy. If we have every player on the list fit and firing for the entire season I bet we're playing finals. Should've thought of that before.

They're both interesting cases. Dow looked like a gun explosive mid as a junior but hasn't been able to put it together at Carlton. He's still only 22 though and I'd be fine with getting him for free. Stocker also has some good qualities but seemingly has physical limitations. Also only 22 years old...

The Weed seems like a pretty ordinary player. Has never kicked 20 goals in a season and couldn't establish himself as a starting forward in a side with a dominant midfield. Not sure he offers much more than Sharman or Hayes. He would certainly offer more than Sharman, no doubt about that. Way more ...

Excellent result. 2nd round pick for a depth utility who wasn't best 22.

Good luck Ben, and here's hoping Libba can do something good with pick 32.

Would comfortably be in our best 22. Dumb move to trade him out for no reason. I wouldn't have been against bringing him back but he's also far from being a saviour.

The Weed seems like a pretty ordinary player. Has never kicked 20 goals in a season and couldn't establish himself as a starting forward in a side with a dominant midfield. Not sure he offers much more than Sharman or Hayes.

I'm guessing we'll ask for 25, GC will offer pick 35. We'll accept pick 32

Seems like he's had some big games on the occasion that he gets a decent amount of TOG. I'd take him on the list ahead of Byrnes who is another undersized mid with an ordinary defensive game. Don't think we should have both on the list though and apparently Ronnie got a new contract recently.

We have a lot of players who should improve but I don't think it will be enough to significantly improve our standings in the competition. I think we're stuck in between rebuilding and contending. If we had have landed some big additions to the squad like De Goey and Amon via FA without giving up tr...

Campbell showed in the final game that he can play second ruck, but cannot rest forward. In other words he needs to rest on the bench, making him a liability at AFL level. Cross! I wouldn't say that game shows that he can't rest forward. He's kicked 4 goals in an AFL game before, which Marshall has...

Played ‘OK’ in the first two finals did he? For a supposed A grader, with his contract on the line, with much to prove, and everything to play for, he was servicable. Then went totally AWOL against the Swans. From his combined first two finals: 50 disposals (25 contested, 36 effective) 3 goals 13 t...

Meek would be a solid backup bt he like Campbell cant play forward. I think Campbell can be fairly handy resting forward. Has kicked 4 goals in an AFL game before. Not a permanent starting forward but if we wanted to get some ruck support for Roma against a strong opposition combo then he could pla...

Seems like a player with great footy instincts but as dumb as a rock

Pick 25 would be an incredible result. More realistic might be we give them a third rounder and Long for 25

Surely the witnessing of the absolute sh1it show at Essendon gives even the dumbest of human beings a clue that Clarko was never available to us. Imagine if we had of beat them to the punch and sacked Ratts and then called Clarko up to ask him if he was interested. Just think people, typing your th...

I see what you did there According to your criteria, you’d have got rid of most of our promising youngsters and also you’d have tossed Jack Sinclair out the door too. He only polled a 2 vote once all year for 2020. Each week in the fan forum award only the top 5 players are recognised. If you compa...

Long lost confidence under Richo and regained it when Ratts showed faith in his ability. Ben’s strengths helped the Saints earn a finals spot in 2020. Go and checkout the Eastern Memorial Saintsational voting each round in 2020. Ben earned best on ground several times from various posters. He had a...

Ben was never give an chance at the saints to cement a spot ..like hind and acres ..walk away ..we know what he can bring but the powers that be don't see it. Good luck to him..he is better off without us. Clark is better off without us . Hill as well . We are a shambles and at the Cross roads ...w...

It is a bit concerning that we weren't good enough to make finals and it seems like there won't be any significant change coming in 2023. I would've been all in on getting Clarko but they shot themselves in the foot by prematurely re-signing Ratten. On the plus side, we've only lost Ryder from our b...

If WM is fringe next season we are in a much worse predicament than I thought. I would expect that pick 9 will be in the team as well as at least one FA. I was picking purely on performance rather than planning for development. The genuine best 22. You'd certainly hope that he'll overtake McKenzie ...

From our current list B: Paton, Howard, Wilkie HB: Coffield, Battle, Sinclair C: Hill, Steele, Wood HF: Higgins, Hayes, Owens F: Gresham, King, Membrey Foll: Marshall, Crouch, Windhager Int: Clark, Jones, McKenzie, Ross Fringe: Wangmil, Sharman, Butler, Campbell, Webster, Long What’s happened to Bi...