Summary* Free agency - it's going to be a funny one and become more frequent as the years progress as more players become available under free agency. Something that's come into the game and we have to live with. It's become more common as we go along.
* No doubt you'd like to get your best players like Lids such signed up early. We have 5-6 guys in that category. List manager does that job and we'll do our upmost to make Brett happy and get him re-signed.
* Dimma is an advocate for more player movement not less. He believes AFL lists are too rigid as there's no movement for 12 months. It also helps both club and player. We could have got John McCarthy who we were keen on if free agency was around last year.
* Anything that makes rebuilding of your list faster is a good thing. We all want to get better quicker. You don't want to be down at 17/18th for long. Not good for the comp. to have so too many teams out of contention early on. Helps coaches too to avoid being sacked.
* Dimma is very happy with the new coaches brought in - Ross Smith and Mark Williams. Adds more experience to the coaching staff.
* Healy and Russell didn't know Postie was still on our list
. Dimma said it's a make or break year for Postie. He's a slow developer in terms of his body development but he's finally lost the puffy fat, built up his body strength and explosive speed off the mark. We're expecting a big year from him. We need him to step as a key position player.
* Dimma was then asked if he had his back 6 settled in his mind. Believes we developed Grimes and Rance last year. We want to move Lids and Newy into the midfield. There's still positions that need rectifying but we believe we have the talent down there. We're trying Griffs and Postie in defence. There's young guys like Matt Dea and we've brought in Morris. We've got the players there but they are inexperienced and need gametime under their belts.
