I think the end of the year is the time to see what needs to be done.
We must give the whole coaching group more than 6 weeks to right the ship again.
If we can't beat Melbourne or GWS, we have a stretch of difficult games after that and we will be 2 and 10. The club may take its own action by then but I really think they will say the year is shot and anything we do now will further destabilise the club. No cheap wins at the end of the year please. We need the best draft choices possible.
We need a guy like claw as head of recruiting. Hopefully that guy who joined us from Geelong will deliver. Mind you FJ has not been helped by the selection panel not giving games to guys like Elton, MacKintosh, Helbig, MacDonough and also by not elevating Miles as this would have fast tracked development. We also do not play these guys in the positions that they played in as kids. That may work for some but clearly not for others. MacDonough is reportedly a great kick for goal. Hard to kick one from the backline. One thing for sure is that he is not a backman. Lennon needs to be fast tracked too. He is a prodigious talent. The guy who was selected after him in the draft that went to Carlton was half the junior that Ben was but already has played a few senior games and has improved as result.
We need to recruit speed, speed, speed and more speed in the coming draft. Imagine if we had two speed demon half forwards that spelt danger every time the ball went into a forward fifty. It would transform our side overnight. It would encourage the guys upfield to pump the ball into our forward fifty quickly as these guys would create havoc when the ball hit the ground. There is no encouragement to do so at the moment and that is part of the problem with our slow play. It is slow because there is no speed so we painfully try to set things up.
I, like most others, am exasperated.........................................
