Terry Wallace's exit could come soon after Tigers take on Fremantle (Australian)

[Stripes]

play the kids, see who steps up and who falls, give the young team time to unify and if we win a few games it is a bonus but either way it we will be playing for the future

Wins are meanless if they take us nowhere

Stripes

What happens if we play the kids and start winning games? And go past the magical 4 wins?

What do we do then?

Drop the kids so we don't win?

If we win with the kids then we have found our future team and structure but if we lose with them then we get the draft picks. To play all of our kids - Vickery, Post, Putt, Browne, Gilligan, Gourdis and even Silvester, Hislop and Thomson can not be realistically done all at once so you will need to rotate them through the season in place of the 26+ year olds. This sort of rotation will help us find our future players but probably won't help in terms of team stability.

I want to win just like you do WP but not at the expense of the future

Stripes

[bojangles17]

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bojangles, are you saying you would rather win games this season on the back of our senior players, still miss the finals and then screw ourselves in the last uncompromised draft

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play the kids, see who steps up and who falls, give the young team time to unify and if we win a few games it is a bonus but either way it we will be playing for the future

Wins are meanless if they take us nowhere

Stripes
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I dont advocate playing anyone that is not even remotely ready, vickery and Putt come to mind...Brown and Bowden dont deserve to be token dropped for ?????????..simmonds certainly does and we can ignore the likes of sarge for a return..a caretaker can still achieve plenty and for the first time in 2009 perhaps look as though we are back on the rails...supporters and members are absolutley dropping off in their droves...if the club wishes to avert losing losing 15,000 members then act quickly

[mightytiges]

play the kids, see who steps up and who falls, give the young team time to unify and if we win a few games it is a bonus but either way it we will be playing for the future

Wins are meanless if they take us nowhere

Stripes

What happens if we play the kids and start winning games? And go past the magical 4 wins?

What do we do then?

Drop the kids so we don't win?

Drag your 4 best players to the bench with 15 mins to go  . That's what the Blues did against the Pies late in 2007 - Ratten took off Fev, Murphy, Gibbs and Stevens in the last quarter and they got overrun .

[mightytiges]

Guaranteed. 

And that's why Terry should see out his 5 years. Just three more months is hardly going to kill us. Also why waste money paying for a caretaker that would be better spent towards more recruiting and development resources/personnel.

rubbish MT, what worse way to complete a year of recrd membership that treat the lot with such contempt that we do nothing to alter the plight we find ourselves in...even if we were to muster 5 or so wins it would be a step forward from the horrible abyss we are in right now...

We're 1-8 bj. The season is already gone so we've already shown such comtempt for 2009 from round 1 onwards. A few meaningless wins from here on won't do anything as far as members and supporters as come round 22 they will still see the season as a complete and utter failure. The only thing a few meaning wins will do is stuff up another draft by finishing just outside the top 8.

If we are going to make long-term decisions based on trying to appease supporters in the short-term then we will continue to head nowhere and be just repeating the same mistakes of the past.

[TigerTime]

play the kids, see who steps up and who falls, give the young team time to unify and if we win a few games it is a bonus but either way it we will be playing for the future

Wins are meanless if they take us nowhere

Stripes

What happens if we play the kids and start winning games? And go past the magical 4 wins?

What do we do then?

Drop the kids so we don't win?

forgive me if im wrong as im not an expert on this, but iirc i thought th epriority pick was now based over 2 seasons thus lasy season wins will combine with this seasons.  im not sure maybe im wrong wont be the 1st time lol

[Infamy]

Yep wrong again
1 year with 4 wins or less gets you a priority pick after the 1st round
2 years with 4 wins or less gets you a priority pick before the 1st round