Cousins. We need him in 09.

[Donners]

I completely agree we need him, or a player of similar skill - and the reality is that he will be by far the cheapest of any player of that level of ability.

[satchmopugdog]

4)Agreed. How about we get that no.29 from Geelong and retain our no.20 - then you'd get your wish of seeing "cousins" in our side !(insert emoticon for "groan" ).

Love it...talk about lateral thinking

[swantastic]

I'd say no to Cuz because he is too old.If the Swans have to fall out of the 8 for a few years then so be it,but if the sydney public falls off the wagon then IMO they are not worth having as supporters.Most likley it will happen and that is why the AFL is stupid for wanting another team in Sydney.

[Mike_B]

2)Roos has said as much , talking about the club owing a highest-possible finish to "our fans and our sponsors".
I'd like us to rebuild NOW - and indeed , we have started the process. But how fast we are allowed to do so may be up to the Board of Directors. Not of the club , but of QBE.

QBE stuck by the Swans through the 92-94 period, the 27 losses in a row. I wouldn't expect them to jump off following a season or two out of the finals...

[robamiee]

The only problem I can see with your idea of Scenario 2 is what do you do in 2/3 seasons time? For the problem we face is not only have we got a mass exodus in the near term (Ie this year and next year in all likelihood we will lose Leo Barry, Barry Hall, Brett Kirk,Matthews etc), but in 3 or 4 years we are also going to probably lose players like Goodes, Jolly, Craig Bolton, Jude Bolton and all those players that now are 27/28.

And sure solution 2 might give us 1 or 2 more tilts at the flag now possibly, it could leave us in an absolutely massively hole come 2011 and 2012 and we wont just languish towards the bottom of the ladder for 1 or 2 years, but 4 or 5 because we have had players hang on and take up space on the list that youngsters could have just so we can have one last faint shot at a flag.

And that is the time you desperately dont want to be in trouble- Id prefer to be struggling now when there isnt a West Sydney team in the comp then for the first several years of their actual existence in the comp.

i agree somewhat, however if you rebuild as i said u need to do it this year.
if you dont do it this year, then you just have to top up with the best available to keep you in the hunt for the next couple of years, and then when the next un comprimised draft comes along you start to re-build then.
But when you do go into rebuild mode it is a 2-3 yr phase followed by a 1-2 year of playing time for the yngsters, for which we haven't done that at all. and really you only have this year before waiting another 3 before the next draft that is all players available.
I think if we start to rebuild this year we will languish longer, as you miss out on the next 3 years of top 5-10 picks as they are going to new teams and then you have to get the next 2-3 years of getting good yng players. So with that in mind that is 6-8 years before we can really ahve a chance again. of doing a finals campaign
either way when the swans do re-build its up to us supporters to keep supporting them.

so i would say the club would say lets get the best exp players of the next 2-3 years keep aiming for a flag and then maybe look at rebuilding after the umcomprimised draft.

and as others have said, Cousins will be the cheapest elite player around, and someone said that Lockett and Hall were not criminals, since when has Cousins been convicted of anything.
The guy has a drug issue, has admitted it thats it.
Doing something about it.