Where from here?

[Legs Akimbo]

Good call Legs. I for one was worried in 2007 that we were going down the same path as other premiers of previous times. Essendon, Collingwood, Hawthorn and Carlton hung on to their premiership players for far too long and suffered the consequences and recruited top up players adnausium.

You would think a club that had been so progressive for a long time, would have seen this coming and turned over the list more and had greater scrutiny and accountabilty put upon their olds and bolds. The writing was on the wall after 2007 that it was too much to expect those players to take us to another premiership, yet they cut 2 players who were approaching their prime in favour of others.

Exactly. List turnover was too slow and they drafted too many marginal top ups. Like the best greek tragedies, the pathos of the script is if anything magnified by the predictible nature of plot.

Anyway, I am not wishing failure on the club. But there are lean times ahead. It's when supporters need to show their true colours.

[Bear]

First we have to keep getting games into the youngsters and also we need to clear all the dead wood at the end of the season Playfair, Crouch, Ablett, Leo etc.

The 'etc' are O'Loughlin, Bevan, Grundy and Moore.

Even though clearly in our best 18, surely we cannot persist with the moron that is Big Bad Boofhead.

I would persist with the Margarine for another year, but only as a leading forward. Needs to learn to kick straight from a set shot to become effective, but can lead and chase well. Far too soft to play anywhere else.

As up an down Lurch and Teddy are. There are no replacements.

I can't see Brabazon becoming a footballer, but will get a few games this year to see if he brings anything to the table.

[Claret]

If we're going to tank for a draft pick then lets at least do it properly and finish 11th (assuming Melbourne don't get their 4 wins).