First of the so called wannabe's that has openly said he would like the job. Have not heard any of the others say that with conviction. Appoint him now!

Seems to play well when he takes the game on. Good at crucial times tonight.

His efforts to impact contests has gone up.

For what its worth Lonie may as well not have showed up.

I feel like I'm watching a Richo coached side from a few weeks back. More points than goals at half time. Dejavu. More inside can't capitalise.

Is Jack Lonie going to tackle tonight, looks shyte tonight.

Great player but in fairness 4 B & F's during a period where our list was not of any real quality kind of puts it into perspective. He is 29 and if we could get something where we could get some consistent game time out of a younger player it may be worth it. With all due respect once people sta...

It will depend on whoever is selected as coach and whether he has the nuts to call for his own support staff. I hope that if the incumbent wants success he needs to drive the football side of things and not allow the Finnis's and Lethleans and whoever else to stay away from the playing and training ...

Jack Steven would've been one of those witches hats. Should have played a few more games during that period.

He certainly did. Cooper's VFL career was cut short by rheumatic fever. In 1970 and 1971, Cooper played for Swan Districts in the West Australian National Football League, and was a Western Australian state representative player.[1] In 1972, he returned to Victoria and became a prominent full forwar...

Bytel will be OK. Typical kid just wanted to keep playing when he should have taken time off. Absolute quality kid and he'll come good.

Bytel played the whole of his last season with a bad back
He already had it before the u18 carnival.

His name has been seldom mentioned for any jobs in previous seasons. I'd want him to openly say he would love to have a shot at it but I'm not sensing it. I don't see him at the Saints given that he is a smart person he would asses the list and decide which list would be more appealing as it could g...

You may find that he'll mix some positional stuff depending on how the games played. I think Richo seldom rolled the dice and switched players around. I also reckon that players will back themselves. If he tinkers too much he could lose the players internally which he needs to show trust and belief ...

This is a good thread as its identified the fact that players are over coached. Allan Jeans, Tom Hafey, Barassi, Kennedy all coached successfully without 20 guys in the box. I know football was different but its gone overboard. If you study the game and have a feel this when instinct kicks in and yo...

Brendan Mccartney was appointed coach of the Bulldogs and now assistant at Melbourne never played at top level. Chris Fagan only played in Tassie and if you take a look at the staff of most clubs there are guys on the staff that have only been involved at lower levels. You probably find that for wha...

We are not alone. Have a look at some of the following. Collingwood - Brenton Sanderson. ex half back, Geelong, - James Rahilly 11 goals in 90 games. Port power - Nathan Basset played a defender. Most of these were not specialists in their respective lines.

May use Rowe to help Roma out. Rest him forward with Bruce and Membrey.

Everyone wants to be a comedian. Waste of air.

Personally I would have no problem with his appointment. Would probably help from a stability perspective as he's been there so now concentrate on building the current list and position ourselves for the draft and trade period. Continued support from the powers to allow him to do his job.

So let's appoint coaches to up memberships. I understand that it could play a small part but we need to become a competitive unit both on and off the field. I'm pretty sure we didn't worry about memberships when we appointed Jeans in 61, Patterson 78, Sheldon 90, Alves 95, Thomas 2001 and Lyon all o...

All the best to the guy and hope that some of our players have a good look at themselves because at the end of the day there were many games we had the opportunity but through poor kicking for goal and playing 3 qtrs of football is not good enough. At the end of the day his coaching was neither good...

We are lucky that the whole comp is tactically screwed.

Out of all assistants I hate to say other than what Teague and Shaw have done recently I don't get too excited.

I think at this stage the club really needs to focus on the right coach and a couple of ready made A graders to support all our recent draft picks otherwise we will plummet even further.