I’d add Hooker / Hurley to that list… we need to start fresh… clean the contracts and old warhorses out… finish bottom 3 next few years and build from that draft picks… not one player would be untouchable on our list. Start from the ground up.
Gold Coast / Carlton I can see winning a final well before us… probably a granny too. Why? Because they’ve bottomed out. Sticking around 8-10th does us no favors.
Hurley is not key defender. He couldn’t win a one on one with a girl scout.
He would if the Girl Scout has kicked 8 and starts showboating.
Stand by this first and foremost before any players are marched.
Administration of this club sucks.
Everyone in the cannon. NOW.
Ridley, Mcgrath, Saad, Parish, Langford,
Draper. That’s it… everyone else is delisted/ tradeable.
This thread is going to be jammed packed after the game, and rightly so
It’s too late for this and we all know it.
We need to seriously bottom out for a while… but we can’t do that with covid … well at least we won’t do it properly.
Can you sack a coach before he’s coached a game?
Please get rid of the whole coaching department bar carracella and james kelly.
Literally everyone else can go.
Dodoro Cannon first. Then blindly draft players will be a better option than current model.
But… but… midfielders … midfielders midfielders midfielders… forget who they’re meant to kick to… forget who’s defending the opposite team… just play 22 mids right ?
Build the club around Andy, Draper & Ridley.
Put the rest up for trade & see who bites
Culling the list shouldn’t be a problem. Trying to find 35 to keep will be the challenge
Keep Mcgrath, Ridley and Draper…after that ummmm
Id genuinley keep mcgrath, parish, draper, ridley, langford, saad and daniher. Could not care about the rest.
Cannot fathom how we gave two 1st rounders for dylan shiel. Un ■■■■■■ believable decision given where we are at. Almost as bad as not accepting two top 10 picks for Daniher.
Heads need to ■■■■■■ role for these decisions which will set us back for years.
I’m struggling to see any reasons why Saad, Ridley, Daniher or Langford would want to stay at Essendon.
Shouldn’t be too hard.
Bellchambers, Hooker, Zaharakis retired
Laverde, Francis, Daniher, Fantasia, Gleeson traded
Begley, Mutch, McKernan, McKenna, Cutler delisted
Townsend, Smith, Hurley, Heppell - 1 more year
McGrath or Saad captain
how would gleeson be traded? which (professional) club would want him?
For all this you will get a late first and a couple of third rounders.