There's a fair bit of recycled stuff in that post but the highlighted bit is exactly what we really need. I posted elsewhere that Walsh will become the anvil on which the new team standards are forged. He will drive Cripps and Weiters and Doc by sheer example, even though he is the baby of the group. Make that the leadership group; keep it small. If you listen to Sellers McClure, he says it a lot. Back in the day, they partied hard and worked hard. Well those days are gone but the other thing he says is that if you didn't go when it was your turn or you didn't meet the on-field standards, you copped it from the players long before the coach ever had the chance to get to you. And then you had to stand there and take it while Parko or Walls gave you both barrels in front of your mates who weren't your mates when it came to that.

Keogh makes a lot of sense in between his endless harping about SOS and this point is something he is big on. There are too many softcocks in the team at the moment. Cripps is one of them. Not in his on-field stuff. Nobody could ever accuse him of that but if you look at him at half time last game, he was obviously personally disappointed but he wasn't bollocking his team. Neither was Doc. Or Weitering, both of whom give it their 90% every week and both of whom made a few errors during the quarter. Teague said in his presser that Walsh was beating himself up for his efforts. Walsh! Easily our best player on the night. He is still too young to be ripping shreds off his team mates but he is the one to do it when the last of the dinosaurs has left. And when Cottrell has fifty games under his belt, I can't see him as being timid either. That's why I would keep him. He's a rough nut who is playing for the club of his boyhood. If anybody is going to die wondering, it won't be him.

I disagree with Keogh that we are miles away. Good on him for his passion but he is a glass half empty type of poster by his own admission. I lean more to the Bondi camp because I'm a glass half full type of person. It makes it harder to swallow when Keogh is right of course and this year he is right. We have made little if any progress on the ladder, whether it is SOS's fault or not. Even though I predicted we would finish 12th on the appropriate thread, I saw enough during the season to realise we should have been playing finals. So now I am disappointed we didn't. We have the bulk of the list in-waiting. We have a shit game plan that doesn't allow enough flexibility to shore up the defense during play when we are getting flogged but Teague has been able to stop the rot between quarters. That says something. The game plan will be tweaked. It's what we don't have that's the issue and that's where we get back to Keogh's soft cocks. Or maybe the on-field leaders aren't allowed. Who knows? Regardless, when we are leaking, SOMEBODY has to just make the call. Slow the game. Move somebody down back for five minutes. Swap Levi and Willo. Something. Anything.
James Hird might not be our favourite person here on TC but if you look at his playing days, he had the capacity to insert himself where he was most needed. Kouta was the same. Dusty Martin just does it at Richmond. Patrick Dangerfield at Geelong. Fingers in dikes before the floodgates open.

Anyway, we have 5 months to sort this out. We prune the unproductive wood. We graft buds and wood from other varieties and let the new combination of strong branches bear the fruit.

You've been bagging the club for years. I don't want your crystal balling that will take 5 years to assess. Where's your plans for last year, the year before. That's where your credentials can be verified.
All i've heard is you blowing smoke up McAdams bum and telling us how we missed out on him and Krueger. 12 games between them in 2 years. That's really going to help us!
We picked the best VFL player the same off season and he's been best 22 since. But you don't give credit where it's due. The same as you bag Jack Martin as being soft and lazy yet McAdam is the second coming. Anyone who has any idea about the game can see how hard Jack Martin is. And again on the weekend, Jack Martin 6 tackles, McAdam zero.
Martin averaging 13.6 pressure acts per game and 3.2 tackles.
McAdam 11.3 pressure acts, 2.9 tackles. Both the same age yet Martin is lazy.

So asking for my plan is deflecting as usual because you're the one telling us the club has no idea and you're the one who has the clue.
I'm not the one telling everyone how I know better than the club and every other poster.
As for throwing up the names of a number of second rate players running around in the WAFL or SANFL and suggesting they're our answer. Give me a break. We've seen the mediocre performances from your previous selections.

My plan. Hit free agency hard. 2 restricted free agents in Williams and Viney. Plus I'd see what Gaff is doing. Unrestricted free agent. If he wants to return to Melbourne, he's an option because dollars aren't the key. It will be about whether he wants to come home or not. None of those will cost us one draft pick. If Viney doesn't commit, I'd throw our first 2 picks at Port for Wines.
I'd hit up Ben Keays from Adelaide as a hard head to replace Ed in the next couple of years. He's currently playing on a rookie contract at Adelaide and I like the way he approaches his footy.

So forget the dregs in the lower leagues. This is our time to get class in through free agency and to take advantage of our key position quality.

So that’s why I bag the club
You can bag me for that
That’s fine

players i would use in trade scenario , sps,kennedy and maybe LOB ,time to go fishing and lets see who bites

See, that's where you're confused. The club isn't beyond criticism and they well and truly deserve it.
But anyone can criticise. I'd rather read solutions. Real solutions. 95% of your posts are "the board is shit", "the team is shit", "the list management is shit", "player, X, Y and Z are soft"

Where's the solutions? Anyone can repeatedly bag the club. The posts of value are the ones that provide solutions. You have some good ideas but they're drowned out by the negativity.

Phenomenal effort to get across and out and about to watch WAFL games in the midst of closed borders. Above and beyond again Keogh.

I have advocated that some blokes get missed by the draft system or get picked and are not simply ready for AFL. They are late developing players. We sadly have missed picking up good players from the lower leagues.
I can only think of Duigan and Gibbons
Same Rowe was half decent
Certainly SOS has largely ignored the lower leagues during his 5 drafts.
Gibbons I can’t think of anyone off hand
With the global pandemic the NEAFL and VFL have not happened
The WAFL has had half a year
The SANFL plays 14 rounds

With List sizes yet to be announced and what number picks we have in the Drafts an unknown due to ladder positions and all the other shit that goes on I would get the ball rolling and to show a few others that I’m not all hot air
So here are some names to consider if you give a semblance of a shit

Sam Fisher 22 Swan Districts mid
Nearly got a guernsey with us possibly the best player in WAFL has improved
Perfect age
Jackson Ramsay 25 E Perth mid
Injuries [REDACTED] him at Collingwood been terrific at East Perth
Jess Turner SD 24 mid
Hard running a real goer who keeps getting better
Angus Scott EF 25 mid
Improved every year
Noah Storm 24 South Freo key def
Big guys take time. Blossomed in one of the leading teams this year
Michael Randall Peel 20 mid
Looks a good prospect
Luke Partington 23 Glenelg mid
Probably the best player not playing AFL His pro wrestling debut didn’t help his chances last year. Still would have picked him up. Has the physical tools and a bit of mongrel
Sam Colquhoun 25 Sturt ( mid)
Improved a lot this year
James Battersly 24 Sturt mid
Ditto
Cameron McGree South Adelaide 21 ruck
Athletic big guy really coming on big guys take time
Cole Gerloff Norwood mid/ for 21
Still young has big upside

There you go BV and Jonny and BB
Some names
I would definitely have Partington and Fisher on our list
And would rookie McGree as we need 3 ruckman
All fit the age profile of maturing late bloomers address our midfield issues
More to come
So BV
Where’s your plan or even part of it

I live In Busselton
I assume you know where that is

How much more real solution do you want with names I suggested
You know that some people grow up later than others
Can apply to footballers
I’ll ask again
Do you know anything about any of the players mentioned?

Well, may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...?

Well, may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...?