I've no idea if EH is good enough but the profile is right; I just think we need him in addition to Dow, not instead of, because we lack midfield zip. I guess it depends where Binns and the Campo twins end up, maybe Blacres moves inside, or Hollands puts on 15 kilos... someone surely has to switch or leave before we end up with a dozen wings.

In my ideal world, we'd trade LOB for a nominal return, recruit EH or similar, and keep Dow, and still have a first round draft pick. No idea if this is realistic.

I reckon there would be a significant trade value difference. One is contracted, the other isn’t. Someone is going to get Dow for virtually nothing unless we can convince him to stay somehow.

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GC are looking to move Hollands and will have less interest than we will for Dow

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I agree with you here.
Ed Curnow retiring has to impact.
Dow was very humble when interviewed after that match rd 21 or rd 20.
I like humble.

Hard to get better than pick 50 for an uncontracted player who isn't rated in your best 30 by the coaches.

Fisher might be worth closer to pick 30 as he is contracted

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At least Dow can play at the elite level
Hollands is struggling to make the suns team makes no sense at all getting him better to keep Dow

I agree too.

Others have said this already but we need some more speed and skill to complement our strong contested and clearance game. Williams returning should help as he ticks both boxes. Boyd is one to persist with as he’s tough but also a very nice kick. We’re a brutal team around the ball but still need to build out our transition game.

Motlop is our guy as a live wire small forward. He's 19 and has played 21 matches.

He is our guy.

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i don't think he is. look around the league, and all the good small forwards have electric speed, agility and creativity.


motlop is excellent at bagging a goal if he gets his hands on it inside the arc, but not quite fast or smart enough to get enough of the ball. imo

i look at guys like cameron, rankin, papely, ginnivan, bobby, elliot, koz etc and they're such a level above.

Bluedog posted this article in Talking Recruitment, but it’s worth sticking here too-

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2023/09/24/ ... eliminary/

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I’d have Motlop ahead of Ginnivan and Hill

We need to recruit a medium zippy quick forward.

Had the perfect seats at the Gabba. $285 a seat. FMD.

4 things stood out to me about Brisbane for us to consider.

1. KPD Depth: Brissy lost KPD Adams to concussion and replaced him with KPD Payne, who was out with an ankle injury but was replaced with a more than capable KPD.

2. KPF Speed: Hipwood is the fastest 200cm forward I have ever seen. We have McKay who is also very quick. Marchbank isn't slow, but when you know where the ball will be kicked its easy for Hipwood to sprint to the hole and take a chest mark. it wasn't Hipwwods size and contested marking that got us, it was his speed to the right spot.

3. Goal kicking / marking ruck: Oscar, Lions No 1 ruck, takes marks and kicks goals as a ruckman. Neither TDK and Pitto do.

Our fastest KPDs over 20m are Gov and Young. Both un our fastest top 10 at the club. Young and Sam Durdin are our KPD reserves. We need to get Young up to speed over summer. re engineer his modus oprerandi...with agression and confidence to play on, or improve our KPD depth.

4: Small forward speed: Cameron has express speed and gets into space which gives him time and opportunity, as is Ah chee. Glad they were not kicking straight. Motlop does not have high end speed, neither does Fogarty. I think Durdin is much quicker. We need goal kicking small forwards, not solely defensive minded smalls.

We are not that far off. If Cripps, Acres, Docherty, wasn't so banged up we coulda shoulda ...well if it was at the G....I think Cerra looked pretty sore too. Maybe he copped a hit early on. Did I mention better kicking for goal wouldve helped us pinch this one.

So proud of the boys. Never gave up the fight. We need to add to that and presto.

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Is Hill available? If so, get him!

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I think there has been one team that is Richmond in the shorten season in the last 10 years that has won a flag where they didnt have 3 players kicking 30 goals or more

we had one Charlie
Harry needs to sort out his kicking demons
Martin needs to play 20 games plus and hit the scoreboard
Owies needs to not go missing and get ball more than 8 times a game
Cunningham needs to play 20 games and not go missing for patches and hit scoreboard
Motlop needs to improve his defense so he is selected each week
JSOS needs to kick more goals 115 games for 87 goals as mainly a half forward doesn't cut it
Fogarty needs to hit scoreboard more

To much is being left to Charlie these other forwards need to step up to the plate and provide an option so we become less predictable .

Until that happens we will not progress any further than we have this year

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As most of will have, received my email from the club (Luke Sayers)

It’s been a terrific year and well done to the club. We stand for something again.

However, I challenge the commentary that our best is good enough. We found on Saturday night, in fact twice this year against the Lions, that we have work to do to be the best. Alas, we are not good enough just yet.

Aside from Ginnivan and Kossie to a lesser extent, you're comparing apples with oranges.

Motlop is still a kid....

We need instinctive goal kickers. Ginnivan or even Stephenson from Norf would help. You can carry one with poor speed or defensive pressure is they kick 2 goals a week.

We need to decide if we can carry Cripps, Hewett and Kennedy and if JSOS could give a 5 minute chop out as a big bodied mid. If he can then maybe we need to think about what sort of return we’d get on Kennedy,.

I think it’s good we’re going to the draft. It’d be easy to try to pinch a flag by trading for some old has been. It won’t set us up for long term success. We have to remember players like Doc probably only have 2-3 years left so we need to draft now to replace him in 2-3 years time. Cripps probably a little longer but he’s getting battered from pillar to post so we need to start thinking ahead in the couple of years to a big bodied midfielder.

Hollands was a bonus for us last year finding a year 1 ready-to-play winger even if we had to manage him carefully in his first season.

We do need a bit more speed to help with our transition game. Hopefully a couple of those waiting in the wings like Binns and the like can help us there.

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