I think being dragged twice in the first quarter would indicate that the coach did answer that.

He went off in every quarter of that game. He was getting his lower back rubbed.

Hasn't Fev split from his missus

Rumours doing the rounds are they are back together but not saying anything about it.

It's not as if we'd be kicking to no one....other players would take his spot and we'd kick it to them.

Chicken or the Egg?

Do we continually kick to Fev because he scores, or does he score because we continually kick to him?

If we traded him, would we lose 80 goals a year? Or would the fact that every other option in the team would automatically get 60% more delivery mean that our scoring would be more evenly spread?

Does Geelong (as a team) score much less in this era without a key forward target, as they did when they had one of the very greatest in GAB Senior?

Who's the last Premiership team with a single dominant forward? Is having such a set-up conducive to playing finals-winning football?

Fev's insanely talented, but if you traded him according to a strict plan of the structure you wanted to create, and got picks/players in return that help you achieve that end, I'd have no problem with a trade.

Of course, the big factor (and one that none of us could possibly know enough to comment on) is how healthy the culture is amongst the playing group, and how much a part of that Fev is. Assuming we all want the players to play for each other in a selfless way, similar to the way Geelong, St Kilda, Adelaide and in their day Sydney did... does Fev help or hinder that process?

THAT would be my key criteria. But to be honest, I wouldn't have a bloody clue. That's what Ratten, Icke and co. are paid to know. Obviously there's a problem, because guys like Stevens just wouldn't be allowed to get overweight mid-season at one of the aforementioned clubs. But is Fev part of the problem, or just an easy target?

Dunno.