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Swap Gibbons with a creative, opportunistic Higgins (from Richmond) or Elliott (from the Filth) and I'll bet a couple of those hail marys are converted to goals.

I'll let you in on a secret, Bolton doesnt know this one either, keep it to yourself.
Ready, Gibbons is a midfielder, bet that surprised you?? won two Listons playing as a mid.....You thought he was a small forward and Brendon thinks he is a tall marking target.
I guess everyone is a tall marking target to Brendon though...

Gibbons did hit McGovern up though with a few passes didnt he?

Take your point on Higgins and Elliott, SOS did try for Lonie from Stkilda but alas he stayed put......Lebois, Garlett are a waste of list space and its shame Pickett cant stay on the park.
Fas has been disappointing and remains  injury prone so you could say its not for want of trying with SOS to find that small X factor forward.

I'll let you in on a secret, Bolton doesnt know this one either, keep it to yourself.
Ready, Gibbons is a midfielder, bet that surprised you?? won two Listons playing as a mid.....You thought he was a small forward and Brendon thinks he is a tall marking target.
I guess everyone is a tall marking target to Brendon though...

Gibbons did hit McGovern up though with a few passes didnt he?

Take your point on Higgins and Elliott, SOS did try for Lonie from Stkilda but alas he stayed put......Lebois, Garlett are a waste of list space and its shame Pickett cant stay on the park.
Fas has been disappointing and remains  injury prone so you could say its not for want of trying with SOS to find that small X factor forward.

I'll let you in on a secret, Bolton doesnt know this one either, keep it to yourself.
Ready, Gibbons is a midfielder, bet that surprised you?? won two Listons playing as a mid.....You thought he was a small forward and Brendon thinks he is a tall marking target.
I guess everyone is a tall marking target to Brendon though...

Gibbons did hit McGovern up though with a few passes didnt he?

Take your point on Higgins and Elliott, SOS did try for Lonie from Stkilda but alas he stayed put......Lebois, Garlett are a waste of list space and its shame Pickett cant stay on the park.
Fas has been disappointing and remains  injury prone so you could say its not for want of trying with SOS to find that small X factor forward.

Bruce finished his playing career with Hawthorn (not renowned for recruiting flaky players) and went on to an assistant coaching role there. Yet another Hawthorn product on our books.

Apart from some disposal issues (and poor decision making by some of the youngsters - and that’s more of a development issue), the midfield is doing OK.

The Golden Child, aka David Teague, seems to be the assistant coach with the most work to do.

The most important Hawthorn product in our club is crap as 3 wins from 36 testifies.

Be a nightmare being a forward coach at Carlton. How do you coach to that lottery coming into the F50. Teague's been very good at every other club. He's the one reason McGovern is here after working with him in Adelaide. If a good player says he's here because of Teague then that's a fair reference. Remembering too the absolutely outstanding job he did getting an average Northern Bullants side to consecutive Grand Finals. I suggest the midfield coach might be the one who has the work to do. After all our midfield movement is horrible. Probably work better if we had a decent head coach.

Gibbins is definately a midfielder. That's where he should be played.

We haven't got an AFL class small forward. Along with a ruckman that's where our next recruiting drive should be aimed.
I agree, Le Bois, Garlett and Pickett should be gone next year.

A fit Fasolo would be handy. Lets hope he comes good very soon.

Our team is far from perfect anyway, but I agree that fixing the midfield is the most urgent issue. We have brought in some good young talent but they seem to be lacking the overall culture/guidance in which to develop to AFL level requirements. Crippa is fighting a lone on field battle there and we need to fix that urgently.

And Crippa figured it out for himself seemingly!!

Yep. He is exceptional and definitely has the warrior genes! Unfortunately not many around like him - Sam Walsh looks promising but early days for him.

We ask too much of Cripps.

He is already an inside warrior, now we want him to be an outside racehorse, a technician and a marksmen. It'll break him if we keep up that level of expectation and then he'll be lost to us!

I'll let you in on a secret, Bolton doesnt know this one either, keep it to yourself.
Ready, Gibbons is a midfielder, bet that surprised you?? won two Listons playing as a mid.....You thought he was a small forward and Brendon thinks he is a tall marking target.
I guess everyone is a tall marking target to Brendon though...

Gibbons did hit McGovern up though with a few passes didnt he?

Take your point on Higgins and Elliott, SOS did try for Lonie from Stkilda but alas he stayed put......Lebois, Garlett are a waste of list space and its shame Pickett cant stay on the park.
Fas has been disappointing and remains  injury prone so you could say its not for want of trying with SOS to find that small X factor forward.

I fully understand he is a mid and should be given a crack in there. It must be that he has been asked to play a roll fwd as there have been no other options. Polson? Fail. Fas? Fail to date. Swap Murphy and Gibbons maybe and see how we go.

The most important Hawthorn product in our club is crap as 3 wins from 36 testifies.

Be a nightmare being a forward coach at Carlton. How do you coach to that lottery coming into the F50. Teague's been very good at every other club. He's the one reason McGovern is here after working with him in Adelaide. If a good player says he's here because of Teague then that's a fair reference. Remembering too the absolutely outstanding job he did getting an average Northern Bullants side to consecutive Grand Finals. I suggest the midfield coach might be the one who has the work to do. After all our midfield movement is horrible. Probably work better if we had a decent head coach.