Next year we are clearly an out of the 8 side. Maybe out of the 12.
It depends. It wouldn’t take a lot to extend this list for one more year. In my humble view we need the following:
- clarity around what Martin is doing - stay & commit or go & let’s sort out trade;
- ask Jack & Cotch to go one more year;
- retire Edwards & Lambert.
- trade for two ready made midfielders
- draft at least one key forward
- look for another taller ruck partner for Nank, who can preferably go forward. It may even be Ryan - let’s see over last 6 weeks. Soldo looks cruelled by his knee injury to me.
- re-establish Balta at CHB
- try Gibcus as a forward for 2023. With Tarrant gone after 2023, he can always go back thereafter if forward doesn’t work.
- haven’t looked at contract list for a while, but there’ll be a few delistings to provide $$ cap space.
- imperative that Bolton & Baker be with club for next 5 years.
- bring in at least 2 & maybe 3 new coaches - development, midfield & VFL
Lots to do but it’s achievable. First thing to sort out is Dusty situation.