Let Fly Rebuild the list

[Born to Pie]

With DeGoey refusing to sign, with speculation around Grundy, Henry and Poulter. It may be time to bite the bullet and just go full rebuild.

With those mentioned and Pendles, Sidey, Howe, Elliott, Mihocek and Cox entering their twilight years, and Adams being some what injury prone. Pull the trigger, get the best we can from the draft and be set for 2-3 years time.

Our core becomes: Lipinski, IQ, 2x Daicos brothers, Cameron, Krueger, Macrae, McInnes, Crisp, Murphy, Moore, McCreey, Ginnivan, Maynard, Carmidhael & Johnson.

If we can add 2-3 top 10 & 2-3 top 20 draft picks, we can be in a position in about 3 years to pick up a couple of free agents to top off the list and go hard.

Our coaching and admin under Fly and Graham Wright is prime, we need to build a team around Nick Daicos and go hard.

[piedys]

This forum would totally implode waiting for yet another rebuild!

[Piesnchess]

For Chrissakes, we were a bees dick away from a Grand Final, gimme a break, a rebuild ????????????????????????

[stui magpie]

Not yet.

Clearly the plan is to top up with role players while our senior players are still hanging on. 1-2 years in contention, then see what happens.

[AN_Inkling]

We were in a rebuild but have had a bounce, possibly a dead cat's bounce, we'll see.

I don't think we need to fully rebuild. Given success this year, we should at least look to be competitive next season as well. It's better for development anyway.

But I do agree our focus needs to be on the medium term, not the short. I'm not sure if it's realistic to push for a flag in the next two years, so don't believe that should be our focus. That means only adding players who'll be here for at least the medium term (no Mitchell).

I'm wanting us to build a strong squad that can setup an era of competing. Not an ageing list that tries to snatch for a couple of years and then retool after. That just sets our rebuild back, and it still has a ways to go, I don't think we're close to the best list right now.

[inxs88]

"Strike!!! I'll give the bastards strike"!

[lanstro]

The past decade has shown that full rebuilds are dead and partial renos are much more effective, but I also agree that we're not actually that close to contending. Would not be surprised or disappointed if we were not top 4 next year. Our best players are mostly on the wrong side of 30, and as everyone recognises, we're a key player in each third of the ground short - that's a big deficit that won't be made up in just a year.

We don't want to be repeating the mistakes of 2018-2020 in making big short term trades/signings on the false assessment that our flag window is currently open.

[Haff]

What? The team that just win the flag has an average age of about 72… see if we can pinch one next two years and see where the youth is, hopefully they’ve come right along and we can do a quick Reno and go again..

[watt price tully]

“I’ve been fascinated by your 5 year plan for the last 15”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A60QcsJtlE

Ninotchka

[lazzadesilva]

[piedys]

[think positive]

[Piesnchess]

[slangman]

The only thing that needs to be rebuilt is the players mindest.
The JDG and Grundy contract situations once again are highlighting the lack of sacrifice that our players are willing to make for the sake of success.
How many times have the Cats been bent over or even pushed into a “accept what I want or I’m leaving” threat by their players?
To read that Hawkins has been playing for peanut’s is like a punch in the face compared to the endless greed that has been permitted to develop at Collingwood.

[Harrysz]

Watt Price Tully, I love the clip.