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I have heard on 2 separate podcasts this week of rumours coming out of the club of player unrest. I can't find any stories on it. Has anyone heard anything?

Hearing that Billy has been training a lot at 6 so far this off-season. The information supposedly came directly from Billy. If true, either Madge doesn't see him as a 9, is just filling in until Hunt arrives, or Hunt is going to start the year at 9 and Billy plays 6 until Ezra returns.

Going by the CM article where they have guestimated our salary cap for next year, we should be able to keep both Stagg and Cobbo even though CM is trying to say we won't be able to. Koby H will likely leave, there is c.$250k we will free up replacing him with a minimum wage. Reynolds will...

Ben Hunt's Dragon's contract has been terminated immediately. Hopefully, he is willing to take a pay cut to come back to the Broncos for a fairy tale finish to his career and win a premiership with us.

He doesn't have any experience for a role that this. He didn't cut it as an assistant coach and is just a talking head on Fox or SEN. Also, didn't he come out and say that he was suffering from CTE? Do we want possible cognitive decline running our football department?

This side clearly needs leadership more than anything else and without it we won't get back to last year's highs. If we could get him at a relatively good price than I think we should definitely pick him up. A part from Reynolds, we have no experience or leadership and he will be gone after next...

Even if we don't sack him, we will be without Ezra for at least 6-12 weeks next season. Who is going to be the best replacement within the current squad?

I think this Ezra incident and this year's performance are clear evidence of the fact we don't have strong leaders in this playing group. Anyone who knows Payne, Patty, and Reynolds knows that these guys might have leadership qualities, but they aren't outspoken and direct which is what these...

Yeah, hopefully we can find people to offload. Wasn't there talk that Baker was wanting to go back to Sydney? Also, Hetherington has been told he can look elsewhere right, so hopefully that will be enough to get Welsh and a minimum wager to replace those two.

I think it was best for us to get rid of Kevvie, it was pretty clear he lacked the coaching ability we needed. However, I am of the firm belief that losing Capewell was a much bigger factor than people are giving it credit. I heard it from multiple people and saw it first hand that he set and...

CM is reporting that we can't afford Campbell-Gillard and he will be staying in Sydney. Going by who has said no to him and who already have a set front row, it seems it is down to the Dogs, Manly, Panthers (unlikely), and Tigers.

I would love us to get Welch at the right price. He may not be exactly what we need from a playing perspective but what he brings is leadership and Melbourne's standards which is exactly what we need. It was clear that our standards and work ethic dropped this year with Capewell leaving who...

Another example of bad coaching from Kevie is playing Payne last week. Even if we made the finals, we were never going to do anything with how we have been playing this year and lack of consistency. Now Payne is out for 3-4 months and will have a shortened preseason which supposedly was one of...

One of my best mates is friends with Ryan James and when he left the club he relayed a very similar critique of Kevie as we heard from Cobbo on the podcast. He is a great bloke and jokes around but provides very little in the way of a game plan and actually coaching players to be better via...

@Big Del I agree with you that you need both and I wasn't suggesting that you only take the kick-arses approach. However, from what I have seen and heard from people closer than me is that Kevie is too nice, too friendly, and jokes around too much. Additionally, because he follows the extreme...

@Big Del Bellamy has made a pretty good career out of being an arse kicker, maybe it can work? You just need to watch a couple of interviews with current or past players to know how he is.

I agree he should go and I believe it should be now, he has had 4 years. If Bellamy, Bennett, Robinson, or even Ciraldo had our roster we consistently make the 4. The question is who do we go to? I think we need a hard-headed coach like Madge to get these kids in line and harden them up and stop...

I am sure it has been mentioned on here before, but does anyone else have a problem with the fact that when Walsh isn't playing he hardly ever attends the home games? He lives on the GC, how hard is it to come up and support your team. It has happened multiple times this year and I think is a...

What did Reynolds say?

Fogarty is back for the Raiders this week and he did his bicept in round 7. I don't think we should push Reyno despite our desperate need to win.