Jason Dunstall

I guess that'll be a decision for the coach because the coach has to have a big say in what's happening list management-wise.

So you sit there and work out what's the picture?

How quickly can we turn this around?

How quickly can we get ourselves in a position to be competing perhaps for the wildcard game?

Now, if that's in a couple of years, well, then I want to keep Zach Merritt.

If not, if we're thinking a bit bigger picture –

What then can we get for Zach Merritt as a 30, 31-year-old before that value departs?

Can we still get a couple of good, high first-round draft picks?

And then do we use that to rebuild?

Or alternatively, if we think we've got enough good young talent there, and I guess only the people really inside know because there's not enough of it exposed from me outside to say, I think they've got a great young list.

Yeah.

Well, I wasn't involved in the appointment of Matty Nix.

I did a review of the football department, but wasn't involved in the case.

It's a really difficult one, this one, because, and I guess we had options at Hawthorne to go down the old Hawthorne route.

And I think we just felt we needed to broaden the horizons and look at the bigger picture and get some IP from outside because it hadn't been working doing it the way we'd been doing it.

Now Essendon might see it differently and there's been a lot of talk about we need more Essendon people involved.

There's nothing wrong with having Essendon people coaching or involved at all posts of the club.

Until you're inside the club, you don't know.

That's the difficult thing.

We sit outside and we cast judgment and