Once ASIO had checked him out, he'd undergone a ceremonial burning of a Daniel Metropolis effigy and Schwabby had gone through his rubbish bins (not for any security reasons, he was just looking at ways to save on the catering bill) they gave him the ok and made him Senior Executive in Charge of Putting Out the Blue Marker Cones and Telling The Midfielders Where to Stand.

With German coming into the side, they had to do a bit of reshuffling amongst the other coaches. Mark Harvey has been promoted from Deputy Red Cone Shifter to a fully fledged witches hat re-organiser after it was decided that the current  crop of massive forwards were unable to see the tiy cones from their vantage point. He’s been given the task of getting Pavlich and Tarrent to work together in perfect harmony. The move has had immediate results with the word coming out of Melbourne that Tarrant has already started growing a mullet and Matthew Pavlich has sold his trendy pub and has made inquiries about buying the Davilak.

Kelly O’Donnell has been moved up to the back line. The defence isn’t expected to see much of the ball in 2007 so it will free O’Donnell up to work on Cameron Schwab’s plan of diversifying Fremantle revenue stream and grow the club’s greyhound kennel.

Michael Broadbridge will keep an eye on German as well as take on the added responsibilities of "forward scouting and the football department's technology operations". There are whispers coming out of the club that they are concerned that Broadbridge has let his new title go to his head after he told club officials that, from now on, he wanted to be referred to only as Q.