Right now, if Ross, with a good run with injuries next year plus McCarthy, Hill, Bennell and any other newly drafted players can't at least make top 8 next year I seriously think he should be shown the door particularly if he can't make use of some exceptionally skilled attacking style players.
I know he got us into the Grand Final but that was with a list of players that even the strongest of his admirers can't dispute was basically built by Mark Harvey. Ross has yet to demonstrate during his long coaching career an ability to build a successful team from scratch and the club needs to be decisive if we look like losing key team members such as Fyfe, Bennell, Blakely, Walters, Pearce etc due to any inability to reverse this trend in the next season and a half. The danger would be a fall in grace similar to Brisbane.s where the best players have left and they now just have a bunch of talented kids who get hammered every week.