This year: 5 wins, one draw, 16 losses, 74.29 percentage

This year's grade (A-F) F

Positives from this year: The controversial decision to recruit former West Coast Eagles captain and confessed drug addict Ben Cousins ultimately paid off and the inspirational comeback of the 2005 Brownlow Medalist was the one bright light at Punt Road this year. Every club was scared off from taking Cousins in the national draft before the Tigers gave him a chance in the pre-season draft but his comeback began badly after he again injured his hamstring in Round 1 and missed five matches. But from his return in Round 7, Cousins would only miss one more match as he averaged nearly 25 disposals per game for the rest of the season and was clearly the Tigers' best player in the second half of the year. Apart from Cousins' comeback the only other positives for the Tigers was the improvement of Daniel Jackson and Richard Tambling while Mitch Morton, Jack Riewoldt and rookie Robin Nahas showed promise in attack.

Negatives from this year: The Tigers' season was virtually over before it began following an 83-point hiding from Carlton in Round 1. After a summer of optimism following last year's rise from 16th to ninth and the recruiting of Cousins - which sent expectations amongst the club's success-starved fans into overdrive - it was exactly the kind of result the Tigers could ill-afford at the start of the season. From that moment on coach Terry Wallace, who was told at the start of the year he had to get the club into the finals for the first time to get his initial five-year contract extended, was a dead man walking. In the end Wallace was dumped with just two wins from the first 11 games and while caretaker coach Jade Rawlings oversaw a brief improvement with three wins, a draw and two respectable losses from his first seven games in charge, any hope he had of getting the job ended when the club lost its last four games by a total of 270 points.

Likely departures: Kane Johnson (retired), Joel Bowden (retired), Nathan Brown (delisted), Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls (delisted), Mark Coughlan (delisted), Andrew Raines, Graham Polak, Kayne Pettifer, Troy Simmonds, Cleve Hughes, Adam Pattison.

Next year:

Type of Players needed: Where do you start? The Tigers lack quality players just about everywhere and have a worst list than