WITH the door seemingly closed on a trade for Swan Barry Hall, the Western Bulldogs are planning a long-term solution to cure their problems in attack.

The Dogs will target key position players in November's NAB AFL Draft, seeking to add to last year's tall timber draftees of Jarrad Boumann and Jarrad Grant.

The lack of a power forward with sure hands and a sure foot hampered the Bulldogs in their preliminary final defeat to Geelong, but they understand the chances of an instant fix are remote.

"In an ideal world, we need that ready-made player," Bulldogs football manager James Fantasia said.

"But in the real world, tell me how many key position players are in the market place right now and even if you went through the whole competition, the ones who are of any ability and they're under contracts, clubs are not going to let them go."

Dogs coach Rodney Eade said luring Hall to the Bulldogs was not an option.

"I think that's highly unlikely to be honest," Eade told the Ten Network.

"He's under contract, he's spoken to me, he'd prefer to stay in Sydney, that's what he wants to do.

"From our point of view it's another dead-end at the moment."

Eade also said the club was preparing to use their first round pick, No.14, to snare young ruck prospect Ayce Cordy as a father-son selection.

The highly rated teenager has attracted interest from at least two other clubs, with St Kilda reportedly willing to part with their first pick, No.13.

If a rival club wants a father-son prospect, the nominating club must use its next choice in the draft to secure him.

"He did a pre-season last year with us for a couple of weeks and he's done a bit of training, but we certainly expect we'll have to give up our first round for him," Eade said.