I had a quick look a other clubs' experienced fringe players thinking who could we pick up cheap. As I am numb with football (too many years of pain) and have not kept up with teams other than our own, I may have missed a few and I may have named a few players who are playing week in week out.

Our Team has massive inbalance issues and our fringe players would be rookies on other lists at best.

Here is the list I came up with. Who could be of some value whilst the club looks for more balance with age, experience and youth.

Bernie Vince

Jordan Russell

Brock McLean

Scott Gumbleton

Brent Prismall

Kyle Riemers

Robert Warnock - over load of rucks a the scum

Kepler Bradley

Mitch Brown - can't get a game

Xavier Ellis

Stephen Salopek

Daniel Connors - can we reform him?

Brett Peake

Beau Wilkes

Mark Seaby

My choices would be Xavier Ellis, Daniel Connors, Mitch Brown, Kyle Reimers, Scott Gumbleton and Bernie Vince. Only if they came cheap with low draft picks or exchange for our own fringe players.

Who would you take? Feel free to add to the list.

Bernie Vince is hardly a fringe player and Bradley is not playing any more is he?

Beau Wilkes I like and would love some older players like Simon Black or James McDonald (legend).

Two players who I know we are interested in are: Lynch and Stevens from West Coast. I feel Symes from Adelaide could be worthwhile.

Whilst Lynch is not a fringe player, he is a free agent and we are exploring the opportunity in getting him.

Bernie Vince probably the only one I'd take out of that lot, however I think he is happy in Adelaide. Vince is a real talent, down A LOT on form at the moment, he is a bit of a larrikin, but a very likeable guy and a footy show favorite for most, has past issues - but massive appeal on skills and media profile.

Xavier Ellis ... skilled mid

Koby Stevens ... tough inside mid

Ashley Smith ... small skilled defender

Heard on The Footy Show, Melbourne is looking at Quinten Lynch.

Picking up a couple of Shaun Griggs' style players would be fantastic.

Those of us old enough to remember the abysmal 70's shudder at the phrase " fringe players from other clubs" !

Heard on The Footy Show, Melbourne is looking at Quinten Lynch.

NNNOOOOOO!!!

Kob Stevens thank you very much. No to Q Stick

I think we should go after matty white from the tigers, could provide the outside run we need(super quick). Simon Hogan is anther bloke i think would be great for us can play but doesn’t get much of a run in the cats midfield, i know he had some mental health issues but they look behind him but would still need support from the club.

Kobe Stevens and Kepler Bradley for me. the latter is only getting his 4th game this weekend. Would be grewt for our forward structure

Bradley...... Seriously....... I'd rather miller back if we are going down the path of recruiting hack forwards, at least he brings Mia along with him.

Brock McLean???????? Quenton Lynch - we've got enough blokes who can't kick. Bernie Vince would be good but doubt they'd let him slip away. I wondered about Connors myself but it's just a question of whether or not being sacked by one club would force him to grow a brain.

I remember a thread a while ago about Tom Swift? He looks to be quite a skilled mid, any chance of the coke heads trading him?

I'm not into speculating about what Connors and Martin have been getting up to, but if it all hasn't made alarm bells go of in your head then you need a dose of reality. Clubs don't get rid of decent players unless they are real bad eggs.

Especially when there are unconfirmed stories of Connors being restrained from throwing punches at Hardwick when sacked.

If there's any truth to it, there's your reason to stay away.

I floated the idea of Q Lynch last year or the year before.

I think we're getting closer and closer to him being of no value.

Now with Clark, Sellar, a more developed Martin, a grown McDonald, Fitzpatrick and Davis, I don't think he'd be of much use to us.

Then again, they all fit the mould of defenders, bar Clark.

Could be a Leigh Brown type move...

Why don't we just draft as much talent/class as we can first this draft.....then maybe pick up some fringe players late in the draft if theyre available

No need to waste early draft picks on "fringe" players, they're quite often a fringe player for a reason bar injuries.

i'd rather stick skewers into my eyes than have kyle reimers on our team......even reading his name on the list m,akes me want to wash my eyes with bleach

we need to target Victorians at interstate clubs.

Jarod Lyons

Luke Thompson

Aaron Cornelius

Ryan Lester

on top of this i reckon these 2 would be ideal

Matt DE boer

Jacob Surjan

and any chance we could get Jude Bolton back to VIc?...................

Why don't we just draft as much talent/class as we can first this draft.....then maybe pick up some fringe players late in the draft if theyre available

No need to waste early draft picks on "fringe" players, they're quite often a fringe player for a reason bar injuries.

i for one am not particularly adverse to using our mid 1st round to snare an existing player that will impact from day one. But the more fringe then the more circumspect. Everything is horses for courses.

Neeld,let alone us, wants to WIN games next year . He will reconstruct a team over summer to do so. He IS looking around for player infusion.

Opinion ....YAWN

Reason.....this is pointless, we have so called fringe players as well, do we swap? Did anybody pick Mitch Clark last year...no...why nobody has any idea

Bradley...... Seriously....... I'd rather miller back if we are going down the path of recruiting hack forwards, at least he brings Mia along with him.

I disagree, he has been very good for Freo the last 3 years. Much better than Miller

Josh Toy. Not in GCS side at the moment. Not on the injury list. Victorian kid. he was a under 17 selection that would have gone at 3 in in the Scully Trengove draft - according to Emma Quayle. Seems out of favour at the moment - maybe we could pick him up with a 2nd round draft pick or lower.