First Delistings Announced

[titan_uranus 22,363]

The following players will not be offered a playing contract in 2013: Matthew Bate, Ricky Petterd, Jamie Bennell, Liam Jurrah, Lucas Cook, Jai Sheahan, Leigh Williams and Kelvin Lawrence. Everyone at the Club wishes them all the best for their future endeavors.

Dees delist eight players

[Go_Dees_4_Life 0]

Should have kept Ricky, good luck to the rest!

[dee-luded 2,958]

Wow, no messing around here.

Leigh Williams I am surprised with.

And Petterd will be snapped up, I'm sure.

All else I am in agreement.

[DemonWorshipper 296]

See ya fellas.

[The Song Formerly Known As 6,479]

Crikey. Petterd was a surprise but I guess he has had his chances.

[Lord Travis 10,167]

Could've traded Petterd maybe? He'll get picked up by someone and play some good football.

Also surprised Leigh Williams was cut.

Good to see the other delistings. No messing around. High draft pick or rookie, if you don't perform you are gone.

[Daz's Dee's 113]

Only suprised about Sheahan (which we already knew last week) and Williams.

Don't agree with Ricky though.

[Ned 156]

Shame about Ricky. Not a wet eye in the house for the rest.

[Guest José Mourinho]

For now Bartram, Dunn, Sellar, Strauss, Macdonald, Jetta, Davis, Spencer, Bail all remain.

I expect Davis and Macdonald to go from this list later, at a minimum.

Whether we can entice Jacobs or not will have an impact.

[Jerry Lundergard 382]

You have to wonderiwhat the underlying issues are with Petterds attitude and application.

Couldn't get a game in our team, and unwanted even for a give away trade with another club.....

[Mono 454]

Surprised Couch still on list.

[Don24 103]

Surprised we have held on to Bartram, Joel Mac & Davis.... would have preferred to loose one of them and keep Cook.

Will be interesting to see if Cook, Bate, Petterd get picked up....

So this leaves us with 4 free spots on the list? Which means probably use pick 4, 49, 53 & either upgrade a rookie or look at PSD ?

[Whispering_Jack 27,978]

Troy Davis a bit of a surprise after some earlier indications he might go.

Otherwise, it's a massive clean out.

[DeeZee 6,732]

I find it amazing that couldn't trade Bate or Petterd.

Oh well, even though some of these players including Gysberts and Morton may go on to do well at other clubs, I think we will be better for it in the long run.

They obviously have a plan, and plan to use alot of those late draft picks.

My bet is they will continue to recruit experienced hardened bodies from leagues all over Australia.

[Biffen 12,327]

Fourteen changes including two rookies. Thats about a third.

Good job Melbourne, can't say there are any surprises.

Ricky, Stef and JG were stiff.

Men are men, boys are boys.

It's a cruel world.

[Deestroy All 14,261]

Ricky went from big debut to big disappointment. He had 2 tricks, he was hard and a good contested mark. That's it. He did absolutely nothing in the games that weren't his few stand-out games. I understand he was a bit of a fan favourite, but to be surprised that he's delisted, really? And we couldn't trade him because no one would give up anything for him, Morton got an 88 and Ricky isn't in Morton's league.

Glad Bennell is gone, thought he might get a free pass being injured.

Bit surprised with Sheehan, like the way he moves. But we actually have AFL level talls now, suppose there's no need for all the speculative ones.

[Hannibal 5,814]

Davis I'd keep.

I thought Williams was a spud. I'm delighted to be rid of so much crud.

[Deestroy All 14,261]

I thought Williams was a spud. I'm delighted to be rid of so much crud.

Didn't know you were into poetry, H.

[daisycutter 28,543]

That's 14 in total including 3 rookies making 12 off the primary list.

The rumours were very accurate.

[Biffen 12,327]

That's 14 in total including 3 rookies making 12 off the primary list.

The rumours were very accurate.

People were shocked at my bold predictions DC.

Next year I predict a huge comeback for pastels and prints.

[Left Field 313]

I have no problems with the changes so far. My guess is that there are still 2/3 to come.

I am assuming Evans and Nicholson will be upgraded. Would be good to land Jacobs in the PSD.

[TheoX 1,218]

How are Jetta and Couch still on the list?

[Lil_red_fire_engine 10,185]

Can someone with more brain power than me today work out assuming all others get contracted and 2 of nicholshon, evans, magner and couch are upgrade how many spots that leaves us on our list for the draft?

[Rhino Richards 1,467]

That's 15 in total including 3 rookies making 12 off the primary list

The rumours were very accurate

I would have thought the crap season we had deserved nothing less.

Davey could have been added if he did not have another expensive year left on his contract.

No surprises and no real losses.

Lets hope we made the right calls on these players.

[binman 38,112]

Not surprised at all Couch and Davis were kept. Couch won the b&f at Casey and Davis won the Respect Earner award. Also no surprise Petterd got the axe, in the few Casey games I saw his attitude was poor.

It's about the culture.