Let me be the first on here to congratulate Bail, Riley and Terlich for being re-signed.

Some "experts" on here claimed most, if not all three, of these guys were done & dusted at the MFC. Well, clearly the coaching staff have a different view.

Well done to them all. I hope they all rise to new heights and make a meaningful contribution to the team in coming seasons.

Surprised somewhat by terlichs re-signing but he is a depth player I guess.

Terlich? Really? Okay.

No surprise with the other two.

Hmmm hope they were given 1 year each, maybe 2 for Bail. Knowing us we would've signed them up to 3.

It really is an indictment on a guy like Blease who has more talent than these three combined but just hasn't been able to consolidate a spot in a terrible team by now and will be tradebait or delisted in a few weeks.

Wow thats the writing on the wall for some....

Well done to them all especially Bail. He has turned it around this year and all credit to him.

As for Terlich, you can't delist them all and he is one that can count himself as slightly lucky. Ball is squarely in his court now.

Terlich

WTF

I thought we were having a huge list cleanout and getting rid of players with no skill?

Fulfilling their roles it appears.

3 names off the scrap list

What the uneducated majority don't seem to gather is that while we need to get quality young players in, we can't just throw out anyone over the age of 22. Eg what Bailey did, setting us back 6 years.

You need harden senior bodies around the young to help the mature at the right speed, hence why all our young players struggle to develop.
Also, many people are forgetting the fact Terlich came 3rd in the B&F last year

they have no Trade value, and many worse players on our list, so good signing for all 3

They are all VFL in my eyes but I guess you have to have someone on the list over the next two years.

Wow.

I'm so disappointed with Terlich and Bail.

McKenzie, Evans and Jamar are contracted for next year so it looks like we have another season of Jamar, Spencer, Bail, Terlich, Evans and McKenzie clogging the list.

Roos must have some grand plans to bring in elite talent for the top bracket of our playing list as the bottom half of the playing list will continue to be absolute rubbish.

I could see us paying out Evans contract:

Jamar, Spencer, McKenzie will all be gone by end of next year.

  On 26/08/2014 at 02:32, Maggot 1977 said:

I could see us paying out Evans contract:

Jamar, Spencer, McKenzie will all be gone by end of next year.

I think Spencer got two more years.

  On 26/08/2014 at 02:26, DeeM said:

What the uneducated majority don't seem to gather is that while we need to get quality young players in, we can't just throw out anyone over the age of 22. Eg what Bailey did, setting us back 6 years.

You need harden senior bodies around the young to help the mature at the right speed, hence why all our young players struggle to develop.

Also, many people are forgetting the fact Terlich came 3rd in the B&F last year

Well, I think you'll find that what the uneducated majority reckon is that Terlich isn't actually up to AFL standard. Too loose as a defender, and lacks the vision or skill to go with his willingness to take the game on. Also, Bate was 3rd (or 2nd?) in a B&F not that long ago.

And that's why a few people have raised their eyebrows about him being re-signed. Either he improves significantly in 2015 or he'll be spending the whole year at Casey.

As for Bail and Riley. A few people won't be happy as they see Bail as simply not being up to it, skills-wise, but I think there'd be consensus that he has the kind of character and workrate that it would be good to have as much as possible of, so people will nod and move on.

Still ten players left on the 'possible delistings' table. I'm tipping seven to go, and that'll be enough for 2014.

  On 26/08/2014 at 02:26, DeeM said:

What the uneducated majority don't seem to gather is that while we need to get quality young players in, we can't just throw out anyone over the age of 22. Eg what Bailey did, setting us back 6 years.

You need harden senior bodies around the young to help the mature at the right speed, hence why all our young players struggle to develop.

Also, many people are forgetting the fact Terlich came 3rd in the B&F last year

Not sure it was Bailey wanting to clean out the older players back then. Wasn't it the Connelly and Schwab blue print for success to draft as many young kids in as possible and sit back and wait for success to just happen, with the odd sponsor paid, free [censored] up in Shanghai to boot? Anyway it looks like a few of the young draftees from that period might be gonski at the end of the season.

I said in the last couple of weeks I expected Terlich to be retained.

He's not as bad as some give him credit for.

A mature body who at least competes.

And he had to go down to make room to see what was on offer from the backlog of HBFs we've built up over time...

  On 26/08/2014 at 02:26, DeeM said:

What the uneducated majority don't seem to gather is that while we need to get quality young players in, we can't just throw out anyone over the age of 22. Eg what Bailey did, setting us back 6 years.

You need harden senior bodies around the young to help the mature at the right speed, hence why all our young players struggle to develop.

Also, many people are forgetting the fact Terlich came 3rd in the B&F last year

A lot don't also realise that by holding onto duds like Bail and Terlich you miss the opportunity to take an Anthony Miles or Jeremy Laidler as a delisted free agent.

The top sides and expansion sides that have to trim their lists will delist better players than Bail and Terlich.

To quote a top 3 B&F finish being important in a side that won 2 games last year is laughable.

We have the worst football list in history and we are holding on to guys that lack the basic skills to even become C-graders.

  On 26/08/2014 at 02:28, old dee said:

They are all VFL in my eyes but I guess you have to have someone on the list over the next two years.

Not surprised with Riley as he's just starting to get going. After a solid preseason and more coaching I think he'll make an ok nuggetty type.

Little surprised by the other two. Still how long did they sign for ?

Must be lots of feelers out already regarding trades and such me thinks.

Terlich is hand at everything except kicking, and decision making (which is sadly vital for footy). Clean then up and he is a definite keeper.

Bail: Good call, definitely deserves an extension. You don't go from playing virtually every game one minute to getting the arse the next.

Riley: Was on a one-year contract, and has done enough to earn another year on the list. I'll be disappointed if it's more than that though.

Terlich: Not sure about this one. Don't think he's up to it.

Terlich probably isn't up to it, but we aren't in a position to chance our arm.

Wow. Terlich. That's a surprise.
Perhaps the trade and delists will include some who, in Mark Neeld's words, we didn't see coming.

  On 26/08/2014 at 02:43, The Song Formerly Known As said:

Terlich is hand at everything except kicking, and decision making (which is sadly vital for footy). Clean then up and he is a definite keeper.

Has anyone introduced him to George Stone yet? If anyone can fix his kicking up, it's him!

Rohan bail is a turnover king! Has the poorest foot skills, so what IMF he gets the ball, it constantly results in a turnover. Looks like the massive clean out we were all banking on wont come to fruition and we will persist with the same group of duds!