Like other interstate players on our list, he will leave when his contract is up if we don't start playing good football and winning. It would be devastating to lose him and Hogan in a few years time if we are still cellar dwellers, but it's a real possibility.

WE NEED TO START WINNING GAMES.

Like other interstate players on our list, he will leave when his contract is up if we don't start playing good football and winning. It would be devastating to lose him and Hogan in a few years time if we are still cellar dwellers, but it's a real possibility.

WE NEED TO START WINNING GAMES.

I agree. Pretty bloody simple isn't it.

I wouldn't worry about this too much. If we win a few more games and Kent can see a bright future he will stay. Besides, it is likely we are sniffing around Scott Selwood also, it's just the way it goes.

Aren't we going to have a huge crack at Zac Jones at the end of the year?

Sorry I stopped reading your posts, but thought I needed to answer this one.

Yes I will ask him all the same, have a good rapport with him see what I get, might tell me to get stuffed,

Had a really good chat to both Trengove and Howe about moves to Richmond and GWS and got really good answers, same with Chip Frawely, I honestly believed he hadn''t made up his mind and then after speaking to him after season was over was convinced he was going to Freo till Hawthorn stepped in at last minute

As I have said previously the players will discuss anything as long as you ask in a respectful way, some times they ask me not to publicise which I don't

The How /GWS trade was thrown up at the last minute by GWS and was a bulls*it trade idea to try and stuff up our OOC players - particularly one with some marketing pizzaz. It was never real, was never going to happen at such a late stage and was classic kite flying by that filthy scum-sucking vampire squid called GWS.

I hope all of their six OOC guns leave this year to an up and coming club like Melbourne. GWS is a bad idea getting worse. Its a black hole...

There were plenty of articles written about it at the time.

I seem to recall that Neeld was very impressed at Kent's efforts to commute to training each day from a small country community and that he felt he was very unlucky not to be selected for the State team.

Liked his pace and guts.

Think Neeld may have even travelled over to WA to meet Kent's family as part of the recruiting process.

Have to agree with this. Credit where credit's due. He also had a big hand in landing Dawes and Clark ( ... and Gillies, Byrnes and Rodan?!).

That said, Stef Martin and Jared Rivers leaving also had a fair bit to do with Mark Neeld.

Would've liked to see Bennell given another year too, but I suspect Neeld thought he was too soft and cut him free.

Back to the topic though, Kent looks to be a real find. Like most others here, I'm expecting a really good year from him this year.

This is really bad recruiting, the younger guys drafted seem pretty decent, but we were pretty desperate to get these guys who were on the way out.

West Coast & Freo would be into every player from WA that shows promise. I would imagine they will have a crack at Hogan every single year regardless if he's in contract or not.

This is really bad recruiting, the younger guys drafted seem pretty decent, but we were pretty desperate to get these guys who were on the way out.

It also completely stuffed our compo for Rivers and Moloney leaving the club.

Really stupid stuff.

It also completely stuffed our compo for Rivers and Moloney leaving the club.

Really stupid stuff.

And with that compo pick (#48) we chose Dean Kent

Kinda ironic

I'll take Dean Kent every day of the week.

That said, pick 48 is hardly a highly sought after pick.

I'll take Dean Kent every day of the week.

That said, pick 48 is hardly a highly sought after pick.

Yep, we've sort of gotten lucky so far (converting the compo we received)

I do agree that we mucked up the compo that year RB ... being the 1st year of free agency I'm not sure many of the clubs were all that ready - they all should have been of course. All the clubs knew free agency was coming in and the probable repercussions that were coming with the changes in player movement.

Edit: added 'probable' as in some ways the clubs were entering into unknown territory.

I feel that a quote from The Castle fits in about here.

Ralph, he's going straight to the pool room....

It also completely stuffed our compo for Rivers and Moloney leaving the club.

Really stupid stuff.

It may seem stupid in hindsight, but at the time, there's an argument that could have been made for all those decisions. We needed to turn over the list, and given where we were at, that we managed to get anyone at all in was an achievement.

Byrnes has been a decent pickup given all that - he's still at the club, contributing in a welfare and development role, which was always as much as anything why he was brought in.

Agree in part Bing - but many here had heard (?!) that Geelong was about to delist Byrnes and yet we picked him up in a way that compromised our compensation for Rivers/Moloney - if true, hardly clever stuff.

Rodan was essentially free. Should never have picked up Gillies.

The Pedersen for Gysberts deal has worked though - and I was not really convinced about this one at the time.

I feel that a quote from The Castle fits in about here.

Get your hand off it West Coast?

Get your hand off it West Coast?

What is it with West Coast and cash ?

If West Coast are sniffing around Dean Kent , let's hope he farts in their general direction.

I think someone mentioned this earlier but it's hardly surprising i know for a fact we have inquired and spoken to Gaff, Shuey and Selwood in the last couple of seasons, it's just the nature of footy these days, alot of clubs speak to a lot of players to try and make sure they can improve their list as much as possible

i reckon we're a sneaky chance of landing Scott Selwood if he chose to come home, we could offer him a little more coin that some of the contenders would and hopefully we will be a side that is clearly on the rise

Agree in part Bing - but many here had heard (?!) that Geelong was about to delist Byrnes and yet we picked him up in a way that compromised our compensation for Rivers/Moloney - if true, hardly clever stuff.

The AFL changed the rules on us at the last minute when we were trying to get value out of Moloney and Rivers. Initially, the AFL said that teams will get a 'net' pick of the value of players lost to players gained. We took Byrnes in FA to bump up the value of the remaining pick.

When the AFL made a 'rule on the run' during the first FA period about their being 'band less' players (ie worthless) - both Moloney and Byrnes fell in the category somehow and we got a third rounder for Rivers when we were expecting a 2nd rounder for the balance of all three players coming and going.