They are going to crash and burn next year Ablett should have been gone and thee rest also, they are getting way too old.

WCE had plenty of opportunity to draft Kelly. He was playing under their noses for years. He may have had a break out year prior to being drafted but even then the Cats took him with a pick in the 20s. 

I am with the Cats on this one. Do you're 2 years son, then we'll get you home. 

Irrespective, Scott is still a [censored]....  

24 minutes ago, Baghdad Bob said:

If he has another good year that won't help much if he insists on going to WCE because try as they might they won't have the picks to offer.  It's hard to see how they can offer much more next year than they did this year. 

Freo might have a new coach which could change his tune on going there and the Eagles could put a first and a future first on the table which is the going rate for a gun player. That might be much better than 19 and 20 or whatever it was this year.

Remaining players with Neeld taint:

Two captains

2018 Coaches' MVP

2019 Coleman medalist 

(Jetta underwent a rebirthing ceremony)

 

On 10/17/2018 at 5:17 PM, My name is legion said:

How do you think Hogan would have played next year if Melbourne blocked his return “home”?

Hogan clearly wanted to go “home”.

This massively lowers his value to MFC and his trade value.

We did well to get what we did.

 

If Hogan was a Free Agent this year, what type compensation would we be looking at?  

Will we look to package up a future 2nd round pick and this year's 3rd round round pick to get a pick in the 20s maybe low 30s 

Some interesting delisted players out there. I don't mind the idea of having Weller on a one year deal as depth.

Hugh Goddard interests me. Doesn't really fill a direct need but was had a hard run with injuries. A one year deal to see if he can get his body right would be worth it. He is an endurance player that could still develop. 

Delisted players I have the absolute smallest of interest in:

Cory Gregson - has the talent but terrible injury run
Jed Lamb - would be his 4th team, he's mostly crap but maybe he's the latest of late maturers? There's something about him that could work in a good team, not sure if I'm crazy or not
Darren meatball Michington - pressure forward type who has a crack
Declan Mountford - tagger who's got just a little class and toe
Jon O'Rourke - not sure he's hearts in it but his athleticism is still there
Nathan Mullenger-McHugh - great name! Also he's super raw and athletic

A number of our delisted players are better than any of the suggested delisted players from other clubs. 

1 hour ago, Adzman said:

Some interesting delisted players out there. I don't mind the idea of having Weller on a one year deal as depth.

Hugh Goddard interests me. Doesn't really fill a direct need but was had a hard run with injuries. A one year deal to see if he can get his body right would be worth it. He is an endurance player that could still develop. 

Mav "strabismus" Weller - love him!

Great photo potential.

Interesting that Beams took most of the money in his front loaded contract with Brisbane and then suddenly wants out. No wonder they were so pizzed off and wanted 2 x first rounders in return 

I wonder if Hogan's contract with us was back loaded. If so, we might be saving a pretty penny in our SC next year

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Delisted free agents are all pretty slim pickings. Agree Mav Weller is the only one that I’d call right now. One year deal.

Physically ready. Tough. No backwards steps. Fits Harmes mould. Good depth. Protects new young draftees at Casey. 

Mav Weller at the Dees would do no good for his confidence. Imagine every time the captain, Jack Viney, walks into the locker room and sees him, he'll break out in fits of laughter, probably even throw in his Fortnite dance for good measure.

Either way, if we do get Weller, we know his nickname. 'The Fend'

Weller and Viney are close childhood friends.

But we don't need him.

Not really any decent delisted free agents this year. Best of the lot is our very own Bugg who would surely be playing in a number of other teams. He’d legitimately be in the top 10 players at Carlton and Gold Coast.

Titus O’Reily’s GCS team photograph 2019

11 hours ago, Freddy Fuschia said:

Titus O’Reily’s GCS team photograph 2019

Freddy: Be sweet, embed the tweet...

11 hours ago, rpfc said:

Freddy: Be sweet, embed the tweet...

Dan howe still hasn't signed a new contract at hawk. 

On 10/18/2018 at 10:52 PM, ProDee said:

Weller and Viney are close childhood friends.

But we don't need him.

Weller grew up in Burnie, Tasmania.  Hard to believe he even knew who Jack Viney was.

1 hour ago, demonstone said:

Weller grew up in Burnie, Tasmania.  Hard to believe he even knew who Jack Viney was.

I heard Viney say it on one of those gameday footy shows when they replayed his tackle on him.

I have no reason to doubt him, but by all means you're welcome to try and prove it wrong.

Mitch Honeychurch remains unsigned. He is mostly an outside midfielder and played 13 games in 2018.

Is he worthy of  DFA spot? 

On 10/18/2018 at 5:19 PM, Tatu said:

If Hogan was a Free Agent this year, what type compensation would we be looking at?  

Not that much I'd think if him taking unders money wise is really true.

I think it's possible we could have got more for him next year.  He wouldn't have had this foot injury thing hanging over him potententually devaluing him, could have had a huge year and kicked 60+ goals.  My view is if things had fallen trade wise and he stayed he could have been pretty motivated by finals and sucess, assuming we continued on our upward trend.  There may also have been more competition from West Coast for his services if he was really still determined to get back.  In a lot of ways, it was possibly not such a good time to trade him.

...but it's all water under the bridge now, so no use crying over spilt milk.

My biggest beef out of the trade period would have to be bloody Richmond picking up Lynch for nothing trade/draft position wise.  Would have loved it if we could have picked up May for nothing like they did.  Still bird in the hand is better than two in the bush I guess.

If anyone mentions Jed lamb again I'll put them on ignore.

2 hours ago, demonstone said:

Weller grew up in Burnie, Tasmania.  Hard to believe he even knew who Jack Viney was.

Maybe they were pen pals.

Edited October 19, 20186 yr by Ethan Tremblay