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Neroli Meadows on Fox also reporting that it’s likely he will end up at MFC next year.

 

Would this be our first free agent signing since Shannon Byrnes?

 

 

1 minute ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

Would this be our first free agent signing since Shannon Byrnes?

 

 

I believe so. We’ve just lost them going the other way. Time we start landing some free agents for no trade cost!

Tomlinson will be a good get for us.

 
7 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

We’ve just lost them going the other way.

Who have we lost to free agency?

5 minutes ago, demonstone said:

Who have we lost to free agency?

Frawley and Rivers.

Edited by Ethan Tremblay


Forgot about Riv.  Still, two isn't many to lose; not as if we've been damaged by free agency losses.

So he's been mostly a regular in the GWS team this year but some think not good enough for us ?????

 

The problem is how we fit these guys into the salary cap and how we manage those coming out of contract this year. 

Someone remind plz if we delist a contracted player for medical reasons I.e Avb or KK, do we take a hit on salary cap with the payout? Cos that's the only way we could land Langdon and Tomlinson ... cant imagine how we get Laird in.

1 hour ago, Lord Travis said:

I believe so. We’ve just lost them going the other way. Time we start landing some free agents for no trade cost!

Tomlinson will be a good get for us.

He will be a good get for free. If he works out then it's a win, if he doesn't then we didn't lose a thing really. 


1 hour ago, demonstone said:

Who have we lost to free agency?

 

1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Frawley and Rivers.

Moloney and Sylvia.

7 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

We have to get him first.

True. But that's the same for any player you chase. 

If we do get him in free agency, then I think it's a shrewd piece of business for the club. 

31 minutes ago, CYB said:

The problem is how we fit these guys into the salary cap and how we manage those coming out of contract this year. 

Someone remind plz if we delist a contracted player for medical reasons I.e Avb or KK, do we take a hit on salary cap with the payout? Cos that's the only way we could land Langdon and Tomlinson ... cant imagine how we get Laird in.

Wouldn't think we're currently paying 100% of the cap and need to delist contracted players to afford one. Especially given Lewis & Garlett are gone already.

1 hour ago, demonstone said:

Who have we lost to free agency?

Frawley, Rivers, Sylvia, Moloney. Sure they’re not really superstars, but we haven’t had any superstars for a long time. In that group is an All Australian defender who’s now a premiership player, a BnF winner, a Rising Star and an unfulfilled talent who was a pick 3.

We’ve acquired Shannon Byrnes.

We definitely need to make more use of free agency. Not saying it was the wrong move, but we gave up pick 6 for May and we could’ve got him trade free as a free agent a year later instead. Our drafting has suffered the past few years and no one (other than Lewis) wants to come our club as we are traditionally weak and Aden now a basket case again. Back to paying overs to lure talent again!


1 hour ago, CYB said:

The problem is how we fit these guys into the salary cap and how we manage those coming out of contract this year. 

Someone remind plz if we delist a contracted player for medical reasons I.e Avb or KK, do we take a hit on salary cap with the payout? Cos that's the only way we could land Langdon and Tomlinson ... cant imagine how we get Laird in.

With delistings and retirements we'll lose a fair bit off the cap. Losing Lewis and Garlett's contracts will help as well as what i'm sure will be further delistings + trades. Doubt we'd even be right at that cap at the moment and will probably only face those issues over the next 2-3 years when more of our "better" players come out of contract and start demanding more.

We have removed the Lewis and Garlett contract amounts (amongst others), but on the other hand we've re-signed a number of players (eg. Weid) on what would probably be increased amounts.

Edited by Moonshadow

3 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

We have removed the Lewis and Garlett contract amounts (amongst others), but on the other hand we've re-signed a number of players (eg. Weid) on what would be increased amounts.

Wouldn't think Weid would have got a big increase to be honest. What other players have we re-signed this year who would have had big rises?

Would think any rise Weid (and probably Frost) got would have been cancelled out by the reduction in Jones' new deal. Guessing of course.

Edited by Lord Nev

8 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

We have removed the Lewis and Garlett contract amounts (amongst others), but on the other hand we've re-signed a number of players (eg. Weid) on what would probably be increased amounts.

Plus Jones is on far less than his previous contract. 

I agree others would be on more too, but we have certainly opened up more room for this off season. 

GWS drop Tomlinson and suddenly find form.

Demon Derangement Syndrome.


1 hour ago, Lord Travis said:

Frawley, Rivers, Sylvia, Moloney. Sure they’re not really superstars, but we haven’t had any superstars for a long time. In that group is an All Australian defender who’s now a premiership player, a BnF winner, a Rising Star and an unfulfilled talent who was a pick 3.

We’ve acquired Shannon Byrnes.

We definitely need to make more use of free agency. Not saying it was the wrong move, but we gave up pick 6 for May and we could’ve got him trade free as a free agent a year later instead. Our drafting has suffered the past few years and no one (other than Lewis) wants to come our club as we are traditionally weak and Aden now a basket case again. Back to paying overs to lure talent again!

At the time Frawley was a big loss, despite him not bothering too much in his last season.

losing him to Hawthorn and rivers to the cats, demonstrated very clearly the flaws of free agency. Top teams raiding the bottom ones. It stunk (still not over it, it would seem!)

On 8/5/2019 at 11:23 PM, Ethan Tremblay said:

I see the Kangas are into Goldstein, interesting.. 

North are all set to trade for Goldy with their first pick. They get two players for the price of one.

27 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Wouldn't think Weid would have got a big increase to be honest. What other players have we re-signed this year who would have had big rises?

Would think any rise Weid (and probably Frost) got would have been cancelled out by the reduction in Jones' new deal. Guessing of course.

 

20 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Plus Jones is on far less than his previous contract. 

I agree others would be on more too, but we have certainly opened up more room for this off season. 

Hope you guys are correct. We will need to throw some decent dosh around to attract name players

 
On 9/6/2019 at 3:23 PM, Redleg said:

Adam Tomlinson

Born:10-Aug-1993 (Debut:18y 227d Last:26y 14d)

Height:194 cm Weight:96 kg

VFL/AFL: 12035th player to appear, 1425th most games played, 2564th most goals kicked
Greater Western Sydney: 18th player to appear, 5th most games played, 20th most goals kicked

[Best][By type][Averages][By opposition][By venue]
[Games Played]

  • By totals 
  • By averages 
  • Abbreviations key#=Jumper
    GM=Games played
    KI=Kicks
    MK=Marks
    HB=Handballs
    DI=Disposals
    DA=Disposal average
    GL=Goals
    BH=Behinds
    HO=Hit outs
    TK=Tackles
    RB=Rebound 50s
    IF=Inside 50s
    CL=Clearances
    CG=Clangers
    FF=Free kicks for
    FA=Free kicks against
    BR=Brownlow votes
    CP=Contested possessions
    UP=Uncontested possessions
    CM=Contested marks
    MI=Marks inside 50
    1%=One percenters
    BO=Bounces
    GA=Goal assist
    %P=Percentage of game played
    SU=Sub (On/Off)
    ↑=subbed on
    ↓=subbed off
Year   Team   #   GM   W-D-L   KI   MK   HB   DI   GL   BH   HO   TK   RB   IF   CL   CG   FF   FA   BR   CP   UP   CM   MI   1%   BO   GA  
Totals 137 59-3-75 1324 789 755 2079 35 24 139 284 232 263 135 295 64 97   671 1433 55 43 329 22 35
Averages 17.13 44.16% 9.66 5.76 5.51 15.18 0.26 0.18 1.01 2.07 1.69 1.92 0.99 2.15 0.47 0.71   4.90 10.46 0.40 0.31 2.40 0.16 0.26
2012 Greater Western Sydney 20 9 0-0-9 56 31 43 99 2 1   16 10 14 6 14 3 2   41 62 5 4 18   3
2013 Greater Western Sydney 20 17 1-0-16 179 127 89 268 5 6 22 27 26 36 7 31 11 7   77 194 6 6 29 6 4
2014 Greater Western Sydney 20 19 4-0-15 181 127 126 307 8 6 9 47 26 19 12 31 8 13   74 234 7 12 31 4 6
2015 Greater Western Sydney 20 8 5-0-3 70 50 40 110 2 3 16 13 14 14 3 13 4 3   31 80 6 6 15 2 2
2016 Greater Western Sydney 20 14 8-0-6 110 66 70 180 1 3 1 21 20 23 3 24 6 11   65 114 10 3 47 1 3
2017 Greater Western Sydney 20 24 14-2-8 227 119 103 330 1     39 66 32 3 60 14 19   89 242 4   90 5 1
2018 Greater Western Sydney 20 24 14-1-9 255 129 144 399 12 4 34 63 37 69 53 57 8 22   154 253 9 7 50 3 8
2019 Greater Western Sydney 20 22 13-0-9 246 140 140 386 4 1 57 58 33 56 48 65 10 20   140 254 8 5 49 1 8

I just wanted to quote the worst formatted table of all time.

24 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Hope you guys are correct. We will need to throw some decent dosh around to attract name players

It's the next couple of years that are the tester more than this one IMO.

We have to hope Mahoney manages things well and that we can turn the ship around a bit so weren't not relying solely on money being the attraction.


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