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 September 7, 20195 yr by Ethan Tremblay

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

Sylvia as well.

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.

11 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

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. 

We have to get him first.

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 September 7, 20195 yr 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 September 7, 20195 yr 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.