Who Do We Keep

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,631]

With all the talk of trading and delisting players at the moment and the near endless negative dissection of our season, coaches and playing list, I'd be interested in others thoughts on those out of contract on the fringe and worthy of keeping and why and/or players you would consider untradable.

A couple few from me to kick things off:

1.  Corey Wagner - I'm not sure that Corey would ever be an automatic best 22 selection, but to me he showed enough at various stages this year that he could be useful small forward depth.  To me he showed all of good pace, tenacious chasing/forward pressure, good crumbing and goal sense.  To me he is close enough to the standard and has attributes where when the fortunes of the side as a whole improve around him, I think he could envisage him elevating his game and be a useful contributor.  Most premiership sides have role players of average ability and I think Corey could potentially be one of those.

2.  Tim Smith - was a bit luke warm on Smith prior to this season, but when he was fit, he certainly showed me that he is capable of having that strong presence in the forwardline.  Only questionmark for me is can his body hold up.

[Ethan Tremblay 29,983]

#ETthetradebreaker understands and possibly believes and make no mistake, Tim Smith may retire. More to come. 

Edited August 31, 2019 by Ethan Tremblay

[Redleg 40,149]

33 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

#ETthetradebreaker understands and possibly believes and make no mistake, Tim Smith may retire. More to come. 

TBH, Tim is a nice guy, but if we can't find a better option than a not best 22, 29 year old, perennially injured player, the Recruiting Department is useless.

[Lord Travis 10,458]

Off the top of my head:

Tim Smith is 29 years old, is mostly injured, and depth st best when not injured. He’s delist/retire material.

Corey Wagner shows a bit of pace and fight. I’d keep him as depth.

Josh Wagner is pretty average all round. He’s depth at best, but we have the backline mostly covered now so I’d say delist.

JKH is delist. Good at VFL level, struggles at AFL level. Doesn’t have pace or any elite attributes. 25 years old at start of next season. 7 years on the list. Clear delist. He is the exact type of player other clubs would’ve cut years ago, but we persist with.

ANB retain as depth. 

AVB can’t get on the park. We’d be best to delist him, but for some stupid reason we gave him a 3 year contract so we’d have to pay it out.

Lewis gone.

Garlett gone.

Jones one more year.

[Tough Kent 2,103]

Tim Smith has retired.

ANB has signed a two year deal.

The whole club is on notice, although this won’t be publisized to avoid media hype.