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Player managers fear a middle-class squeeze that will see the league’s reliable role players sacrificed so clubs can stay under a smaller 2021 salary cap.

AFL football operations boss Steve Hocking on Wednesday confirmed little work had been done on the salary cap or list cuts as key industry figures fear key decisions are months away.

List managers and player agents are still none the wiser on when they will be able to contract players again as players begin to express their anxiousness about 2021 contracts.

 

BAYLEY FRITSCH (MELBOURNE) 

Jack Viney is the free agent the Demons will want to lock away but Fritsch has turned into a sneaky-good utility who can play anywhere and kicked 17 and 20 goals in his first two years. Can he go big and turn a 30-plus goal year into some serious leverage?

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    Fritsch's ceiling is super high. Would be crazy to let him go.

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    The fact this doesn't necessarily need to be a binary list management decision, I'll play along with the Hun on this one - remains to be seen what each brings to the table in 2020.

    JV may well crack the sads when/if the going gets tough, as he may well be entitled to do, or Fritsch may not get the supply.

    For mine Fritsch's return on investment is far greater, more upside too.

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    23 minutes ago, rolling fog said:

    The fact this doesn't necessarily need to be a binary list management decision, I'll play along with the Hun on this one - remains to be seen what each brings to the table in 2020.

    JV may well crack the sads when/if the going gets tough, as he may well be entitled to do, or Fritsch may not get the supply.

    For mine Fritsch's return on investment is far greater, more upside too.

    You must've missed JV in R1?

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    3 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Twitter should start putting warnings on Herald Sun journalist tweets like it did yesterday on President Trump's. 

    And a health warning on anything from the aptly named Ralph

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    They must keep Fritsch; he's our next Brad Green.

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    8 minutes ago, Collar-Jazz-Knee said:

    I'd get rid of a lot of players before Fritsch!

    With you 100% on this.

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    Going by the contracts thread, there are 17 players OOC. I'd have Fritsch as the third most important to sign behind Trac and Vines. He ain't going anywhere.

    But nice try Ralph you muppet.

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    Is timing the issue? Do the majority of other players have contracts after this season? If there’s numerous other players also OOC at seasons end, then this is a nothing article. Fritz will he retained.

    Edited by Ethan Tremblay

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    Below is the list of OOC players at the end of this season. 

    Player Status
    Aaron Nietschke  
    Austin Bradtke  
    Bayley Fritsch  
    Charlie Spargo  
    Corey Wagner  
       
    Harley Bennell  
    Harrison Petty  
    Jack Viney RFA
    James Jordan  
    Jay Lockhart  
    Jayden Hunt  
    Joel Smith  
    Joshua Wagner  
    Kade Chandler  
    Kyle Dunkley  
    Marty Hore  
    Michael Hibberd  
    Mitchell Brown  
    Mitchell Hannan  
    Nathan Jones UFA
    Oscar McDonald  
    Toby Bedford  
    Tom Sparrow

    Edited by Ethan Tremblay
    Removed Langdon

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    4 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    Below is the list of OOC players at the end of this season. 

    Player Status
    Aaron Nietschke  
    Austin Bradtke  
    Bayley Fritsch  
    Charlie Spargo  
    Corey Wagner  
    Ed Langdon  
    Harley Bennell  
    Harrison Petty  
    Jack Viney RFA
    James Jordan  
    Jay Lockhart  
    Jayden Hunt  
    Joel Smith  
    Joshua Wagner  
    Kade Chandler  
    Kyle Dunkley  
    Marty Hore  
    Michael Hibberd  
    Mitchell Brown  
    Mitchell Hannan  
    Nathan Jones UFA
    Oscar McDonald  
    Toby Bedford  
    Tom Sparrow

    Really is a nothing tweet from Ralph. just making up things whilst in isolation. If he had a half a brain he would have mentioned the Wagners, Dunkley & maybe Spargo or Hunt first. Keep the young guys and Bradtke as work in progress

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    19 minutes ago, demonstone said:

    Ed Langdon out of contract at the end of his first year?   Gotta be a mistake.

    here's luci's list - so 22 contracted beyond 2020

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    Edited by daisycutter

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    Ralph is going for shock. He has named decent players in each team and their supporters are going to say the same as us. Jon Ralph doesn't deserve this much conversation.

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    Being brutal about the players listed for contract renewal in 2020 it would seem that only Viney and Fritsch are certainties. Lots of others are probables (some more than others) but there's a few that could be hit by list reductions if they occur.

    Big year for quite a few of those on Lucifer's 2020 renewal list.

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    I would think that for the AFL to reduce the salary cap for 2021 that they would need agreement with the AFLPA to revise existing contracts downward, otherwise what happens if a club have most of its players locked away so that they are over the revised salary cap with their existing contracts.

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    9 minutes ago, chookrat said:

    I would think that for the AFL to reduce the salary cap for 2021 that they would need agreement with the AFLPA to revise existing contracts downward, otherwise what happens if a club have most of its players locked away so that they are over the revised salary cap with their existing contracts.

    yes, i wondered about that possibility. even if not over the revised salary they may be with min payment requirements to pay those re-contracted out of the remaining players to make up the new list numbers

    i think one way or the other (voluntary or not) existing contracts will be renegotiated within certain guidelines. 

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    Fritsch needs to work on his set shot kicking if he wants to go places in the league.

    Is a good snap shot and good on the run but his elementary set shots for goal leaves a lot to be desired.

    Had a poor round 1 with 0.2. Looking forward to a better showing vs Carlton.

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