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Re-signings

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Just got an email from Tam in the club that 4 inaugural Dees, being Lily Mithen, Paxy Paxman, Sarah Lampard and Lauren Pearce have all re-signed. 

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    Hoping for some injury luck for Lampard next season, we really missed her.

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    "Mithen (25) has signed a three-year deal, that will extend her time until at least 2026, while Paxman (35), Pearce (30) and Lampard (26) have signed one-year contracts, that will see them remain with the Dees until at least 2024."

    https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1476278/four-original-dees-put-pen-to-paper

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    Is this the first year that AFLW players can sign long term contracts? If so I wonder if there was a reluctance to offer them to any of the recent departures and whether that resulted in them moving on? 

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    49 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    Is this the first year that AFLW players can sign long term contracts? If so I wonder if there was a reluctance to offer them to any of the recent departures and whether that resulted in them moving on? 

    Yep.

    In which case, possibly as much about the longer contracts offered by others? Particularly Hawks and possibly Bombers? North is the curious one...

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    26 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    Yep.

    In which case, possibly as much about the longer contracts offered by others? Particularly Hawks and possibly Bombers? North is the curious one...

    North is the curious one...

    Free car? Someone a few doors down from mine has one. It has a big Kangaroos logo on the front door on both sides. 

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    With all the delistings and re-signings, I've decided to do my best 21. I'll do a best 21 after the draft too.

    B: Heath, Gillard

    HB: Goldrick, Colvin, Lampard

    C: McNamara, Purcell, B. Mackin

    HF: Hore, Harris, A. Mackin

    F: Bannan, Zanker

    FOLL: Pearce, Paxman, Hanks

    IC: Mithen, Campbell, Chaplin, Fitzsimon, Rigoni

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    16 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

    "Mithen (25) has signed a three-year deal, that will extend her time until at least 2026, while Paxman (35), Pearce (30) and Lampard (26) have signed one-year contracts, that will see them remain with the Dees until at least 2024."

    https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1476278/four-original-dees-put-pen-to-paper

    I would have swapped the three year deal for Mithen with the one year deal for Lampard, but that's just me. 

    We need to be very careful to balance the now (Pearce) with the future (Campbell) and ensure that Campbell is getting the opportunities that she needs to stick around long term.

     

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    9 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

    With all the delistings and re-signings, I've decided to do my best 21. I'll do a best 21 after the draft too.

    B: Heath, Gillard

    HB: Goldrick, Colvin, Lampard

    C: McNamara, Purcell, B. Mackin

    HF: Hore, Harris, A. Mackin

    F: Bannan, Zanker

    FOLL: Pearce, Paxman, Hanks

    IC: Mithen, Campbell, Chaplin, Fitzsimon, Rigoni

    Disappointing lack of capitals W

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    Keeping track of contracts (with age as of 1 Sep in that year) -

    2027: Hanks (27), Hore (32)

    2026: B.Mackin (27), Mithen (28)

    2025: Goldrick (35)

    2024: Colvin (33), Harris (27), Lampard (27), A.Mackin (27), Paxman (35), Pearce (31), Taylor (26), Watt (36)

     

    Everyone currently aged 25+ (plus Hanks) has been locked in and announced, so no age-related retirements this off-season. Assuming the remaining 10 are locked in, that would make 23 players retained of the list of 31 from 2023.

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    20 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

    Keeping track of contracts (with age as of 1 Sep in that year) -

    2027: Hanks (27), Hore (32)

    2026: B.Mackin (27), Mithen (28)

    2025: Goldrick (35)

    2024: Colvin (33), Harris (27), Lampard (27), A.Mackin (27), Paxman (35), Pearce (31), Taylor (26), Watt (36)

     

    Everyone currently aged 25+ (plus Hanks) has been locked in and announced, so no age-related retirements this off-season. Assuming the remaining 10 are locked in, that would make 23 players retained of the list of 31 from 2023.

    https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1478353/demons-re-sign-ten-young-guns

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    5 hours ago, Dee Viney Intervention said:

    Priority needs to be to sign Gillard beyond end of 2024

    Yeah; I wonder what the stories were, behind the quite different lengths of contract that resulted, all apparently in a common timeframe of negotiation. Club driven or player driven?

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    On 11/12/2023 at 23:21, WERRIDEE said:

    With all the delistings and re-signings, I've decided to do my best 21. I'll do a best 21 after the draft too.

    B: Heath, Gillard

    HB: Goldrick, Colvin, Lampard

    C: McNamara, Purcell, B. Mackin

    HF: Hore, Harris, A. Mackin

    F: Bannan, Zanker

    FOLL: Pearce, Paxman, Hanks

    IC: Mithen, Campbell, Chaplin, Fitzsimon, Rigoni

    Lost 4 quality players but the team still looks strong enough to challenge again next season.  Add 2-3 quality youngsters and would like to see a fit TAYLA HARRIS back and firing.  

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    Whom hasn’t signed that is still on the list- anyone, please advise.

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    23 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

     and would like to see a fit TAYLA HARRIS back and firing.  

    Amen to that. I liked the one-year contract for Tayla for 2024 as this season was a tricky one to negotiate on. Another season for us and her to decide how the last phase of her career looks, hopefully to finish it out with us off the back of a great season.

    On 16/12/2023 at 14:08, Dee Viney Intervention said:

    Priority needs to be to sign Gillard beyond end of 2024

    Agree, at the earliest opportunity. Big future. She's still SO young though that we've got away with another year likely with a promise for something more substantial next time.

    On 16/12/2023 at 19:50, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    Yeah; I wonder what the stories were, behind the quite different lengths of contract that resulted, all apparently in a common timeframe of negotiation. Club driven or player driven?

    To be a fly on the wall! There is something of a logical pattern to it, though, with priority given to seniority for those in or coming into their prime, one year for the over 30s and the very youngest/newest, and a little extra to some key cogs (correlates strongly with B&F results) and those who potentially had some negotiating power in terms of other interest but who the club views as keepers (I'm speculating Bannan and McNamara in that category).

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    6 minutes ago, Dees_In_October said:

    To be a fly on the wall! There is something of a logical pattern to it, though, with priority given to seniority for those in or coming into their prime, one year for the over 30s and the very youngest/newest, and a little extra to some key cogs (correlates strongly with B&F results) and those who potentially had some negotiating power in terms of other interest but who the club views as keepers (I'm speculating Bannan and McNamara in that category).

    Good analysis, DIO.

    You, surely?...

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