Lachie Hunter Retires

[In Harmes Way 7,730]

I fondly remember him taking off up the wing in the 21 granny and bouncing the ball, losing control and it crossing the boundary line.

Best of luck for your future endeavours Lachie.

[roy11 3,823]

All the best in retirement Lachie.

Not the most memorable spell with us but was still a handy player in 2023.

Good from a list management perspective to have him gone, especially with the rise of Windsor and return to form of Langdon.

Still would have preferred to have kept Jayden though.

[FreedFromDesire 912]

17 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

 

Schache. 
Brown. 
Hunter. 
Tomlinson. 
Brayshaw? (possibly supplanted by Kentfield)

 

Brown, Brayshaw and Hunter retired. Farris-White & Schache delisted. Neal Bullen to be traded. Smith likely delisted and Tomlinson seemingly likely gone. Hore out of contract I believe but you'd think he'd stay.

Would mean we likely have 7 list spots to fill currently if Kentfield replaced Gus' spot.

*This is depending on the list size we settle on as it's semi-flexible.

[mo64 5,843]

Good player at the Dogs, waste of space at the Dees. Happy we've made another list spot available.

[roy11 3,823]

We'll always have the bounced handballs.

[Demons11 6,893]

I’m very happy this has happened.

[640MD 3,337]

14 minutes ago, mo64 said:

Good player at the Dogs,

 

Happy we've made another list spot available.

No need.    Fixed.  But very pleased the spot is vacant.

[640MD 3,337]

Get as many  young blokes as we can, but we need some old heads as well, not needed to be champion players  but experienced in training hard and kulture 

[george_on_the_outer 7,546]

21 minutes ago, FreedFromDesire said:

Brown, Brayshaw and Hunter retired. Farris-White & Schache delisted. Neal Bullen to be traded. Smith likely delisted and Tomlinson seemingly likely gone. Hore out of contract I believe but you'd think he'd stay.

Would mean we likely have 7 list spots to fill currently if Kentfield replaced Gus' spot.

*This is depending on the list size we settle on as it's semi-flexible.

Exactly.

so the picks to replace the 6th and 7th player will be in the nineties and beyond . Probably, already got to get rid of Fullarton, Billing’s next year with TMac and Melk to retire, because we couldn’t afford to have 9 players gone this year.

 

[Deepfreeze 216]

53 minutes ago, In Harmes Way said:

I fondly remember him taking off up the wing in the 21 granny and bouncing the ball, losing control and it crossing the boundary line.

Best of luck for your future endeavours Lachie.

You could say made a bigger contribution for us in that GF then James Jordan?

Edited September 26 by Deepfreeze

[DubDee 25,433]

Well played MFC

Cleared a list spot and avoided potential controversy 

Fair play to Hunter for taking the deal too and thanks for your service in 2023

[Demonsone 2,029]

Very questionable as  to why he was how list when the dogs wanted him out! Let everyone connect the dots!

[FreedFromDesire 912]

57 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Exactly.

so the picks to replace the 6th and 7th player will be in the nineties and beyond . Probably, already got to get rid of Fullarton, Billing’s next year with TMac and Melk to retire, because we couldn’t afford to have 9 players gone this year.

I wouldn't think we would be replacing 7 spots all through the draft though.

Derksen has already requested us. Links to Campbell, Lord and Peatling. Personally I would be very surprised if we ended up using more than 3-4 picks in the draft.

[Roost it far 8,104]

2 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

He clogged our list playing the most insipid brand of soft, slow, zero kicking penetration, miles out the back footy you’ll ever see for one year and then doing nothing in the second year. 

Strangely went ok in the finals considering what he served up week to week.

I don’t hate him, and I have no evidence to suggest he wasn’t professional during his time at Melbourne, but I hate the decision to get him. It was a move in the complete wrong direction from what we needed.

Don't hold back Big Fella!

[Roost it far 8,104]

2 hours ago, Tony Tea said:

Good player, but wrong sort of winger for us. We needed, and still need, more of a speed merchant.

As opposed to Windsor??

[Colm 2,045]

39 minutes ago, FreedFromDesire said:

I wouldn't think we would be replacing 7 spots all through the draft though.

Derksen has already requested us. Links to Campbell, Lord and Peatling. Personally I would be very surprised if we ended up using more than 3-4 picks in the draft.

Given the depth of this draft and the fact that we have 3 academy or F/S options at the tail end or rookie selections I’m hoping we take 5/6 via the drafts. We could always leave a couple of spots to fill via SSP and have a handful of players train with us for the last couple of spots. 
We have a lot of spots to fill this year and next and will have to find a few different ways to acquire talent.

[M_9 2,078]

3 hours ago, Joshy said:

Why do dees fans hate the bloke so much?

For the same reason Dogs' supporters were happy to see him go. Best to ask one of them, if you know any. As mentioned, our mods will be keeping a close eye on this thread. For good reason.

[FreedFromDesire 912]

8 minutes ago, Colm said:

Given the depth of this draft and the fact that we have 3 academy or F/S options at the tail end or rookie selections I’m hoping we take 5/6 via the drafts. We could always leave a couple of spots to fill via SSP and have a handful of players train with us for the last couple of spots. 
We have a lot of spots to fill this year and next and will have to find a few different ways to acquire talent.

Just my opinion of course, but I'd be disappointed if you used that many picks in the draft. I don't think we need more average or below average young players. I think we currently have ok depth and spread around the B/C grade level un terms of under 22s, but we lack for top end talent.

I'm obviously not up to speed, but I thought we only had 1 likely F/S or Academy selection this year? Ah-Mu has been ruled out, and I'm not sure we'd take both Mentha and Yze would we? The draft isn't really something I follow closely so I will defer to others who know more than I do.

[DemonWA 3,928]

I liked what Hunter brought to the table. Unfortunate that his body let him down. All the best in retirement 

[Wilson7 2,646]

3 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Where does that leave us list spot wise and how many spots?

3 on the Primary List, 0 Rookie & 1 Rookie B

* McVee Promoted to Primary List
* Angus Brayshaw (retired)
* Ben Brown (retired)
* Lachie Hunter (retired)
* Josh Schache
* Kyah Farris-White (RB)
 

[Colm 2,045]

1 hour ago, FreedFromDesire said:

Just my opinion of course, but I'd be disappointed if you used that many picks in the draft. I don't think we need more average or below average young players. I think we currently have ok depth and spread around the B/C grade level un terms of under 22s, but we lack for top end talent.

I'm obviously not up to speed, but I thought we only had 1 likely F/S or Academy selection this year? Ah-Mu has been ruled out, and I'm not sure we'd take both Mentha and Yze would we? The draft isn't really something I follow closely so I will defer to others who know more than I do.

Gday FFD, agree 5/6 draftees be that via  main draft, rookie or SSP is on the high side but I think it makes sense for us this year. 
We will have 7/8 list spots to fill this year and probably close to that again next year. So we will turn over a lot of our list and don’t have an enormous amount of draft capital. 
This year’s draft is touted to be perhaps the deepest of recent times.

It also isn’t as compromised as recent drafts by academy and F/S picks

In addition it has a very strong Victorian representation and is also stacked with mids that is a need for us. 

Its shaping up as the perfect draft to top up on young talent before Tassie comes in in a couple of years I think  

We are rumoured to want 2 picks inside 15 and another inside top 30. 
I’d be happy if we added another 2/3 at the tail end of the draft via late, rookie or SSP. 

 

I think(could be wrong) that Riak Andrew is also available to us though our NGA. 
 

[old55 23,309]

5 hours ago, Tony Tea said:

Good player, but wrong sort of winger for us. We needed, and still need, more of a speed merchant.

See @Roost It above

Edited September 26 by old55

[old55 23,309]

4 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Exactly.

so the picks to replace the 6th and 7th player will be in the nineties and beyond . Probably, already got to get rid of Fullarton, Billing’s next year with TMac and Melk to retire, because we couldn’t afford to have 9 players gone this year.

 

Been quite a while since any team had a pick in the 90s George, probably have to go back to the 1990s.

[FreedFromDesire 912]

54 minutes ago, Colm said:

Gday FFD, agree 5/6 draftees be that via  main draft, rookie or SSP is on the high side but I think it makes sense for us this year. 
We will have 7/8 list spots to fill this year and probably close to that again next year. So we will turn over a lot of our list and don’t have an enormous amount of draft capital. 
This year’s draft is touted to be perhaps the deepest of recent times.

It also isn’t as compromised as recent drafts by academy and F/S picks

In addition it has a very strong Victorian representation and is also stacked with mids that is a need for us. 

Its shaping up as the perfect draft to top up on young talent before Tassie comes in in a couple of years I think  

We are rumoured to want 2 picks inside 15 and another inside top 30. 
I’d be happy if we added another 2/3 at the tail end of the draft via late, rookie or SSP. 

I think(could be wrong) that Riak Andrew is also available to us though our NGA. 

That's true, we may end up with not much choice given the circumstances around our offseason, the list spots and how much damage the Petracca saga causes us in terms of attracting players.

I do think though, that the club generally considers itself not in a full rebuilding phase, and still 'in the window' - Alan Richardson also made the comment we needed to make our list 'older'. Those things, combined with us (in my view) only really needing top quality draftees given our list demographics add up to a picture of quite possibly not wanting to use a lot of draft picks. 

That could change of course as mentioned above, but if it does, I would expect to see us not going past pick 40 or so. Will be interesting, and it feels like a bit of magic from both Lamb and Taylor is needed this trade and draft period.

I'm also not totally sure that because we have those NGA, F/S options there that we will definitely take them.

[BW511 2,622]

Another list spot is positive but he’s also done well to get to 199 games, that doesn’t happen by chance.

I’ll take a PM outlining the famous offseason of 23/24 that I keep hearing about?