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Lachie Hunter Retires

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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.

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    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.

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

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    We'll always have the bounced handballs.

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      On 26/09/2024 at 06:49, 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.

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    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 

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      On 26/09/2024 at 06:45, 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.

     

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      On 26/09/2024 at 06:42, 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 by Deepfreeze

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    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

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

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      On 26/09/2024 at 05:37, 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!

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      On 26/09/2024 at 06:13, 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??

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      On 26/09/2024 at 08:10, 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.

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      On 26/09/2024 at 05:24, 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.

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

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      On 26/09/2024 at 06:10, 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)
     

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      On 26/09/2024 at 09:07, 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. 
     

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      On 26/09/2024 at 06:13, 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

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      On 26/09/2024 at 07:11, 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.

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    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?

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    Personally think this is best for all concerned 

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    Possible squad

    B: Lever, May, McVee

    HB: Salem, McDonald, Rivers

    C: Windsor, Petracca, Langdon

    HF: Chandler, Petty, Pickett

    F: Fritsch, van Rooyen, Turner

    FOLL: Gawn, Oliver, Viney

    IC: Bowey, Sparrow, Tholstrup, McAdam, Melksham

     

    Casey

    B: Howes, Adams, Draft pick 45

    HB: Moniz-Wakefield, Derksen, Woewodin

    C; Billings, Laurie, Brown

    HF: Spargo, Kentfield, Sestan

    F: Fullerton, Jefferson, Draft pick 38

    FOLL: Campbell, Draft pick 5, Draft pick 25

    IC: Verrall, Draft pick 61, Rookie B

    According to the contracts list we have a full list of rookies. Maybe we might pick up Yze at 61.

    Pick 51 will be used on Derksen.

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