Colm

Well done Kolt👍🏻. Interesting that we are locking away two first year players that still have two and a half years to run on their first contract. Making sure all our sums add up before offering a new player big four year contract perhaps?

I get that Tim Lambs job isn’t easy. Just look at the two players we are currently being linked too. Houston and Isaac Cumming. Both would fill a need for us but it’s easy to make a case against both of them. Houston could be seen as too expensive given his age and we have other spots to fill. Cumming has had 3 soft tissues injuries this year and will miss the rest of the home and away season. If we were to trade for him and he’s often injured then Tim Lamb screwed up again. If he goes somewhere else and plays most game then Tim also got it wrong. Hard to win. But to win premierships you need to be get you recruitment right the majority of the time. We haven’t done that over the past few years and we can’t afford to get it wrong any longer.

We will probably turnover 5/6 players this year and the same next year. That’s about 25% of our list. We have holes in every part of our list imo. We currently have picks 9, 38,42,48 & 65 in this year’s draft and a full hand next year. Houston would 100% improve our best 22 year but I can’t see how we could give up 2 first rounders and improve the rest of the list enough.

I’m hoping we win every game. I don’t think anybody is actually hoping we lose games for a better draft pick. Even is they say that come Saturday night I’m sure everybody will be cheering us to win. But in the overall picture I won’t be gutted if we miss finals. I get what you’re saying about getting the monkey off our backs but I don’t see us winning the GF. So if we win one final we probably then travel interstate to a top four team. Another belting by Freo would create an even bigger monkey on our backs. Two weeks of finals gives us the same amount of time off as we have had the past two years. A longer off season will allow us to get any surgeries out of the way early and give everybody the best chance at a good preseason. We have seen recently that the deeper teams go in September it has a knock on effect to the start of the next season

Here Bigfoot’s Davo’s top 30 for next year. Has Ah-Mu at 19 Top 30 update 2025 1. Archie Ludowyke - Sand - 195cm 2. Dyson Sharp - Cent Dist - 188cm 3. Oliver Greeves - Eastern - 191cm 4. Fred Rodriguez - Sth Freo - 185cm 5. Blake Kelly - Swan Dist - 182cm 6. Riley Onley - Murray - 194cm 7. Louis Emmett - Oakleigh - 198cm 8. Lachlan Dovaston - Eastern - 176cm 9. Blake Oudshoorn-Bennier - Nth Adel - 182cm 10. Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves - Dand - 185cm 11. Basil Hart - Peel - 185cm 12. Zeke Uwland - Gold Coast A - 177cm 13. Cody Curtin - Clarem - 197cm 14. Daniel Annable - Brisbane A - 183cm 15. Thomas McGuane - Western - 177cm 16. Noah Roberts-Thompson - Sturt - 180cm 17. Jack Dalton - Sand - 177cm 18. Cooper Duff-Tytler - Cald - 199cm 19. Tairon Ah-Mu - Dand - 198cm 20. Willem Duursma - Gipps - 191cm 21. Marcus Cassidy - East Perth - 187cm 22. Xavier Bamert - Sand - 184cm 23. Dylan Patterson - Gold Coast A - 183cm 24. Jadd Hill - Perth - 178cm 25. Jobe Scapin - Gipps - 186cm 26. Sam Grij - Oakleigh - 182cm 27. Toby Whan - Sth Freo - 182cm 28. Zach O'Keefe - Gipps - 177cm 29. Raphael Geesu - Bris A - 175cm 30. Harry Morphett - Geel - 180cm

Funny leading up to the last draft I was hoping we would pick Curtin or O’Sullivan at our first pick. Partly due to the fact that Petty had tried to push through a trade to the Crows and I thought with their mature bodies they both could have a good impact in the seniors in their first year. Fast forward to now Petty has resigned and Windsor has had a far greater impact in his first year than either Curtin or O’Sullivan.

Two great signings. I voted for Petty. I was worried that he might have been gone this trade window and he would have been very difficult to replace. Despite not playing his best footy this year I still rate him very highly. I never had any fear of Windsor leaving.

Got him signed up very early. He would have been on a 3 year contact already as top 10 pick. Great news. Has been a great pick up. A perfect draft pick really- filled a need for us, has been able to have an instant impact and has potential to be one of the best players in the league. Well done to all involved.

When you have a list manager from another club refusing to deny that they are interested it strongly suggest that they in the race. Very easy and a lot more respectful for him to say “ he’s not one we are currently looking at”.

He didn’t want to play at Casey( when they were a top VFL side) but was happy to play for Box Hill? We were able to sell the idea to Grundy I’m sure we could have sold it to him. Blake Acres also left Freo for a packet of chips and would have been a much better get than Hunter.

His job is to improve the list.( our list not Sydney’s )Giving the ins and outs last year he failed badly. We got a lot less for Grundy than we paid to move up 3 places in the draft. And take the kolt instead of Billy Wilson who went at our original pick. Our trading since 21 has been really poor. This will be the 3rd year we will attempt to get a second ruck in to can give Max a chop out. Not good enough even worse when we were right in the prem window.

Don’t want Clarry to go and don’t think a move would be good for him. I haven’t bothered with this thread too much as Cornes comments that were the starting point for it were rubbish. Given up Clarry AND a good pick is just nuts. But weather we like it or not( and I don’t) this is starting to get a bit of substance to it with the Crows list manager more or less saying they were interested in Clarry and their first round pick reportedly up for grabs. We also know that despite what the majority of fans seem to think about trading him it was the club who first put it out there last year that we were open to trading him.

Thanks. He has Lindsay much higher than others. Also has Langford much lower. Very even pool is making for some very different ratings.

That’s 6 talls gone. Not sure there’s much point in keeping Fullarton on the list either if he’s not able to get a game when Max is out. He’s 23 and been in the system a while. I’m hoping Tmac will go around again for another year but we have some serious recruiting to do.

Awesome news. Much bigger story than our loss. Huge result for us. Put him back in defence. Get a proper ruck forward and leave JVR up front will go along way to sorting us out for next year. I’m stoked he’s resigned.