Redleg

This thread should hot up from monday, but it may not be great news for us.

You could be right, but hopefully having 2-3 years at most of his AFL career left, might get the finger pulled out.

Tony Sheahan predicted the Swans and pick 11 weeks before anyone else. Obviously some spice added to Grundy deal needed to get 11. I hope he is right.

Let's face it, if it happened in round 2 he would have got 3-4. They came up with the smothering angle and then said the hit was accidental, as he wasn't bumping and then poorly prosecuted the case. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. We all know how this works with the AFL favourites. Cripps last year another pathetic example and like Gus, Ah Chee, Cripp's victim, missed the finals. Newman last year got off with a punch to the throat, because they said the charge sheet had the wrong hand named as the striking one, even though they said those technicalities are irrelevant. I think back to Barry Hall the Swans Captain, punching a Saint pretty hard in the guts, 150 meters off the ball, in a PF. Tribunal then found that a Swans player was about to grab the ball 150 meters away and he would would have kicked it forward and then that Hall was in the play and it was deemed not off the ball. Hall was cleared and was one of the best in the Swan's flag. AFL happy. Integrity is a swear word at the AFL.

I guess we would have hoped they would see out their contracts in reasonable form, but unfortunately that hasn't happened. The succession plan would be Petty, JVR, Jefferson and maybe another this draft/trade period. O'Sullivan looks one who could play both ends and already has some good size. He will be there at 5 if we want him.

Zorko might be retiring after the GF. That would give him freedom for a lot of accidental incidents. I would imagine he would go extremely hard at the smothering.

Sometimes the penny drops when you are near the end of your career.

Yep.

We will definitely get help for Max, what we don’t know atm is who. We know it has to be a mature body and a player who is prepared to play 2nd fiddle. It will be either a ruckman from another club, who might currently be 3rd in line, or a player from a lesser league, who will cope physically. If it’s someone in their early 20’s, they will have a chance of staying on with Verall and FW, if he is still with us, in years to come. So the decision is probably a player who will only be around a couple of years and we then draft another young ruckman, or a Matt Flynn type who can play a number of years. The best ruckman in the GF, is a former Casey player btw.

Maybe not, as value of money has decreased.

No way I would use Petty in the ruck with his foot problem history. Tom Mac looks cooked. We shouldn’t be destroying JVR and risking injury, he should concentrate on his forward craft.

Imo I would avoid Tasmanians. Its just too dangerous.

What flavour?

Thought he was going to WC.

6.3 and we would probably be playing tomorrow.

That is a little scary.

Does he want to be a farmer?

Five clubs pitched to JJ, so I don't think he would have accepted a nothing contract. Swans have cap space with Buddy, Hickey and a few others leaving.

I think he would if we got a very good offer.

Laurie will stay unless someone comes with a good offer, as we are probably turning over too many this year. If he is not a regular next year I would imagine he will look elsewhere.

We still need a backup ruck and maybe we go to state and country leagues for a player.

We get a compo pick.

I don't think there is such a pick. It's start of 2nd round or end of 2nd round, which would be about 44-45, after after pp's and matching. I think we are a chance of start of 2nd round, which could be about 22-23. Probably need good money and few years, already is younger than most FA's and a premiership player, which will help.

Another quiet weekend coming up.

Big call.