DeeSpencer

49ers, Eagles, Lions

I think they’ll both stay on the list so there’s no immediate pay outs, but it’s only adding rookies once they go to the inactive list. Maybe we stick with Tom and try that heavy load management tactic, ease him in to the year with a delayed start. We tried heavily managing Brown this year, he rarely trained mid week. Did a lot of sessions on the bike or ropes. Once the games started he lasted about 3 weeks.

I’m pretty sure after 2019 at one of those member forums things Mahoney gave some details. Otherwise I’m not asking for much more than generic statements, I’d just like a rough outline of where they are at. I’ll take cliches over nothing. Well, I am a paid up member. And list strategy is now a key part of future success, what’s so wrong with lifting the curtain a little bit? After the draft we often get more insight from Demonland Podcast interview with Jason Taylor than we ever get from any formal media he does. In the US sports the GMs will do a proper press conference after the end of the year, free agency, draft etc. The AFL media go mad for trade details and Lamb responds about certain deals but what’s ever said about the bigger picture? Even if it’s just generic; ‘we like our kids, the draft was a priority for x reason, we explored key forwards but think our existing group has upside, our cap is in a healthy place’ Teams around the league know who has cash and which players are available. If we were keen on Ben King for instance it’s not going to be a surprise.

If the money was going in the 2023 cap the decision would be public by now, but I get a sense they’ll be on the list in 2024 in order for the money to go in the ‘24 cap. In that sense there’s no rush, we have until March to replace them with rookie train on players. Because it seems like we aren’t getting anyone who’s better than a train on player. But now is the time to let them know we don’t see their futures on the list without drastic changes.

We owe them money, not a list spot. Unless there’s some drastic reason to expect massive health improvements or there’s a special cultural reason to keep meet and 3 veg around we should move on. Its bordering on elder abuse to put them through preseasons just so they can resume the cycle of injuries, surgeries and Casey games.

I never liked the Grundy deal but it was a roll of the dice with little else available and it hasn’t cost much. Otherwise the plan seems to be to focus on 2 quality draft picks and to save cap space. The biggest cost so far is that Oliver has gone from a prized asset to a major concern and Petty has gone from a huge part of the future to someone who’d seemingly rather be in Adelaide sooner rather than later. A couple of pretty big disasters we’ve managed to find ourselves in there. I’d like the club to make some kind of comment on the list strategy once the trade period is done. Are we banking cap or are we just paying the bill for past performance? And I wish it was possible to ask them why they haven’t been more aggressive with list turnover at the back end of the list.

Poor shot creation was a far far bigger problem than accuracy. No one is kicking goals from outside 50 on the boundary apart from somehow Steele Sidebottom. I don’t know why we aren’t chasing key forwards and wings aside from the likelihood the good ones aren’t available. The hope has to be that McAdam can release Fritsch and Pickett to be the marking and speed we need at half forward to create better shots. Time will tell.

No one’s ever said Schache isn’t a good VFL footballer tho! He just lacks the contested ability and athleticism to bring it to AFL level. I’m not expecting much from Fullarton but he’s younger, been in the afl/elite junior system far less than Schache and a better athlete. It makes sense that he has more improvement in him. The last time I saw Fullarton play was the semi final against us last year and I thought for a young ruck/forward he had some promise with more development. Not saying there’s a huge chance he becomes a player but I’m willing to at least see how he goes given it’s been a year (and another preseason with us) since he last played.

Surprised that anyone watched enough Brisbane VFL to have a strong opinion. I like that he kicked some bags. Good athlete. Disposal numbers seem really solid given he didn’t get to ruck much with the Lions so often picking 2 other rucks in their VFL side. I look at the growth in Joel Smith this year as someone with stuff all forward experience but with run and jump in his legs. If Fullarton can provide something similar he can contribute.

Because Petty’s going to spend the next 2 years (if he’s with us that long) attempting the toughest job in football (key forward for Melbourne) knowing he’d rather be sitting at CHB for the Crows making 7 figures next year then 800k after.

Their interest in Chandler was before they had Rachele, Rankine and Pedlar playing well. We know who they want. They want Petty. Sadly, this pursuit of McAdam has backfired spectacularly on us.

If it’s Curtin at 8 it’s effectively the same for the Eagles as 2, 16 and a future first. That’s our best hope. It’s a bit like when we traded from Billings to Salem on our draft order, the fact that a couple of better and a few far worse players went in between means nothing.

The Crows don’t have a second round pick and most picks in that round are allocated to the suns. I reckon he’d cruise to 41, especially if we are offering him decent money

That’s of less value now that Ginnivan messed with the high tackle rule unless you’re Nick Daicos who somehow gets the old interpretation

Good work, 19 + 30 + 38 for 13 reads pretty well. Especially if it’s 19+ 30 when 38 wasn’t worth much to us this year. Id still like a 3rd live pick in this draft and to turn the list over more with some high upside players but I get why the club is prioritising the top 2 picks.

Bowes went to market last year for pick 6 or whatever it is. The Haynes mail has always been that he’s available for no draft cost with GWS paying down his wage. I’ve never seen anything linking Haynes to GWS’ first. If they’re over the cap they’d be in big trouble. But their cap was fine this year (that we know of), no reason it shouldn’t be fine next year.

Is there anyone still saying GWS have to do it? By all reports the Suns cap was stuffed and they couldn’t afford to keep all their players. They had to trade Bowes. GWS aren’t bringing anyone of note in and have seemingly carried Haynes and other big deals for years now. What’s one more year? They might only offer Haynes and 500k for a 2nd rather than paying a big pick. If he really was available with a top 10 pick for a fire sale I’d imagine North or some other bad side would’ve done it by now.

It’s already 6 and 11 due to McKay compo. It might be 7/8 and 12/13/14 due to academy or father sons and you’re right to say that’s not often relevant. I think there’s some small relevance to it because it reflects where the pick is in the overall draft.

In his day..then he was the prime interceptor in the late Leon Cameron years where they’d always generate a spare for him and he’d use it like treacle. Any time he did move it, it was slow, sideways and ineffective. Made Lever look like a skilled rebounder. Id be a no. The draft pick might be great but having a player just filling out time on a huge salary seems like a bad cultural fit.

1-5: Reid, Walter, Duursma, McKercher, Watson 6-10: Curtin, Sanders, Caddy, Read, O’Sullivan 11-15: Croft, Rogers, Murphy, Windsor, Wilson. 16-20: Leake, Hardeman etc At least 2 academy bids before 11. Leake or Wilson if Caddy doesn’t get through?

Of course not, but two top 3 or top 5 picks for one player is just about unheard of. Eventually I expect North to offer 3 and the farm. We’ll offer 6 and the farm. If Curtin is taken with the first pick of both deals we are in with a chance!

If we aren’t paying any? And we still need someone for the list spot.

We got 3 for 1 for Jackson. Just did a 2 for 1 for Grundy. And we might see Kynan Brown as a free pick late. Id prefer a breadth of talent, I think we could do with fresh legs in multiple areas of the ground. Its hard to recreate but the Jackson, Pickett, Rivers draft was a beauty. That said, we can use the rookie draft and pre season period to add guys too.

Now the deals done I wonder if we’ll leak how ordinary he was or take the higher ground. I hope we take the higher ground…for now

We’ve got 3rds for McAdam. 46 is strong.