Club has to get fair dinkum now. Can't keep crossing our fingers with some players and hold on to them for too long.
Anyone under 22 is safe.
1. Delist - Will Thursfield (26yo)
2. Trade - Shane Edwards for Jackson Trengove
3. Delist - Brad Miller (29yo)
4. Delist - Mitch Farmer (23yo)
5. Delist - Luke McGuane (25yo)
6. Delist - Daniel Connors (23yo)
7. Trade - Mitch Morton (GWS 2nd Round Pick/3rd Round)
8. Delist - Shane Tuck (31yo)
9. Delist - Ben Nason (23yo)
10. Delist - Angus Graham (25yo)
11. Delist - Tom Hislop (24yo)
12. Delist - Troy Taylor (Just gotta get fair dinkum)
12 departures.
I'd keep Tuck for one more year. Surprisingly our midfield hasn't had many injuries. With some bad luck we could have had Martin do a hammy and Cotchin get suspended and all of a sudden Tuck becomes our best midfielder. Needs to stay.
Wouldn't bother with this Miller experiment any longer. I'd give Post a decent crack, it should have happened this year, but it hasn't so we keep Post for another year before making a call on him. Plus Griffiths hopefully will be fit for a full year in 2012.
Trengove replaces Graham as the ruckman on the list.
Would also scout the globe for a good state league ruckman under 25.
The rest are all pretty straight forward.
Nason, Connors and Farmer as 23 yo will probably survive. Connors the most likely as Nason and Farmer aren't AFL standard and Connors teases that he may be, but has gone walk about.
Taylor, have always defended the kid cause of his talent and potential but would rather delist him and pick up Mitch Thorpe. Would gaurentee someone who wants to play the game and give a decent crack, and may be a better player.
The number of changes at the end of year will depend on how many picks we have as well as contractual situations. 12 changes is a lot in a compromised draft where decent picks are a premium. If we finish say 13th then we'll most likely have 4 National picks, 1 PSD pick, then add a trade or two, plus say 4 rookies being cut. So that's 11 changes at the most.
From our Contracts List (below) you could see Thursty, Morton, Taylor and maybe 1-2 out of Farmer, Nason and Webberley being cut from the senior list and Hicks, Westhoff, Miller and Hislop cut from the rookie list. We'll need to trade to offload any more and most of those we'd like to see the back of have no trade value. I could only see a Jackson or possibly Edwards earning us a pick in return. No way would Port accept a trade of Edwards for Trengove btw. As others have said Trengove isn't a ruckman either.
2011: Astbury, Browne, Dea, Farmer, Grimes, Griffiths, Jackson, King, Morton, Nahas, Nason, Newman, Rance, Taylor, Thursfield, Webberley
2012: Batchelor, Connors, Deledio, Derickx, Edwards, Foley, Gourdis, Graham, Helbig, Houli, MacDonald, McGuane, Moore, Post, Tuck, Vickery, White
2013: Conca, Cotchin, Grigg, Martin, Riewoldt
Rookies:
Jamie O'Reilly (international rookie - signed until end of 2011)
Robert Hicks (2nd year rookie)
Pat Contin (2nd year rookie)
Nick Westhoff (2nd year rookie)
Ben Jakobi (1st year rookie)
Brad Miller (mature rookie - 1st year)
Tom Hislop (1st year as a rookie)
