I don't get why people are so intent on getting a free agent. Is it to look like you're up with the pack? Posters say they are sick of moneyball and topping up players when we are "a middling team who are getting ahead of themselves" but then are desperate for us to get a free agent just because we can.
well i was thinking of frawley who would bolster our defense regardless of what people think.
imo there will be plenty of players let go come seasons end who will improve us even in the short term.to not be thinking about a free agent is head in the sand stuff.
The good teams keep doing it and some on here want to sit on their hands and hope for the best. Our best (at the draft or in development) hasn't been good enough for over 30 years, it's time we got back into the game.
If you don't think Frawley would a B+/A grade defender in a good side then you may as well take up chess.
And for those who bring up Moneyball, it's not even close to the same thing!
And worse still, those who think you don't have to pay overs for any FA is just plain kidding themselves. You pay overs because you get them for free!!
Sorry but how is paying overs in the free agent market for the sake of getting an older player not moneyball? Frawley would be a good get but if he was to go somewhere else and we didn't get him people would be straight onto Hardwick for not being active in free agency)
Huh?
The concept of moneyball is to acquire cheap players with serious deficiencies and use them to their singular/minimal strengths.
IE: Matt Thomas as a wrecking ball in the mid.
Chasing Frawley would be moneyball. Nor advisable IMO.
How is chasing/getting Frawley Moneyball? You said it yourself, "cheap players with serious deficiencies"
I know he has been no star since his All Australian year but The Melbourne FC have a fair bit to do with that. Take a look at Rivers now at Geelong, a very good and reliable KPD when out of the rat hole.
We would have to pay overs for him so that cannot be Moneyball.
As I said in another post, you pay overs because they are basically a free player in term of getting them to your club. No trading or drafting needed to acquire them.