Who is getting the chop?

[YellowandBlackBlood]

We did this with Corey Ellis too. We play guys out of position when they come into the seniors. Shai needs to play mid/wing but gets placed in a forward pocket every time he is put into the seniors. Corey was played in the guts at VFL level only to be put off a HBF once he got into the seniors. We need to develop guys strengths while at the same time nurturing their weaknesses. The reason why they were drafted is that the recruiters noted their strengths and what those strengths could do to help our senior team.

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Bit hard for anyone to get a crack on the wing when Kane Lambert & Shaun Grigg have never and will never be moved/dropped. BEllis was moved from the wing to HB in the last 2 years, CEllis gets played HB in the ones, Bolton gets thrown into the pocket in the ones, Hampson played as a ruckman when he was actually an outstanding winger etc. Their best bet is getting a bit of wing/hb action off the pine

We'll see how the Grigga & a few certain others are fairing next year and if the coaches still refuse to give others a go...

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Brandon dear, your humour is not that great. Hampson is goneski anyway.

Are you staying or going?

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Expert doc...Told 2 clubs I'm not interested right now, get a cackle out of nuffies thinking I'm a sure thing to never play for the RFC again. Didn't play finals cos Dimma was saving me for the GF.

[Tiger Khosh]

It’s just a shame all of these boys couldn’t bring home the vfl premiership before our reserves get a sort of reset.

[Diocletian]

Hopefully the additions of Houli, Grigg & Castagna will help our VFL side improve next year....

[Lebowski]

We did this with Corey Ellis too. We play guys out of position when they come into the seniors. Shai needs to play mid/wing but gets placed in a forward pocket every time he is put into the seniors. Corey was played in the guts at VFL level only to be put off a HBF once he got into the seniors. We need to develop guys strengths while at the same time nurturing their weaknesses. The reason why they were drafted is that the recruiters noted their strengths and what those strengths could do to help our senior team.

Agree with Shai on the wing - hopefully he builds his tank and can get some more game time up the ground. I did see him play on the wing at times in the vfl and he looked good. Needs to work on 2 way running though

As for CEllis - the club was worried about Miles lack of speed to spread from the contest, cEllis is even slower hence why he wasnt played there. They tried him elsewhere bc he had better footskills and vision than Miles so hoped he could fit in elsewhere on the periphery. in the end not good enough and wont play much football at GC either

[eliminator]

Club were not only concerned with CEllis's speed but his ability to win contested possession. Hence an enormous amount of work was put into him at the VFL level regarding this.

[one-eyed]

What we know so far [updated 2/10/18 ]:

Gone
Griffiths (retired)
Hampson (retired)
Miles (to be traded to the Gold Coast)
C.Ellis (to be traded to the Gold Coast)
Lloyd (to be traded to the Bulldogs)

Possibly gone
Drummond (likely to be delisted due to injury)
Conca (3 year deal offered by Fremantle)
Stengle (3 year deal offered by Adelaide)
Townsend (possibly heading to either Gold Coast or St Kilda)

In the rumour mill
B.Ellis

[Tiger Khosh]

That’s a fair bit of turnover, surely a few of those players are retained.

[Diocletian]

The only one I'd keep is Stengle (and I'd probably add Menadue to that list in his place) - the rest are all expendable and easily replaced or upgraded on..........

[Tiger Khosh]

Not saying they arnt but 10 or even 11 if you throw in Menadue seems like too much. With lynch coming in we’d still need to draft/trade in 10 players to replace them.

[Eat_em_Alive]

Not saying they arnt but 10 or even 11 if you throw in Menadue seems like too much. With lynch coming in we’d still need to draft/trade in 10 players to replace them.

I think it will be 7 maybe 8 in total

[Francois Jackson]

Not saying they arnt but 10 or even 11 if you throw in Menadue seems like too much. With lynch coming in we’d still need to draft/trade in 10 players to replace them.

Griffiths
Hampson
Conca
Cellis
Stengle
Miles
Lloyd
Menadue?
Townsend ?
Bellis?

When you line them up like that it’s a fair list, but most aren’t best 22.

Townsend and Stengle are the one ones that we probably need as back up. Bellis isn’t as bad as people make out.

The rest tata

[one-eyed]

What we know so far [updated 3/10/18 ]:

Gone
Griffiths (retired)
Hampson (retired)
Miles (to be traded to the Gold Coast)
C.Ellis (to be traded to the Gold Coast)
Lloyd (to be traded to the Bulldogs)
Conca (4 year deal offered by Fremantle)
Stengle (wants to go to Adelaide)

Possibly gone
Drummond (likely to be delisted due to injury)

In the rumour mill
Townsend (his manager denied media rumours)
B.Ellis