Sonsie is 21 and been at the club 3 years. Will get another year. Young is contracted
Sonsie is 22 in January before the start of the next season. He has shown sweet bugger all is timid afraid of contact and imo is a poor runner. If he was not pick 28 i think a lot would be calling for his head.
We have had him three seasons and for me that is enough. If he overcomes his weaknesses and manages to make it in another system so be it.
One lesson learnt mainly from the pre Hardwick years and including those years i suppose, was we hung on in hope to players rather than with certainty.
Young is certainly superfluous to needs didnt realise he was contracted but would see if anyone was prepared to take him on.
We are going to give Blight a year and we have Miller and Young. Options to play Balta and Bauer so its down to one of the first three.
Would be finding out what we could get for Miller. I fear what we have seen so far is his ceiling.
Sonsie and Young aren't at risk yet.
I'd be keeping kmac for now.
Short open to trade.
McIntosh has become the defininition of list clogger. Campbell, Trezise, HRS, Banks, Smith, Travaglia or a running type in the draft.
Playing all of them instead of McIntosh. If we play him in a running role in front of all of them then we will really be defining list clogger taking games off kids.
As much as i would like it to be done even if we paid half his wage no one will want Short. One can only hope.
We could delist trade retire as many as eight right at this point in time Next year. we are either all in on rebuild or we are not.
If we have something like eight ND picks between 1 and 22 and don't use them then we are getting it horribly wrong.
If we do not look at a player trade or two to upgrade then we are getting it wrong.
If we are not making provision for useing the #1 picks psd and rookie drafts on mature types say 21 thru 24yo then we are getting it wrong. Same for the msd.
If we dont shop players out and pay part of their salary then we will be getting it wrong.
The only way to achieve this in what has to be one of the better most even drafts of all time is to make those hard decisions on who has to go.
We have two drafts before they become compromised so yes there should be a sense of urgency.