without knowing the situation as far as what players are getting paid one angle is by signing white and a lot of others hurts our ability to go after a player like taylor adams.
signing players like white mcguane jackson grigg king griffiths edwards to multiple yr contracts is now in all likely hood kicking us in the arse. the talk is we cant resign martin and we cant offer blokes like adams and longer enough or match other clubs offers.
im wondering how that can be.
if this is correct the club sure as hell is getting something very wrong when it comes to list management and more specific contracts. none of those mentioned should be getting more than one yr contracts because of their erratic form from yr to yr.most of em should have been cut ages ago.
im waiting with bated breath to see who and how many we cut ive said openly that 8 to 10 should go including rookies. yet it seems we are slowly but surely tying every one up bar a few.further inhibiting our ability to go after quality and needed players.
it looks atm a lot like 95 and 01 where they thought they had the lists to become regular top 4 when the truth was we were nowhere near it.
if the club fails at this watershed moment we can all look forward to many yrs back in the wilderness.
i've also asked openly how you expect to relace 8-10 players in one hit and have a decent chance of actually getting upgrades?
and ive replied in detail. not my problem if you wish to stick your head in the sand or be stupid about it.
theres a fair few clubs who have already cut between 6 and 8 players i suppose your wondering how they are going to do it as well. and thats without lists being finalised.
i will do it again for you
we will use 3/ 4 nd picks will any of them be upgrades who knows they are kids. who even knows what picks we will end up with. you are not going to silly enough to suggest we dont use our nd picks because they may not end up better than what we have. thats like saying bo we wont cut players to get a look at kids like vlastuin mcbean macdonough or mcintosh last yr. none were an ipgrade they were all taken on potential.so
4nd picks
one f/a
one psd
one delisted player from another club. thats 6 to 7 to the list proper depending on if we use pick 64.
3/4 rookie picks used on
chris cain vfl 21 yo mid
david mirra vfl 21 yo def
tom howson wafl 22yo def.
so it goes
tuck retred = chapman thats an upgrade on a player who has gone of his own accord.
nahas dud = chris cain a clear upgrade
mcguane dud = laidler injuries permitting a far better player.
white gone in f/a 3yrs 350k to port adelaide. lmfao. = 2 rnd pick an upgrade or should be
derickx dud = 3rd rnd pick lol wont need much to upgrade on him will we.
verrier dud = mirra has at least made a vfl representative side and looks to have all the tools to play afl a clear upgrade.
darrou r hasnt done enough to be kept = tom howson has played superbly for east fremantle this yr an upgrade.
lonergan r dud = chris cain chris cain can run kick and find the ball another vfl rep this yr and clearly better credentialled player than lonergan.
stephenson battler. = jolly would only need to get halfway close to his best to upgrade on stephenson.
bud theres upgrades all over the place there it aint hard. theress others in other leagues who look better players than some we have.
id gladly give mitch thorpe another go hes done more than griffiths to date in fact he absolutely tore the tsl apart this yr.
as i said it aint hard to do better than a whole pile of the players we have. but in fairness replacing below standard players with slightly better isnt after all a hard thing to do.
