Richmond interested in young Freo ruckman Warnock

[tigerlily]

Warnock is one of the few ruckmen Iv'e seen run with Cox and hold his own, he has enormous upside but giving our 1st pick for a ruckman is is a huge query, going into what is a soft draft, not on talent or class but physically soft, with only 2 boys who will have any real impact at AFL level next year. Rich will go 1 or 2 out of our reach the other Hartlett falls well in our scope. Think Patto does a good job and will get better, Putt has been super impressive this year and is an outstanding prospect, Symmo is a young 30 and will have another good year in 2009, think if there was no pressure on the coaches or footy dept to hold their jobs we would keep our 1st draft pick

[one-eyed]

Fremantle will now be hoping young ruckman Robbie Warnock will stay. Melbourne, Carlton, Richmond and St Kilda are waiting to pounce on the 206cm emerging star if he opts to leave Fremantle. Warnock will attract offers of up to $500,000 a year if he goes on the open market.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,24268000-19742,00.html

[jezza]

Ridiculous.

[Ox]

Crap.

[TFL]

Certainly not worth that money at this stage.

Too much risk involved. He is not proven and could only turn out to be an average player.

Much rather keep developing Putty and pick up someone like Jeff White on a base contract for a year or two.

In addition to this we could also rookie another ruckman.

[cub]

We need something in the way of a ruckman because Graham is a dud

[Francois Jackson]

500k u got to be joking. what was this guy drafted at again, like 20 or 30 was it.

I agree with a  poster who suggested White on a 1-2 year contract. We can get him for nothing and play him alongside Simmo while the other rucks develop

[mightytiges]

Warnock was drafted at pick 42 in the 2005 draft. Some decent 3rd round picks in that draft it's turned out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_AFL_Draft

I think a bit of wishful thinking that a young ruckman who's played just 12 games will get $500k no matter how much he is wanted.

[WilliamPowell]

Hypothetcially...

If we go for Warnock, what happens to A. Graham

Could we afford to have 3 developing ruckman on our list at one time ???

(NB the 3 would be Warnock, Graham & Putt)

[mightytiges]

I guess using the Brisbane model you can never have too many ruckmen and thanks to the bigger centre circle limiting ruckman run ups at centre bounces very tall ruckman (203cm+) have become valuable. As good as Simmo is he is shortish for a modern ruckman as is Patto (both 197cm). That's why we don't win the hitouts. Gus is 200cm and Putt is the tallest at 202cm. If we delist Cartledge and don't replace him then we'll be one ruckman less in 2009 than this year. Clubs are chasing Warnock because he's 22, 205cm, agile for footballer of that height, and about to enter his 4th year.

[one-eyed]

Denham in the Australian still has us chasing Warnock ...

An AFL investigation into Melbourne's conduct in making advances to Fremantle ruckman Robert Warnock remains unresolved.

AFL general manager of football operations Adrian Anderson ordered the probe after the Demons football department and several players entertained the out-of-contract Warnock last month, before the Dockers' season had finished.

Warnock, who is expected to make a decision on his future this week, is also being sought by Carlton and Richmond, who like Melbourne, have offered him more playing time than the Dockers.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24321649-5012432,00.html

[one-eyed]

Freo coach jittery about Warnock
By Justin Chadwick
2:02 PM Wed 10 September, 2008

FREMANTLE coach Mark Harvey has conceded he has done everything possible to convince Robert Warnock to remain at the club and says the ball is now in the ruckman's court.

http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=67426

[Moi]

He's told Freo he wants to come home for personal reasons.

[mightytiges]

Yep he's told Freo he wants to be traded so he can come back to Melbourne according to SEN.

Now the wheeling and dealing begins. The Dees and even the Blues still have a better chance of getting him than we do. Pick 26 won't cut it and in no circumstances should we trade our first pick away.

[TFL]

Will demand too much money, PASS