We’ll need to cut more than that Andy. Everyone was up in arms about not taking anyone in the mid season draft, well that’s not going to change unless we open up some list spots.
Even colina finally being cut doesn’t help as he’s a Cat B rookie.
Bauer will open up 1 spot. Looks like we will take 3 players in the national draft (our 2 first rounders + somehow getting kellaway), so we’d need to cut another 2.
I also reckon OHB has shown enough to atleast be promoted to Cat A rookie. He may very well not be good enough but I’d still like to atleast see him play a few AFL games, I’d certainly like to see that before Ryan who is still wild to me was given a 3 year contract.
That is Ofcourse assuming we don’t lose any players to trades which I think we would have heard rumours of by now.
What do you replace them with?
Have no 2nd rounder. Need something to give to get Kellaway presumably. It's generally a weak draft pool.
Kellaway will be easy. Assuming the club rate him enough to pick him up which let’s face it when it’s a F/S clubs rarely pass up, we’ll just trade a future 3rd or 4th to get back into the draft to match a bid.
You have failed to explain how if you "cut deep" you end up with players better than dow sonsie blight or whoever you are getting rid of.
In a weak draft pool with not many picks
Dude all I’m saying is we are most likely going to draft in 3 players. Call it a weak draft as much as you want, unless you buy into this Harley Reid rumours we will be drafting someone with pick 2, 3 and then will come back in to take kellaway.
We have 0 free spots on our list atm so you have to delist/retire 3 players at a minimum (and Colina doesn’t even count in that) and that’s assuming we don’t plan on taking anyone on the rookie list.
Understand?
