List Mgmt. Contracts, trades, draft - 2021 offseason edition

[Keys]

So the 2021 season is officially done and dusted.

It’s time now to fully turn our attention to the off season and what we can do through the trade period/draft to chase down Melbourne in 2022.

List and personnel changes have already been made and I’ll update this OP as and when any further changes are made.

As it stands these are our official list changes :

Out -
• Venables (R) - retired
• Vardy - retired
• Hutchings (R) - delisted
• Ah Chee (R) - delisted
• Ainsworth - delisted
• Johnson - delisted
• Collins (R) - delisted
• Brander - cluster****
• Cameron - retired/delisted not that it was officially acknowledged by the club
• Sheppard - retired

Inactive listed -
• Cole
• Chesser

In -
• Petrevski-Seton - traded for pick 52
• Chesser - Pick 14
• Hough - Pick 31
• Bazzo - Pick 37
• Williams (Jack) - Pick 57
• Clark - Pick 62
• Dixon - SSP
• Joyce - SSP
• Strnadica - SSP
• Naish - SSP

Players on main list - 37 (Including 2 inactive)
Players on rookie list - 7

Future trade picks :
In - Port Adelaide future 2nd
Out - Future 4th

Assistant Coaches :
• Out - Graham, Hickmott
• In - Schofield (Strategy and Stoppage), Knights (Midfield), Wiley (WAFL coach), Brennan (development)

Link to contract status of all players -

The Contracts Thread

2024 List Changes : Out: Retired- Gaff Delisted - Jones, Trew(R), Baker(R), Witherden, Burgiel, Culley(R), Rotham, L Edwards Traded - Darling (NM) Barrass (Hawthorn) In: Trade/FA acquisitions - Graham (Richmond) Baker (Richmond) Owies (Carlton) Draft - Allan (Pick 16) Shanahan (Pick 30) Gross...

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[Obeanie1]

So looks like passing on Nick Martin being another toal clusterf*#*## from our esteemed recruiting team.

Ive defended a lot of decisions but geez we seem to be passing on far too much talent sitting under our noses.

Id really like to see what resources have changed since Rawlings left. If we need to spend more $ and get taxed do it. And seriously some new senior recruitment manager is needed. Vosso has been on personal leave and thats fine but another senior recruiter needs to be brought in. And the committee involved in rankings etc, that needs something to change too.

For one of the big powerful, richest clubs our recruiting department looks like its under financed and under resourced.

Or not up to it.

 

[LewyBroome]

So looks like passing on Nick Martin being another toal clusterf*#*## from our esteemed recruiting team.

Ive defended a lot of decisions but geez we seem to be passing on far too much talent sitting under our noses.

Id really like to see what resources have changed since Rawlings left. If we need to spend more $ and get taxed do it. And seriously some new senior recruitment manager is needed. Vosso has been on personal leave and thats fine but another senior recruiter needs to be brought in. And the committee involved in rankings etc, that needs something to chqnge too.

For one of the big powerful, richest clubs our recruiting department looks like its under financed and under resourced.

Or not up to it.

Add it to up another abysmal decision. It’s just incredible. Even with Jack Hayes last night. It just shows up AFL clubs have lost themselves in metrics, athleticism and other wank apart from blokes being able to play a game of footy.

 

[ArdentEagle]

5+ and 30 on debut. WOW

 

[Biggie]

5+ and 30 on debut. WOW

27

Not quite 30 yet

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Guys, performing over east against Geelong is something that we as a club firmly stand against.

No place for that on our list thank you very much.

 

[ArdentEagle]

Nice Guernsey!

 

[ArdentEagle]

27

Not quite 30 yet

Plenty of time mate. He'll get there.

 

[ArdentEagle]

Plenty of time mate. He'll get there.

This aged well. Lol

 

[Obeanie1]

Lets strap in and watch Angus Sheldrick on debut make 4 centre clearance kicks to Buddy get him to 1,000 goals. In the openning quarter. Lol.

Wonder if Dark Sharks has sedatives ready.

 

[ziad]

5+ and 30 on debut. WOW

what's the Subi prejudice at WC- envy?

 

[Keys]

Lets strap in and watch Angus Sheldrick on debut make 4 centre clearance kicks to Buddy get him to 1,000 goals. In the openning quarter. Lol.

Wonder if Dark Sharks has sedatives ready.

We picked Chesser ahead of Sheldrick and that’s wasn’t an unreasonable decision.

He was widely considered a surprise pick when Sydney took him at 18

Don’t think that our recruiters deserve a clip for that one

Nick Martin, however ….

 

[The_Gambler]

So looks like passing on Nick Martin being another toal clusterf*#*## from our esteemed recruiting team.

Ive defended a lot of decisions but geez we seem to be passing on far too much talent sitting under our noses.

Id really like to see what resources have changed since Rawlings left. If we need to spend more $ and get taxed do it. And seriously some new senior recruitment manager is needed. Vosso has been on personal leave and thats fine but another senior recruiter needs to be brought in. And the committee involved in rankings etc, that needs something to chqnge too.

For one of the big powerful, richest clubs our recruiting department looks like its under financed and under resourced.

Or not up to it.

Old Googley eyes O’Brien just has to get the arse, along with anyone else who supports him. Clearly muppets that would seem low IQ in the COVID bigfooty threads. Time and time again they completely miss. But watch the excuses role: this year injuries, last year COVID, year before hubs, year before motivation. Could be 5 years of excuses and googley eyes and Simpson just keep getting the benefit of the doubt. Club has been rotting for a while. Not being able to sell out round 1 at half capacity is just the tip of the iceburg. No point bringing good new people in unless you sweep the old clowns out

 

[RanaNaved]

Both Martin and Hayes benefited from being unknown.

If however, Martin keeps this up, I'm grabbing my pitchfork and storming WC headquarters.

 

[Manbearpig77]

This Martin decision has basically just shut the door on me caring a damn thing about this season.

Club is fast becoming a joke.

 

[Wild Kelly]

This Martin decision has basically just shut the door on me caring a damn thing about this season.

Club is fast becoming a joke.

I honestly can't recall any hype around these parts about Martin (whoever he is) before, during or after the draft.


Until now.....

 

[WCErevival]

Its the Brander preseason game all over again. Maybe see how he goes after a few games before folding the club.

Martin Mcgrath

Martin Mcgrath

Age

40

Ht

178cm

Wt

66kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

7.8

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

2.8

2star

M

2.3

2star

T

1.0

3star

G

1.5

5star

No current season stats available

D

7.8

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

2.8

3star

M

2.3

3star

T

1.0

3star

G

1.5

5star

kicked 5 goals on debut and was delisted the same year. Sometimes mediocre players play a blinder.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Its the Brander preseason game all over again. Maybe see how he goes after a few games before folding the club.

Martin Mcgrath kicked 5 goals on debut and was delisted the same year. Sometimes mediocre players play a blinder.

What type of muppet would sign Will Collins ahead of Martin though?

A muppet that is well-paid by our football club (and likely also had a hand in signing Burrows...)

 

[Keys]

What type of muppet would sign Will Collins ahead of Martin though?

A muppet that is well-paid by our football club (and likely also had a hand in signing Burrows...)

Couple of things.

Apparently he got injured prior to the mid season draft which may (or may not) have been a factor in overlooking him then. I’m sure us selecting an injured player back then would have been warmly received here

Every club, including Essendon, decided not to draft him in either the main draft and rookie draft for whatever reason

That said, I’d really like to know whether or not we asked him to train with us this preseason. Would be disappointed if we didn’t see if he was interested in having another crack

 

[eagles rule]

I honestly can't recall any hype around these parts about Martin (whoever he is) before, during or after the draft.


Until now.....

No hype but here ..

 

[Godfather32]

What type of muppet would sign Will Collins ahead of Martin though?

A muppet that is well-paid by our football club (and likely also had a hand in signing Burrows...)

I would really love to know what our reasoning behind picking Collins was. I reckon there's at least 100 better players just from the WAFL we could have taken in his spot.

 

[DanWCE]

Who TF is Nick Martin? I swear I haven't heard any chatter about him on this board.

The only Nick Martin I've heard of was on the wrong end of a sniper rifle at the Motorplex.

 

[new breed]

I followed Nic Martin mainly because WCE were targeting him and trained pre -season 2021 with WCE for quite a while .

Eagles midseason 2021 drafted Connor West and Will Collins I think from then Martin was curtains going to West Coast .

Good luck to him now !!

 

[Manbearpig77]

I honestly can't recall any hype around these parts about Martin (whoever he is) before, during or after the draft.


Until now.....

That's fair. It's more death by a thousand cuts this pre-season.

 

[FKASC]

Reminds me of Nick Martin

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

We picked Chesser ahead of Sheldrick and that’s wasn’t an unreasonable decision.

He was widely considered a surprise pick when Sydney took him at 18

Don’t think that our recruiters deserve a clip for that one

Nick Martin, however ….

The question has to be asked why sheldrik a first year player is playing ahead of warner ?

Can't seem to find anything on warner being injured. They have such a glut of young mids at the moment it would be nice to chase warner