List Mgmt. Brady Rawlings | Head of Football Talent (Recruitment, LM & TPP)

[koshari]

If the rumour about him still having issues with his concussion are true we might have to put him on the LTI list and upgrade another player..This could end up a win win situation...

not really, we aint getting that pick back.

 

[The Nostradamus]

What happens with McKay will be how I judge brady going forward

If he doesn’t keep McKay or get band 1 then sack him

 

[Roadrunner]

Just hope that this idiot dont trade our pick 2 and possibly pick 3 for pick 1.

 

[My Left Foote]

Just hope that this idiot dont trade our pick 2 and possibly pick 3 for pick 1.

So the guy that turned *** and pick 1 last year into Harry Sheezel and George Wardlaw is an idiot?

Maybe consider changing your user name to Wile E Coyote.

 

[Roadrunner]

So the guy that turned *** and pick 1 last year into Harry Sheezel and George Wardlaw is an idiot?

Maybe consider changing your user name to Wile E Coyote.

You are not a good Poker player. We got all the trump card lfrom last year. Pick 1 and JHF and we ended up with pick 2,3 + pick 16. Could be better. We should hold on to pick 1 last year and let Port do the negotiating for JHF in return for pick 2 + future first round pick or something. They are desperate to get him so we should let them sweat. All I'm saying is the deal could be better.

 

[Mr north man]

Just hope that this idiot dont trade our pick 2 and possibly pick 3 for pick 1.

Your talking Rawlings here

 

[Arthur Cloke]

So the guy that turned *** and pick 1 last year into Harry Sheezel and George Wardlaw is an idiot?

Maybe consider changing your user name to Wile E Coyote.

We would've got Sheezel regardless.
Wardlaw & Ports fist pick is what we got for JHF. Geez.

 

[Zondor]

We would've got Sheezel regardless.
Wardlaw & Ports fist pick is what we got for JHF. Geez.

And you’ll never forget it. :stern look

 

[My Left Foote]

We would've got Sheezel regardless.
Wardlaw & Ports fist pick is what we got for JHF. Geez.

Which bit of '*** and pick 1 last year into Harry Sheezel and George Wardlaw' didn't you understand? Geez.

 

[Zondor]

You are not a good Poker player. We got all the trump card lfrom last year. Pick 1 and JHF and we ended up with pick 2,3 + pick 16. Could be better. We should hold on to pick 1 last year and let Port do the negotiating for JHF in return for pick 2 + future first round pick or something. They are desperate to get him so we should let them sweat. All I'm saying is the deal could be better.

Spot on. We simply didn’t maximise our return for trading JHF to Port. :stern look

 

[Heaps of fun]

Brady has played this perfectly.

Took this


And turned it into pick 3. Add another gun from the top of the draft and rebuild the backline around zone and team defence.

 

[Horizons_00]

Held your ground, with the confidence of Clarko and Todd. Well done

 

[King Corey]

Potentially big loss but well executed return from Brady & Co. Fairly obvious we left the shop window open once we detected a hint of disinterest from Benjamin.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

For all those who insisted that the best way to manage this situation was to put an offer in front of Ben McKay

32

Ben Mckay

Age

26

Ht

202cm

Wt

104kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

7.5

2star

K

3.7

1star

HB

3.8

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

1.7

4star

MG

77.2

1star

D

7.5

2star

K

4.5

2star

HB

3.0

2star

M

2.5

3star

T

1.5

2star

MG

88.5

2star

D

7.0

2star

K

3.4

2star

HB

3.6

3star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.0

4star

MG

67.8

1star

months ago, here endeth the lesson.

 

[The acurate one]

For all those who insisted that the best way to manage this situation was to put an offer in front of Ben McKay months ago, here endeth the lesson.

Yes some nut suggested we should have paid him a mil per season x 5 years.
Someone else suggested we should have bought over the other Magoo so we could keep Ben happy. Imagine a world where we had two Magoo and they cost us near 2 mil per season.

I suggest by the time the Magoo are both retired they’ll have been at five clubs between them.

 

[Themanbun]

Potentially big loss but well executed return from Brady & Co. Fairly obvious we left the shop window open once we detected a hint of disinterest from Benjamin.

All we did was not overpay an average player tbh

 

[Gasometer]

All we did was not overpay an average player tbh

Average?

The word I was thinking also ends in ****age.

I’ve seen enough this year and all those preseasons we endured photos of the guns and the pages of fawning afterwards for the next great hope

 

[ferball]

Yes some nut suggested we should have paid him a mil per season x 5 years.
Someone else suggested we should have bought over the other Magoo so we could keep Ben happy. Imagine a world where we had two Magoo and they cost us near 2 mil per season.

I suggest by the time the Magoo are both retired they’ll have been at five clubs between them.

They've already been at three between them. The each move one more time that'll be five.

 

[The acurate one]

They've already been at three between them. The each move one more time that'll be five.

Yes I was being conservative. Harry would at North if we offered 3. I can see Ben being a 3 club player and Harold at least a 2.

 

[KiwiRoo]

some pretty short term memories on here. Buckets wasn't the greatest but far from a spud.
hence why 3 clubs offered him large, long term deals

yes we got pick 3 . But a big KPD has been our achilles heel for a long long time and Ben I thought filled that role pretty well
agreed he wasn't at his best this year. But It's not a long stretch to think we'll struggle to replace him

 

[zoomba23]

some pretty short term memories on here. Buckets wasn't the greatest but far from a spud.
hence why 3 clubs offered him large, long term deals

yes we got pick 3 . But a big KPD has been our achilles heel for a long long time and Ben I thought filled that role pretty well
agreed he wasn't at his best this year. But It's not a long stretch to think we'll struggle to replace him

This is about where I am on it. On the one hand, getting rid of Buckets allows the coaches to tinker a bit with the defensive setup to try and adapt to the modern style. Pick 3 is an awesome bonus if you take this attitude. Essentially furthering the rebuild twice in the same transaction.

On the other hand, you'd be very optimistic to claim we have the personnel to create such a setup at the moment. Gorilla forwards are sort of going out of fashion, which is an argument against keeping Buckets, but we've seen Corr really struggle at times, and Dawson's a baby in footy terms. Logue started off well but dropped off badly before his injury. I've never seen someone spoil air so often. Pink is a fully unknown quantity, though I like that we're looking at the state leagues as an avenue to try and sort this out.

And as for the non-key positions, who do we have? LMac? Bergman's not got a defensive bone in his body. Sheezel pressures but has been bamboozled by small forwards. He'll probably end up further up the ground anyway. Goater could be a third tall but running power suggest he might be of more use up the ground too.

McKay was basically an anchor for that back six and the only proven name there. It now puts our defence in a position where basically the entire back six needs a do-over, with the added anxiety of ensuring that key forwards don't take hold of us, which we frankly did a reasonable job at doing last year given the supply that was coming in.

I'm sure the coaches and list managers are on it but we're coming back from a lot further back in this respect than ideal. I'm not worried about our mids and outside run at this point. I'm worried about our key forwards but not the four forward flank positions. Defence, though, we're absolutely all over the place. In just about every position

 

[blackshadow]

Brady playing 4D chess at the moment.

 

[Sillygit]

Brady playing 4D chess at the moment.

"This isn't even my final form"

 

[pupstar]

So the guy that turned *** and pick 1 last year into Harry Sheezel and George Wardlaw is an idiot?

Maybe consider changing your user name to Wile E Coyote.

He didn't actually turn pick 1 into Harry and George because we where getting Harry with our 1st pick anyway. So regardless if we traded pick 1 or not we where always getting Harry.

 

[Themanbun]

This is about where I am on it. On the one hand, getting rid of Buckets allows the coaches to tinker a bit with the defensive setup to try and adapt to the modern style. Pick 3 is an awesome bonus if you take this attitude. Essentially furthering the rebuild twice in the same transaction.

On the other hand, you'd be very optimistic to claim we have the personnel to create such a setup at the moment. Gorilla forwards are sort of going out of fashion, which is an argument against keeping Buckets, but we've seen Corr really struggle at times, and Dawson's a baby in footy terms. Logue started off well but dropped off badly before his injury. I've never seen someone spoil air so often. Pink is a fully unknown quantity, though I like that we're looking at the state leagues as an avenue to try and sort this out.

And as for the non-key positions, who do we have? LMac? Bergman's not got a defensive bone in his body. Sheezel pressures but has been bamboozled by small forwards. He'll probably end up further up the ground anyway. Goater could be a third tall but running power suggest he might be of more use up the ground too.

McKay was basically an anchor for that back six and the only proven name there. It now puts our defence in a position where basically the entire back six needs a do-over, with the added anxiety of ensuring that key forwards don't take hold of us, which we frankly did a reasonable job at doing last year given the supply that was coming in.

I'm sure the coaches and list managers are on it but we're coming back from a lot further back in this respect than ideal. I'm not worried about our mids and outside run at this point. I'm worried about our key forwards but not the four forward flank positions. Defence, though, we're absolutely all over the place. In just about every position

There are like two genuine gorilla forwards in the league worth worrying about. And one of them can't kick for goal.