List Mgmt. 2024 List Management thread - Trade Targets Part 2

[DragoDelph]

Whoa whoa whoa.... firstly, Drago is a made guy. (obvious Goodfellas reference) Careful how you address him.

And secondly, if we didn't have bad rumours, we'd have no rumours at all. (vague Eric Clapton reference)

Always thought of the mod squad as the good feathers.

 

[Superkoops]

Jesus Christ. I thought that with Sturt signed on we can finally stop crying about a decent squad player in Banfield getting a 2 year deal. Nope, turns out every single decision somehow has to be linked to Banfield. I guess the reason Kozzie ain't coming is because he wants the Sustainability Officer role and Banfield is taking it.

I want NOD signed up because of what we've seen at WAFL and AFL level over this 2 month period. But let's be real: before then, the discussion around NOD was "delist or 1-year deal". And were it not for a purple patch of goalscoring in 2022 that hasn't since been replicated at any level, a lot more fans would be leaning to the former.

If we're really gonna do the comparison, Banfield has had a largely solid season (disappointing end to it) despite being shifted around positionally, and had to wait a fair while with interest from east to get a multi-year deal. Meanwhile, NOD has had 6 decent to good WAFL games and 1.25 decent AFL games and we are expecting the club to jump for joy and overreact to a player plagued with knee injuries and questionable, inconsistent WAFL and AFL form (outside the 2022 goalscoring) kinda putting it together. Mental.

I think the bigger issue is the very early melt downs around not getting a player signed. Every rumour for an unsigned player leads to pitchforks and burnt effigies.

There is plenty of weeks ahead before we need to start setting fire to the club. The same happened with Sturt - way too many went the early drama on that.

 

[Ge3ks]

 

[Docker82]

I think the bigger issue is the very early melt downs around not getting a player signed. Every rumour for an unsigned player leads to pitchforks and burnt effigies.

There is plenty of weeks ahead before we need to start setting fire to the club. The same happened with Sturt - way too many went the early drama on that.

Honestly looks like the AFL across the board has a few more players out of contract now than normal. In the past you’d consider a player gone if not re-signed by now but it doesn’t seem to be that way this year.

 

[CaseySibosadoHOF]

I think the bigger issue is the very early melt downs around not getting a player signed. Every rumour for an unsigned player leads to pitchforks and burnt effigies.

There is plenty of weeks ahead before we need to start setting fire to the club. The same happened with Sturt - way too many went the early drama on that.

Probably borne through understandable frustration about the team losing players over the past however many years that brings on a level of learned pessimism.

Also a level of human nature to look for patterns when either they're not there or they're somewhat there but you can't include everything in that pattern. TIL that human tendency is called apophenia, so I'll remember that if I ever want to sound even more pretentious. I think you see that especially with the pre-rumour panic. Even before there's any real reason to say that a player OOC is leaving, it's "Why haven't they signed yet? Clearly their bags must already be packed."

In reality, you can look back at most cases of players leaving, see the reasons why it happened and what did the surrounding context look like for those players, and I'd be cautiously optimistic in most cases this season coz they didn't fit that. Admittedly, the 2 I thought could be off which I wanted us to keep were Reidy and Voss, and I'm pretty happy to be 0/2 in that respect (only pretty happy coz if Reidy re-signs I now worry about Knobel, which may well be me not practicing what I preach).

 

[Vimal Anand]

We need another high quality small forward apart from Bolton?


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[Superkoops]

From all reports Voss is Signed up.

The priority signing is Andrew Brayshaw

8

Andrew Brayshaw

Age

24

Ht

185cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

9.3

5star

M

2.6

3star

T

4.8

5star

CL

2.1

4star

D

18.4

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

10.8

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

4.8

5star

CL

3.1

4star

D

12.6

4star

K

6.0

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

4.0

5star

CL

0.8

3star

.

Hopefully NOD isn’t too far off and his manager has tested the water to see his value. Fremantle needing to juggle the numbers.

As for the ruckman. There is an endless rotation of rucks every year. I like Knobel so hopefully he resigns. Reidy has improved but I’m not fussed either way. From all reports he has signed in for 2025.

I know peeps are bored and craving any news but let’s be honest it’s about 6 weeks from Trade week so seems a case of premature…

 

[Lach72]

Bizarre we’re not pushing Reidy out, unless the news on big Onions’ knee is worse than expected and we need one more year out of him to protect Knobel.

 

[ROGS]

From all reports Voss is Signed up.

The priority signing is Andrew Brayshaw.

Hopefully NOD isn’t too far off and his manager has tested the water to see his value. Fremantle needing to juggle the numbers.

As for the ruckman. There is an endless rotation of rucks every year. I like Knobel so hopefully he resigns. Reidy has improved but I’m not fussed either way. From all reports he has signed in for 2025.

I know peeps are bored and craving any news but let’s be honest it’s about 6 weeks from Trade week so seems a case of premature…

Knobel is a keeper as he has big upside given his height and ability

 

[Cobbler]

Interesting question popped up. Can’t find the original source, but created solid discussions amongst friends.

If every player was to enter the draft who would go 1?

Let’s extend it and say top 3. Have to also assume we don’t have ‘needs’. In other words if starting a team from scratch and you can pick anyone currently listed.

 

[DragoDelph]

Interesting question popped up. Can’t find the original source, but created solid discussions amongst friends.

If every player was to enter the draft who would go 1?

Let’s extend it and say top 3. Have to also assume we don’t have ‘needs’. In other words if starting a team from scratch and you can pick anyone currently listed.

Bont

 

[Cobbler]

Bont

Yep. Should provide mine

Bont
Young (bias, sure)
Mac Andrew

 

[King Huskii]

Bont

Nope

Because of his age. Yes he's the best player in the comp but for how long?

I'd go the younger of the two Daicos

 

[King Huskii]

Yep. Should provide mine

Bont
Young (bias, sure)
Mac Andrew

Daicos is better than all bar Bont

 

[Cobbler]

Daicos is better than all bar Bont

Rather Sheezel or even JHF as a ‘like for like’

Mine wasn’t a list about who are the best 3 players.

I think the upside to Young and MacAndrew are potentially massive and chose Bont as the best player that still has solid years left.

 

[Lach72]

Treacy

 

[Lach72]

Followed by Darcy and Mac Andrew

 

[Heave Ho Bro]

1. Bailey Banfield

41

Bailey Banfield

Age

26

Ht

190cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

6.5

4star

M

2.9

3star

T

3.9

5star

G

0.3

3star

D

9.5

2star

K

5.3

2star

HB

4.3

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

2.8

4star

G

0.5

4star

D

14.4

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

6.8

5star

M

3.8

4star

T

3.2

5star

G

0.2

3star

2. Bailey Banfield

41

Bailey Banfield

Age

26

Ht

190cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

6.5

4star

M

2.9

3star

T

3.9

5star

G

0.3

3star

D

9.5

2star

K

5.3

2star

HB

4.3

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

2.8

4star

G

0.5

4star

D

14.4

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

6.8

5star

M

3.8

4star

T

3.2

5star

G

0.2

3star

3. Bailey Banfield

41

Bailey Banfield

Age

26

Ht

190cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

6.5

4star

M

2.9

3star

T

3.9

5star

G

0.3

3star

D

9.5

2star

K

5.3

2star

HB

4.3

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

2.8

4star

G

0.5

4star

D

14.4

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

6.8

5star

M

3.8

4star

T

3.2

5star

G

0.2

3star

 

[JammoMonty]

Whoa whoa whoa.... firstly, Drago is a made guy. (obvious Goodfellas reference) Careful how you address him.

And secondly, if we didn't have bad rumours, we'd have no rumours at all. (vague Eric Clapton reference)

DragoDelph ready to throw down.

Sopranos far better imo than Goodfellas

 

[Boomer93]

1. Daicos
2. Sam Darcy
3. Throw a blanket

 

[DragoDelph]

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DragoDelph ready to throw down.

Sopranos far better imo than Goodfellas

Almost visually accurate

 

[go_the_dockers]

 

[DragoDelph]

Gross.

 

[wakojako]

Now that the dust has settled until trade period starts, how fkd up is it that we are not playing finals and Hawks are? Pickett and Bolton were great distractions but damn, that was soul destroying losing to Port.

 

[Swiggy]

Signs up Banfield and offers NOD peanuts

Hmmm yeah ok

He’s played 12 games in 2 years.

What’s he worth?