I was pushing for us to chase Liam Henry last year. IMO he is the type we need. A Chad Warner would be perfect but rare
We need to add some leg speed at years end
We need to add some leg speed at years end
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I think they'll both get there. Surely wouldn't be on a heap of coin.
Another point to add re: Durdin is that an extension gives us greater leverage if we were to trade him. That's a whole different can of worms, which I'm not quite ready to get into. I'd rather he fulfils his potential with us.
Doesnāt address my point. Why two years and early in season? Like I said, they arenāt going anywhere
As for Cottrell he is a role player at best. 24 and 65 games and still only one game with more than 20 possessions.
One year I can understand but 2?
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Durds would get that or more from both SA clubs if he wanted it.
As for Cotts, I really think you'd be surprised at how he is rated outside Carlton. I think he would have plenty of interest.
IMO couldnāt disagree more. I donāt know any club that rates Cottrell. Durdin maybe as a DFA if it came to that
A false narrative. Saad and Hewett wanted to come
Saad, Acres, Hewett, EHollands, Cincotta, Cowans are successes. 6 players in 5 years. Hit rate needs to be better
I struggle after that. Barely a draft success. (Cowans) Williams, Cerra have not exactly set the world on fire.
What has Austin done to address our lack of burst from stoppage, pace, outside run?
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Either way neither are really going to make or break out list. Right now Austin and his team need to figure out what to do with this midfield mix and the lack of 2nd quality KPD.
All while supposedly being under tight cap restraints atm. I don't think we'll have an overly busy off season, but I hope we really get aggressive at the draft to take a player or two who fit our list needs. The Campo's are both fine prospects, but neither are going to help out list conundrum at all.
Wilson?
Well it is early but ok but that is my point, we come up with a couple of draft successes in 5 years
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SC is fine. We have room. On top of Campo twins we will have a first round pick in what is supposed to be a mid heavy draft
Being able to trade 2 years of picks may help if it happens
I have no doubt we have targeted a free agent or two and hopefully some cheap deals like we did with Acres & Elijah
I see this as a massive trade/draft period for us
My only question is who have we missed? Iām not convinced on Austin one way or another but itās not an exact science and there are lots of restrictions
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Hope so. There's plenty of players around the 10-25 mark who have the traits we're after. Personally I'd love us to get really aggressive knowing Cody Walker is on the way in a couple of years as a top end talent and being able to trade 2 years out. Trading up or trading in for more bites to try and get an influx of high quality kids to go with the Campos.
I can't see us securing any genuine difference makers via trade or FA with the cap the way it is and the players we may be interested in being for the most part contracted.
I think if one was going to criticize Austin for something it would be for not having as much dare or boldness with what he's got. I didn't rate SOS when it came to a lot of the kids he picked, but he sure knew how to play the trade tables and shuffle around deck chairs to end up with a good deal.
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He has brought in about 9 best 22 players. It would be interesting to see which contending clubs have done much better then that.
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Message to Austin.
Find some defenders or a group of defenders who stop goals. You have covered all the other key traits except that one.
We have handball receives covered, metres gained, intercept marking, calamity, panic....players racking up disposals for supercoach scores.
We just dont have defenders who can stop a goal.
Find some defenders or a group of defenders who stop goals. You have covered all the other key traits except that one.
We have handball receives covered, metres gained, intercept marking, calamity, panic....players racking up disposals for supercoach scores.
We just dont have defenders who can stop a goal.
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Newman Saad Boyd Weitering and Cowan stop plenty of goals. Kemp tries his guts out but isn't a key defender, can't really criticize him for that.
Rubbish post.
And here comes the overreactions after 2 losses!
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I'd also like to give Harry and Charlie some help, they are cruising because they have no competition to keep them honest. It was always going to happen because neither are really leaders.
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Dear god. Charlies on track for his 3rd Coleman and Harry is arguably the best CHF in the competition. What the hell are you talking about about?
Austin has not targetted the right players for list needs in the draft
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The binns pick is the one that annoys me the most. However reality is we havenāt had the picks higher in the draft. Someone like berry, taj hottton, Kako should be prioritised as well as a mature aged key defender and then maybe draft a key defender next year
He was probably on track to win our best and fairest last year before he missed those 4 games later last year, so itās a bit unfair to say heās been rubbish.
I think the hamstring injuries and whatever program they have had him on hasnāt paid dividends. Seems a bit tentative and maybe a game in the vfl wouldnāt be the worst thing for him.
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They are both still playing within themselves IMO, especially Charlie,and are the only two we have. There's a whole myriad of reasons why it may or may not happen for us, that have nothing to do with the most obvious thing you observe from our last loss. Our general lack of leg speed wasn't why the Bulldogs were better than us on the night, Jamarra Ugle-Hagan was the reason.
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Who is pushing 'false narratives'? You keep saying 5 years to make him look worse but it is clearly only 4 - Austin started in January 2020.
Cerra was 4th in our BnF last year and is a success by any measure, despite injury this year. Ollie Hollands has played almost every game since being drafted and also has to be a success. If it is about being best 22, then Fogarty probably counts too - he's given decent value.
Williams was a mistake that chewed up our cap room. He's had bad luck, and seems a great bloke to have around the club, so there's worse mistakes but we gave him way too.much on the hope he could be a midfielder.
That's still 9 players currently best 22 in 4 years. Really 3.5 given none of our draftees last year have been tested yet. Seems actually pretty good to me.
Otherwise, Ollie Hollands and Acres are the two best outside runners at the club. Saad and (healthy) Williams are/were fast outside runners off the backline. Cincotta is quick and versatile. There's certainly been efforts to address run.
Drafting - has had one pick in the top 25 in 3 years and that makes it hard to assess.
That seems at least a solid record. Took over a list that was battling, with a heap of underperforming high draft picks, and has turned it into a top 4 squad. The big wuestion is in whether he can bring in a superstar rather than just hitting singles, and i guess we have to wait and see on that.
Walsh seems to struggle with the new interpretation of HTB. Honestly who can blame him I doubt many can make sense of it.
But Walsh seems to be getting caught at least once if not multiple times every week and his confidence appears shot.
