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Definitely not saying I am in favour of this strategy, but wanted to get people's thoughts on this scenario ...
Let's call it the 'Aggressive Reset'.
It's quite extreme, but I think we need to make some tough calls to move this list towards the way the game has evolved. These moves are based on the assumption that the club is happy with how our injured players have recovered and the ability of our youth to step up in the absence of some of the outgoings (Binns, Wilson, Lord, and O'Keefe to be specific). Not sure how accurate I'm being with the trade value of the players but let's not let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.
OUT
S - 7. Kennedy - TRADE (Melbourne 2nd/3rd rounder)
S - 16. Carroll TRADE (West Coast 3rd)
S - 19. Durdin TRADE (Port 3rd)
S - 33. Young TRADE (North token exchange of 4ths)
S - 14. Fantasia DELIST
S - 21. Martin DELIST
S - 22. Marchbank DELIST
S - 28. Cuningham DELIST
R - 32. M. Carroll DELIST
R - 38. Durdin DELIST
R - 41. Akuei DELIST
R - 45. Mirkov DELIST
IN
S - Dougal Howard (West Coast 3rd)
S - Nick Haynes (UFA)
S - Bailey Banfield (UFA)
S - Jacob Konstanty (Melbourne 2nd)
S - Conor Stone (Future 3rd)
S - Jordan Boyd (promoted to senior list)
S - First round pick (hopefully Joe Berry or Cooper Hynes)
S - Ben Camporeale (match with late picks)
R - Lucas Camporeale CAT A
R - Matt Duffy CAT B
R - damaging mid type OR save for SSP
R - project key/intercept defender OR save for SSP
Your reset isn’t overly aggressive as you’re only probably 2-3 off what will happen, i find the idea of trading Kennedy as being crazy, have a look at our VFL side and see who our back up midfielders are in case of injury, the only AFL ready player is Carrol, who has question marks over if he’s actually up to standard, if you trade Carrol we are exposed, to then trade Kennedy would be a disaster for our depth i both the AFL and VFL.
I’ve seen Stone raised a few times and I’ve no idea if he’s any good but i dont see a need for another forward, when we have issue with small forwards, midfield pace, run and carry defenders, key defenders, a third tall forward is a long way down the list imo.
If we see the third tall forward as an area of concern, we have SOS and we could always try Lemmy or TDK as key forward and play Charlie as a third tall, we haven’t struggled for scoring this year but we struggle to defend all over the park.
You have gone with cutting Young, Marchbank and Durdin, all have been required the past two seasons, you have brought in Howard, Haynes which leaves us one short of what we had. If Howard and Haynes jump in front of Young and Kemp, great, that pushes Young as back up to the back up, a capable option in case of multiple injuries.
We need a deep lost to challenge at the pointy end, we wont get that by trading away players like Kennedy