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

[arsesmart]

I doubt Fyfe is a good next year, and he has no injuries.

Maybe, but that's still in the tea leaves. His role can be tailored to where he's at. As long as he can play a valuable role for the team, which I'd be confident he can (luck willing) for at least a good part of next year.

 

[Cobbler]

Football teams and the Titanic are totally related for my analogy.

When jumping ship, it’s best to get in first.

With that analogy, backed by strong evidence, Pickett to Freo is a mere formality.

The ship has already hit an iceberg. They’re taking on water. Gawn is going to go down with the ship. Viney too.

Petracca will jump next year.

Kosi will jump this year ‘children first’

Bank it.

 

[Sturty2Hurty]

I know there is a few weeks until the trade period opens, but this trade is far from finalised.

Reminds me when Cerra was gone for an entire year and we spent trade week haggling over a 3rd

 

[kp junior]

Maybe, but that's still in the tea leaves. His role can be tailored to where he's at. As long as he can play a valuable role for the team, which I'd be confident he can (luck willing) for at least a good part of next year.

I doubt he would want to change anything re his offseason, given he had his healthiest year in a long time this season, but I would love to see Fyfe losing 5kg and training to get some mobility back. Would be quite the risk however.

 

[arsesmart]

Football teams and the Titanic are totally related for my analogy.

When jumping ship, it’s best to get in first.

With that analogy, backed by strong evidence, Pickett to Freo is a mere formality.

The ship has already hit an iceberg. They’re taking on water. Gawn is going to go down with the ship. Viney too.

Petracca will jump next year.

Kosi will jump this year ‘children first’

Bank it.

I like it.

 

[Lach72]

Jai Serong has had quite a good year apparently.

 

[Sherriff Incorporated]

Jackson has been awful playing as first ruck. You clearly don't watch enough Freo games otherwise you would know this. They had to play Reidy because he could not cover Darcy's absence.

No Jackson hasn'T been awful as 1sT ruck. He was producing midfileld like numbers playing ruck when Darcy wasn'T in the team for all but a handful of games and was outstzandng in that role for all but the Geelong game and maybe one other game Ive forgotten. He did get worn down and clearly played sore in the second half of the year though and his overall form dropped off but in most of those games he ws second ruck.

 

[MadMac]

Football teams and the Titanic are totally related for my analogy.

When jumping ship, it’s best to get in first.

With that analogy, backed by strong evidence, Pickett to Freo is a mere formality.

The ship has already hit an iceberg. They’re taking on water. Gawn is going to go down with the ship. Viney too.

Petracca will jump next year.

Kosi will jump this year ‘children first’

Bank it.

Always thought Ross was right about letting the cobblers do the cobbling

 

[MadMundy]

Bailey Banfield

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Bailey Banfield

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26

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190cm

Wt

88kg

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Fwd

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13.6

3star

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7.2

3star

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6.5

4star

M

2.9

3star

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3.9

5star

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0.3

3star

D

9.5

2star

K

5.3

2star

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4.3

3star

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2.0

2star

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2.8

4star

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0.5

4star

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14.4

4star

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7.6

3star

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6.8

5star

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3.8

4star

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3.2

5star

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0.2

3star

walking around into Day 1 of pre-season:

"You're Shai Bolton

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Shai Bolton

Age

25

Ht

176cm

Wt

77kg

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M/F

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Last 5

D

12.3

3star

K

6.9

3star

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5.4

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.9

4star

CL

1.4

4star

D

12.7

3star

K

9.2

4star

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3.5

2star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.7

4star

CL

1.8

4star

D

9.2

3star

K

4.6

2star

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4.6

4star

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2.0

3star

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2.6

4star

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0.0

1star

"

"Yes"

"You play half forward"

"Yes"

"I play half forward too"

"So?"

"Well are you better than me?"

"Well I never met you, but yes"

 

[freo84]

This is Melbourne to Pickett right now.

I don't recall his departure being this publicised before. He could be genuinely undecided.. who knows.

 

[Cobbler]

This is Melbourne to Pickett right now.

I don't recall his departure being this publicised before. He could be genuinely undecided.. who knows.

Kosi calling Walls

 

[Sherriff Incorporated]

Bailey Banfield walking around into Day 1 of pre-season:

"You're Shai Bolton"

"Yes"

"You play half forward"

"Yes"

"I play half forward too"

"So?"

"Well are you better than me?"

"Well I never met you, but yes"

Ive seen how Bailey interacts with other people when he visits the childrens hospital as Ive visited my mates sick kid who has cancer numerous times with my mate. Bailey's way more likely to be the first person to invite Shai over for dinner and ask him if he needs a hand to unpack then see Shai as a positional rival.

 

[Van_Dyke]

Ive seen how Bailey interacts with other people when he visits the childrens hospital as Ive visited my mates sick kid who has cancer numerous times with my mate. Bailey's way more likely to be the first person to invite Shai over for dinner and ask him if he needs a hand to unpack then see Shai as a positional rival.

it’s a joke from the Simpsons

 

[Sherriff Incorporated]

it’s a joke from the Simpsons

Yeah I know. I was simply making the point Bailey's a high quality human.

 

[DocT]

I think that's why I think it is a fake ITK. That line was unnecessary in this context. He added that line to get credibility

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And I heard that Angus was in the UK, getting on with life and doing OK.

 

[DocT]

Banfield, Fyfe, Walters, JoM and Aish played 100 games last season.

Fyfe had his best year in 5, and didn't get injured, and still barely held a spot in the 22.
Walters really slowed towards the end of the year. Unlikely to best 22.
Aish was dropped from best 22.
Banfield was dropped, and not in best 22.
JoM held a spot in the 22 just, another year older I don't see him improving.



I really think only JoM should be near the best 22 next year, with no injuries, but this means we either need to have no injuries, bring in 2 or 3 players which seems unlikely, or find 2 or 3 draftees who can hit the ground running, once again unlikely unless we snag a mature age player.

If can't replace them, we could take a step backwards next year, until our bottom 5 players are good enough. (Hopefully this doesn't happen)


How many games do each of them play?
Who replaces them?

Here is my shot.

Banfield 5 to 10
Fyfe - 5 to 10
Walters - 1 to 5
JoM - 15
Aish - 5

Leaves roughly 60 games to fill.

Bolton 20
Small forward - 20 games - Pickett, Berry, Richards or ... (Need to add two small forwards to the list)
NOD - 10 more games
Erasmus 10+ games - should play all games Fyfe doesn't.

I like the cut of your jib.
I'd like Walters to retire, Banfield and Aish to be bettered and Fyfe/JoM's contributions to be made redundant by the growing experience of our midfield.

 

[Scythe94]

I think that's why I think it is a fake ITK. That line was unnecessary in this context. He added that line to get credibility

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That's a pretty poor attack on someone's character tbh. Demon 16 is one of the nicest posters on BF – implying that he'd make something up about Brayshaw's mental health in order to score ITK brownie points is a bit gross.

 

[Scythe94]

Anyway, hi Freo friends! Here we are again lol.

Honestly, see this one playing out a bit like the Hogan saga (yearly speculation for multiple seasons). Doubt Koz leaves this year, but wouldn't be at all surprised if he heads to WA eventually.

 

[Rockmelon]

Anyway, hi Freo friends! Here we are again lol.

Honestly, see this one playing out a bit like the Hogan saga (yearly speculation for multiple seasons). Doubt Koz leaves this year, but wouldn't be at all surprised if he heads to WA eventually.

Keep hearing that Kozzy seems to always say he’s homesick, this would have to be the first time he has nominated a potential club though right?

I think Shai might have been in his ear about linking up together that’s why we’re being linked so heavily

 

[arsesmart]

This is Melbourne to Pickett right now.

I don't recall his departure being this publicised before. He could be genuinely undecided.. who knows.

My recollection is there was a lot of noise around his contract negotiations last year. And that's it.

I'm guessing Melbourne went all out on the contract offer then to stave off the call home, making it hard to refuse. That sometimes is really just a papering over the cracks, which can lead to second thoughts further down the track.

 

[Scythe94]

Keep hearing that Kozzy seems to always say he’s homesick, this would have to be the first time he has nominated a potential club though right?

I think Shai might have been in his ear about linking up together that’s why we’re being linked so heavily

Hard to know for sure – during the 2022 offseason and early last year, it was all about how he was going to Port Adelaide, before he ended up signing a four-year deal.

Every chance that having a kid has made him re-prioritise and want to get back to WA, but the club has always been pretty good with giving him time off to go home when needed.

There's been plenty of conflicting rumours – I really don't know for sure what he's going to do, but the prevailing view seems to be that he'll stick around for now, while not ruling out a move home in future.

But hey, at least you guys have some other targets and are not in a perpetual holding pattern like we are lol.

 

[Cobbler]

My recollection was just Port were chasing. Sort of similar to the noise around us and Chad Warner

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Chad Warner

Age

23

Ht

185cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

7.0

2star

K

4.5

2star

HB

2.5

2star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.5

3star

CL

0.0

1star

D

7.0

1star

K

4.5

2star

HB

2.5

2star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.5

2star

CL

0.0

1star

D

7.0

2star

K

4.5

2star

HB

2.5

3star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.5

4star

CL

0.0

1star

.

Kosi mentioning WA and specifically Freo is a bit further along the track then just ‘oh, he just does this’

He never, to my knowledge, nominated a Port.

Well come hard at him. Then once Kosi says ‘I’d like to be traded’ it’s on like Donkey Kong.

 

[Polo342]

Well gee that didnt last long

 

[DocT]

That's a pretty poor attack on someone's character tbh. Demon 16 is one of the nicest posters on BF – implying that he'd make something up about Brayshaw's mental health in order to score ITK brownie points is a bit gross.

Good on you for standing up for a mate and I don't know Demon 16 at all but in general I would say if you hear/know that someone is not going well from a mental health POV it is not wise to spread the news. I don't see how it helps anyone but I can see how easily it could add to someone's pain if they are already vulnerable.

 

[Scythe94]

Good on you for standing up for a mate and I don't know Demon 16 at all but in general I would say if you hear/know that someone is not going well from a mental health POV it is not wise to spread the news. I don't see how it helps anyone but I can see how easily it could add to someone's pain if they are already vulnerable.

Yeah, that's fair. It's not something I would post myself, but I just took a bit of an issue with the implication. That's a reasonable comment though.