List Mgmt. 2024 Trade & List Management Thread - Part II

[shintemaster]

His kicking isn't just not great. It's shocking. OP was calling him a "genuine gun" when in reality he is just an ok player that is nowhere near Houston's caliber.

Anyone who watched Brisbane win last week and is still primarily hung up on small forwards as "the" solution to football in 2025 is kidding themselves. Outside of Daniher missing his own boot because the Earth's orbit moved by the time the football went from his hand to his foot the single biggest attribute Brisbane showed all day was an absolute master class in footskills. They torched the ladder leading team with a near on perfect display of weighted kicking and smart, aggressive decision making.

Footskills combined with the gut running to give players the opportunity to use them are where we will win finals.

And by the way I say that as a supporter that has been adamant for a while that we need at least 1-2 small forwards onto the list and arguably in the 23 on the day as well.

 

[King Corey]

Translation: Port Adelaide are pulling every lever possible to deal with Brady Rawlings

Brady Rawlings

Age

43

Ht

184cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.7

4star

K

8.7

3star

HB

9.0

5star

M

3.6

4star

T

2.3

4star

No current season stats available

D

8.6

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

4.0

3star

M

1.0

1star

T

0.8

3star

rather than Jeannie Pratt and her army of small businesses that will be bestowed off books to the Houston family

 

[Shinboner1]

What’s it got to do with Houston?

they want someone in to cover the position.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Battle’s move to St Kilda?

St Kilda are bidding against themselves?

Bold strategy Cotton…

 

[blackshadow]

they want someone in to cover the position.

We could give them LMac

 

[King Corey]

Anyone who watched Brisbane win last week and is still primarily hung up on small forwards as "the" solution to football in 2025 is kidding themselves. Outside of Daniher missing his own boot because the Earth's orbit moved by the time the football went from his hand to his foot the single biggest attribute Brisbane showed all day was an absolute master class in footskills. They torched the ladder leading team with a near on perfect display of weighted kicking and smart, aggressive decision making.

Footskills combined with the gut running to give players the opportunity to use them are where we will win finals.

Brisbane's marking prowess at either end is also being underrated. It allows their smalls to flourish.

 

[justroyal]

they want someone in to cover the position.

Meh, we hadn’t had anyone to cover McKay, and still haven’t had anyone to replace Boomer. They’ll be fine.

Plus, don’t they have Bergman as someone who plays similar?

 

[King Corey]

We could give them LMac

Club captain
"Walk into any best 22"
Top 10 B&F

Straight swap?

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Brisbane's marking prowess at either end is also being underrated. It allows their smalls to flourish.

The biggest factor is how they manage to carry Hipwood.

 

[Moti]

Brisbane's marking prowess at either end is also being underrated. It allows their smalls to flourish.

That's why I picked them, Swans just had no KP talent.

 

[shintemaster]

Brisbane's marking prowess at either end is also being underrated. It allows their smalls to flourish.

Agreed. A lot of that is due to the ability of the team to work into space that makes tough kicks achievable and the skills to then deliver on those. A genuine marking threat allows others to flourish, in the same way that having a Comben marking threat down back finally started to allow our other players to attack knowing he'd clunk it. The whole team becomes more dynamic and aggressive.

 

[King Corey]

The biggest factor is how they manage to carry Hipwood.

He managed to Kerridge the swans, fair play to him.

 

[RossHenshaw]

We could give them LMac

we can give them Biggie N .. oh wait.

 

[The Nostradamus]

They have Farrell, Bergman and Sinn they don’t need another hbf

Would be happy to take any of these 3 off them too

 

[Makeshift Park]

Translation: Port Adelaide are pulling every lever possible to deal with Brady Rawlings rather than Jeannie Pratt and her army of small businesses that will be bestowed off books to the Houston family

Brady's in the kitchen like

 

[Moti]

Anyone who watched Brisbane win last week and is still primarily hung up on small forwards as "the" solution to football in 2025 is kidding themselves. Outside of Daniher missing his own boot because the Earth's orbit moved by the time the football went from his hand to his foot the single biggest attribute Brisbane showed all day was an absolute master class in footskills. They torched the ladder leading team with a near on perfect display of weighted kicking and smart, aggressive decision making.

Footskills combined with the gut running to give players the opportunity to use them are where we will win finals.

And by the way I say that as a supporter that has been adamant for a while that we need at least 1-2 small forwards onto the list and arguably in the 23 on the day as well.

It is an all over the ground approach. The small forward is still a strong part if it though to prevent good rebounding.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Agreed. A lot of that is due to the ability of the team to work into space that makes tough kicks achievable and the skills to then deliver on those. A genuine marking threat allows others to flourish, in the same way that having a Comben marking threat down back finally started to allow our other players to attack knowing he'd clunk it. The whole team becomes more dynamic and aggressive.

Who’d have thought that focusing on the most important fundamental of the sport would produce results…

 

[King Corey]

Agreed. A lot of that is due to the ability of the team to work into space that makes tough kicks achievable and the skills to then deliver on those. A genuine marking threat allows others to flourish, in the same way that having a Comben marking threat down back finally started to allow our other players to attack knowing he'd clunk it. The whole team becomes more dynamic and aggressive.

It forces opposition coaches into a positional game of chicken too.

Teams break and run on us knowing the odds of interception or forward line marking are so low.

If you have 2 tall marking players either end they simply can't afford to risk it.

You're right re Comben. Up forward they'd figured Larkey was physically subdued most of the year and other than Teakle for a period, there was nothing stopping them peeling off and becoming playmakers.

~Agree with your overall take. Brisbane small forwards were an outcome of their team running power, defensive application, skills and genuine size KPPs.

But everyone will play chasey trying to implement 3 small forwards as a silver bullet.

 

[travelli]

The biggest factor is how they manage to carry Hipwood.

In an ordinary club he'd be a shocker, but he is handy when surrounded by guns.

 

[King Corey]

Brady's in the kitchen like

Jokes aside, you do have to feel for our list and recruiting guys.

I am 110% convinced on which clubs are making a mockery of the cap. I mean the AFL retrenched the cap watchdog during Covid!

So unless we can offer incredible opportunity to a player or almost guaranteed odds of contending, there are a bank of clubs in Melbourne we'll never match going head to head.

Look at mid 2010s when we had pushed to contending yet lost every player chase to Collingwood or Carlton who were flopping around low to mid table.

Did the players like their cafes better?

 

[DocSholl]

Hopefully we're prepared to walk away when it becomes pick 2 or nothing

 

[The Nostradamus]

Hopefully we're prepared to walk away when it becomes pick 2 or nothing

It will never get to that

 

[The Nostradamus]

I’m at the stage where I think we should just get darling and parker

And then trade in either a small forward or young kpf

Then hit the draft and assess offers for splitting

 

[DocSholl]

It will never get to that

Probably not but I suspect it will require a single digit selection now that they've missed on two replacements

 

[speedy]

Hopefully we're prepared to walk away when it becomes pick 2 or nothing

We will probably give up more than they did for Judas. We are good like that.