Game Day 2024 Trade Period

[Dockeroo]

If Oscar Allen isn't signed up soon Brisbane will poach him

Called this the day Daniher retired. It’s one of the most obvious moves in footy right now for 2025.

Lions are specialists in this type of deal. They will be all year wooing him across as a free agent.

 

[freo_leo29]

Called this the day Daniher retired. It’s one of the most obvious moves in footy right now for 2025.

Lions are specialists in this type of deal. They will be all year wooing him across as a free agent.

Diehard eagle supporter and their skipper


Eagles would have to push him out big time

 

[Dockeroo]

Haven’t had a chance to comment on the Bolton trade all week. Actually had to do some work this week of all weeks

Overall I think we paid overs, but can understand the logic. Thought walls probably folded slightly when you consider nearly every other deal on Tuesday went to the last half hour and was settled for pretty much the original speculated price.
Tigers would have taken 10 & 18 for sure by 7:10pm on Wednesday.

However a slide from 11 to 14 isn’t too bad when you add the F3, though the hyper inflated values on picks 10-15 in this particular draft make me think we’d be paying a lot more than F3 if we wanted to move up from 14 to 11.
If we’d swapped pick 30 for 24 as well in the overall deal it would have been just about right.

Anyway it is what it is. Down to Bolton now to perform to close to his best - if he does it will be a win for us. No doubting his talent - has he still got that inner drive and desperation that is required to play a big role in a flag win for freo? Time will tell

As for 14 and 30 in the draft, we are clearly looking at forward half talent based on Walls interviews (thankfully) so I think something like Berry or Hannaford at 14 then Hamish Davies or Datolli at 30 is likely. Hopefully we’ll have a pick in the late 50s too.

The F3 of Richmond could be very handy if we get to pick 25/26 on draft night and there’s someone on the board we can trade up for from 30 using the F3.

 

[MakeshiftMartyr]

I don't see it with Datolli, tbh. Just looks like a guy who's too small to play inside mid.

I saw a phantom draft with an Evan Bradley in the top 30, supposedly a small forward from South Australia I believe, but stuffed if I can find any footage of him.

 

[apuchar]

I don't see it with Datolli, tbh. Just looks like a guy who's too small to play inside mid.

I saw a phantom draft with an Evan Bradley in the top 30, supposedly a small forward from South Australia I believe, but stuffed if I can find any footage of him.

His best game was Sth Australia vs Allies, if you want to watch that or the highlights of it.

5 Evan Bradley (North Adelaide)
Small Forward | 174cm | 17/01/2006

Stats: 10 disposals, 2 marks, 3 goals

Said to be a player who gains confidence from early scores, Bradley would have been full of beans after his two opening quarter goals. The classy small forward displayed sharp finishing skills to split the big sticks with the inside and outside of his boot, before levelling the scores with a third major over the mark in term three. In between, the North Adelaide prospect worked high up the ground and backed his speed en route to goal, even helping himself to a few running bounce

 

[Taylor]

Called this the day Daniher retired. It’s one of the most obvious moves in footy right now for 2025.

Lions are specialists in this type of deal. They will be all year wooing him across as a free agent.

Would mean WC get that extra first round pick. 2 and 3, 14 and 15 and still no Chad Warner

 

[Redgum]

I like Hamish Davies , has the weapons, upgrade on Banfield and Emmett

 

[Johnny Dalmas]

I’d like us to re-sign Knobel onto the main list.

Would suck to try and rookie him then lose him, or am I wrong and it doesn’t work like that?

If we delist him he is always a free agent when OOC.

 

[theGav56]

We have moved beyond the days of bringing in other clubs rejects.

Brought in McDonald and Voss last year. Both good depth. Quite a few clubs will squeeze players out they would like to keep.

 

[Madas]

Can I quickly point out we have had no exodus of players in 2024.
Are we now the settled team we need to be to play at our best ? Everyone including management are a happy team ?

Pretty soon we will be giving away farms down the coast like Geelong

 

[ubiquitous226]

Brought in McDonald and Voss last year. Both good depth. Quite a few clubs will squeeze players out they would like to keep.

And both of those pickups looked like good depth selections, it was just a shame that McDonald copped a long term injury that seemed to be different to his past history, although I guess some players are just more prone to that.

 

[Madas]

He is full of shit, and to be a fair a few have called him out on it. The last bit of "intel" I read from him was some crap about how the AFL has offered him an amazing well paid job which he turned down. Quite often he can't say too much just in case he's being watched - the guy is full of crap.

What a flog
Fits in perfectly over there and those muppets lap it up
Hilarious

 

[theGav56]

A tidbit worth noting from Walls' SEN WA interview regarding list changes:

"There's a few little bits and pieces to play out. Unfortunately we've got a couple players that are hanging that we'll have to have conversations with them. Not everyone will go on next year but there may also be a few players that we need to move from the senior to the rookie list. Overall it's not gonna be a huge change this year for us which is nice." (Several ums and ahs redacted, and a massive run on sentence even by my standards has been broken up.)

Judging by some of the reporting on Inside Trading, fairly safe to presume it's Knobel and Emmett who stay on, with 1 or both of them re-rookied. And then Odin Jones gets cut, which would be incredibly harsh but allows for list flexibility. Whichever way you shift the senior players to the Cat A rookie list, btwn those 2 lists we have 3 list spots if none of them 3 are delisted and have to draft a minimum of 3 players (a lot of 3s).

If Odin is gone I'm hoping Gerreyn gets to our 2nd.

 

[DQ 4EVER]

Would mean WC get that extra first round pick. 2 and 3, 14 and 15 and still no Chad Warner

And then trade out pick 2 for pick 16, Luke Pedlar & Sam Powell Pepper

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[anchor man]

Didnt they win a GF a few years ago?

Read into my post as to why.

 

[Diverbelow]

If Odin is gone I'm hoping Gerreyn gets to our 2nd.

I would rather cut Emmett than Odin Jones. We know what we get from Emmett and bringing in Bolton and having Sturt doesn't leave much room for Emmett. Jones missed a lot of footy through that extended concussion and as a 19 year old has a lot of upside. Big bodied aggressive players that can roost the ball long and accurate don't grow on trees. Give him another year. With development can play KPF (not really required), Ruck or KPD if we need to find a replacement for Pearce, Cox or Ryan.

 

[The Feeder Club]

I would rather cut Emmett than Odin Jones. We know what we get from Emmett and bringing in Bolton and having Sturt doesn't leave much room for Emmett. Jones missed a lot of footy through that extended concussion and as a 19 year old has a lot of upside. Big bodied aggressive players that can roost the ball long and accurate don't grow on trees. Give him another year. With development can play KPF (not really required), Ruck or KPD if we need to find a replacement for Pearce, Cox or Ryan.

I have seen very little of the guy but on face value I agree. We've boned Kuek, Tabs and Corbett. There seems to be room for a developing tall forward

 

[Heave Ho Bro]

"Wallsy wouldn't look me in the eye"

This level of fanfic is genuinely impressive.

If this guy had a pie or a sandwich in his hand at the time this is quite plausible.

 

[Hamann188]

Pretty soon we will be giving away farms down the coast like Geelong

Thought we were already throwing Dale Alcock homes into deals.

 

[eastfreo75]

I like Hamish Davies , has the weapons, upgrade on Banfield and Emmett

Most likely out of our best 23 anyway.

 

[eastfreo75]

I have seen very little of the guy but on face value I agree. We've boned Kuek, Tabs and Corbett. There seems to be room for a developing tall forward

Jackson, Amiss and Treacey are 20 to 22 years old with Voss and Cox as back ups. Reidy was recruited as forward/ruck.

That’s is enough for tall forwards.

 

[Docker82]

Jackson, Amiss and Treacey are 20 to 22 years old with Voss and Cox as back ups. Reidy was recruited as forward/ruck.

That’s is enough for tall forwards.

I don’t want Cox or Reidy anywhere near the forward line tbh.

My preference would be to keep Jones but if we don’t I’m probably saying we’d ideally add another KPF to the list. I wouldn’t lose sleep if we waited until next year to do it though.

If I had to guess what’s happening I think both Knobel and Emmett will be moved to the rookie list. I’d rather move McDonald but more recently the club has favoured moving out of contract players to the rookie list rather than contracted ones.

I actually think the club will upgrade Worner to the senior list. We don’t have to under the current rules but we re-signed him before that so it’s just whether the club wants to honour any informal commitments made at that time - Again we don’t have to honour anything but I expect us to.

 

[MakeshiftMartyr]

I know we're tight on spots, but is Charlie Clarke worth a look? Pick 24 in 2022, only the one game, hard side to break into for a small forward though.

 

[Superkoops]

I would rather cut Emmett than Odin Jones. We know what we get from Emmett and bringing in Bolton and having Sturt doesn't leave much room for Emmett. Jones missed a lot of footy through that extended concussion and as a 19 year old has a lot of upside. Big bodied aggressive players that can roost the ball long and accurate don't grow on trees. Give him another year. With development can play KPF (not really required), Ruck or KPD if we need to find a replacement for Pearce, Cox or Ryan.

Different positions. They were looking at Jack Martin so I’m pretty confident Emmett will get a reprieve via Rookie list. It then comes down to whether Jones is a better option than a new developing key forward.

Jones had a pretty rough year with that concussion issue and a few other soft tissue injuries.

I wouldn’t be surprised if both are re-signed to rookie list. Perhaps both will be delisted and the club will go to the rookie draft to consider them there or via SSP.

2024 Rookie (cat-A) Worner, Sharp, Voss, Kuek, Stanley, Jones

Delisted Kuek, Stanley

If Emmett is rookied that leaves 1 spot.

Looking at recent history - Freo have always used their first rookie selection on a new player.

If it was me I’d go the following
Delist Emmett (With view to select as Rookie with second Rookie pick)
Re-sign Knobel
Take 3 selections in ND
Take first selection (9) in Rookie draft
Either re-sign Jones or delist and have him back with a few other KPF for SSP train on. Select the best KPF from the summer training.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

We can sign Odin after the draft right? See if Gerryn gets to 30?