AFL Player #41: Saad El-Hawli - Signs on for 2025! - 14/8

[ant555]

What Essendon used to do back in the 80s and 90s is develop players until they were ready for seniors.

When the VFL lists had 52 players on them and you could give blokes 3 years in the seconds.

 

[yodellinhank]

When the VFL lists had 52 players on them and you could give blokes 3 years in the seconds.

It was a simpler time, it was a better time.

 

[craffles]

It was a simpler time, it was a better time.

Outside of some of the smaller clubs struggling financially, I wonder why list sizes aren’t bigger? The rookie list is an absolute farce these days so just get rid of it and make overall lists bigger. Would be great to have some real low risk project players.

 

[jdstorm]

Outside of some of the smaller clubs struggling financially, I wonder why list sizes aren’t bigger? The rookie list is an absolute farce these days so just get rid of it and make overall lists bigger. Would be great to have some real low risk project players.

Guess the top players don’t want that same pool split between 12 more people. That’s a decent pay cut to have to take

 

[Vindicater]

Outside of some of the smaller clubs struggling financially, I wonder why list sizes aren’t bigger? The rookie list is an absolute farce these days so just get rid of it and make overall lists bigger. Would be great to have some real low risk project players.

The rookie list should absolutely just be amalgamated with the main list and leave the cat B rookie spots.

 

[Agronomus]

Outside of some of the smaller clubs struggling financially, I wonder why list sizes aren’t bigger? The rookie list is an absolute farce these days so just get rid of it and make overall lists bigger. Would be great to have some real low risk project players.

Is it because teams like norf can't afford bigger lists? The AFL keep drinking the socialist koolaid

 

[faible]

Is it because teams like norf can't afford bigger lists? The AFL keep drinking the socialist koolaid

The AFL effectively pays the bulk of player wages via club distributions of the TV income. It's a non-issue.

North is also pretty financially sound and have removed pokies. If there's anything to laugh at them about, that ain't it.

 

[boncer34]

The AFL effectively pays the bulk of player wages via club distributions of the TV income. It's a non-issue.

North is also pretty financially sound and have removed pokies. If there's anything to laugh at them about, that ain't it.

It's easy to be financially sound off pokies when the other clubs prop you up.

 

[astrowizzle]

It was a simpler time, it was a better time.

Reminds me of life before mobile phones. They were good times

 

[Agronomus]

Reminds me of life before mobile phones. They were good times

I was 42 in 2011 before I gave in and had to get my first mobile phone. Much better dating chicks when you only had a land line

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

A lot of hope for a guy who hasn’t been seen at AFL level before. We know he can dominate VFL but the jump up isn’t always that easy and he is coming back from an injury.

Let’s see how he goes in preseason games before declaring him our saviour across the wing or flanks.

He just looked so much at ease in VFL than most of other blokes who played in VFL last season. That four goal performance was so impressive. Fingers crossed it translates to AFL

 

[craffles]

He just looked so much at ease in VFL than most of other blokes who played in VFL last season. That four goal performance was so impressive. Fingers crossed it translates to AFL

Hope so. Fingers and toes crossed