It’s a bit unfair to write Chesser off already considering he hasn’t had much of a run at it as yet but I am encouraged with the additions of Ginbey, Hewett, Bazzo, Hough and Long over the last couple of drafts.
Hasn't stopped Witherden being selected. It's not clear why one player has been persisted with and not others.
I haven’t written Chesser off yet but early indications are that there would be only be a slim chance that he reaches Johnson’s level, and he doesn’t seem to be a balanced midfielder.
Witherden isn't allergic. He's just ineffective.
Don't forget that Cooper Stephens was selected with the R1 we gave them that year for Tim Kelly.
Of the last draft or two he’s the mystery man isn’t he? Long,Ginbey and Hewitt have all shown promise.Barnett apparently looks a good long termer.Burgeil has been forgotten!!
He breaks lines, takes the game on and is a lovely kick. He’s stood out for us running off half back and hitting targets in dangerous positions with good vision and weighting his passes setting up some attacking runs.
Injured...hammy I believe.
Simpson sacking will hurt the soft cap and I am OK with him continuing but with a different CEO. We will not be vying for finals in the next 2 years and we get to accumulate more high end picks.
The only thing I would say we really need to establish working relationship with Perth. Same ground, same services (e.g SnC)
I think the rationale is as follows.
Agree. Why wouldn't you ask? Even if the chances of getting it are 1% you would still ask. Other than ego. It hurts the ego of those in charge so much that we have fallen to the point where it is reasonable to ask for a PP that they just can't bear the stigma of asking.
He is not on $1M. When they cut the softcap in 2020 it was widely reported that the top echelon of coaches (ie premiership coaches) were on $1M, but they had to agree to paycuts or lose too many assistant coaches. The figure spoken about was $800k. Simmo took his cut but got some extra years on the end to round it out (like we often do with players).
Leave him on the payroll if cheaper to do so, just don't let him have any interaction with the players. Surely we have an assistant or so who would be ok with a moderate pay increase to care take the senior role while Adam works in the marketing department.
