AFLW AFLW/VFLW 2024 - General Discussion

[Testekill]

It might just be that we were considering Keely Hardingham from our VFLW side already and Borg being out for the year made the swap like for like.

 

[MYOB]

All Australian squad announced.
Not one Dog in the squad

They clearly haven't been watching Dogs games if they couldn't fit Pritchard in the squad of 42.

 

[W W Biscuit]

All Australian squad announced.
Not one Dog in the squad

They clearly haven't been watching Dogs games if they couldn't fit Pritchard in the squad of 42.

Even with my Bulldogs glasses on, that's outrageous.

 

[MYOB]

Sounds like Alice Edmonds, who signed a new contract this year, wants out.

WTF is going on at this club.

 

[Thunderoad]

Sounds like Alice Edmonds, who signed a new contract this year, wants out.

WTF is going on at this club.

I get that there's an enormous variation between what AFLW players get payed and I get a sense that Edmonds has been offered significantly more elsewhere but she's under contract and contracts have to mean something.

If she is in demand, I don't mind adjusting the contract to add incentives and pay her more if she meets those levels but this is line in the sand stuff for the club and they simply can't fold to these types of demands.

 

[geoffjennings79]

I get that there's an enormous variation between what AFLW players get payed and I get a sense that Edmonds has been offered significantly more elsewhere but she's under contract and contracts have to mean something.

If she is in demand, I don't mind adjusting the contract to add incentives and pay her more if she meets those levels but this is line in the sand stuff for the club and they simply can't fold to these types of demands.

I agree with your stance. But since our flag, we are bordering on being a feeder club. The only top liners we've retained (so far) are Blackburn and Edmonds, and Pritchard probably now in that category.

We've lost a captain (Brennan), a reigning AFLW MVP (Kearney), a GF BOG who went on to become AFL MVP (Conti), our three best forwards at the time (Huntington, Toogood, Lochland), a fast-developing all rounder (McCarthy) then last year our long-term ruck (Moody), second best onballer (Lamb) and #1 draft pick who looks ready to get to the level we hoped she would (Newton), plus a host of others. (As I've posted previously, Kearney and Toogood were probably inevitable, given job offers and captaincy of their new clubs, but others?)

With zero top liners arriving the other way. We usually get fringe players to plug holes - created by departures of far better players.

We've just delisted our backup ruck in Borg. So how far do we accommodate Edmonds (if at all) beyond her current contract, before that line in the sand? Do we match other offers, or offer slightly less but more than she's on now hoping that's enough? Or offer more than external offers just to ensure she stays?

Atm, we are like 1970s Footscray. A steady stream of top tier departures, some late season wins to give supporters false hope, before another end-of-season rumour of more departures.

If Edmonds leaves, or wants to leave, that's bad enough. If Blackburn shows any inclination that she wants out (hard to know if rumour has any substance though), may as well hand the AFLW licence back... ☹

 

[Thunderoad]

I agree with your stance. But since our flag, we are bordering on being a feeder club. The only top liners we've retained (so far) are Blackburn and Edmonds, and Pritchard probably now in that category.

We've lost a captain (Brennan), a reigning AFLW MVP (Kearney), a GF BOG who went on to become AFL MVP (Conti), our three best forwards at the time (Huntington, Toogood, Lochland), a fast-developing all rounder (McCarthy) then last year our long-term ruck (Moody), second best onballer (Lamb) and #1 draft pick who looks ready to get to the level we hoped she would (Newton), plus a host of others. (As I've posted previously, Kearney and Toogood were probably inevitable, given job offers and captaincy of their new clubs, but others?)

With zero top liners arriving the other way. We usually get fringe players to plug holes - created by departures of far better players.

We've just delisted our backup ruck in Borg. So how far do we accommodate Edmonds (if at all) beyond her current contract, before that line in the sand? Do we match other offers, or offer slightly less but more than she's on now hoping that's enough? Or offer more than external offers just to ensure she stays?

Atm, we are like 1970s Footscray. A steady stream of top tier departures, some late season wins to give supporters false hope, before another end-of-season rumour of more departures.

If Edmonds leaves, or wants to leave, that's bad enough. If Blackburn shows any inclination that she wants out (hard to know if rumour has any substance though), may as well hand the AFLW licence back... ☹

You're absoletly right that it's a delicate balance.

I guess that I favour adding further incentives into a contract so that if they are met then both the player and the club benefit.

I also think that it sends the right message to other players on the list and to potential recruits, not that there are many top line recruits joining as you point out.

I'm dismayed and disillusioned that the club is still seemingly in this doom spiral.

I had hoped that we had turned something of a corner after a better than expected season and putting in place an entirely new coaching and administrative set up.

Weighing up all the factors, I think that letting a player like Edmonds leave at this point would only result in continuing to send a message to other clubs that our playing list is there for the taking.

 

[X_box_X]

All Australian squad announced.
Not one Dog in the squad

They clearly haven't been watching Dogs games if they couldn't fit Pritchard in the squad of 42.

What about Sherar not making the squad?

She should be in the team let alone the squad.

 

[W W Biscuit]

Sounds like Alice Edmonds, who signed a new contract this year, wants out.

WTF is going on at this club.

Do we have any further confirmation of this other than the article on afl.com a few days ago?

Edmonds is contracted. If WCE, Geelong or GWS wants her (as reported), that will cost them their first round draft pick. But if our club continues to be a revolving door, what is that truly worth?

 

[W W Biscuit]

I agree with your stance. But since our flag, we are bordering on being a feeder club. The only top liners we've retained (so far) are Blackburn and Edmonds, and Pritchard probably now in that category.

We've lost a captain (Brennan), a reigning AFLW MVP (Kearney), a GF BOG who went on to become AFL MVP (Conti), our three best forwards at the time (Huntington, Toogood, Lochland), a fast-developing all rounder (McCarthy) then last year our long-term ruck (Moody), second best onballer (Lamb) and #1 draft pick who looks ready to get to the level we hoped she would (Newton), plus a host of others. (As I've posted previously, Kearney and Toogood were probably inevitable, given job offers and captaincy of their new clubs, but others?)

With zero top liners arriving the other way. We usually get fringe players to plug holes - created by departures of far better players.

We've just delisted our backup ruck in Borg. So how far do we accommodate Edmonds (if at all) beyond her current contract, before that line in the sand? Do we match other offers, or offer slightly less but more than she's on now hoping that's enough? Or offer more than external offers just to ensure she stays?

Atm, we are like 1970s Footscray. A steady stream of top tier departures, some late season wins to give supporters false hope, before another end-of-season rumour of more departures.

If Edmonds leaves, or wants to leave, that's bad enough. If Blackburn shows any inclination that she wants out (hard to know if rumour has any substance though), may as well hand the AFLW licence back... ☹

Just when I think I have come to terms with and/or repressed this childhood defining trauma, you had to go and mention it

 

[weltschmerz]

https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/goal-of-the-year Berry's up for GOTY

 

[Thunderoad]

Do we have any further confirmation of this other than the article on afl.com a few days ago?

Edmonds is contracted. If WCE, Geelong or GWS wants her (as reported), that will cost them their first round draft pick. But if our club continues to be a revolving door, what is that truly worth?

There are pay walled articles in both The Australian and The West Australian today.

West Coast and Geelong are interested according to the first paragraph in The Australian.

 

[TBOW]

We did go pretty hard at Morphett last year.
Maybe Alice didn't appreciate that?
Or maybe her papers are stamped and we are again looking for a more mobile ruck?

 

[MYOB]

We did go pretty hard at Morphett last year.
Maybe Alice didn't appreciate that?
Or maybe her papers are stamped and we are again looking for a more mobile ruck?

She signed a contract in April this year to take her to 2026

 

[Bulldogs85]

 

[Bulldog1954]

I agree with your stance. But since our flag, we are bordering on being a feeder club. The only top liners we've retained (so far) are Blackburn and Edmonds, and Pritchard probably now in that category.

I think Pritchard signed for one year last offseason and is now out of contract. We have to get her on a long term contract.

 

[Bulldogs85]

 

[Testekill]

That's a big signing.

 

[Bulldogs85]

That's a big signing.

sure is now onto Pritchard

 

[Bulldogs85]