Thread title should read Bombers' list improvement suggestions. Not sure how to edit thread title.
My five step list management plan for Essendon to improve over the next 2-3 years.
For Bombers supporters this is probably stating the obvious, but I felt Hird inherited a fairly ordinary list and had them playing like men possessed. They have come back to earth with a big thud and it is time to clear some of the cloggers.
I will preface this by saying I haven't researched contract situations in regard to players below.
1. Cut Mark McVeigh. Needs little explanation really, but will go down as one of the least damaging players to run out on an AFL field. If lucky, a team may be stupid enough to give you a 4th or 5th round pick for him. Must be a really good bloke to have hung on for this long.
2. Cut Dustin Fletcher. What an out and out champion this man has been. But surely 2011 is his last year. Time to retire him and give more responsibility to your quality young backs in Pears and Hooker. Spend the summer with David Myers only kicking on his right. Dustin to stay on as a defensive coach/mentor to work in conjunction with Wellman.
3. Trade Patrick Ryder. This guy has a pea heart and has the potential to pass this on to your younger and more impressionable crew. Bellchambers has shown remarkable improvement this year and his hunger to present, mark and contest has put Paddy to shame. Would have trade value.
4. Trade/delist David Hille. Always hoped for a lot with this guy but at 30 years old and slowing to a walk it may be time to show him the door. His fitness and endeavor looked horrible last night so I won't judge him on that alone. But he hasn't shown his best for three years and its time to bite the bullet.
5. Make a massive play for Jackson Trengove. Wants to come home and has been linked to Richmond. Bombers will need to bolster ruck stocks and will possibly need to spend some speculative picks in the draft on some developing rucks. Bellchambers has shown he can rest forward, so you would be more than capable of playing Trengove and Bellchambers in the same 22.
Will add that by removing these four will open a huge amount of cap space. Could attract a superstar forward or midfielder or two with this extra space. Good spot to be in with free agency around the corner. Frontload contracts for young guns like Heppell and build torwards a challenge in 2014-2015.
My five step list management plan for Essendon to improve over the next 2-3 years.
For Bombers supporters this is probably stating the obvious, but I felt Hird inherited a fairly ordinary list and had them playing like men possessed. They have come back to earth with a big thud and it is time to clear some of the cloggers.
I will preface this by saying I haven't researched contract situations in regard to players below.
1. Cut Mark McVeigh. Needs little explanation really, but will go down as one of the least damaging players to run out on an AFL field. If lucky, a team may be stupid enough to give you a 4th or 5th round pick for him. Must be a really good bloke to have hung on for this long.
2. Cut Dustin Fletcher. What an out and out champion this man has been. But surely 2011 is his last year. Time to retire him and give more responsibility to your quality young backs in Pears and Hooker. Spend the summer with David Myers only kicking on his right. Dustin to stay on as a defensive coach/mentor to work in conjunction with Wellman.
3. Trade Patrick Ryder. This guy has a pea heart and has the potential to pass this on to your younger and more impressionable crew. Bellchambers has shown remarkable improvement this year and his hunger to present, mark and contest has put Paddy to shame. Would have trade value.
4. Trade/delist David Hille. Always hoped for a lot with this guy but at 30 years old and slowing to a walk it may be time to show him the door. His fitness and endeavor looked horrible last night so I won't judge him on that alone. But he hasn't shown his best for three years and its time to bite the bullet.
5. Make a massive play for Jackson Trengove. Wants to come home and has been linked to Richmond. Bombers will need to bolster ruck stocks and will possibly need to spend some speculative picks in the draft on some developing rucks. Bellchambers has shown he can rest forward, so you would be more than capable of playing Trengove and Bellchambers in the same 22.
Will add that by removing these four will open a huge amount of cap space. Could attract a superstar forward or midfielder or two with this extra space. Good spot to be in with free agency around the corner. Frontload contracts for young guns like Heppell and build torwards a challenge in 2014-2015.