List Mgmt. Our Trade/FA, Suburban & Country Town Thread

[ElliottsMaggies]

Fanta pants is absolutely cooked. Cats are shooting themselves in the foot.

I hope so. They're becoming the drug rehab club. Stengle, Smith, Oliver

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

I hope so. They're becoming the drug rehab club. Stengle, Smith, Oliver

Gary Ablett Sr and Jack Steven before that.

 

[gouki88]

Gary Ablett Sr and Jack Steven before that.

Old mate Matty Stokes too!

 

[Gaspard]

I read many demands that we recruit a full back, but only rejection of the players that might be available. It looks like we will have to manage with what we have. Given we have not seen any of Eyres and little of Dean, while Frampton has shown himself to be a solid citizen, this may a reasonable route to follow.

 

[RobJD]

Can anyone please explain how Geelong can fit Martin Oliver and Bailey smith into their current salary cap.
Something awry must be happening there. I think they passing on too much under the table cows turd to everyone
Cant believe all this crap

Seems like they have a lot of flexibility in their cap, they've delisted 7 players and players like Danger are on, or about to start short term contracts. Can't think of many other than Holmes and Stengle who are on longer term contracts. Their squeeze is more likely in the next year with Cameron, SDK, Dempsey OOC.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

What an injection of culture...........so to speak. The last thing a loose cannon like Stengle would need.

and get rid of those choir boy types like Hawkins and touhy

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

Gary Ablett Sr and Jack Steven before that.

And Stokes.

 

[Bramax]

We take him off Gold Coasts hands and they give us pick 12 for Noble

Pies give Noble and take Fiorini and his wage.
Suns give pick 12 and get Noble.
Sounds a bit like the Cats/Suns deal.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Seems like they have a lot of flexibility in their cap, they've delisted 7 players and players like Danger are on, or about to start short term contracts. Can't think of many other than Holmes and Stengle who are on longer term contracts. Their squeeze is more likely in the next year with Cameron, SDK, Dempsey OOC.

They’ve only delisted three players on anything remotely resembling decent coin

 

[JuniorB]

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Chicken wings?

 

[TheVillageIdiot7]

I’m looking at daicos, degoey, Mitchell, perryman, pendles, crisp and Allan. There’s only so many mids we can have. I don’t think we need any of them. List spots are tight. Time will tell. Long and Sullivan were rookies for free. Kennedy won’t be cheap depth. Will still be on half decent coin and if we are full strength I don’t see a spot

Its not the mids that concern me.

It's the fact we fundamentally do not like players that can only play mid.
Players that can only play Mid won't play often for us.

The only one in our mid rotation that is really a 'mid only' is Titch.

Everyone else MUST play a secondary position and role....and do it well.
Bringing in someone like Kennedy is backup to Titch only, unless they can play another position.
If he's leaving Blues because they won't play him full Mid.....then it ain't happening with us.

It's what served us so well in 2023.

 

[Big Bryza]

I hope so. They're becoming the drug rehab club. Stengle, Smith, Oliver

Bad night to be a bag in G town.

 

[OniAu]

Bad night to be a bag in G town.

Breaking News " Goodwin requests trade from Melbourne Coaching to Geelong"

 

[Matt_352]

I read many demands that we recruit a full back, but only rejection of the players that might be available. It looks like we will have to manage with what we have. Given we have not seen any of Eyres and little of Dean, while Frampton has shown himself to be a solid citizen, this may a reasonable route to follow.

There are key backs available better than Frampton, Eyre and Dean. Not a lot better but better all the same.

 

[OniAu]

There are key backs available better than Frampton, Eyre and Dean. Not a lot better but better all the same.

People mentioned Sam Frost , wonder if that was ever a possiblity. Essentially going to be pushed out of the 22

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

There are key backs available better than Frampton, Eyre and Dean. Not a lot better but better all the same.

Not a lot better is not much good to anybody. Eyre and Dean have upside whilst frampton is a more than adequate depth/role player. Not keen on churning over more of the same for arguable marginal gains. I’d rather stick with what we have with a blue sky draft selection, and chase a bigger name next year.

 

[Bianconeri]

There are key backs available better than Frampton, Eyre and Dean. Not a lot better but better all the same.

We missed out of the finals on percentage. Any slight improvement would have turned our draws to wins and we make the finals. Given what Sydney produced I reckon we were a chance no matter where we finished in the 8.

 

[sr36]

this should be the focus ..and not Keath or Tomlinson

I think we'll go a short term option like Tomlinson and draft a longer term hopeful.

 

[manicpie]

Can anyone please explain how Geelong can fit Martin Oliver and Bailey smith into their current salary cap.
Something awry must be happening there. I think they passing on too much under the table cows turd to everyone
Cant believe all this crap

Don't get me started on that salt sniffing bunch of glorified hillbillys.

 

[manicpie]

Think we might be reaching critical mass on slow players if we start considering Fiorini. With Perryman coming in and even expecting to take McGuane next year who isn't super quick, I think we really need to prioritise power runners, particularly with our mids.

It's a no for fiorini, just a depth player

 

[sr36]

Don't get me started on that salt sniffing bunch of glorified hillbillys.

Careful. You're criticising sniffing to glueie.

 

[DaddyMac80]

I'm very concerned about our list, moving into 2026/2027.

Pendles, Howe, Sidebottom, Crisp, Elliott, Mitchell, Mihocek, Cox and Hoskin-Elliott will all have retired.

JDG, Bruzzy, Cameron, Moore and McStay will all be over 30 and close to the end.

I'm not optimistic at all about Sullivan, Dean, McInnis, Ryan, Macrae, Frampton, Long or Bytel.

We'll hopefully have (but who knows) some blossoming talent in Allan, TJ, HDM, Harrison and Parker.

I still have some hope that Kreuger and AJ can be something special.

I have zero idea about Steene, Schmidt or Eyre.

To me, that leaves a core of Nick and Josh, Q, McCreery, Schultz, Hill, Lapinski and Perryman.

We need to do some all time great trading and drafting this year and next or, I think, we're in for some very tough times.

Of course, I thought things looked far worse at the end of 2020 ... we did pretty well a few years after that.

Probably more of a worry if I thought our list profile looked great

 

[whiskeytown]

Isn’t the obvious question- if he’s so good why are Carlton wanting a 32 yo Haynes as a replacement? Who is also 10cm shorter.

Young is no world beater… Haynes is rated higher

Weitering not being dropped

And they probably figure they can jettison young and use another KPP in the developing 3rd KPD role

I don’t see Carlton shopping him around as a big deal…

Especially as they have made some strange moves already in shopping Owies around too

 

[tmpies01]

Where are the Perryman haters or is it about the contract size?

Contract. They will jump on him after one down game.

He’s already Kane Cornes’ target.

 

[Gabbo64]

We only need one more recruit. I can't remember his name, but he's the one that's kicking a goal after the siren in the 2025 GF to win us the flag. I wish I could remember his name. Anyway, he's the one we should be chasing. Simples.