List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Edition

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Latest news and rumours:

• Tom Barrass officially requests trade to Hawthorn
  • Duffield: Eagles want two first round picks - "It may have to be in this year’s draft rather than a future pick."
  • Morris: Josh Battle is set to join Barrass at Hawthorn in 2025 - Ralph: Unclear if Hawks will pay enough for Band 1

• Kysaiah Pickett interested in a trade
  • "Club and management are confident they can work through his concerns"
  • Daniels: Pickett’s preference is Fremantle. Fremantle are keen, but Bolton the priority. Getting both “not impossible”. West Coast “an option if things get complicated.”

• Jai Culley, Coen Livingstone, Loch Rawlinson in line for one-year deals (The West)
  
  
• Liam Baker and Shai Bolton
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  Shai Bolton

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  25

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  176cm

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  77kg

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  12.3

  3star

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  6.9

  3star

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  5.4

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  2.8

  3star

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  2.9

  4star

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  1.4

  4star

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  12.7

  3star

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  9.2

  4star

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  3.5

  2star

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  3.0

  3star

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  2.7

  4star

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  1.8

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  9.2

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  4.6

  2star

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  4.6

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  2.0

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  2.6

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  0.0

  1star

  officially request trades to WA
  • Daniels: Bolton is Fremantle’s priority

 

[WCEswift]

Id split for langford and murphy reid...

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Either way I disagree. He is a safe option, but I don't think he is the best option.
Besides opinions are varying regularly on here. Last week everyone was decrying Draper as the "obvious" no. 1 pick.

True but I do think when they go into the VFL and put in the performance Levi did this week when he was already the likely pick 1, its kind of the final nail in the coffin to the situation

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Noone can still seriously want to pay Tim English big money on a long contract surely

I dont but think we will

 

[eaglevision]

I dont but think we will

We won’t.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

We won’t.

Im just preparing for the worst

 

[Elite Pete]

Noone can still seriously want to pay Tim English big money on a long contract surely

It was a putrid game but has been in good form lately. Would still make us better, if he signs it will be disputed if he is worth that contract until he retires. Sounding like he staying though.

Played like a man that has just got paid

 

[Elite Pete]

What is the knock on Langford?

 

[ArdentEagle]

Id split for langford and murphy reid...

I bet you would!

What makes it worse is, I would too

 

[ArdentEagle]

What is the knock on Langford?

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Id split for langford and murphy reid...

Id spread for Langford and Reid

Now we just need someone to bend over

 

[Bender_]

Is the next Ashcroft another elite running 1-2 stats padder like his older brother and Nick Daicos?

 

[Elite Pete]

Thought so.

Can afford one slowish mid can’t we? As long as they are the link player and extractor. (If Sid is gone)

Our current mids of the future all have speed Hewett, Reid, Hall and maybe Ginbey.

 

[Cornelius Roy]

Combine still likely to largely impact draft sentiment. I think there’s a couple of mids that will drop from consideration due to athletic profile and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Travaglia rise up to considerations at 5 based on blitzing the combine and I think Lindsay will be in this boat as well.

looking like the Barrass pick isn’t going to be that high and we’re doing something with our current first and second.

Really hoping we can secure 2/3 of lalor, Lindsay and trevaglia. Might take a year or two but I think all three will be as close to set and forget in the lineup as possible in a position of need for us although I wouldn’t be surprised to see us take Bo Allen and cough up currency to get a marginal upgrade on Tom Cole

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Tom Cole

Age

27

Ht

188cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.9

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

5.0

4star

M

3.7

4star

T

2.7

4star

MG

110.3

2star

D

10.5

3star

K

6.3

3star

HB

4.3

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.5

3star

MG

110.3

2star

D

9.8

3star

K

5.6

3star

HB

4.2

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

1.8

4star

in Baker.

Would bar up if we could ship Bailey, darling and maybe a future something to the dees for Judd McVee and if we also found a way to bring in Knobel it’d be one hell of a draft in terms of plugging holes.

Cross everything on your body for next year that hewett can get his body right and Barnett show something as a KPD.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Cross everything on your body for next year that hewett can get his body right

A lot riding on this.

 

[Wooshaaaa]

If Smillie is no flight risk I think hed be a good fit.
Ginbey moving to half back opens up another spot for a big contested inside mid. If he can be something remotely like Patrick Cripps

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Patrick Cripps

Age

29

Ht

195cm

Wt

93kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

25.9

5star

K

9.8

4star

HB

16.1

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

5.8

5star

CL

7.4

5star

D

21.0

5star

K

10.1

4star

HB

10.9

5star

M

2.5

3star

T

3.8

4star

CL

6.3

5star

D

12.6

4star

K

4.8

2star

HB

7.8

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.2

5star

CL

1.4

4star

thatd be a huge win.

I dont think we need a Draper type necessarily, once we start winning more clearances and get better at holding the ball the possession numbers will rise.
If we could have Reid, Smillie and Hall for example all averaging mid 20s touches in 3 years time as our 3 top mids thatd be completely fine.

Totally disagree.

We need some speed and elite ball use in the middle. That's Jagar, FOS or Draper.

We got reid, we don't need Smillie. Ginbey will go into the eventually. Hewett with some luck too.

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[Knifey Spoony]

Had a dream we split 3 for six and something, took FOS at six and he was tearing it up while wearing the number 3. Premonition? Maybe

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

For all the talk of English getting smashed in the ruck dogs were +3 in the clearances .

It was the 9 goals from 27 shots that killed the doggies

 

[Manbearpig77]

And he was rated a generational player when taken at pick 2.

The SA clubs were frothing.

Another example of top 3 picks not being sure things.

Or GC’s inability to develop talent.

 

[eaglespremiers]

Is the next Ashcroft another elite running 1-2 stats padder like his older brother and Nick Daicos?

He is prone to doing this, yes.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

For all the talk of English getting smashed in the ruck dogs were +3 in the clearances .

It was the 9 goals from 27 shots that killed the doggies

Bulldogs are good at reading the taps from opposition ruckmen. After all they have had 10 years of practice at it.

 

[amazingjoshy]

For all the talk of English getting smashed in the ruck dogs were +3 in the clearances .

It was the 9 goals from 27 shots that killed the doggies

Because rucks don't matter. So why pay one a big contract

 

[ROYAL EAGLE]

What is the knock on Langford?

Lack of pace is very slow

 

[ROYAL EAGLE]

I disagree

We absolutely need a Draper type and several of them, none of our guys can get to contest after contest, nor do they run both ways.

Smillie emphasises everything wrong with our current midfielders, he’s a poor kick albeit a penetrating one, he’s incredibly lazy off the ball, he doesn’t get involved in link up plays and the idea of him is a lot better than what he actually is.

Mids who have that inside / outside blend with good foot skills and adequate pace are exactly what we need.

Really well said on Smillie very much agree.
He is also a terrible fit with our current mid set up, would make us too big and slow
Draper, FOS, Lindsay fit WCE better as mids all are smaller agile mids with great kicking ability.

Lalor is the wild card still think he can end up being the best player in this draft

 

[Eastcoasteagle]

Do you think he would be okay with heading West mate? I guess that’s the biggest question i have around Murphy and it’s based on nothing except for being a metro boy. He’s definitely one that i think is really worth looking at pick 3 if he was okay with moving.

Honestly, I've got no idea. He's Caulfield grammar boy and from South Melbourne, so not a true bayside mummies boy. But does have the private school factor.

 

[noobermensch]

There was so much anticipation and expectation of what Finn would produce coming into his top age season, but up to now he's struggle through a series of set backs and never really come close to resembling the footballer of last year and years prior. He again started slowly here in the first quarter, but when he started dancing in the second quarter, showing some of the tricks he can pull out of his bag, things that few other footballers can match, there was a palpable sense of relief and excitement among watchers that finally the real Finn O'Sullivan might be about to stand up. There are still reasons why you might not choose to take him at pick 1, but at least we've again started to see why you just might.