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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  6.9

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  2.8

  3star

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  2.9

  4star

  CL

  1.4

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  D

  12.7

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  9.2

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  3.5

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  3.0

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

 

[bzparkes]

Hutchinson is 1cm taller than darling and same size as waterman who are classed as a tall forwards

Culley's bigger than all 3(unless they're in a trenchcoat) and he's a mid.

 

[Wooshaaaa]

If you find the 2022 version of this thread I (and a fair few others) were all in on drafting the Poo. I like Ginbey but feel we made a real mistake going the wa boy.

Hope there’s no wa boys we reach for this year. Just take the best available no matter where they come from

What! Yeh nah. Ginbey is doing just fine. Poo hasn't shown anything as a midfielder and was sent back to the VFL for 10 weeks. Far out peoples expectations need to be checked. These guys are 19/20. Chad Warner was a nobody for the first 3 yrs of his career.

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[Get_The_Gaff]

Culley's bigger than all 3(unless they're in a trenchcoat) and he's a mid.

He was a tall forward in his draft year and went undrafted. He went into the middle the next season

 

[bzparkes]

He was a tall forward in his draft year and went undrafted. He went into the middle the next season

And Harry Edwards was a midfielder and is now a KPD.

Clearly Culley's a better mid than tall forward, because that's what he got drafted as and has played since.

 

[Monocle]

Umm Barrass wants bit more please

Rather we up our offers to Peatilng and ramp up an offer to Perryman .

Barrass I am happy to let him walk in a trade to another Club, shits me when players and their mangers go behind their Club back, when they are "IN" contract for more than one year, seeking out better deals with opposition Clubs, in TB's case, now having done so two years in a row now.

Not happy with the current contract ..... blame your manager and stop trying to hold the Club to ransom.

Yes TB is an elite intercept mark, but as a one on one defender, he is bog average.

Will his departure hurt us?
Yes in the short term, however, draft well with the trade capital we get trading him and long term we are much better placed.

Bottom line TB wont be a part of our next Premiership tilt, BUT the player/players that we draft by trading him may be.

We are in a serious rebuild so the priority is on the future success and strength of our list, even at the expense of the here and now.

I am not suggesting that we trade out all our older players BUT those who are getting greedy and exploring their options elsewhere, then absolutely cash in - retool, reboot and rebuild.

 

[Wooshaaaa]

It was a mistake to re-sign yeo for 3 years then.

No not at all. Its a mistake to expect he will have the physical capacity to play inside mid for that entire time. His leadership and mentoring for the young kids coming through is what we have payed him for. I know everyone is seduced by Yeo going in the middle all year but the reality is he is good for half a year. Ideally, he should be down back where he won all Australian nod, but we don't have anyone else give him a rest.

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[Westend]

if we need a ruck give young reidy a contract from freo .....

 

[Peptide Pig]

Hutchinson isnt and never was a tall forward. I dont know why people think this.

Incorrect. Look up any media reports from when he was drafted and it was as a forward. Whether you consider 190cm tall is a matter of semantics. 1cm shorter than Darling and Waterman who are classed as talls. The club website referred to him as a “mobile mid-sized forward” when he was recruited.

 

[briztoon]

Bailey Williams isn’t a forward and we need a ruck to replace him because he’s not a ruck either.

Said this adnauseam on here a couple of months ago, and kept being told he's an athletic freak being played out of position and worth a second round pick if traded to a Vic team.

If we don't want Bailey Willaims, Who ****ing does?

Yes.

 

[Godfather32]

Said this adnauseam on here a couple of months ago, and kept being told he's an athletic freak being played out of position and worth a second round pick if traded to a Vic team.



Yes.

I can't imagine anyone trading anything higher than a late 3rd rounder for him, and even that's stretching the friendship.
I think you'll find the people defending him were the type to join the plane choir and back Simpson in to coach next year

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Incorrect. Look up any media reports from when he was drafted and it was as a forward. Whether you consider 190cm tall is a matter of semantics. 1cm shorter than Darling and Waterman who are classed as talls. The club website referred to him as a “mobile mid-sized forward” when he was recruited.

Doesn’t the club’s description of him as a mid-sized forward go against your argument that he’s a tall forward?

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

O’Driscoll and Erasmus for future 2nd rounder,

 

[eaglespremiers]

Some shots from the draft prospects from the Pioneers v Bushrangers game yesterday.

Jobe Shanahan:



Tobie Travaglia:




Joe Berry:



Jack Whitlock:


James Barrat:



Archer Day-Wicks:

 

[robbo 39]

We can't be too quick to give up on Harry Barnett his only in his second season. Get some games into him next year after another off season.

 

[greatwhiteshark]

Lots on here talking about getting a ruckman, yes it would be better if we had a quality one but it’s not a priority.
We need midfielders, ball movers. And lots of them.
There is nothing else that matters than building a midfield right now.
You can’t solve everything in one draft so you need to prioritise. Ruckman is not a priority. Midfielders/ball movers are the only priority.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

What! Yeh nah. Ginbey is doing just fine. Poo hasn't shown anything as a midfielder and was sent back to the VFL for 10 weeks. Far out peoples expectations need to be checked. These guys are 19/20. Chad Warner was a nobody for the first 3 yrs of his career.

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Poo has shown a lot in his last four games when Lyon finally played him in the middle. Despite missing games around those four due to injury he’s had 20+ touches, 1 goal per game, nearly 5 clearances a game. He’s a gun.

And from memory he was the youngest in his draft class with a late December birthday

Edit: also want to point out I get more wrong than right in drafting preferences as I don’t follow the kids but poo was one saw enough of to love

 

[Shueygod]

“If we don’t want him who does?”, doesn’t apply when we have the best/2nd best KPF stocks in the league.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Missing out on Jordan Sweet hurts alot in hindsight

 

[Peptide Pig]

Hutchinson isnt and never was tall. I dont know why people think this.

Doesn’t the club’s description of him as a mid-sized forward go against your argument that he’s a tall forward?

Fixed the initial statement for you Miguel Sanchez. Keep tackling the big issues

Note for all posters, the line for a player to be described as tall is now set at 190.5cm. Be careful, the height police are out in force…

 

[stallon]

Hutchinson is 1cm taller than darling and same size as waterman who are classed as a tall forwards

Incorrect. Look up any media reports from when he was drafted and it was as a forward. Whether you consider 190cm tall is a matter of semantics. 1cm shorter than Darling and Waterman who are classed as talls. The club website referred to him as a “mobile mid-sized forward” when he was recruited.

Ginbey is 191cm, and is a defender. How many people call him a KPD?

 

[stallon]

Fixed the initial statement for you Miguel Sanchez. Keep tackling the big issues

Note for all posters, the line for a player to be described as tall is now set at 190.5cm. Be careful, the height police are out in force…

Its a role thing more than anything else.

 

[Shueygod]

Godfather32

Any actual comment on who has better? Forgot the Bulldogs who are clear 1st, reckon we would be 2nd/3rd though.

 

[Godfather32]

Godfather32

Any actual comment on who has better? Forgot the Bulldogs who are clear 1st, reckon we would be 2nd/3rd though.

Nope, just keep on singing

 

[Elite Pete]

All they've drafted is HFF/mids for the past 4 years and they just picked up Duursma last year.

Picking up yet another of the exact same type of player is probably exactly what I expect them to do, because it's dumb as shit.

FOS is different to what they have. Completely different to Duursma as well.

We will see I guess.

 

[ArdentEagle]

Missing out on Jordan Sweet hurts alot in hindsight

Some of us were calling out for him a fair while too