Unrestricted Free Agent DFA - Jai Culley

[BringFevBack2021]

Jai Culley, super stiff to be delisted.

Big bodied midfielder, kicked goals as a junior and has a four goal game at AFL level.

Worth another shot I’d have thought, had an ACL injury

 

[stallon]

If a club can fit in a midfielder who is slower than your average ruckman then go for it

 

[BringFevBack2021]

If a club can fit in a midfielder who is slower than your average ruckman then go for it

Just think he has a spot on an AFL list

Very clean below his knees, not quick but neither are Pendlebury or Cripps

Coming off of an ACL, deserves another crack

You’ve still got Rotham on the list by the way who is far less deserving

 

[stallon]

Just think he has a spot on an AFL list

Very clean below his knees, not quick but neither are Pendlebury or Cripps

Coming off of an ACL, deserves another crack

If youre slow you have to be able to get the ball, hes just always been a bit off the pace of the game, doesnt read the ball quick enough to make up for that lack of pace.
His 1 good game of AFL was as a tall forward, which is a position we are absolutely stacked in, and Culley really is a mid anyway.
If the Eagles didnt have a bunch of other big body mids and had a bunch of quicker outside mids instead then maybe he would have been retained.

You’ve still got Rotham on the list by the way who is far less deserving

I think Rotham should be gone too btw, but as a pure depth option Rotham does fill more of a need than Culley. We dont have any defenders with experience outside our best 22 other than him.

 

[Barrybran]

Culley won't make it as a midfielder. He's too slow and doesn't read the play very well. I'd love to see him make it as a forward though.

 

[bzparkes]

Would've given him another year myself, after the ACL. Probably could find a spot as a defensive mid but doesn't have the breakaway pace to be the main man.

Will be a very good state league player, at the very least.

 

[fnerd]

Will end up fantastic pick up for his new club…somewhere in the Goulburn footy league

 

[THE_GUN]

If a club can fit in a midfielder who is slower than your average ruckman then go for it

Wasnt he meant to be the steak knives with F2 for Baker ?

 

[stallon]

Wasnt he meant to be the steak knives with F2 for Baker ?

He'd be your 4th best midfielder