Rumour GFC 2024 Player Trading, Drafting FA, Rumours and Wish lists Pt 3

[Footy Smarts]

We can only have 2 category B rookies and I'm pretty sure their salary isn't counted fully towards the salary cap.

So we would want to keep Mullin (who would be on much more than standard rookie money as a star of the Irish game) on the category B rookie list. Same with the new kid Cillian Burke who is much more advanced than the typical Irish rookie.

So Furphy had to make way.

 

[iameviljez]

Stanley is cooked, Conway is always injured, Blicavs isnt a ruck and is on the verge of being cooked and SDK has played like 3 games in the ruck, yep future is bright

Sure, but they are all better options than Furphy.

 

[Hinkley29]

Were talking about Cadman yeah? The guy who was drafted 2 years ago and is 20yo

My bad, for some reason I thought they were talking about cam Rayner.

 

[catempire]

Mitch Knevitt, the undersized mobile ruckman you never knew you needed

Godspeed Mitch

 

[Farmer2Goggin]

Sure, but they are all better options than Furphy.

Rumoured we are looking at Blakiston - East Freo ruckman , Saints also interested.
Would need to get ahead of Saints 3rd pick if we were to grab him?

 

[Strange Cat]

Another List spot opens up

That’s a late delisting ?

 

[moond0g]

We can only have 2 category B rookies and I'm pretty sure their salary isn't counted fully towards the salary cap.

So we would want to keep Mullin (who would be on much more than standard rookie money as a star of the Irish game) on the category B rookie list. Same with the new kid Cillian Burke who is much more advanced than the typical Irish rookie.

So Furphy had to make way.

I thought news reports suggested that he's not coming over?

 

[Oisin_the_Goat]

Godspeed Mitch

Poor guys lost all his confidence.

 

[Vdubs]

That’s a late delisting ?

Poor guy- there are some surnames that you are sure will never make it

 

[Gunf]

I thought Furphy showed enough to keep around for at least 1 more year but obviously we want that Cat B spot open for someone else.

 

[calder_daddy]

Can anyone make sense of list spots we have?
Surely there’s something up their sleeve other than Martin as a DFA

Doesn’t make much sense to me, although I haven’t spent too much time thinking about it

 

[CatsDoItBetter]

With the delisting being this late and after the trade period I’m assuming the Irish rookie is a certainty to come over and that we’re taking another ruck. Makes me think we might add someone more certain such as a delisted free agent but maybe we are just going to take the best mature ruck available with our picks.

 

[Gunf]

Can anyone make sense of list spots we have?
Surely there’s something up their sleeve other than Martin as a DFA

Doesn’t make much sense to me, although I haven’t spent too much time thinking about it

Them getting rid of Furphy screams we have someone we want as a Cat B rookie to me

 

[Boxhead_31]

That’s a late delisting ?

I can only think they had to confirm Cillian Burke was coming before making the decision.

 

[moond0g]

With the delisting being this late and after the trade period I’m assuming the Irish rookie is a certainty to come over and that we’re taking another ruck. Makes me think we might add someone more certain such as a delisted free agent but maybe we are just going to take the best mature ruck available with our picks.

I'd say its more likely it means we have a Cat B in mind than another ruck. Furphy was 0% chance of playing AFL next year anyway, so it doesn't really impact our ruck stocks in the immediate term.

 

[Footy Smarts]

I thought news reports suggested that he's not coming over?

I think that was a while back and he was coming out here around now for "a holiday". There were rumours recently that he was locked in.

There's also not much benefit for him to tell the Irish media he's leaving before it's locked in.

 

[Strange Cat]

I can only think they had to confirm Cillian Burke was coming before making the decision.

I wasn’t thinking of anyone in particular but yes I get the sense the lateness of the delisting meant they have someone lined up that they were waiting on imo

 

[Turbocat]

When listed at his ageit was mentioned the hope was he would be able to be close to being ready. I suppose they made the decision that he was still multiple years away ..which would make him 27 … and that there was going to be guys available far close to be a legit back up… Whether thats Rookie A or B or whatever who knows.

Perhaps they think that there will be some late height in the draft that they will be able to access….


but we now look.. young and old and thin … so they must have something in mind… as we are only a couple injuries to guys that will be 34 ..to relying on improvisation

Do they see Sam Dek as permanent Ruck. ?

 

[Pure_Ownage]

I’m shocked. Seems very harsh.

It will be because the Irish kid is coming in and we wanted to create a cat b spot for him (we could have given up a cat a spot but still).

I would definitely be adding a ruck now whether it's a raw cat a rookie like pike or ajang or a more mature state league ruck backup. As with Stanley and Conway having issues we will need it.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

When listed at his ageit was mentioned the hope was he would be able to be close to being ready. I suppose they made the decision that he was still multiple years away ..which would make him 27 … and that there was going to be guys available far close to be a legit back up… Whether thats Rookie A or B or whatever who knows.

Perhaps they think that there will be some late height in the draft that they will be able to access….


but we now look.. young and old and thin … so they must have something in mind… as we are only a couple injuries to guys that will be 34 ..to relying on improvisation

Do they see Sam Dek as permanent Ruck. ?

I think Sam will be rucking next year purely because Conway likely won't be ready but long term it would be good to unearth a ready ruck so sdk can go back to defence. I would think talls with our rookie picks would be a focus.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

We can only have 2 category B rookies and I'm pretty sure their salary isn't counted fully towards the salary cap.

So we would want to keep Mullin (who would be on much more than standard rookie money as a star of the Irish game) on the category B rookie list. Same with the new kid Cillian Burke who is much more advanced than the typical Irish rookie.

So Furphy had to make way.

Technically they could have moved mullin to the cat a rookie list and given up a cat a spot and kept furphy but in essence you are correct.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Rumoured we are looking at Blakiston - East Freo ruckman , Saints also interested.
Would need to get ahead of Saints 3rd pick if we were to grab him?

You would have seen more of Blakiston than me but I would be surprised if he goes main draft I would have thought we could get him at one of our rookie picks. Judging by interest I would say bice and henderson (and maybe davidson) are more likely to go in the main draft but who knows.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Can anyone make sense of list spots we have?
Surely there’s something up their sleeve other than Martin as a DFA

Doesn’t make much sense to me, although I haven’t spent too much time thinking about it

4 senior list spots (factoring in Martin and smith)
3 cat A rookie spots
1 cat b spot (probably burke)

 

[Footy Smarts]

Technically they could have moved mullin to the cat a rookie list and given up a cat a spot and kept furphy but in essence you are correct.

Yeah but pretty sure that would've impacted our salary cap since not the whole salary is counted for Cat Bs.

More likely we would've moved Furphy to Cat A if we rated him since he'd be on a much lower wage than Mullin but clearly we didn't rate him.

 

[BORIS332]

It will be because the Irish kid is coming in and we wanted to create a cat b spot for him (we could have given up a cat a spot but still).

I would definitely be adding a ruck now whether it's a raw cat a rookie like pike or ajang or a more mature state league ruck backup. As with Stanley and Conway having issues we will need it.

We could’ve also promoted Mullin.