Unrestricted Free Agent Josh Battle “Make me a Hawk”

[Nugett]

Melbourne

So about 16 years. A lot of high draft picks wasted, numerous coaches. Begging for concessions. Does sound like a reasonable method of a rebuild. I suppose if Carlton wins, it will be another successful rebuild, that started in 2003.

 

[Blackhawk42]

Bingo, precisely the point. 13th is a tricky number if you are not a flag team ready to pounce.

Hawks will get a much harder draw in 2025, a slip down the ladder will happen, they make a few quick trade shortcuts to squeeze the team upwards again in 2026 only to slip back down in 2027.

Essendon had been doing this for the better part of last 20 years and you don't want to be like essendon.

Proper rebuild means totally clear the list, bottoming for 5 years, stack the list with a bunch of top end talents then slowly getting back up to the bottom of midtable then launch from there.

We did this after 2022. There is even a 'Are Hawthorn tanking?' thread dedicated to it.

At least that's what everybody outside the Hawthorn bubble tried to tell us we were doing.

Interesting to hear that now we've suddenly improved that the history has been rewritten.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Hawks had a tough draw this year for where we finished last year one of the toughest in the comp. We won’t get any tougher next year

Our draw has been toughest since forever. I just expect it now

 

[hawkman]

Bingo, precisely the point. 13th is a tricky number if you are not a flag team ready to pounce.

Hawks will get a much harder draw in 2025, a slip down the ladder will happen, they make a few quick trade shortcuts to squeeze the team upwards again in 2026 only to slip back down in 2027.

Essendon had been doing this for the better part of last 20 years and you don't want to be like essendon.

Proper rebuild means totally clear the list, bottoming for 5 years, stack the list with a bunch of top end talents then slowly getting back up to the bottom of midtable then launch from there.

Based on positions from last year, our double ups are:

Top 6 Collingwood, GWS
Middle 6 Geelong Adelaide
Bottom 6 Richmond North

That is effectively a middle 6 draw already

 

[Mat Mann]

what does fixture difficultly have to do with Josh?

 

[TylerDurden]

He's staying. Surprised they haven't announced it yet.

 

[ChairmanZia]

Which teams exactly have won a premiership by this method?

Lets see, hawthorn, brisbane, richmond, geelong.

 

[FB19]

He's staying. Surprised they haven't announced it yet.

Cue automated responses. Hi this is the Hawthorn BigFooty community, we are not in right now, please leave a message after the beep, unless you are Josh Battle, in which case we just wanted to make it clear we never rated you, we don’t need you, our guys playing at Box Hill would be in front of you anyway and we are glad we saved that cash and preserved our place in the upcoming draft without a compo pick. And you are dead to us.

 

[jumperfan]

He's staying. Surprised they haven't announced it yet.

How do you know?

 

[suburb whispers]

History and our trophy cabinet shows we’re in the business of winning premierships and we know what it takes to be successful.

Not a truer word spoken…

 

[EconomicDecline]

Lets see, hawthorn, brisbane, richmond, geelong.

You just named teams instead of listing the premiership year and who they had cleared previously.

Geelong has been competitive since 2004 and Brisbane's permierships are in no part thanks to being stacked with talent due to the forced merger.

 

[ChairmanZia]

You just named teams instead of listing the premiership year and who they had cleared previously.

Geelong has been competitive since 2004 and Brisbane's permierships are in no part thanks to being stacked with talent due to the forced merger.

Errrr geelong built the premiership team from scratch by getting a generation crop of father son recruits from the early/mid 2000s. And we are not going into the salary cap manipulation with 3rd party deals involve real estate properties.

 

[TazHawk15]

Battle is staying a Saint

 

[bwardi]

He's staying. Surprised they haven't announced it yet.

Where did you hear this?

 

[botts]

This is a win win for the saints. If he stays, good. But it sounds like band one if he leaves. Perfect for us

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

This is a win win for the saints. If he stays, good. But it sounds like band one if he leaves. Perfect for us

And a win for whoever he goes to, if he left. WIN WIN WIN

 

[stavro#4]

 

[TylerDurden]

Staying. Bank it.

 

[suburb whispers]

He’s staying at the Saints. The article above is only a pre cursor to a ‘Hawks miss out on another target’ article that will inevitably follow…
But we’ll get our no. 1 target

 

[Sarcoidevo]

Bailey Smith

6

Bailey Smith

Age

23

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

?

 

[TylerDurden]

Bailey Smith?

That's another story.

 

[stavro#4]

Staying. Bank it.

Maybe.

As of the start of the month I had it on very good authority that it was on a knife’s edge.

Maybe it has come far enough along that your opinion is that he stays. But I’m comfortable that it’s 60-40 Hawthorn right now.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

For someone being offered a mil hypothetically I haven't seen much of this guy.
Sounds like a good player but not sure he's the position we need

However in saying that won't say no to a good player.

Thanks

 

[botts]

Just pay up and give us band one already

 

[BIGHAWK23]

Just pay up and give us band one already

Don't get Stengel then

or it goooonnneee