List Mgmt. Our Trade/FA, Suburban & Country Town Thread

[live fast pieyoung]

I'm a fan of what Leppa said the other day when referring to getting some tall depth - they like to use blokes as battering rams. I think Dekka's project talls over the years haven't gotten anywhere near it because he's favoured athleticism, whereas the late guys who do make it tend to be battering rams.

For that reason, I hope we don't take Stumpf who reads like a Dekka tall rather than a battering ram.

Kpfs as role players, and put your stars elsewhere on the field
I think it's a cost effective strategy

 

[sr36]

Just curious, who in our team would you call a battering ram? McStay or maybe Frampton?

Checkers and McStay. They're about crashing into blokes - ideally to mark it, but to bring it to ground when they don't. Elliott often too. Schultz was a bit of a surprise in that regard too when needed to be due to injuries.

 

[sr36]

Kpfs as role players, and put your stars elsewhere on the field
I think it's a cost effective strategy

Me too. Necessity too for most teams. Just so hard to star as a marking forward with modern defences. But you've got to have blokes who force a contest and some dangerous spills.

 

[Albert Parker]

What I love about the Perryman/Houston acquisitions is CFC have acquired two exceptionally skilled utility footballers.

And, I'm of similar opinion to others on BF, it would be great to see some tall talent come through the door....I really like the Burgemeister, Nicholls and Stumpf.

I would also like to see some additional speed and skill come in, either/or Rys Unwin, Archer Day - Wicks and Will Hayes.

Rookies: Personally, I like Keighton Matofai-Forbes and Waylon Davies - Motlop

Waylon Davies Motlop has talent but is bigger by a factor of 2 than that talented indigenous player we had called Kayle Kirby that had the heart troubles. I don't think I'd go near drafting him.

 

[sr36]

Waylon Davies Motlop has talent but is bigger by a factor of 2 than that talented indigenous player we had called Kayle Kirby that had the heart troubles. I don't think I'd go near drafting him.

Kayle Kirby. What might have been. Couldn't run more than 15 metres, but that bloke hit like a truck. I watched him in the VFL one day and a couple of times the sound of him crashing into blokes could be heard suburbs away.

 

[Jen2310]

Waylon Davies Motlop has talent but is bigger by a factor of 2 than that talented indigenous player we had called Kayle Kirby that had the heart troubles. I don't think I'd go near drafting him.

He is a goal sneak, but his fitness is something left to be desired tbh.
His combine results reflect this

 

[Fat Jesus]

Are you challenging me to a moron off? Because this is right in my wheel house.

No worries bro. As far as morons go you're up there.
Dunno. Perhaps you're slightly more moronic.
I realise I'm a moron as well.
It's a pretty cool club to be in.
Keep being you

 

[Fat Jesus]

Imagine if WHE first name was Bill too

First time I realised they have the same name... lmao lol 555

 

[Fat Jesus]

I thought Chief was giving us an opportunity to provide pricing for brilliant posts

Don't bring my good friend Chief into this. He loves me dearly.
Yeah I've fecked up a few times. He always comes to my rescue.
Only takes a DM or two for him to realise what I bring to the table.
He's my mate.

 

[Fat Jesus]

Another Month

Just a period away.

 

[PieBeast]

Membrey means we NEVER should play Billy up forward again. Hopefully having a defined role will do him good. There was a period in early 2024 when Billy was our top defensive stopper.

Yeah I recall that period fondly, all 1.5 games of it.

 

[Kappa]

Yeah I recall that period fondly, all 1.5 games of it.

Yeah people rate Frampton way too high.

Not a good player, has a few solid games then gets found out and dropped.

 

[Bianconeri]

Was he though? One of the biggest gripes with Blair was that his tackles were easy to break and he spent a lot of time corralling players with the ball rather than attempting to put genuine tackling pressure on them.
He did well to play as many games as he did, but he’s not even close to Schultz as a pressure forward (and Schultz only has about 1.5 inches on him, so not anywhere near as big of a size difference as you claim).

Blair averaged more tackles a game than Schultz.

 

[Pistol Night]

Don't bring my good friend Chief into this. He loves me dearly.
Yeah I've fecked up a few times. He always comes to my rescue.
Only takes a DM or two for him to realise what I bring to the table.
He's my mate.

The boss of Bigfooty and the boss of the world shooting the breeze.

 

[Pleasedontfail11]

Blair averaged more tackles a game than Schultz.

Played a lot of midfield in an era with many more stoppages. You don't pick up 11 tackles a game as a forward pocket.

 

[JuniorB]

Just curious, who in our team would you call a battering ram? McStay or maybe Frampton?

Our erstwhile player, Freddy, was a glass battering ram.

 

[Bianconeri]

Is Brandan Parfitt a reasonable back up inside mid?
...we could get him for next to nothing..still only 26, and the kind of player we need on our list for insurance in 2025

I wouldn’t mind but I doubt we have list spots to pick up too much list clogging depth

 

[Bianconeri]

Played a lot of midfield in an era with many more stoppages. You don't pick up 11 tackles a game as a forward pocket.

Even in the years where Blair played purely as a forward pocket he averaged more tackles than Schultz.

 

[Pleasedontfail11]

Even in the years where Blair played purely as a forward pocket he averaged more tackles than Schultz.

Schultz in 2023 averaged 4.1 tackles a game. Blair in 2017 averaged 4.08 tackles a game. But I will conceed I under estimated Blair's tackling.

 

[sr36]

Schultz in 2023 averaged 4.1 tackles a game. Blair in 2017 averaged 4.08 tackles a game. But I will conceed I under estimated Blair's tackling.

Blair gets spoken about on here as though he was a dud, but he was an OK player - just tried to do things that were beyond him at times.

 

[Pleasedontfail11]

Blair gets spoken about on here as though he was a dud, but he was an OK player - just tried to do things that were a beyond him at times.

Looking back on his career stats he had quite a few good games statistically speaking. However I don't remember him being a good player apart from a few games early in his career. Maybe I was bias against short blokes but I always felt he was a bit of a list clogger. It's a shame that there isn't someone out there that makes a 30 minute highlight package of those 100-200 game players to look back at their careers. Blair played 150 games so he had a very good AFL career.

 

[sr36]

Looking back on his career stats he had quite a few good games statistically speaking. However I don't remember him being a good player apart from a few games early in his career. Maybe I was bias against short blokes but I always felt he was a bit of a list clogger. It's a shame that there isn't someone out there that makes a 30 minute highlight package of those 100-200 game players to look back at their careers. Blair played 150 games so he had a very good AFL career.

He was a pressure forward at a time when there was even less appreciation of the value of that player type. It made him a natural whipping boy. Plus our forward line was awful for a couple of years, with Bucks playing a forward line with only 4 forwards, two of them pressure forwards. Blair was an easy target, but 150 games in some good teams says a lot.

 

[GETSOMENUTS]

Our erstwhile player, Freddy, was a glass battering ram.

 

[manicpie]

Looking back on his career stats he had quite a few good games statistically speaking. However I don't remember him being a good player apart from a few games early in his career. Maybe I was bias against short blokes but I always felt he was a bit of a list clogger. It's a shame that there isn't someone out there that makes a 30 minute highlight package of those 100-200 game players to look back at their careers. Blair played 150 games so he had a very good AFL career.

It's worth watching some of his earlier games, he was pretty good.

 

[cfc19902010]

It's worth watching some of his earlier games, he was pretty good.

He was a very nice player 2010-2012

After that not sure how he stayed on list so long
Always a premiership player tho