My POV:
What we have on our list currently to build around
Sicily, Hardwick, Impey, Scrimshaw, TOB
Mitchell, O'Meara, Worpel, Cousins, Howe
Breust, Gunston, Wingard, Scully, Lewis
Moore, Cegs, Pitto, Morrison, Nash, Glass
Brand, Walker, Kosi, Miles, Ross
On potential/at best
A: Sicily, Hardwick, Impey, Scrimshaw, Mitchell, O'Meara, Breust, Gunston, Wingard, Scully
Now that right there is a decent enough core of potential A graders, the oldest of which is Breust turning 29 in november.
The worpels, cousins, miles, glasses, nashes, TOBs, Brand, Morrison, Howe are players with limited experience and players who have shown flashes of being something.
Worpel and cousins are trying hard, but have too much asked of them on a regular basis. I hope these guys become the B or A grade players they can be, just look at SPS from Carlton this year. Has played 50 odd games at an ordinary to bad standard and is now breaking out and looking like a perfect compliment to cripps in the midfield. Hopefully one of these blokes breaks out in next few years.
The rest im not sure, but we could sure do with some of them finding their feet and locking down a role. See some big potential in guys like Glass, Nash, TOB and Brand, but will it come to fruition?
We have not seen anything from the young players like Ross, Kosi, Walker, Jones, Hanrahan, Jiath, Golds, Greaves so they are at this point not coming into list building calculations for mine.
Now add in the salary cap space. We already have most key components locked down for next year i.e. Sicily, O'Meara, Gunston, Breust, Hardwick, Impey
We should clear room as Birch, Rough, Burgers, Langford, Schoey, Mohr are likely going to be gone.
Not sure what the go will be with Dave Mirra and Darren Minch. Can't say I feel confident they'll be given contracts.
Then we will hopefully resign Frawley on smallish $ due to injuries, Jiath, Glass, Moore, Jones, Ross, Cousins, Cegs and/or pitto, Poppy, Hendo, Mitchell, O'Brien at end of year.
We are going to get some free agents with this money, no one knows who yet.
Bottom line is we have a good enough core right now, that with additions from trading/free agency/drafting we shouldn't need to bottom out at all.
What we have on our list currently to build around
Sicily, Hardwick, Impey, Scrimshaw, TOB
Mitchell, O'Meara, Worpel, Cousins, Howe
Breust, Gunston, Wingard, Scully, Lewis
Moore, Cegs, Pitto, Morrison, Nash, Glass
Brand, Walker, Kosi, Miles, Ross
On potential/at best
A: Sicily, Hardwick, Impey, Scrimshaw, Mitchell, O'Meara, Breust, Gunston, Wingard, Scully
Now that right there is a decent enough core of potential A graders, the oldest of which is Breust turning 29 in november.
The worpels, cousins, miles, glasses, nashes, TOBs, Brand, Morrison, Howe are players with limited experience and players who have shown flashes of being something.
Worpel and cousins are trying hard, but have too much asked of them on a regular basis. I hope these guys become the B or A grade players they can be, just look at SPS from Carlton this year. Has played 50 odd games at an ordinary to bad standard and is now breaking out and looking like a perfect compliment to cripps in the midfield. Hopefully one of these blokes breaks out in next few years.
The rest im not sure, but we could sure do with some of them finding their feet and locking down a role. See some big potential in guys like Glass, Nash, TOB and Brand, but will it come to fruition?
We have not seen anything from the young players like Ross, Kosi, Walker, Jones, Hanrahan, Jiath, Golds, Greaves so they are at this point not coming into list building calculations for mine.
Now add in the salary cap space. We already have most key components locked down for next year i.e. Sicily, O'Meara, Gunston, Breust, Hardwick, Impey
We should clear room as Birch, Rough, Burgers, Langford, Schoey, Mohr are likely going to be gone.
Not sure what the go will be with Dave Mirra and Darren Minch. Can't say I feel confident they'll be given contracts.
Then we will hopefully resign Frawley on smallish $ due to injuries, Jiath, Glass, Moore, Jones, Ross, Cousins, Cegs and/or pitto, Poppy, Hendo, Mitchell, O'Brien at end of year.
We are going to get some free agents with this money, no one knows who yet.
Bottom line is we have a good enough core right now, that with additions from trading/free agency/drafting we shouldn't need to bottom out at all.