Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 6 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

[Claudonious]

Prefer we didn't let Macrae go

Wouldn’t be the same without Jacko.

As the great Clay Smith said after the 16 prelim - “he goes alright does Jacko”


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[Testekill]

Feel like Ballard should be the higher priority rather than the back up.

24 so in a close age bracket to our younger defenders, doesn't have a history of back injuries. He's the one who I'd target instead of Barass.

Borlase would also basically be a free hit if he's a DFA, if we're keen on him then I can't imagine he'd be too expensive.

 

[Mojorisin]

24 so in a close age bracket to our younger defenders, doesn't have a history of back injuries. He's the one who I'd target instead of Barass.

Would cost a pretty penny but would be the ideal target.

 

[Testekill]

Would cost a pretty penny but would be the ideal target.

Ballard would cost quite a bit but probably not that much more than Barass would.

 

[House_of_Dahl]

Finally got around to stopping the Sydney notifications glitch...bet some of you mofos still haven't either...

 

[Mojorisin]

Ballard would cost quite a bit but probably not that much more than Barass would.

Next year he is a restricted free agent so might have to hold out until then.

 

[Testekill]

Finally got around to stopping the Sydney notifications glitch...bet some of you mofos still haven't either...

I fixed it up as soon as I got the notification from the admin.

 

[House_of_Dahl]

I fixed it up as soon as I got the notification from the admin.

Was literally 2 clicks...can't believe I ignored it so long

 

[Walsh Bay]

Yes to Borlase. You can never have too many Cornishmen in your team. Add him to Lobb and Treloar. Get it done Sammy.

Agreed!

Let's poach Nankervis, Angwin, Spargo, Trezise, Caddy and most importantly, Curnow, while we're at it.

 

[Bald]

Finally got around to stopping the Sydney notifications glitch...bet some of you mofos still haven't either...

I got board blocked from them around 7 and a half years ago. Didn't even know that was a thing.

 

[House_of_Dahl]

I got board blocked from them around 7 and a half years ago. Didn't even know that was a thing.

1st Oct 2016?

 

[Golden_6]

Some interesting changes regarding concussion related salary cap relief that will have some clubs baulking at offering long contracts to players with issues. Highly relevant to us given English’s history. That’s a huge risk for a club to take.

Clubs to get cap relief for medically retired players

www.afl.com.au

 

[Bald]

1st Oct 2016?

Probably hahaha

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

I got board blocked from them around 7 and a half years ago. Didn't even know that was a thing.

You are in good company

 

[Munnez]

Yeah, for sure. With both, Milesi spoke about their speed/endurance combo. Hopefully Rypstra has the game to go with his athletic profile.

He is going to need to do a full preseason to show his potential IMO
This year would be about learning our system, and proving he is worth keeping on to develop

 

[Struggle]

Some interesting changes regarding concussion related salary cap relief that will have some clubs baulking at offering long contracts to players with issues. Highly relevant to us given English’s history. That’s a huge risk for a club to take.

Clubs to get cap relief for medically retired players

www.afl.com.au

If there's an AFL official panel recommending retirement, the entire amount should be outside the cap

How can they recommend someone never play again, but then at the same time say you need to keep paying them in your cap

AFLPA and clubs should be massively against this

 

[Unorth]

Some interesting changes regarding concussion related salary cap relief that will have some clubs baulking at offering long contracts to players with issues. Highly relevant to us given English’s history. That’s a huge risk for a club to take.

Clubs to get cap relief for medically retired players

www.afl.com.au

Tinfoil hat feeling is that the AFL is using these concussion payment rules as an unofficial ‘answer’ to the recent popularity of 6+ year deals that used to be quite rare. Makes it quite difficult to justify in some cases - if this wasn’t already known there’s no way we should be offering Tim anything more than 5 years at most.

 

[dogwatch]

Some interesting changes regarding concussion related salary cap relief that will have some clubs baulking at offering long contracts to players with issues. Highly relevant to us given English’s history. That’s a huge risk for a club to take.

Clubs to get cap relief for medically retired players

www.afl.com.au

It's not 100% clear but I took it to mean the club pays all the retirement salary itself. The "relief" they refer to is that the payment to the retired player is not deemed to be part of the TPP (100% of which the AFL pays anyway while the player is on our list).

So hypothetically say we signed English to a 5 year contract at a flat $800,000 for each of 5 years and he suffered a career ending concussion in Round 6 next year (ratified by the AFL's concussion panel). Here's how it would look:

YEAR	SALARY	AFL PAYS	WB PAY	TPP PENALTY
2025	$800,000	$800,000	$0	$0
2026	$800,000	$0	$800,000	$80,000
2027	$800,000	$0	$800,000	$200,000
2028	$800,000	$0	$800,000	$400,000
2029	$800,000	$0	$800,000	$800,000

 

[dogwatch]

Is that how others read it?

 

[Iamspock]

I got board blocked from them around 7 and a half years ago. Didn't even know that was a thing.

What a badge of honour.... well done!

 

[DueWest]

Rayner is a bit like Vandermeer in that he's the type of player coaches love but fans don't get it. Brisbane fans struggle to see it but he's consistently high in the B&F.

That is quite disrespectful to Rayner

 

[BeMoreBont]

What's the story with Jed Bews

24

Jed Bews

Age

30

Ht

186cm

Wt

90kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.9

3star

K

6.1

2star

HB

4.8

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.6

4star

MG

178.2

3star

D

9.5

2star

K

7.5

3star

HB

2.0

1star

M

2.3

2star

T

1.7

3star

MG

205.8

3star

D

8.8

3star

K

3.8

2star

HB

5.0

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

3.2

5star

?

Seemed like one of the better small lockdown defenders in the league just a couple of years ago.

Had some injury concerns last year, hasn't featured at AFL level yet this season.

He's 30, however, with Ed now a midfielder our clear best player in this role is currently 33, I wonder if he's worth considering as a stop gap option for a couple of years whilst we develop/recruit players in this role.

 

[Flags_In_The_Bag]

Finally got around to stopping the Sydney notifications glitch...bet some of you mofos still haven't either...

I wasnt sure what was going on and why i was getting updates of their threads

 

[Lex22]

What's the story with Jed Bews?

Seemed like one of the better small lockdown defenders in the league just a couple of years ago.

Had some injury concerns last year, hasn't featured at AFL level yet this season.

He's 30, however, with Ed now a midfielder our clear best player in this role is currently 33, I wonder if he's worth considering as a stop gap option for a couple of years whilst we develop/recruit players in this role.

I think Bews would be a handy pick-up. He seemed to be one of those role players who got a lot better in his mid-late 20’s and still underrated.

Age-wise, it might not be the right for our list, especially given all of our 30+yo’s are likely to push on next year.

2-3 years too old for us imo.

 

[out of finals]

A little off topic but with Richard's move into the midfield I'm concerned about how we manage our backline moving forward. Took away one of the best ground ball defenders to play on ball, and while he's been terrific in there it leaves a gaping hole at half-back. On the current list, the only apt replacements to my mind are Cleary or Freijah. Freijah defensively lacking but has very good acceleration and is a beautiful ball user, whereas Cleary is very strong in his defensive positioning, and is a lovely kick, but lacks pace and struggles in contests.

Coffield I can't really comment on as I've seen so little of him, but it seems to me he was drafted in the Richards mould but through his injuries may have lost a large amount of his pace. Is the long term plan to use him as an intercept marker or does he still possess enough speed to either play a shutdown role on small forwards or replace Richards?