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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
How about the thread simply discusses which players are under the most pressure to perform.
If they actually improve and demonstrate their worthiness...fair enough...but if those that haven't shown anything for several years don't improve but are retained again, what other conclusion could you come to?I really hope those that are naming names left right and centre, comeback at the end of the year and admit their mistakes if players they have said should go are still around. Then again, I'm expecting threads saying we have no idea about list management if those players are still around.
Which players in particular are you talking about? If it is someone like Pettifer then fair enough. However, some of the kids are worth keeping around, even if they don't play a heap of games next year. You never know it might be because we are having a great year that there is no need for them to play.If they actually improve and demonstrate their worthiness...fair enough...but if those that haven't shown anything for several years don't improve but are retained again, what other conclusion could you come to?
King & Jackson for a start. I know ruckman need more time, but if Graham is as bad again next year as by all reports he was this year (f.e. getting outmarked by dwarves) , though in my opinion players like him going backwards from someone who managed a couple of senior games to the point of everyone calling him a laughable dud and the painfully slow progress of JON are indicators of poor coaching and development and further evidence of this club's inate inability to get the very best out of every player.Which players in particular are you talking about? If it is someone like Pettifer then fair enough.
I think if Raines can get back to his 06 form King is danger of losing his spot at the end of the season. Jackson I believe is in the running to fill Johnson's position in the side as the run with tagger type and it will be either him or Polo who get that job.King & Jackson for a start. I know ruckman need more time, but if Graham is as bad again next year as by all reports he was this year (f.e. getting outmarked by dwarves) , though in my opinion players like him going backwards from someone who managed a couple of senior games to the point of everyone calling him a laughable dud and the painfully slow progress of JON are indicators of poor coaching and development and further evidence of this club's inate inability to get the very best out of every player.
Bowden needs to go, regardless of the last second heroics of last year -mainly needed because of his earlier incompetence anyway(vPort & Brisbane his selfish play caused us to go into our shell and let them back in it v. Essendon-shocking turnovers)- he is bad for the team and our style of play going forward, a relic of times past of soft and unaccountable football. Johnson is just a hack now, a list clogger keeping out future talent. He should lend his experience to the youngsters at Coburg next year if he really wants to contribute.
Schulz is just thick and will be found out more often then not....just not an AFL standard player.
Terry Wallace
Jade Rawlings
David King
Brian Royal
Craig McRae
Wayne Campbell
Gary March
Steve Wright
Craig Cameron
Francis Jackson
Ross Monaghan
Sheedy stays
SD can you give a brief explanation on those in bold why they should go? Thanks in advance
So, those who you didn't put in bold, you think should be "delisted"?
I think if Raines can get back to his 06 form King is danger of losing his spot at the end of the season. Jackson I believe is in the running to fill Johnson's position in the side as the run with tagger type and it will be either him or Polo who get that job.
I really hope and predict Jarrad Oakley Nicholls goes, hes really not needed, we got alot of depth now and hes shown hes really slow, bad decision making and skills.
Also, Schulz is holding down the list and I hope he goes, I predict Rance to come in and take his spot. In addition to these two I also predict Pettifer to go as by start of next season hes 27 and had his opportunities. Hes a decent player but not a match winner and he can be covered easily. JON should go also.
What do you guys think?
Even if he is fast which he hasn't yet showed I haven't felt this much hatred for a player since the latter years of Darren Gasper.
possible delistments..
Richo
Johnson
Brown
Bowden
Simmonds
Cousins
All 30+ and must be viewed as being a year at a time...Probably want to move some along at the end of the year anyway. Retirements among those who could go on will probably be a good indicator of how they feel about our prospects for 2010.
Pettifer
Coughlan
King
Polak
Schulz
Old enough that if they're not demanding a spot in the 22, they should be looked at very closely come delistment time.
Raines
Jackson
Polo
Thomson
Hughes
JON
Connors
Collins
Hislop
Graham
Don't need to be regular first 22 players, but if they're not, they need to have shown enough to convince they can/will be.
Yes, that's about half the list, but they should all be considered for delistment at the end of the year. Hopefully most will come good and wont be seriously considered, but I'd be looking to about 6 'weakest links' to cut.
Rookies...
I think Gourdis is safe ( list, delist a year later, relist, then delist a year later??? )
Hopefully one of Nahas and Gilligan will come through and be promoted to the senior list, the other will be dumped.
Browne should be kept for 2-3 years ( assuming good attitude/etc ).
Dump Silvester unless we have major problems with injuries to key backmen.
if we add the...10 plays you left out of that list, We could start a fresh! How cool.