2015 Free Agents, worth a look?

[Rooboy 96]

I forgot to say

Melbourne
Colin Garland - Restricted (9 years)who the hell is this guy?

 

[Luke72]

I forgot to say

Melbourne
Colin Garland - Restricted (9 years)who the hell is this guy?

He never turns up at the club meetings so they haven't been able to inform him he is getting sacked.

 

[Matchu]

So after a pretty successful 2014 FA campaign, what do Roos fans think of the current list of 2015 FAs?

Adelaide
Patrick Dangerfield - Restricted (8 years)
Brodie Martin - Restricted (8 years)
Andy Otten - Restricted (8 years)
Richard Douglas - Unrestricted (10 years)
Brent Reilly - Unrestricted (14 years)
Scott Thompson - Unrestricted (10 years)

Brisbane
Matthew Leuenberger - Restricted (9 years)
Jed Adcock - Unrestricted (12 years)

Carlton
Dennis Armfield - Restricted (8 years)
David Ellard - Restricted (8 years)
Chris Judd - Restricted (8 years)
Matthew Kreuzer - Restricted (8 years)
Andrew Carrazzo - Unrestricted (12 years)

Collingwood
Brent Macaffer - Restricted (9 years)

Essendon
Tom Bellchambers - Restricted (8 years)
Tayte Pears - Restricted (8 years)
Courtenay Dempsey Unrestricted (10 years)
Dustin Fletcher - Unrestricted (23 years)
Brent Stanton - Unrestricted (12 years)
Jason Winderlich - Unrestricted (13 years)

Fremantle
Ryan Crowley - Unrestricted (13 years)
Paul Duffield - Unrestricted (12 years)
Michael Johnson - Unrestricted (11 years)
Luke McPharlin - Unrestricted (14 years)
Matthew Pavlich - Unrestricted (16 years)
Aaron Sandilands - Unrestricted (14 years)

Geelong
Tom Hawkins - Restricted (9 years)
Dawson Simpson - Restricted (8 years)
Jimmy Bartel - Unrestricted (14 years)
Corey Enright - Unrestricted (16 years)
Steve Johnson - Unrestricted (14 years)
James Kelly - Unrestricted (14 years)
Andrew Mackie - Unrestricted (13 years)
Matthew Stokes - Unrestricted (10 years)

Gold Coast
nil

GWS
nil

Hawthorn
Matthew Suckling - Restricted (9 years)
Brendan Whitecross - Restricted (8 years)
Luke Hodge - Unrestricted (14 years)
Sam Mitchell - Unrestricted (14 years)

Melbourne
Colin Garland - Restricted (9 years)
Mark Jamar - Unrestricted (14 years)

North Melbourne
Nathan Grima - Restricted (8 years)
Andrew Swallow - Restricted (10 years)
Robbie Tarrant - Restricted (8 years)
Michael Firrito - Unrestricted (13 years)
Brent Harvey - Unrestricted (20 years)
Scott McMahon - Unrestricted (11 years)
Drew Petrie - Unrestricted (15 years)

Port Adelaide
Kane Cornes - Unrestricted (15 years)
Tom Logan - Unrestricted (10 years)

Richmond
Alex Rance - Restricted (8 years)
Nathan Foley - Unrestricted (12 years)
Chris Newman - Unrestricted (15 years)

St Kilda
Sean Dempster - Restricted (8 years)
Adam Schneider - Restricted (8 years)
Jack Steven - Restricted (8 years)
Sam Fisher - Unrestricted (12 years)
Sam Gilbert - Unrestricted (10 years)

Sydney
Heath Grundy - Unrestricted (11 years)
Adam Goodes - Unrestricted (18 years)
Ted Richards - Unrestricted (10 years)

West Coast
Patrick McGinnity - Restricted (8 years)
Scott Selwood - Restricted (8 years)
Sam Butler - Unrestricted (12 years)
Beau Waters - Unrestricted (12 years)

Western Bulldogs
Jarrad Grant - Restricted (8 years)
Easton Wood - Restricted (8 years)
Matthew Boyd - Unrestricted (14 years)
Dale Morris - Unrestricted (11 years)
Robert Murphy - Unrestricted (16 years)


Tex Walker no longer available but that isn't as important to the Roos now that you have Waite. What about the 2016 free agents? Around the time Petrie should be hanging them up so perhaps Josh Kennedy or Tyrone Vickery will take your fancy?

Adelaide
Nathan Van Berlo - Unrestricted (12 years)

Brisbane
Jack Redden - Restricted (8 years)
Daniel Rich - Restricted (8 years)
Daniel Merrett - Unrestricted (14 years)

Carlton
Chris Yarran - Restricted (8 years)
Kade Simpson - Unrestricted (14 years)

Collingwood
Jarryd Blair - Restricted (8 years)
Steele Sidebottom - Restricted (8 years)
Nathan Brown - Unrestricted (10 years)
Scott Pendlebury - Unrestricted (11 years)
Dane Swan - Unrestricted (15 years)
Alan Toovey - Unrestricted (12 years)

Essendon
Cale Hooker - Restricted (9 years)
David Myers - Restricted (9 years)
Heath Hocking - Unrestricted (11 years)
Jobe Watson - Unrestricted (14 years)

Fremantle
Chris Mayne - Restricted (9 years)
Clancee Pearce - Restricted (8 years)

Geelong
Tom Lonergan - Unrestricted (14 years)

Gold Coast
nil

GWS
nil

Hawthorn
nil

Melbourne
Jack Grimes - Restricted (9 years)
Neville Jetta - Restricted (8 years)
Jake Spencer - Restricted (9 years)
Jack Watts - Restricted (8 years)

North Melbourne
Jack Ziebell - Restricted (8 years)
Leigh Adams - Unrestricted (10 years)
Todd Goldstein - Unrestricted (10 years)
Lindsay Thomas - Unrestricted (10 years)
Daniel Wells - Unrestricted (14 years)

Port Adelaide
Hamish Hartlett - Restricted (8 years)
Paul Stewart - Unrestricted (10 years)

Richmond
Tyrone Vickery - Restricted (8 years)
Shane Edwards - Unrestricted (10 years)
Jack Riewoldt - Unrestricted (10 years)

St Kilda
David Armitage - Unrestricted (10 years)
Jarryn Geary - Unrestricted (10 years)
Leigh Montagna- Unrestricted (15 years)

Sydney
Craig Bird - Restricted (9 years)
Daniel Hannebery - Restricted (8 years)
Mike Pyke - Restricted (8 years)
Nick Smith - Unrestricted (10 years)

West Coast
Josh Kennedy - Restricted (9 years)
Chris Masten - Restricted (9 years)
Mitch Brown - Unrestricted (10 years)
Matt Priddis- Unrestricted (11 years)
Matt Rosa - Unrestricted (12 years)
Will Schofield - Unrestricted (10 years)

Western Bulldogs
Will Minson - Unrestricted (15 years)

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Out of the 2015 lot, Loo-burger or Jack Steven are the only ones I would care about.

The 2016 list for our team scares me.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Dangerfield, Rance and Hawkins will be the most sort after free agents this year.

Next target after those 3 would be Suckling for mine

 

[King Corey]

Thanks for the list Matchu.

Absolutely:
Dangerfield
Hawkins
Steven

At a reasonable price:
Douglas
Adcock
Stokes
Rance
Scott Selwood (I'll need a safe house and new identity for suggesting that one)

Depth/speculative only:
Dempsey
Grundy
Easton Wood

Not on my watch:
Stanton

 

[Passmore]

Thanks for the list Matchu.

Absolutely:
Dangerfield
Hawkins
Steven

At a reasonable price:
Douglas
Adcock
Stokes
Rance
Scott Selwood (I'll need a safe house and new identity for suggesting that one)

Depth/speculative only:
Dempsey
Grundy
Easton Wood

Not on my watch:
Stanton

We can work in shifts....

 

[Greater Gattsby]

Must chase Hawkins. Give him as much as possible.

 

[Daz]

Steven would be great if he wants to move to a stronger team. Very good player.

Douglas is a great two way runner and would be good for our mids.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Must chase Hawkins. Give him as much as possible.

Like captaincy? ...

 

[Greater Gattsby]

Like captaincy? ...

Yeah look, probably not.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Yeah look, probably not.

Sorry, was a call back to something you may not have read.

But I agree with the sentiment.

 

[GarnerSmash]

Steven would be great if he wants to move to a stronger team. Very good player.

Douglas is a great two way runner and would be good for our mids.

Steven would be an excellent longer term addition.

 

[Daz]

Steven would be an excellent longer term addition.

He would but I wonder whether we could afford him. Would be the highest paid player on the list.

 

[GarnerSmash]

He would but I wonder whether we could afford him. Would be the highest paid player on the list.

Yeah, Saints would certainly have plenty of money to throw at him which we certainly could not match.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Must chase Hawkins. Give him as much as possible.

There's bugger all chance he'd leave Sleepy Hollow, and that G-Town would let it happen, but your point is a good one as it may see G-Town have to dip far deeper into their kitty than they'd have hoped in order for them to retain him. Chipping away at a rival in such a way may help us longer term.

 

[Greater Gattsby]

There's bugger all chance he'd leave Sleepy Hollow, and that G-Town would let it happen, but your point is a good one as it may see G-Town have to dip far deeper into their kitty than they'd have hoped in order for them to retain him. Chipping away at a rival in such a way may help us longer term.

Yeah, it'd be great to see him at North, he's virtually unstoppable. Not many defenders can shut him down.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Another golden F/S. Bloody creamy crop.

 

[year of the roo]

Yeah, Saints would certainly have plenty of money to throw at him which we certainly could not match.

He would be coming to us for success, not money.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

He would be coming to us for success, not money.

That never applies to us so we should stop pretending it does.

 

[Luke72]

That never applies to us so we should stop pretending it does.

Leigh Colbert

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Leigh Colbert

Sorry.

Since the end of our golden age, no one of note has wished to come to our club without conditions. Not even Dal Santo, because he needed his former club taken care of.

 

[Luke72]

Sorry.

Since the end of our golden age, no one of note has wished to come to our club without conditions. Not even Dal Santo, because he needed his former club taken care of.

Fair point, but the dawn of our next Golden Age is upon us. Watch them line up!

 

[Tas]

Tex Walker no longer available but that isn't as important to the Roos now that you have Waite. What about the 2016 free agents? Around the time Petrie should be hanging them up so perhaps Josh Kennedy or Tyrone Vickery will take your fancy?

A lot of good names but would expect most of them to vanish before the season's end, the real opportunities are the guys who refuse to re-sign.

I think there are three major factors:
1) how well we perform in 2015.
2) how well other teams perform which have potential free agents.
3) the extent of our retirements and potential de-listees.

I think we still have space in our cap, we offered $450k p.a. to Greenwood and he isn't around so I think that money is going to be used to bring some contracts forward, that gives us a bit to play with given the salary cap goes up about $400k or so every year and player contracts aren't indexed to cap increases.

There is potential there for another decent addition but the 'hope' is that the internal improvement will demand the money more so than the demand for external talent to take up that money. That being said, I think FA reduces the potential risk of carrying a number of quality elder players if you can replace one for another.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Fair point, but the dawn of our next Golden Age is upon us. Watch them line up!

Come to think of it, I wonder where Higgins rates. Is he in the 'too late to be great' category by now?