Delisted Free Agents - who should we target?
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That wasn’t the point.
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Nah, his AFL career seems over TBH, no bites, offers he is getting are all state club level.
On a maybe not DFA subject, we have sounded out Brad Close (so have West Coast), so I'd be happy with that if we picked up Closey, he is just one of those annoying bastards that takes up a sport and is then playing for the state a month later. Absolute quality as a person, he wouldn't finish a season not knowing whether he gave it 100%
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Bennell's probably a bit too old (27) for a club in a position such as ours to take a punt on.
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In my view Walker is the only DFA we should be looking at. He's absolutely an upgrade on Harto and at absolute worst provides depth. Walker's disposal is light years ahead of Harto, who is good defensively but deplorable with ball in hand. Walker can also swing forward.
Walker is also a similar age to Harto and I believe younger than Keath, who we got something for.
So if we can get him in as a DFA, I'd be pretty happy with this.
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Not a fan of getting mid age DFA because they only offer depth when we should be getting games into Butts & Himmelberg, with an eye to the future.
We have enough core experienced players & not pushing for a flag, so the priority should be getting games into younger players to build depth, rather than bring in mid age average players.
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Nick Robertson and Luke Partington would both interest me somewhat as plug and play options, at 24 and 22 both in the right age bracket. Robertson especially brings to the table something we really lack, hardness and a ferocious attack on the ball carrier. Partington IMO too good not to be on an AFL list and if nothing else great midfield depth to have in the wings.
I appreciate this perspective. On one hand Walker is an upgrade on Harto, but bring him in Harto becomes the back up and Butts moves further back.
It makes us a better team, but if we're really looking at the future then maybe not. I'd still prefer we brought in Walker and delisted or traded Harto next year.
Butts replaces Walker, and Walker becomes back up.
Oh and on Partington I wouldn't have an issue with us giving him a lifeline. He is the right age bracket and is worth a shot as a dfa.
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Is Partington better than Patrick Wilson?
Well not really. We got that pick for Jacobs which we wouldn’t have got if gws didn’t choose to trade with us for him. Remember Jacobs was a free agent and his compo would have been 0 at his age, length of contract and presumed $$ of contract.
Free agency compo stops at 3rd round they don’t give out 4th round compo.
Sure - but regardless of how we got it, it’s still a pick that was in our possession that we elected to use on Frampton. Hence there was a cost to the trade. It wasn’t a DFA signing
Probably not, but he has a better athletic profile for AFL whereas Wilson leaves us too slow in the midfield unless M Crouch is out injured.
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It's a flip of a coin - arguably is, yeah.
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Way, way more agile and significantly quicker than Wilson to my eye. Wilson I really would like to see tried as a running back where he would in most cases be running straight at the ball and a position he can use his big weapon [penetrating kick] much more to the team's advantage. One of the few really penetrating kicks we have that can break up the oppo zone.
Trouble is we already have penetrating kicks in the team in Smith and Seedsman who are better kicks, quicker and experienced.
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Not sure if I want Partington or not, but the more penetrating kicks you have the better. Ideally everyone in the team should have a penetrating kick rather than a non-penetrating one.
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Wouldn't be too sure about that now Patrick has tidied up his short passing this season, equally penetrating kick and his stats for a midfielder who's kick to handball ratio stands at 2 : 1 are pretty bloody impressive going at 80% disposal efficiency.
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Were the sightings recent, I had the feeling he’d gotten his s**t together.
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Hearing glowing reports about just about every DFA left, but the ones already picked up (Sam Gray, Buzza, Brand, Newnes) don't inspire me at all.
Are the ones still left even worse than these 4?
Are the ones still left even worse than these 4?
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All by the looks to me were picked by the teams that selected them to fill particular roles, Newnes would have been the only one that interested me.
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