List Mgmt. OOC 2021, who is playing for their careers 2021 edition?

[mpal6]

Delistings?

Staker Departs AFLW Premiers

Foundation AFLW Defensive Coach, Brent Staker, will depart the Brisbane Lions after five seasons.

www.lions.com.au

 

[M Malice]

Staker Departs AFLW Premiers

Foundation AFLW Defensive Coach, Brent Staker, will depart the Brisbane Lions after five seasons.

www.lions.com.au

All credit and good luck to Brent in the future but that doesn't sate my appetite for delistings.

 

[The Flying Belgian]

All credit and good luck to Brent in the future but that doesn't sate my appetite for delistings.

You're looking forward to players maybe having their careers ended?

 

[dlanod]

Delistings?

We're trading you to the West Coast Eagles

 

[On the quiet]

Brock Smith an almost certainty to be delisted IMO and Archie IF we have plans to trade in another mature ruck.

Yes I think maybe Archie, not sure on Brock but thinking 2 to 3 delisted with the Birchall retirement

 

[The Zork]

Archie gone.

 

[JasRulz63]

 

[lionsrules]

Archie gone.

He was then lions removed all social media posts about his departure about 2 mins ago

 

[PattyKwasagun]

Sounds like Archie is joining the Suns.

 

[Quigley]

Archie has decided to leave according to media.

 

[Viceregal]

We're trading you to the West Coast Eagles

Which of their posters are you looking to get in return?

 

[FLVanLandingham]

you can't fire me, I quit!

 

[pulpdriver]

Long-time Lions ruck requests fresh start

Archie Smith asks for a new opportunity at a different club

www.afl.com.au

Best of luck, Archie.
Does make the need for an emergency ruck capable of being a number one a worthwhile consideration. If Oscar was to go down just before or during finals it's unlikely any of our other rucks or ruck/fwds would be able to be number one ruck.

 

[scoman]

Must be some I treat about then for Archie?

*Interest...... The predictive text on my phone is sub par.

 

[jjami15]

Long-time Lions ruck requests fresh start

Archie Smith asks for a new opportunity at a different club

www.afl.com.au

Best of luck, Archie.
Does make the need for an emergency ruck capable of being a number one a worthwhile consideration. If Oscar was to go down just before or during finals it's unlikely any of our other rucks or ruck/fwds would be able to be number one ruck.

First rounder or GTFO………..of the pre-season draft.

 

[pulpdriver]

Must be some I treat about then for Archie?

Suns seems like a likely suitor. They won't want to go through what they did with Witts missing and no back up ever again. By the same token though, we don't want to risk the same thing, especially when in contention.

 

[Tom14]

He was then lions removed all social media posts about his departure about 2 mins ago

Back up now: https://www.lions.com.au/news/1016877/thank-you-archie

 

[BlackGun1]

Would've thought he was a shoe-in for a delisting but sounds like he indeed has a suitor. Interesting. All the best to him though, flashed some potential but definitely getting on in age now to have any meaningful improvement. Looked very average in the VFL games I saw this year

 

[spotthedog1]

He was then lions removed all social media posts about his departure about 2 mins ago

They had 7 years on the post. Then they realised he'd been here 8 years.

 

[M Malice]

You're looking forward to players maybe having their careers ended?

You don't seem to get my sarcastic facetious sense of humour FB.... I thought the Simpsons gif would have been the giveaway.

Delistings are a fact of AFL life, not dancing on any graves here just like the discussion it opens up.

Not necessarily having careers ended either, there are 17 other clubs out there who are options.

 

[M Malice]

Archie must have been given some assurances from a club, the Lions told him IIRC at the end of 2019 that he could explore options elsewhere and nothing materialised, with the club putting out a formal "thanks" statement, this time he is definitely gone.

Who thinks we go into season 2022 with ruck options behind the big O of Fullarton/H.Smith/Lane and at a pinch Ballenden?

 

[jackess]

Archie must have been given some assurances from a club, the Lions told him IIRC at the end of 2019 that he could explore options elsewhere and nothing materialised, with the club putting out a formal "thanks" statement, this time he is definitely gone.

Who thinks we go into season 2022 with ruck options behind the big O of Fullarton/H.Smith/Lane and at a pinch Ballenden?

Pretty likely. Will be hoping to fast track Lane's development I'm guessing

 

[Dalions]

Pretty likely. Will be hoping to fast track Lane's development I'm guessing

No real guarantee that Lane will be staying on the list yet.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Right. Well, surely you know that when you use the term "veteran", it implies someone who's been around a long time, reached their peak, and is likely on the way down

Not necessarily. Words can have multiple meanings, and veteran can also be taken to mean anyone who has been in a list for a while.

I think it's pretty disingenuous to describe either Fullarton or Ballenden as veterans.

Okay. I don't.

Also, unless you've found us a top-5 pick, a 1st year KPP is pretty unlikely to provide reasonable insurance at AFL level. For a top-4 team pushing for a premiership? Even less so.

Depends what you class as insurance. To me it represents a warm body you can throw in to cover injury and give an effort, not someone who will give you similar quality to your starter.

 

[pulpdriver]

No real guarantee that Lane will be staying on the list yet.

I reckon it would've been very unlikely for us to pick up a project ruck in the mid season draft without the intention of keeping him long term.