List Mgmt. Contracts, trades, draft - 2022 superstar edition

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The Contracts Thread

Updated (20/3/24) the status of all contracts for people’s reference : Overall List - 44 Players : Main List(37), Rookie List(5), Cat B(2) Contracted until the end of 2027 (2) : Tom Barrass (8/10/95) - Signed a 5 year extension (2023,2024,2025,2026,2027) on an existing contract set to...

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[Ambrose Burnside]

With the lack of personnel, they have no choice. No point in beating players up about not following a gameplan if it can't be implemented anyway.

I can't see us winning anymore games if we're just going to park the bus. Get games into the young blokes, make sure guys like Yeo get fit and retire the oldies to try out the players from the mid season draft. Grab pick 1 and a soft draw for 2023.

I see where you're coming from, but it sure as hell isn't going to shut the SACK SIMMO IMMEDIATELY crew up.

 

[JackOutback]

C'mon. Say the line properly

Evolve or die.

 

[Dark Sharks]

So much for Ports juicy second rounder being worth anything particularly special.

Gone from around pick 19-20 to pick 26 in the last few weeks.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Don't worry too much, odds are we'll still get pick 19.

 

[KBLT]

I don’t know who’s more in then;

Eagles BigFooty.

Or.

The West Coast Eagles.

Yes

 

[ArdentEagle]

Don't worry too much, odds are we'll still get pick 19.

 

[supercrunt]

Our rebuild needs the philosophy of Richard Dawkins:

Natural Selection through Survival of the Fittest of the Selfish Team

We need to evolve to win flags. We are already an endangered species no need to go extinct.

 

[Spooky17]

Our rebuild needs the philosophy of Richard Dawkins:

Natural Selection through Survival of the Fittest of the Selfish Team

We need to evolve to win flags. We are already an endangered species no need to go extinct.

Evolution via natural selection takes time, I prefer an alternative concept.

Founder effect with artificial selection.

We need to select for those with traits we deem desirable.

i.e. Cull those at the end who don’t buy in to a more direct, contested and pressuring based game plan.

The remaining founders next year will have a disproportionately strong bias on the type of footy played, leading to an increased frequency of desirable traits and gameplay.

Hopefully leads to speciation and the formation of a new breed of eagles.

Yes, I’m aware I am a massive nerd.

 

[ArdentEagle]

Evolution via natural selection takes time, I prefer an alternative concept.

Founder effect with artificial selection.

We need to select for those with traits we deem desirable.

i.e. Cull those at the end who don’t buy in to a more direct, contested and pressuring based game plan.

The remaining founders next year will have a disproportionately strong bias on the type of footy played, leading to an increased frequency of desirable traits and gameplay.

Hopefully leads to speciation and the formation of a new breed of eagles.

Yes, I’m aware I am a massive nerd.

So...Sack then entire white collar proportion and half the team?

 

[Chump Change]

Evolution via natural selection takes time, I prefer an alternative concept.

Founder effect with artificial selection.

We need to select for those with traits we deem desirable.

i.e. Cull those at the end who don’t buy in to a more direct, contested and pressuring based game plan.

Have you seen Eddie Murphy's Coming to America? The scene where he goes into the barber and asks for a haircut and the hairdresser just shrugs and cuts of his p-banger?

Simmo is the p-banger. All sorted.

 

[supercrunt]

Evolution via natural selection takes time, I prefer an alternative concept.

Founder effect with artificial selection.

We need to select for those with traits we deem desirable.

i.e. Cull those at the end who don’t buy in to a more direct, contested and pressuring based game plan.

The remaining founders next year will have a disproportionately strong bias on the type of footy played, leading to an increased frequency of desirable traits and gameplay.

Hopefully leads to speciation and the formation of a new breed of eagles.

Yes, I’m aware I am a massive nerd.

I agree on the culling, I would take that as the selfish element. A new survival strategy is definitely needed. With luck that will cause the speciation. A bit of the Ancestors Tale. Let the genus give rise to a new species on the lineage. Learn that the current environment is different to the one we previously thrived in. The asteroid has struck. Adapt or die.

 

[ArdentEagle]

I agree on the culling, I would take that as the selfish element. A new survival strategy is definitely needed. With luck that will cause the speciation. A bit of the Ancestors Tale. Let the genus give rise to a new species on the lineage. Learn that the current environment is different to the one we previously thrived in. The asteroid has struck. Adapt or die.

 

[Eastcoasteagle]

So much for Ports juicy second rounder being worth anything particularly special.

Gone from around pick 19-20 to pick 26 in the last few weeks.

It was the bloody Saints, they kicked 1.12 in the last half a few weeks back. Port won by a 1 point.

 

[supercrunt]

Best scene ever!

 

[Schtinker]

Issue isn't really what pick we have, the issue is do we have the recruiting personnel to pick the right players. At present I have no faith that we will use pick 1 if we get it. If we do use it it'll be on a Half Back Flanker who comes from a private school who showed a glimpse of talent in an under 16 game who has had 2 knee reconstructions since. Then if we do happen to fluke a top player they will be played out of position because he has no credits in the bank.

 

[WCE_phil]

We have 4 really winnable games over the rest of the season. Say we get our s**t together and win 3 I still dont see us having a pick below 2. Even if say Essendon only wins 2 more games for the season our percentage will have us the lowest of any team with 4 wins.

North however are absolute junk so I cant see us finishing last unless this injury curse really continues hard.

 

[eagles rule]

110% correct.

He shouldn't be, as we took Chesser last year and they're very similar.
Your point RE contested mids later in the draft, agree again. Maybe though as they did take Chesser last year, they might look at Lemmey!

But if we did take Culley mid season, taking Lemmey in the national draft would be make sense!

I wouldn`t be against having two pacy highly rated running mids or wingers Sardis and Chesty ..

They could link our defence and forwards ..

 

[MrWoollie]

We have 4 really winnable games over the rest of the season. Say we get our s**t together and win 3 I still dont see us having a pick below 2. Even if say Essendon only wins 2 more games for the season our percentage will have us the lowest of any team with 4 wins.

North however are absolute junk so I cant see us finishing last unless this injury curse really continues hard.

If North do finish last with no more wins, that will be their last 3 seasons would consist of...

2020 17th (on %) 3 wins
2021 18th 4 wins
2022 18th 1 win

for a total of 8 wins and finishing last or 2nd last every year.

Compare that to GC over 2017-2019...

2017 17th 6 wins
2018 17th 4 wins
2019 18th 3 wins

for a total of 13 wins and only one wooden spoon.

Which 3 years is worse? Clearly it's North, and people are arguing they won't get a priority pick at the top of the draft, yet GC got a #1 priority pick at the end of 2019 for being rubbish for 3 years.

I'd argue that if North continue on their losing way and get the spoon they will get a priority pick, and it'll be at the top of the draft, and we'll get pick 3 for finishing 17th.

Edit - and even if we do stay below North, that will just mean they match the GC 3 season finishing position of 1 x 18th and 2 x 17th, but with less wins. Still every chance of that top end priority pick.

 

[Schtinker]

you trying to be racist ..

More of a Motorhead

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

If North do finish last with no more wins, that will be their last 3 seasons would consist of...

2020 17th (on %) 3 wins
2021 18th 4 wins
2022 18th 1 win

for a total of 8 wins and finishing last or 2nd last every year.

Compare that to GC over 2017-2019...

2017 17th 6 wins
2018 17th 4 wins
2019 18th 3 wins

for a total of 13 wins and only one wooden spoon.

Which 3 years is worse? Clearly it's North, and people are arguing they won't get a priority pick at the top of the draft, yet GC got a #1 priority pick at the end of 2019 for being rubbish for 3 years.

I'd argue that if North continue on their losing way and get the spoon they will get a priority pick, and it'll be at the top of the draft, and we'll get pick 3 for finishing 17th.

Edit - and even if we do stay below North, that will just mean they match the GC 3 season finishing position of 1 x 18th and 2 x 17th, but with less wins. Still every chance of that top end priority pick.

The biggest problem with GC was teams raiding all their good players.

Hard to rebuild when you keep losing key players and getting below market value for them . Carlton pre season drafted Martin because they knew they could .

Norf sold off their key older players and wonder why they are so s**t

 

[JackOutback]

Unpopular opinion… I’d rather get pick 2 and not have another wooden spoon. Our last pick 2 went alright.

 

[Wet Toast Rule]

The risk with coming second last is that North will get a PP before our 2nd pick...

 

[maverick001]

There’s a kid out there who is unanimously regarded as a top 20 talent by all of the draft watchers, playing in a position of need for us. If we have a shot of getting him for nothing by opening up an extra list spot and fail to do so, we’re not doing our job properly.

Who?

 

[bzparkes]

Unpopular opinion… I’d rather get pick 2 and not have another wooden spoon. Our last pick 2 went alright.

He's still playing mate...

 

[Dark Sharks]

McDougall was selected with pick 5 though, not pick 2.