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List Mgmt. 2025 Premiership(s) List Making and Trading

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Everyone just needs to take a minute, we were never going to win the Premiership this year, we might get close, but right now there are better sides in the competition. We have had a ripper year, no doubt about it, but lets not get to disappointed and throw the toys out of the cot. We had 16 players play their first final last night, to win finals you need experience.

There is a lot of similarities between us now and Brisbane in 2019:

Brisbane Ladder Pos.Finals FormBest 22 Players AddedAdelaide
Ladder Pos.
Finals FormBest 22 Players Added
2014​
15​
2020​
18​
Hinge, Keays, Thilthorpe, Pedlar, Berry
2015​
17​
Hipwood,
2021​
15​
Dawson, Rachele, Soligo, Taylor
2016​
17​
McCluggage, Berry,
2022​
14​
Rankine, Michalanney, Keane
2017​
18​
Cameron, Rayner, Bailey, Starcevich,
2023​
10​
Curtin
2018​
15​
Neale, Answerth
2024​
15​
Cumming, Peatling, ANB
2019​
2​
L, LAh Chee,
2025​
1​
L

They added 10 players in that 5 year period from 2014 to 2019 that are best 22 players, between 2020 and their flag in 2024 they added another 6 including Dunkley, Daniher and Will Ashcroft, thats 16 first team inclusions between their rebuild through '14 to '19 and then finals/premiership push from '20 to '24. They also went out in straight sets 2019, before winning their flag 5 years later.

We have added 16 best 22 players within our 5 year rebuild, with hopefully a few more this year as we transition from rebuild to finals/premiership push. It's a journey, lets not get ahead of ourselves.
Ah Chee traded in at the end of 2019 for the Lions then 2025 for the Crows 👀
 

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Zac Bailey's out of contract.
From NT originally but finished his schooling at PAC.
His mum lives in Adelaide, she had some serious health issues in July this year.
His twin brother lives in Adelaide.
Wears number 33 which will be free next year too.
 
Zac Bailey's out of contract.
From NT originally but finished his schooling at PAC.
His mum lives in Adelaide, she had some serious health issues in July this year.
His twin brother lives in Adelaide.
Wears number 33 which will be free next year too.

He's not a break the bank super dominant midfielder imo. Id be taking Oliver ahead of him.
 

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If you miss the ball do you not swing again?
Sometimes there is only 1 home run ball pitched in the at bat. It might be a case of hitting a double and getting a RBI.

Getting decent players and upgrading the list to replace delistees is still an improvement.

If anything less than a home run is seen as a failure, then you can't sports ball very well.
 
Sometimes there is only 1 home run ball pitched in the at bat. It might be a case of hitting a double and getting a RBI.

Getting decent players and upgrading the list to replace delistees is still an improvement.

If anything less than a home run is seen as a failure, then you can't sports ball very well.
Hope for the best (somhow convince a top mid to want to come to us) and plan for the worst with the worst being upgrading the floor of the team again...that should be the plan
 

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Do we even need him to be a dominant mid? We just need someone who has a knack of finding the ball from the tap
My concern is the $$, youre paying a reasonable price for a guy so you want him to be somewhere near Dawson in terms of output.

I think we need to see more of Curtin at CB next year, and Draper of course.
 
Do we even need him to be a dominant mid? We just need someone who has a knack of finding the ball from the tap

Exactly.

Would you prefer Berry, Matt Crouch if he hadn't retired, or Oliver?

I know who I'm taking and it's not even close
 

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