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List Mgmt. List Management Thread
Successful teams don't need to pay as much to retain players, who will stick around for less to try to win the flag. Bailey helps us get closer to a flag, and closer to bringing in other players who could help win us a flag. So, by bringing in Bailey at the $ quoted, we might even reduce the... -
List Mgmt. Crows Ruck Stocks
Maybe, but I suspect we'd have gone with ROB and Dodson as our only ruck stocks at the end of 2025, and been in a whole mess of pain right now. -
List Mgmt. Crows Ruck Stocks
Ironically, if we had selected Dodson we wouldn't have picked up McAndrew. Doing the wrong thing has worked out perfectly! -
Bigman’s Training Reports (Update: 11th March)
I suspect that we still do While I expect Langford to be a very good player, he brings more of what we already have and doesn't fix our obvious lack of pace. There's also a lot more go home risk. We draft for the next decade or so, not the next year or so. Draper has a lot of time to come good. -
List Mgmt. List Management Thread
If Sanders stays at the Dogs for an extra year, Tassie picks him up as a free agent the next. At best, the Dogs get a round one pick after their natural pick, which will be pushed out by any father/sons academy and other Tassie free agents before their pick. Could be a pick in the 20s. Our... -
Bigman’s Training Reports (Update: 11th March)
Putting aside natural competitive tendencies, I think it depends on where they play and who is realistically in a position to take their spot: Ruck - no real competition (until this year) - so could have coasted Key forwards - the risk of moving to 2 key forwards was the only real threat - so... -
List Mgmt. List Management Thread
He's probably not going to get the opportunity to show what he can provide us. The Dogs are stacked with accumulator/ clearance players and Sanders is pretty effective at half forward. The reason he would want to move to the Crows is that he would fill that need for us, where we are very light on. -
Bigman’s Training Reports (Update: 11th March)
A comparison of Brisbane's and our players who average more than 75% disposal efficiency and more than 15 meters per disposal (my randomly chosen metrics for disposal hurt factor) per Wheelo: Brisbane have more hurt factor available than us (10 v 8) but struggle to keep them on the park... -
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Bigman’s Training Reports (Update: 11th March)
It's not uncommon for 30 year olds to be given 1 year extensions. But when you're the only AFL standard ruck, you have a fair bit of bargaining power. That's on the Club for not having a viable backup/ competition. -
Player Watch Charlie Edwards
I'm not a Murphy fan, by the way. I am a Dowling fan. He should have got all of Murph's games (and the games given to Schoenberg, Cook and Jones). Here's the Wheelo ratings and stats for the guys who played SANFL and AFL this year (excluding Crouch, who played less AFL games due to injury not... -
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Player Watch Charlie Edwards
Every team, including premiership teams, play well below average players of the 2024 Smith and Murphy ilk. It's how you win games. Extending a 24 year old Murphy for 2 years not 1 in 2023 was a mistake, at least in hindsight. Just not the biggest list mistake. Which doesn't exactly make it... -
Player Watch Charlie Edwards
Again I'll agree to disagree that you need to play kids to develop them. But we have played Draper, Curtin, Soligo, Rachele, Taylor, Rankine, Berry, Dowling, Schoenberg, Hately. But absolutely sitting guys on the list who aren't good enough to play is the much bigger issue, as it prevents us...